by Dan Mitchell | Jun 28, 2025 | Blogs, Uncategorized
Back in March, Ásthildur Lóa Thórsdóttir in Iceland was nominated to be “Politician of the Year” because she got knocked up by a teenager and went on to become Minister for Children. Impressive level of irony, but she’s not going to win this year’s...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 19, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs
This is the last full day of Joe Biden’s dismal presidency, so let’s do what we did with Justin Trudeau and reflect on his pathetic legacy. I’ve already provided my own economic assessment of Biden’s record, so now let’s review how he is seen by...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 24, 2024 | Blogs, Uncategorized
I was very confident that Senator Elizabeth Warren was going to be 2024’s Politician of the Year. After all, not only is she a hypocrite on school choice and taxes, she’s also a hypocrite on the environment. All of that is impressive, albeit in a...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 24, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs
In Part I of this series about six months ago, I wrote that “I favor ‘freedom conservatism‘ over ‘national conservatism‘ because the former is unambiguously based on liberty and the latter veers toward populism.” And I defined a populist as “someone who exploits...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 28, 2024 | Blogs, Uncategorized
Politicians are not good people. That’s why I have a “Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy” series (though I confess they all have the same message). Part I reviewed evidence of misbehavior by elected officials and their cronies. Part II reviewed evidence of...
