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Two weeks ago in Defense News , I argued that America’s alliances are growing increasingly detached from American security interests . With reference to Defense Secretary Bob Gates’ visit to the newly-minted government in Japan, I wrote that
after imploring [new Japanese PM ...
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Bill Gates
Unfortunately, that win comes as another blow to property rights :
The last major obstacle to a groundbreaking for the $4.9 billion Atlantic Yards development in Brooklyn fell Tuesday when New York’s highest court, the Court of Appeals, dismissed a challenge to the state’s use of eminent ...
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Looking for more commentary and analysis from Cato scholars? You can find their own blogs here:
Daniel Griswold – Mad About Trade
Jim Harper – Washington Watch & Tech Liberation
Daniel J. Mitchell – International Liberty
Patrick Michaels – World Climate ...
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Writing for The Hill , I explain why Keynesian-style stimulus does not work. In addition, I note that the so-called stimulus was just an excuse for pork-barrel spending. But my concluding point, excerpted below, is that the White House goofed politically by making specific claims about the good ...
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All too often policy debates regarding executive compensation appear driven more by populist politics than any real basis in fact. In order to add some light to this debate, two professors at New York University’s Stern School of Business, Gian Luca Clementi and Thomas Cooley, recently ...
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Josh Blackman, my coauthor on “ Opening Pandora’s Box? Privileges or Immunities, The Constitution in 2020, and Properly Incorporating the Second Amendment ,” has inaugurated a series of podcasts devoted to law and liberty. He’s already has an interview with PLF’s Timothy ...
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Climb aboard the TARDIS campers, we’re going to take a magic YouTube voyage to a strange parallel universe, very much like ours, except Barack Obama sports a dashing goatee and… Sorry, what’s that? Not a parallel universe, you say? August of 2007, you say?
Wait, that ...
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Yes, you read that right. The story is more complicated than a short headline can covey, but that is the gist of an article of mine in the just-out December issue of Commentary magazine. [Subscription needed.]
The past 15 years have witnessed two undeniable trends: dramatically rising levels ...
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I’ve just started reading a new article by economists at the World Bank and the Peterson Insititute. The gist of the paper is that greenhouse gas emission targets will have little effect on “carbon leakage”, the apparently-largely-theoretical phenomenon whereby ...
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The New York Times has a good article about how lawyers on both the right and left are working together to try and roll back state power in the criminal justice system. Here is an excerpt:
“It’s a remarkable phenomenon,” said Norman L. Reimer, executive director of the National Association of ...
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House Democrats introduced the first complete draft of President Obama’s health plan on June 19 .
Since then, Congress has spent 158 days considering the Obama health plan without ever laying eyes on a complete cost estimate .
The House passed its version without one. And the Senate has ...
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In federal eminent domain cases, the “scope of the project” rule requires that in determining “just compensation” under the Fifth Amendment’s Takings Clause, any increase or decrease in property value caused by the federal project be disregarded. As it turns out, the federal government had ...
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USA Today reports that “the Justice Department gave more than $77 million in stimulus funds this year to 200 police agencies because of their locations rather than economic or crime-fighting needs, department records show.” Why? Because a 1994 congressional provision requires that every state ...
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Three decades of politics and failed policies at HUD .
Michael D. Tanner on the Senate Sell-Outs : “At a time of 10.2 percent unemployment, they voted to make it more expensive to hire workers, especially low-wage workers. With the economy struggling, they voted for $485 billion ...
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Imagine if the government got to pick your pocket every time you engaged in a financial transaction? That nightmare scenario is a distinct possibility now that senior Democrats have joined with European politicians and urged that such a tax be applied on a worldwide based. Reuters has the ...
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I’ve written here before about how the National Governors Association is seeking to peddle state power over driver licensing and identification to the federal government in order to cement its role as a supplicant for states in Washington, D.C.
NGA is currently seeking to drum up a ...
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Sunday marked the third anniversary of the signing of a free trade agreement between the United States and Colombia. It is an embarrassment to our great nation that this agreement with an important Latin American ally still sits on the shelf three years later, a victim of congressional trade ...
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Steve Chapman has another terrific column — this one about gun regulations and the tendency of politicians to exempt themselves from such regulations — for the public good, of course. Here’s an excerpt:
Roland Burris, another Chicagoan, has endorsed a nationwide ban on ...
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Leaders of the Church of Christ, Scientist, are pushing to get a provision into the health care bill that would mandate equal treatment for “spiritual healing,” such as Christian Science prayer treatments. Sens. John Kerry and Orrin Hatch are trying to get it inserted into the ...
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John McCain
Medical innovation — new discoveries that make medical care better and less expensive — is the most important kind of health care reform.
In this new Cato study , Glen Whitman and Ray Raad show that the United States leads the world in medical innovation — and that President ...
