The Open Market Blog

• By: Hans Bader
• 01/30/2008

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s multibillion dollar health care plan was rejected as too expensive by the California State Senate’s Health Committee, putting him to…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 01/29/2008

President Bush didn’t mention Blanca Gonzalez, the mother of jailed Cuban dissident Normando Hernandez Gonzalez, after all. But the film Shootdown, which I…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 01/29/2008

A toothache is never fun. It is likely to be particularly painful in Great Britain. Reports Investor’s Business Daily: Since April 2006, one in…

• By: Hans Bader
• 01/29/2008

The “stimulus” plan devised by House leaders and the White House at a price tag of nearly $150 billion is now being rejected as too…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/28/2008

Well, President Bush has given his final State of the Union address and the news stories analyzing it are soon to be legion. Among…