by Dan Mitchell | Feb 4, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs
Steve Chapman skewers Republicans for being the party of big government when they were in power, but also notes that they are right to criticize Obama’s reckless fiscal policies. Chapman hopes that the GOP will actually propose to shrink the burden of...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 3, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Free Market, Privacy
Maybe I have an outdated copy, but I don’t see college football listed in the enumerated powers of the Congress. And it doesn’t seem to be mentioned in any of the amendments. Yet the busybodies in Washington now want to exert their control over how the...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 1, 2010 | Blogs, Taxation
While most political observers are paying lots of attention to the stunning Senate race in Massachusetts, there were two important ballot initiatives in Oregon on Tuesday and in both cases 54 percent of voters decided to impose higher tax rates on some of their...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 21, 2010 | Blogs, Economic Growth, Free Market
As reported by the Financial Times, Sebastian Pinera, the brother of Cato’s Jose Pinera, was elected President of Chile this weekend. The press is viewing Pinera’s election through the right-left lens of Latin American politics, but this is a bit...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 20, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs
While there is always a tendency in Washington to over-analyze the meaning of elections, I think that we can draw the following conclusions from Scott Brown’s victory: 1. Obamacare is an albatross for the Democrats. The White House wants to blame Coakley for...
