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Here are the story and pictures.

Here are the story and pictures.

Hugo Chavez and his socialist “Bolivarian Rebolution” are destroying Venezuela. The latest report in the New York Times describes the predictable result of price controls: widespread food shortages. More troubling is the dictator’s response: instead of allowing markets to set prices and getting the supply chain back in action, Chavez is announcing a [...]

Mitt Romney was in South Carolina Tuesday.
Watch the video.

Leading conservative pundit and economist Walter Williams penned a great piece for today’s Washington Times about socialist health care programs like those being espoused by John Edwards.
Here is an excerpt.
“Some of our politicians hold up the Canadian and British nationalized health care systems as models for us. You can bet that if we ever have [...]

Larry Kudlow gave a great speech at the National Review Institute’s Conservative Summit the other day. Watch the video.

There’s a great story about environmental progress in today’s New York Times. The African nation Niger has reversed desertification and ecological decline by expanding private property rights for its farmers:
Another change was the way trees were regarded by law. From colonial times, all trees in Niger had been regarded as the property of the [...]

Following the lead of Governor Ted Kulongoski in Oregon, Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels is pushing a statewide healthcare plan to be funded through an increase in the cigarette tax. The increase would raise Indiana’s 55.5 cent tax an extra 25 cents. The tax passed its first hurdle Wednesday as the Senate Health and Provider Services [...]

In the spirit of debate, a quick response to IWF’s Carrie Lukas, who arguing on their blog today that tax increases should be on the table as part of Social Security reform.
“The status quo is an enormous loss for those who believe in limited government and free markets, and a big victory [...]