They’ve discovered the secret to permanent stagnation.

All law-abiding people should have the human right to protect themselves.

Two worthy candidates for the Bureaucrat Hall of Fame.

Decentralization, self-determination, and limited government should favor the ability of regions to either declare independence or choose to join neighboring countries.

Europe’s political elite may be even more foolish than their American counterparts.

Does big government necessarily and automatically imply incompetent government? Unfortunately, that seems to be the case. Robert Samuelson, for instance, has written that the federal government is so large that it breeds failure and disappointment.  I added my two cents, writing that: …government is far more likely to have a “reverse Midas touch” when it is too […]

In April of 2013, I introduced a Moocher Hall of Fame to “celebrate” some very odious examples of welfare dependency. Since that time, I keep thinking that it’s time to do something similar for government bureaucrats. This compilation from last December would be a good place to start, though I’d have to figure out whether to have group memberships so […]

Are there any fact checkers at the New York Times? Since they’ve allowed some glaring mistakes by Paul Krugman (see here and here), I guess the answer is no. But some mistakes are worse than others. Consider a recent column by David Stuckler of Oxford and Sanjay Basu of Stanford. Entitled “How Austerity Kills,” it […]