Scene: Suburban house in metro Washington, D.C. A GS-12 bureaucrat with the FDA arrives home and is greeted at the door by his wife. “Hi honey, how was your day?” asks the wife, who had just gotten home from her job with the Department of Labor. “It was great,”...
Obamacare
How the Market Is Already Repealing Obamacare
by Stewart Jones | Apr 6, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles
There’s a common misconception that if you’re opposed to government services, programs and/or departments, then you’re opposed to building roads, education, people getting affordable health care and even people taking care of the sick and elderly. These misconceptions...
3/31/17 Tom Woods on Trump’s Obamacare repeal failure, a debt-busting infrastructure rebuilding plan, and Russiagate
by Scott Horton | Mar 31, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show
Tom Woods, an author, senior fellow of the Mises Institute and host of The Tom Woods Show, discusses the 2nd annual libertarian "Contra Cruise" in October 2017; why Trump is working with former nemesis Paul Ryan on reforming Obamacare instead of the conservative...
Real vs Fake Health Care Reform, and How to Tell the Difference
by Jeffrey A. Tucker | Mar 26, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles
You want to know why the “freedom caucus” has balked at passing the Trump-backed Ryancare health care proposal? Because the package does not address the core problem of the existing system. They are leaning – correctly – on a brilliant insight from F.A. Hayek. Let’s...
Michelangelo and ObamaCare Reform
by Craig Cantoni | Mar 25, 2017 | Blog
It was almost a certainty that ObamaCare would not be replaced or reformed enough to restore a consumer market in medical care/insurance, one in which the consumer is at the top of the pyramid instead of the bottom. Why was it almost a certainty? Because the...
One More Flaw in Conservative Health Care Reform
by Sheldon Richman | Mar 24, 2017 | Blog, Economics
Conservatives oppose federally mandated health insurance benefits (maternity, etc.), but they favor states having the power to mandate such benefits, which they already have. But conservatives (e.g., the Heritage Foundation) say they also favor a nationwide insurance...
News Roundup 3/24/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 24, 2017 | Blog
Trump's pick for Labor Secretary, Alexander Acosta, was a district attorney in Miami and gave a very lenient plea deal to Jeffery Epstein. Under the plea deal, Epstein was given 13 months in prison but was allowed to work from home during the day. Epstein was...
The Science of Fat vs. the Science of Global Warming
by Craig Cantoni | Mar 22, 2017 | Blog
For over a half-century, the government and those in the medical and science community who fed at its richly nutritious teats of grants and subsidies had declared that it was a scientific fact that dietary fats were a primary cause of heart disease, obesity and...
Blog
Stop Funding the NGO: No Grift Overlooked
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are non-profit, voluntary, and independent citizen groups operating at local, national, or international levels. The very nature of NGOs needs a complete overhaul. The very term NGO has an undeserved cache of innocence and...
Recent Writing in Defense of Free Immigration
"The Trumpian Ice Age: The Frigidity of Collectivism" "Immigration Policy in an Nth-Best World" "Free Movement Increases Wealth" "Static Analysis Clouds Immigration Debate" "More on Immigration and Public Property" "Immigration Control Threatens the Rule of Law"...
Alex Wins Again
I was a technical climber as a young man and just watched the amazing Alex Honnold free solo the Taipei 101 tower in Taiwan. Individual achievement is the bedrock of pushing the envelope in human creativity and innovation. I think free solo is eventually going to kill...
Report Card
What's the problem? So far the Trump administration has been Pretti Good.
The Kyle Anzalone Show: ICE Using AI to ID Targets, Breaking Down Trump’s WEF Speech
Greenland on the table, NATO on edge, and an algorithm deciding who gets a knock at the door. We dive into President Trump’s Davos remarks claiming the U.S. will pursue Greenland, then trace the fallout across European capitals as Denmark draws a hard line on...
Parallax Views Podcast: The Government Murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti
J. G. Michael invited me on his podcast to talk about the U.S. immigration agents' recent murders of two American citizens in Minneapolis.
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