The Open Market Blog

• By: Doug Bandow
• 10/08/2007

The common claim that America is the “land of the free” continues to look ever more hollow.  The latest of many targets of the authoritarian…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 10/08/2007

You've got to love the state of Oklahoma. To "protect" its citizens from organizing against the established political order, Oklahoma bars out-of-state residents from gathering…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 10/01/2007

The most important treaty that most people have never heard of is moving closer to ratification. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee held its first hearing…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 09/24/2007

The government wants you to go deer-hunting. Go ahead. Take a day off. It’s on your employer. Well, Uncle Sam doesn’t quite put it that…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 09/24/2007

Government is a lot like a second marriage, the triumph of hope over experience. We create a program. Thieves loot it. Special interests manipulate it.

• By: Doug Bandow
• 09/18/2007

What’s a paternalist to do? The American people are getting fatter, but they ignore warning labels, as well as increasingly shrill advice from their nutritional…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 09/18/2007

Markets are wonderful. If there is a demand, markets will arise to fill it. Including the desire to feel good about oneself. How else should…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 09/04/2007

Government social engineering doesn't work. It's rarely just. It is even less likely to be effective. That is the lesson of just about every government…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 09/03/2007

There is much that occurs in Washington that irritates — and irritates mightily. One of my pet peeves is how welfare statists greedy for extra…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 08/29/2007

Washington, D.C. is a wonderful place. Perhaps its hallmark is the lack of shame. A qualification for high office is being able to engage in…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 08/29/2007

There's been quite a buzz recently on the second anniversary of Hurricane Kartrina's destruction of New Orleans. Presidential contender Barack Obama even offered a…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 08/26/2007

For some people government is a means to an end, a tool to achieve certain ends. With them real debate is possible. While one can,…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 08/23/2007

The food fascists are every where. It’s one thing for New York City to ban trans fats from city restaurants. But for the Great Indiana…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 08/23/2007

Is nothing sacred? Congress passes an energy bill in the name of fighting global warming, and what it best accomplishes is passing pork off to…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 08/13/2007

During the 2006 congressional campaign Democrats denounced the Republican majority for its wastrel ways. It was a fair criticism: the GOP lavished money on pork…

• By: Doug Bandow
• 08/06/2007

It's an axiom of faith for the usual redistributionists that capitalists are biased against women and discriminate against them when it comes to pay and…