Afghanistan: Do We Stay or Do We Go Now?
By Malou InnocentIn the last three years, the United States has tripled the number of troops in Afghanistan, increased the number of drone strikes in neighboring Pakistan, and killed Osama bin...
View ArticleWhy Celebrities Like Katy Perry Donât Want People to Make Eye Contact
A few weekends ago, I was intrigued to see this story in the New York Post: “The ultimate star perk is forbidding eye contact.” According to the Smoking Gun, singer Katy Perryâs contract covering her...
View ArticleMore Employers Are Dropping Healthcare Insurance Coverage
McKinsey Quarterly has reported its survey concluding there will be a radical restructuring of employer-sponsored health benefits (ESI) as a result of President Obamaâs following the 2010 passage of...
View ArticleObama Backtracks on Marijuana Policy
By Tim LynchPresident Obama is backing away from his campaign pledge to not interfere with the states that choose to adopt medical marijuana reforms. Here’s an excerpt from the NORML blog on the new...
View ArticlePresident Reverses Military Suicide Condolence Letter Policy
Family members of military service personnel who take their own lives while deployed will get condolence letters from the president, according to a statement from President Obama, reversing a...
View ArticleIâm Willing to Go Along with President Obamaâs âBalanced Approachâ to...
By Daniel J. MitchellThe President has issued an ultimatum that more tax revenue must be part of budget negotiations. Indeed, he endlessly repeats his desire for a âbalanced approach,â implying...
View ArticleI Hope Iâm Wrong, But Hereâs Why Republicans Will Lose the Debt-Limit Fight
By Daniel J. MitchellThere are three reasons why Iâm not very hopeful about the outcome of the debt-limit battle. 1. There is no unity in the GOP camp. Republicans have been all over the map during...
View ArticlePharmalot⦠Pharmalittle⦠The Weekend Nears
And so another working week is about to draw to a close. This is, of course, our signal to daydream about weekend plans. Our agenda includes another installment in the ‘Let’s-See-Them-Before-They-Die‘...
View ArticleDay By Day July 15, 2011 â Real Estate
Day By Day by Chris Muir The whole idea of the President of the United States having to walk out of a debt ceiling meeting leaves everyone suspecting that their judgment of Obama is correct. He is an...
View ArticleTrimming Medicare to save the economy: Social media reactions
President Barack Obama seems desperate for a compromise with Republicans over the debt ceiling. In a press conference on Monday, he once again agreed to consider cuts in Social Security and Medicare....
View ArticleDay By Day July 17, 2011 â No is Yes
Day By Day by Chris Muir I actually think President Obama was winning the narrative on the debt-ceiling flap last week until the facts and his walk-out stepped into the way. American voters are now...
View ArticleWhat Can History Tell Us About Healthcare In America?
Millions of our citizens do not now have a full measure of opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health. Millions do not now have protection or security against the economic effects of sickness. The...
View ArticleThe Gang of Six Is Back from the Dead: Contemplating the Good, the Bad, and...
The on-again, off-again âGang of Sixâ has come back on the scene and is offering a âBipartisan Plan to Reduce Our Nationâs Deficits.â The proposal is quite similar to the one put forth by the...
View ArticleParallels to 1995 in Spending Fight
The American welfare state has been in crisis for decades. Many of the problems faced in 1995 fight have become less tractable problems today. John Samples comments in yesterday’s Cato Daily Podcast....
View ArticleWhy Doctors Should Participate In The Debt Ceiling Debate
Joe Scarborough reminds us that the divisions in American government are hardly new, paraphrasing Benjamin Franklinâs observation that âWhen you assemble a number of men, to have the advantage of...
View ArticleDay By Day July 23, 2011 â PDAs
Day by Day by Chris Muir President Obama is saving the REAL IRS drones for the enforcement of ObamaCare. If Obama does not get serious with GOP Congressional leaders soon, he will need more than the...
View ArticleFlapâs Links and Comments for July 23rd on 18:59
These are my links for July 23rd from 18:59 to 19:25: How the White House killed the deal – In an aggressive move, the House speaker’s office has put out a blow-by-blow on how the debt talks collapsed:...
View ArticleThoughts on the Boehner Plan
By Tad DeHavenThese are the times that try budget analystsâ soulsâespecially budget analysts whoâd like to see Washington dramatically cut spending. The debate over lifting the debt ceiling has...
View ArticleDay By Day July 27, 2011 â The View
Day By Day by Chris Muir Chris, the best approach is probably to swallow hard, bend over and accept the Boehner Plan. It certainly is NOT perfect, but the GOP and people have won and should now...
View ArticleFlapâs Links and Comments for July 27th on 13:51
These are my links for July 27th from 13:51 to 13:59: Carney makes an accusation – The Obama administration has never been backward about leaning forward on Fox News. The network has proven a durable,...
View ArticleRepublicans Employ Education Weapons, Too
By Neal McCluskeyA couple of days ago I blasted President Obama for, in repugnant tradition, using “education” as a political weapon, invoking it to scare Americans into demanding increased taxes...
View ArticleJohn McCain: Ever Confused, Always for War
By Doug BandowSen. John McCain has exhibited personal courage, but his geopolitical judgment is uniformly awful. Over the last 30 years there has been no war or potential war that he has opposed.Â...
View ArticleItâs Official: Insurers Will Cover Birth Control With No Co-Pays
A few weeks back, the Institute of Medicine recommended that contraception and seven other women’s preventive health services be covered by insurers with no out-of-pocket costs. Today the U.S....
View ArticleDebt Deal Signed, Fights over Military Spending Next
By Benjamin H. FriedmanThe legislation signed by President Obama yesterday, as a solution to the debt ceiling debate, includes the possibility of cuts to military spending. But as Chris Preble points...
View ArticleFlapâs Links and Comments for August 2nd through August 4th
These are my links for August 2nd through August 4th: Sarah Palin Hacker Moves to Halfway House – The man convicted of hacking Sarah Palin's e-mail account was released from federal prison and is now...
View ArticleDay By Day August 5, 2011 â Over the Bus
Day By Day by Chris Muir I guess President Obama liked Sarah Palin’s idea of the bus tour. But, with the high unemployment and American voter’s angst about the economy – what could go wrong? The Obama...
View ArticleObamaâs Failed Response to the Downgrade and the Outlook for Fixing...
By Daniel J. MitchellPresident Obama just spoke about the downgrade and his remarks were very disappointing. He uttered some empty platitudes, offered no plan, (amazingly) called for more government...
View ArticleAppeals Court Rules Against Health-Care Overhaul Law
Two U.S. appeals courts are now at loggerheads over the constitutionality of the health-care overhaul law. As the WSJ reports, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Atlanta ruled 2-1 that...
View ArticleIraq Violence Not an Excuse for US Troops to Stay
By Christopher PrebleA wave of violence spread across Iraq today with 70 dead and some 300 injured. Iraqi security forces are blaming al Qaida affiliates, but no group has officially claimed...
View ArticlePresident 2012 Poll Watch: Obamaâs Weekly Job Approval at the Lowest of His...
According to the latest Gallup Poll. President Obama’s job approval rating dropped to 40% during the week spanning Aug. 8-14, the lowest weekly average of his administration. During this period,...
View ArticlePresident 2012: Obama Offers Up His Excuses on Why the American Economy Sucks
President Barack Obama speaks during a town hall meeting, Monday, Aug. 15, 2011, at the Seed Savers Exchange in Decorah, Iowa, during his three-day economic bus tour Unbelievable – I mean really. At a...
View ArticleNo Hope or Change When it Comes to Fannie Mae
By Mark A. CalabriaThe Washington Post is reporting that President Obama has assigned his staff with the task of designing a new set of government guarantees behind the U.S. mortgage market. Although...
View ArticlePresidentâs Fealty to Antidumping Lobby Kills Jobs and Depresses Growth
By Daniel IkensonRhetorically, President Obama is a champion of industryâas long as itâs green. To put our money where his mouth is, the president has already devoted over $100 billion in direct...
View ArticleYour Tax Dollars at Work
By David BoazPresident Obama says that we are a  ”generous and compassionate” country and that “through government, we should do together what we cannot do as well for ourselves.” And to fulfill that...
View ArticleU.S. Must Resist Military Role in Post-Qaddafi Libya
By Ted Galen CarpenterAfter weeks of very little movement either militarily or diplomatically in Libya, there are apparent developments on both fronts in recent days. Rebel forces, aided by NATOâs...
View ArticleFlapâs Links and Comments for August 18th on 09:02
These are my links for August 18th from 09:02 to 14:06: Los Angeles to quit hiring Standard & Poor’s to rate investments – Los Angeles, which recently saw its $7-billion investment portfolio...
View ArticlePresident 2012: Obama Fan Sending Flap GOP Obama Getaway Postcards
Guess some folks are sensitive about the President going up to Martha Vineyard on vacation and being called on it. So, they sent me about ten of these post cards with different messages. OK and the...
View ArticleNew NIH Conflict-of-Interest Rules: Better Than the Old Rules?
There are new rules for financial-conflict-of-interest disclosure for scientific researchers who get grants from the National Institutes of Health. While the âÂÂvast majority of academic...
View ArticleIs Obama Really Going to Propose Another Keynesian Stimulus?
By Daniel J. MitchellJust last week, I made fun of Paul Krugman after he publicly said that a fake threat from invading aliens would be good for the economy since the earth would waste a bunch of money...
View ArticleAn Amazing Indictment of Obamanomics: Banks That Donât Want Deposits
By Daniel J. MitchellI’ve commented on the failure of Obamanomics, with special focus on how both banks and corporations are sitting on money because the investment climate is so grim. Not exactly...
View ArticleNat Hentoff on Perry, Obama
By Tim LynchThere has been increasing attention this week on Texas governor and Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry, as well as his book Fed Up! and his record in Texas. With respect to...
View ArticleObama Supports VAT Sympathizer for Top Job at Council of Economic Advisers
By Daniel J. MitchellThe White House has announced that it is nominating Alan Krueger, a professor at Princeton, to be the new Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. In a Freudian copy-editing...
View ArticleFlapâs Links and Comments for August 29th on 08:31
These are my links for August 29th from 08:31 to 08:55: Workplace Notice Poster for Worker’s Rights – WORKPLACE NOTICE Worker Rights The National Labor Relations Board May Not Tell You About For...
View ArticleA.M. Vitals: Pfizer Takes New Tack With More Targeted Drugs
âÂÂNiche BlockbustersâÂÂ: PfizerâÂÂs newly approved lung-cancer therapy crizotinib, to be sold under the brand name Xalkori, represents a relatively new tack for the pharma giant: a drug aimed...
View ArticlePanel: Set Up a Compensation System for Research-Related Injuries
Treponema pallidum, the bacterium that causes syphilis. Last fall the heads of the CDC and NIH called freshly unearthed 1940s-era experiments that intentionally infected Guatemalan prisoners, military...
View ArticleObama Jobs Plan to Push More K-12 Bloat?
By Andrew J. CoulsonIn a recent interview, President Obama hints at the core of his much-anticipated jobs plan: PRESIDENT OBAMA: what we do have, I think, is the capacity to do some things right now...
View ArticleFlapâs Links and Comments for September 1st on 06:18
These are my links for September 1st from 06:18 to 16:02: SC Gov. Nikki Haley Calls on Obama to Disband the NLRB; Calls Obama ‘Cowardly’ – South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley blasted President Obama and...
View ArticleU.S. President Barack Obama Proclaims September 2011 As National Ovarian...
Today, U.S. President Barack Obama designated September 2010 as National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. During National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month, Libby’s H*O*P*E*⢠will honor the women who...
View ArticlePresident 2012: Solar Plant Bankruptcy Now an Anti-Obama Campaign Ad
President Obama visited the solar company Solyndra on May 26, 2010 to tout his $535 million loan guarantee. On August 31, 2011, Solyndra announced it was filing for bankruptcy and laying off 1,100...
View ArticleWhy More Money Hasnât, and Wonât, Fix the Nationâs Public School Buildings
By Andrew J. CoulsonAdam Schaeffer has just blogged about the massive increase in public school facilities spending of the past two decades, and about President Obama’s likely call to throw even more...
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