The Open Market Blog

• By: Michelle Minton
• 10/28/2009

The Obama administration is patting itself on the back for saving the jobs of thousands of educators by doling out stimulus funds earlier in the…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 09/03/2009

If you live in the general Washington, DC metro area you should be prepared for a fun-filled, traffic jamming time the weekend of September 11th.

• By: Michelle Minton
• 08/14/2009

That is if you find the usual crowd of holier than thou, environment-angelical, yuppie-types slightly annoying to navigate through while you purchase your organic produce…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 08/05/2009

Delaware is hitting back at the sports leagues lobbing threats in response to the state’s plan to legalize gambling on…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 07/01/2009

It is truly amazing to me that some people who call themselves “liberal,” “progressive,” and “tolerant,” are so irrationally afraid and intolerant of…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 06/18/2009

Since the beginning of his presidential campaign, I noticed something about Obama’s style of oration (and I’m not the only one). He…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 06/09/2009

Sin taxes are often justified by claiming that the item/behavior taxes costs the taxpayer money. By applying a tax, the government claims it can…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 06/08/2009

I don’t think there is anything that pisses off eco-socialists more than a free market answer to their problem of climate change. They simply don’t…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 05/19/2009

Maryland does not have enough money in the budget to pay for the…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 04/13/2009

Like the original, modern tea parties should NOT be just about taxes. Americans should protest the presumption that government has the right to do anything…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 03/13/2009

There are plenty of reasons to dislike Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank. But there is at least one reason to…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 02/12/2009

The beer industry is cheering a recently introduced bill that would roll back the excise tax on brewers in the Washington, DC…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 11/10/2008

If Bush wants to preserve what’s left of the dignity of his administration, I have one suggestion: sit on your hands. It is harder…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 11/06/2008

After completing an exhaustive comparison of European government-run monopolies and private gambling operators, the European Gaming and Betting Association (EGBA)…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 11/05/2008

Whether you were backing the other guy, or you objected to all of the candidates, free marketeers may find some reasons to…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 11/04/2008

Today, as you may have heard, is kind of an important day for some people. It is that day that comes along once every…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 11/03/2008

In the eternal battle of industry vs. regulators, the horseracing industry is employing a wily plan that just might save it from the…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 10/08/2008

There has been a lot of talk lately about regulators “working together” to get things done in Washington. Reaching across the aisle.  Compromise.

• By: Michelle Minton
• 04/30/2008

Cordelia Ashton is an angry woman; she feels that her insurance company is treating her unfairly. She feels this way because once…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 03/26/2008

The US government is no stranger to ridiculousness. As Eli pointed out in his recent study on dumb product bans, the logic (I use…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 03/25/2008

picture via freedomandshit.org I’ve been following the discussion on bad British teeth between Eli and Fran and while it may be…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 03/24/2008

Today the LA Times published an interesting opinion article that opposes health care mandates in a way I hadn’t yet heard. The authors claim…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 03/20/2008

To respond to Hans’s post: in order for the government to force Geno’s to serve everyone who stumbles up to the window indiscriminately, it…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 03/20/2008

James Stewart that is, in the movie Shenandoah. While considering the various angles of the DC gun ban debate, I happened to…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 03/05/2008

Despite that fact that most economist agree (to steal the global warming crowd’s favorite turn of phrase) that rent control has primarily negative effects, laws…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 02/28/2008

These days it seems that you can slap the word “addiction” after any activity and escape personal responsibility for poor decision making. Moreover, in…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 02/05/2008

Lawmakers on the Hill may have to walk a little more than usual thanks to the taxicab drivers’ strike that began today. Maybe they’ll…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 12/28/2007

Humanitarians are perplexed by the fact that, despite their hard work and the fact that it’s the epicenter of the world’s largest aid effort, starvation…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 12/26/2007

Imagine you are going on vacation and you pay your neighbor to tend to the hanging plants you have outside of your house. While you’re…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 12/12/2007

Chicago's Health Committee is set to vote on a measure this afternoon that would prohibit residents from owning chickens as pets. Alderwoman Lona Lane,…

• By: Michelle Minton
• 12/05/2007

As the first significant snowfall blankets the Washington, D.C. area, a word of warning: Be careful at whom you aim any snowballs. Hit the…