by Dan Mitchell | Oct 1, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs
The bureaucrats at the International Labor Organization (which shouldn’t even exist) are correct to note that high levels of unemployment threaten social unrest. But like most left-wing international bureaucracies, they think the solution is more government –...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 24, 2010 | Blogs, Free Market
Christina Hoff Sommers of the American Enterprise Institute decimates the bean-counting feminist “paycheck fairness” legislation being considered by the Senate. Republicans presumably know this is a bad idea, but one can only wonder whether they will do the right...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 24, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending, Government Waste
Considering they could have sat on their hands and relied on unhappy voters to give them big gains in November, I’m not too unhappy about the House GOP’s “Pledge to America.” Yes, it’s mostly filled with inoffensive motherhood-and-apple-pie language, but at least...
by Brian Garst | Sep 23, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Health Care, Regulations
Consider this a prelude to Obamacare: Tens of thousands of Texas children will be directly affected by the 11th-hour decision of a number of major health insurance companies to stop selling child-only policies rather than comply with the new federal law that requires...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 23, 2010 | Bailouts, Blogs
No CAP bedwetter to debate in this segment.