Analysis
The Top 10 Pending Political Eruptions
The Top Ten Pending Eruptions By Deanna Chadwell It’s shaping up to be a long, hot summer, one filled — like Yellowstone Park — with geysers and hot springs ready to blow at any moment. […]
government spending
Analysis
The Pandemic Emergency Spending Is Riddled With Fraud
Pandemic Emergency Spending Riddled with Fraud By: Daniel J. Mitchell Politicians and bureaucrats are (self-interested) conduits for taking money from one group of people and giving it to another group of people. Milton Friedman famously explained […]
Analysis
“Infrastructure” Is Now Anything The Government Says It Is
“Infrastructure” Is Now Anything the Government Wants To Do By: Robert Zumwalt A common rhetorical tactic is to change the definition of a key word in a debate to fit a preferred conclusion. This tactic […]
Analysis
Plutocrats of Wall Street & Silicon Valley Are … Scamming America
The Plutocrats of Wall Street and Silicon Valley Are Scamming America By: Ryan McMaken In recent years, it seems that the nation’s CEOs and billionaires are increasingly willing to drop the pretense that they are […]
Analysis
Here’s One Economic Stimulus Proposal That Wouldn’t Cost Taxpayers Trillions
Hey Congress: Here’s One Economic Stimulus Proposal That Wouldn’t Cost Taxpayers Trillions Here’s a proposal for another kind of stimulus that would do much more good and cost much, much less. By: Brad Polumbo Congress […]
Analysis
“Good” Foreign Policy, Bad Constitutionality?
“Good” Foreign Policy, Bad Constitutionality? Contributed to TLB by: KrisAnne Hall, JD What is the limit – Constitutionally speaking – to Congressional funding both domestic & foreign. Can potentially good foreign policy be very bad […]
FINANCIAL
Why the United States of America is Broke
Explaining why America is broke is rather simple. All we have to do is look at two separate and distinct problem areas: public unions and defense spending, then generalize the problem. Let’s start with a […]
GOVERNMENT
Barack Obama: ‘We Don’t Have a Spending Problem’
The media portrayal of the fiscal cliff standoff (and the debt-ceiling talks from which it sprang) generally portrayed President Barack Obama and the Democrats as pragmatists attempting to negotiate with intransigent Republican ideologues. But as […]
GOVERNMENT
Pentagon Spending on Drugs Soars
(AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN) Last year, the Pentagon spent more on pills, injections and vaccines than it did on Black Hawk helicopters, Abrams tanks, Hercules C-130 cargo planes and Patriot missiles — combined. Some of the prescription […]