November 21, 2012

Why it matters whether or not the Administration lied about Benghazi

I hear lots of people (just yesterday, Joe Scarborough), wanting to sound worldly and mature, saying that the issue of the Benghazi talking points is a distraction

April 7, 2012

President Obama, Meet Justice Brandeis

Justice Brandeis (who, by the way, is a liberal hero) has a message for President Obama.

March 11, 2012

Politics in Command

The bitterness and animosity that have developed around the issue of mandated insurance coverage of birth control is just the first fruit of what looks to be a long and divisive and totally unnecessary national struggle.

March 3, 2012

Who pays for birth control?

It seems to me this issue has become unnecessarily tangled.

February 19, 2012

Griswold vs. Obama

Taking serious the right to privacy in the bedroom.

July 17, 2011

Barack and Joe: Obama's Keynesian Vision

Joe was right and Obama was wrong. Isn't that weird? Obama went to much better schools; what did they teach him there?

July 16, 2011

Barack and Joe: Social Justice

In 'splaining things to Joe the plumber, then-candidate Obama leaned hard on the unfairness of our current political-economic system.

July 15, 2011

Barack and Joe: Taxation

No other interviewer or media question-shouter ever got as much out of Obama about his economic vision as Joe the Plumber did.

July 13, 2011

Social Security: a Reckoning

Understanding what, and who, is to blame for the Social Security funding crisis will allow us to move on and reach a solution that fairly allocates costs amongst current generations.

July 11, 2011

No New Tax Cuts

This has to stop. The Tax Code has become a whore. It can be anything to any person in a position to impose his will on the American people.

July 11, 2011

He rescued us?

Treasury Secretary Geithner keeps a straight face

November 22, 2010

The Cure is the Disease

In an age of high-velocity information, creative monetary "policy" can only do mischief.

November 17, 2010

Bailouts and the 'Contagion' Metaphor

Is infectious disease an analytically useful economic metaphor?

January 23, 2010

A modest health care reform proposal

Covering "pre-existing conditions" shouldn't require a public option or a mandate to buy insurance.

October 26, 2009

Why the left isn't socialist

Do modern leftists (or progressives or whatever they want to be called) believe that, right now at least, widespread government ownership of economic enterprises is a good strategy?