The Open Market Blog

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/15/2007

Wayne emails today with a link to an NPR story about an ominous milestone in U.S. history: The first member of the Baby…

• By: William Yeatman
• 10/15/2007

If Al Gore harbors Presidential ambitions, he would be insane to run in ’08. In the parlance of campaign operatives, Al Gore”‘owns” the global warming…

• By: Hans Bader
• 10/15/2007

James Kirchik has an interesting column on Clarence Thomas and affirmative action in The Los Angeles Times. The Supreme Court justice’s revealing autobiography,…

• By: Eli Lehrer
• 10/15/2007

Today’s Washington Post carries a story decrying the growth of bank branches in the District of Columbia. Reporter Paul Schwartzman writes: District officials…

• By: Hans Bader
• 10/15/2007

One of the surest ways to create a budget deficit is to assume that a government health care program can be funded solely by a…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 10/12/2007

For all we know, SLORC may well have been nominated by some sycophant of theirs, but it’ll take us 50 years to find out,…