by Dan Mitchell | Feb 1, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Waste, Privacy
Dana Milbank is a snarky leftist who writes for the Washington Post, but I have to give him credit for an amusing column today about the new big-brother diet guidelines from our incompetent federal government. Here are a few excerpts. In the late 1970s, before the...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 20, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Regulations
The President garnered some attention for his January 18 column in the Wall Street Journal, in which he said we need to control the regulatory burden. Let’s start with the insincere part. He praised capitalism. America’s free market has not only been the source of...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 5, 2011 | Bailouts, Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Monetary Policy
The news is going from bad to worse for Ireland. The Irish Independent is reporting that the Swiss Central Bank no longer will accept Irish government bonds as collateral. The story also notes that one of the world’s largest bond firms, PIMCO, is no longer purchasing...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 3, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Regulations
I’ve already commented here and here on the government forcing us to use inferior lightbulbs. The bad news is becoming worse news. Here’s a story from England that was linked on Instapundit, showing how big business (which conspired with the politicians to get rid of...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 1, 2011 | Big Government, Blogs, Competition
Walter Williams explains why politicians and bureaucrats shouldn’t have the power to tell us what we’re allowed to buy. At first blush, the mercantilists’ call for “free trade but fair trade” sounds reasonable. After all, who can be against fairness? Giving the idea...
