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• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 08/04/2011

Conservatives and libertarians have long joked that these first words of the Constitution might well have ended with a period! But, laws are made and…

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 08/03/2011

LAWRENCE KUDLOW, co-host: There are conflicting stories as to what sparked last week’s big blackout. We’ll leave it to the experts to sort out the…

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 04/27/2011

Over the last decade, waves of studies have claimed that individuals aren’t rational — that they often reject options that are in their best interest.

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 04/01/2011

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 03/29/2011

When the cartoon strips realize the humor inherent in “green energy technology,” can victory be far away?…

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 12/22/2010

The Washington Post‘s “Senate Panel Ban Seen as Double Standard” deals with the latest attempt to eliminate so-called “conflicts of interest” between appointees to…

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 11/22/2010

Reading William Gibson’s recent novel, Zero History, I came across an interesting passage: There were cameras literally everywhere in London. … He remembered Bigend saying…

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 11/05/2010

In our half-political, half-private world, there are a growing number of public-private partnerships.  Almost nothing in the current world can be done without implicit or…

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 10/21/2010

Over at the Boards at their Best blog, James Kristie, editor of the journal Directors & Boards, recently proposed a rule requiring that…

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 10/05/2010

Kenneth Feinberg, the individual dolling out the $20 billion BP Oil Spill “Settlement” (a No Pressure Voluntary thing), has been criticized for distributing funds too…

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 09/29/2010

Fred Smith's chapter in "Creating Your Path to a Policy Career."  Free-market advocates often seek to convert others to our way of thinking with…

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 09/09/2010

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 06/29/2010

Mickey Edwards, former congressman from Oklahoma and guest lecturer at the Harvard School of Government, has written an interesting blog on the case for business…