Collect Early and Often
A recent story in the L.A. Times caught my attention, because it addresses an issue I have written a good deal about and it has …
Flatland
In the tax reform debate, those who favor the flat tax have a decisive advantage: many countries now actually have flat tax systems, and we …
California Gold
I have reflected before on how California and states like it appear to be serving as incubators of statist pestilence. Californians (and New Yorkers) vote …
Protean President
Obama is a man of many personae, none of them particularly admirable. There is MessiahBama, the man who arrogantly presents himself as the embodiment of …
Reaping the Wind
President Obama has made a fetish of promising gazillions of “green jobs,” that is, new jobs that will supposedly flow from his environmentalist program. He …
Paymaster-in-chief
The Obama administration, being one of the most statist in American history, just loves appointing”czars” to run various sectors of our increasingly nationalized economy. The …
Ballot Boxing
It never fails. Whenever I attend a political gathering – such as the ever-delightful FreedomFest – I am approached by someone pitching a third political …
I’ll Take Manhattan
One of the opinion journals I most love to read is the plucky City Journal, published quarterly by a center-right thinktank called the Manhattan Institute. …
Nukes for Thee but Not for Me
I read a short news report in The Wall Street Journal (May 21) that simply amazed me. It announced that Obama has officially endorsed a …
Chinese Econ Drill
As our country continues in its government-induced recession, we would do well to reflect on China’s continuing economic success. China has passed some important milestones …