Tag Archives: Government
To Develop
This is to develop later, but here’s the model I keep referring to privately when I think about political affiliation: In the center there’s just a person: oneself. At some basic level, every person is a libertarian. We all want … Continue reading
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Today’s Quick Letter
In “Tax Dollars Shouldn’t Fund Abortion,” (Opinion, Oct. 15), Charmaine Yoest states that the Capps Amendment “would make abortion coverage a part of the public option, funnel tax dollars to private health plans that cover abortion, and ensure that every … Continue reading
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The Flaccid Fourth Estate
Last year I asked myself repeatedly why we kept talking about Britney Spears’s ladyparts. I wondered how an ungraceful limo entrance heard round the world could supplant everything more urgent, if not more critical, than Britney’s hoochie-cooch. The answer, of … Continue reading
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“Taxed Enough Already”
I hardly ever drive. At the tail end of today’s biannual foray into the District I found myself predictably lost somewhere in Whitehurst territory, my personal Birnam Wood. Today my wanderings quickly turned serendipitous. I happened across the Sept. 12 … Continue reading
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Voting With Your Feet
From the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy at Volokh, George Mason’s own Ilya Somin shares a personal account of how moving with one’s feet is easier for those without a lot of accumulated wealth: [T]he much greater difficult of moving when you … Continue reading
Pelosi Whines of Health Care: I Can’t Hear the Discussion Over All This Dissent!
‘Un-American’ attacks can’t derail health care debate Americans have been waiting for nearly a century for quality, affordable health care. By Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer Great start. Why engage with your detractors when you can just levy an ad … Continue reading
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Down with Government Intervention
Targeting small businesses has become this summer’s economic trend. Small businesses have led this country out of its last seven post-World War II recessions. But as government intervention mounts against entrepreneurship, things will get worse before they get better. Pork-stuffed … Continue reading
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The Conservative Colossus
P.J. O’Rourke claims (and the article below paraphrases) that the big advantages republicans have is that they talk about how government always screws up, then take power and, when they indeed inevitably screw up, they say: See?! I swing towards … Continue reading
