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Criminalizing Politics

My friend Paul Jacob, the long-time term limits activist and head of the Citizens in Charge Foundation, continues to face charges in Oklahoma for…

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Those Wild and Crazy Europeans

Liberty-minded Europeans can only look on with increasing frustration as policy becomes increasingly centralized in Brussels. It’s not just the regulations — goodness knows the…

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Europeans Against Free Enterprise

Surprise, surprise! The Europeans don’t like market economics. That’s hardly startling news. But it turns out that the educational system works overtime to demonize free…

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The National Nannies Just Won’t Quit

Let’s see. The U.S. Constitution gives the Congress the power to raise armies, regulate interstate commerce, and … control snack machines in local schools. Apparently…

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The British are Nutters, Truly

Air travel accounts for about three percent of greenhouse gases, so even if you think the planet is warming out of control, grounding all planes…

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Trade as a Way Out of Poverty

Poverty, the horrendous poverty so common in most of the world, can only shock the average Westerner.  But we in the West once were that…

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Khmer Rouge on Trial

There’s a lot of bad news in the world these days.  A bit of good news is the approach of trials of several leaders of…

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Insurance as Public Service

“Consumer advocates”–who spend their time demanding that everyone toss money at anyone who “consumes” a product or service, are on the march, this time against…

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Killing with Kindness

Government regulation almost always is biased towards inaction and prohibition.  Making a "mistake" and allowing something to happen will usually get you into far greater…

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Global Warming Global Scam?

Thus argues John Coleman, founder of the Weather Channel. Admittedly, he’s not a Ph.D climatologist, but then, most of the alarmist propagandists aren’t Ph.D climatologists,…

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Exposing Health Care Myths

Critics of the U.S. health care system have a litany of complaints. Some are true, but highly misleading. N. Gregory Mankiw takes on three of…