by Dan Mitchell | Jul 17, 2019 | Opinion and Commentary
Originally published by The American Conservative on July 16, 2019. Looking at Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal, one is reminded of Voltaire’s comment that the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire. But that might be...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 5, 2019 | Big Government, Blogs
One of the worst examples of Washington cronyism is the Export-Import Bank, which has provided subsidies for big companies that sell to foreign buyers. Corrupt firms such as Boeing and General Electric argue that they need help from the Ex-Im Bank in order make those...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Mar 15, 2019 | Opinion and Commentary
Originally published by The Western Journal on March 14, 2019. A lot was riding on the Crew Dragon’s safe return Friday after SpaceX became the first company to dock a commercial spacecraft at the International Space Station a week prior. While the docking was praised...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Mar 10, 2019 | Opinion and Commentary
Originally published by The Western Journal on March 9, 2019. As the march toward the 2020 presidential election begins to pick up steam, Democratic candidates are stumbling over themselves to embrace the next “fresh” and “exciting” big-ticket item on the progressive...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 9, 2019 | Blogs
During my early years in public policy, back in the late 1980s, I repeatedly crossed swords with people who argued that Washington should have more power over the economy so that the United States could compete with Japan, which supposedly was an economic juggernaut...
