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David Freddoso has a sharp piece today reminding us that the proposed expansion of S-CHIP government health insurance is really part of a long standing strategy by liberals to slowly push having the government be involved with everyone’s health care.
Democrats in Congress do not just want the government to cover the needy and uninsured. They […]

Megan McArdle’s new blog at the Atlantic starts with a post urging market calm:
Now is not a fun time to be either a homeowner, or a hedge-fund manager, and from what I can tell I am the only person left in the United States who isn’t at least one of those things…. [But] having a […]

After arriving back in Iowa, I had about a week’s respite from the presidential candidates.
This morning, in fact, I watched the Democratic Debate at Drake University in Des Moines.
I learned so many new things- first, that George Stephanopoulos could give John Edwards a run for his money in the “hair” category. Second, that Joe […]

FreedomWorks Florida has launched an online petition against Governor Crist’s Big Green agenda.
You can view the hundreds of signers by CLICKING HERE.
Crist is following in the footsteps of the Terminator in California, giving in to the greens by supporting bad economic policy. It’s a crying shame in a state that gave us Jeb Bush.

It’s no secret that unions are pushy and prone to intimidation.  But if a handful of unions get their way, it could get worse.  The New York Times reports that seven unions are requesting that employers be forced to negotiate with them even if they don’t represent a majority of workers.  As a lawyer in […]

An op-ed today in the San Diego Tribune outlines the many economic benefits the United States has experienced since the enactment of the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1993. According to the Tribune:
Its adoption in 1993 helped kick off one of the great periods of sustained economic health in U.S. history. The resulting explosion […]

In today’s Post, George Will gives a short history of the Fed, and then argues that there’s no reason for it to intervene in the current downturn of the sub-prime credit market:
The Federal Reserve’s proper mission is not to produce a particular rate of economic growth or unemployment, or to cure injuries — least of […]

John Stossel has a great piece in RCP on the embarassment that is our federal farm policy.
From 1999 through 2005, the USDA “paid $1.1 billion in farm payments in the names of 172,801 deceased individuals. … 40 percent went to those who had been dead for three or more years, and 19 percent to […]

My former colleague Cord Blomquist has a helpful post on the blundering efforts of San Francisco to set up city-run wi-fi:
Over the last two years, San Francisco has been in negotiations with Earthlink who, in partnership with Google, has had plans to build a Wi-Fi “cloud” over the 47 sq. mile geek-infested city. […]

Despite much rancor on both sides, the real debate over global warming isn’t about the science, it’s about the policies with which we choose to address it.  And right now, the policies that receive the most attention–such as cap-and-trade–don’t look promising.  As Robert Samuelson puts it in the Post this morning:
The global-warming debate’s great unmentionable […]