by Dan Mitchell | Jun 28, 2015 | Blogs, Health Care
I feel compelled to comment on the Supreme Court’s latest Obamacare decision, though I could sum up my reaction with one word: disgust. I’m disgusted that we had politicians who decided in 2009 and 2010 to further screw up the healthcare system with Obamacare. I’m...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 15, 2015 | Blogs, Constitution
If you want to go to a Presbyterian church instead of a Baptist church, should the government be able to interfere with that choice? Even if, for some bizarre reason, 95 percent of the population doesn’t like Presbyterians? If you want to march up and down the...
by Dan Mitchell | May 13, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Constitution
If I had to pick a government policy that would be most upsetting to our Founding Fathers, I’d be tempted to pick the income tax. Or maybe some useless agency, such as the Department of Housing and Urban Development. After all, surely the Founders didn’t envision – or...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 25, 2015 | Big Government, Blogs, Education, Government Spending
To save the nation from a future Greek-style fiscal meltdown, we should reform entitlements. But as part of the effort to restore limited, constitutional government, we also should shut down various departments that deal with issues that shouldn’t be handled by the...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 31, 2015 | Blogs, Crime, Society
Back in 2013, I shared a snarky post comparing murder rates in Chicago and Houston. What made the data amusing is that any sensible person would look at Chicago’s high murder rate and strict gun control and conclude that perhaps, just maybe, such policies don’t work....
