by Dan Mitchell | Apr 23, 2017 | Blogs, Education
Several years ago, I would regularly share horror stories about innocent kids being abused by politically correct government school administrators who overreacted to anything remotely resembling a gun. I even had a U.S. vs. U.K. stupidity contest that featured many...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 1, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs
I focus most of my ire on the federal government because bad policy from Washington is the biggest threat to our nation’s freedom and prosperity. But we also get plenty of bad policy from other levels of government. I periodically focus on the foibles of states such...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 23, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs
Early last month, in a column on my hopes and fears for 2017, I fretted about fiscal chaos in Italy leading to default and bailouts. Simply stated, I fear that Italy, along with certain other “Club Med” nations, has passed the point of no return in terms of big...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 13, 2017 | Big Government, Blogs
Since I’m always reading and writing about government policies, both in America and around the world, I’m frequently reminded of H.L. Mencken’s famous observation about the shortcomings of “tolerable” government. If you take a close look at the world’s freest...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 17, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs
A few years ago, I put together an amusing collection of stories comparing truly bizarre examples of political correctness and bureaucratic idiocy in the United States and the United Kingdom. I was especially impressed (in a you-must-be-joking fashion) that a British...
