by Dan Mitchell | Jul 4, 2020 | Blogs, Uncategorized
Exactly nine years ago, I crafted a “Declaration of Dependence” for my left-leaning friends. I thought it was reasonably clever, at least for something produced by a policy wonk. But I’ll never reach the standards of the nation’s top satire site, Babylon Bee, which...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 3, 2020 | Blogs, Uncategorized
Back in 2014, I wrote about “The Unsavory History of Gun Control” to document how many of the first gun control laws in the United States were used as a tool to oppress blacks. Today, let’s take a closer look at this issue. And since we have a lot of material, we’ll...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 2, 2020 | Blogs, Economics
In an interview with an economic organization from India last month, I discussed many of the economic issues associated with coronavirus (fiscal fallout, excess regulation, subsidized unemployment, etc). But I want to highlight this short clip since I had an...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 1, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
Before our depressing discussion today about the fiscal impact of entitlement programs (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, EITC, Food Stamps, welfare, and Obamacare, etc), here’s a video of how it all began. I think this is a great introduction to the issue,...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 30, 2020 | Blogs, Education
Today is Thomas Sowell’s 90th birthday. The man is a living legend. I’ve cited his great work many times, and I definitely urge people to read what Walter Williams just wrote about his long-time friend. And I also recommend this Mark Perry column, which contains 15 of...
