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Here is my second column published in my university’s newspaper.
Last week, my economics class discussed price gouging. Apparently, some gas station owners are being prosecuted for raising gasoline prices before and after Hurricane Katrina.
As we all know, Katrina left thousands homeless and generally devastated the south. Thank God that the government came to the rescue- […]

Since Hillary Clinton and health care are back in the news, here’s a short, Friday-afternoon primer on how her plan took shape and eventually went down in 1994:

FreedomWorks Chairman Dick Armey testified before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.
Hat tip to Marc Morano for providing the footage.

President Bush gave a speech today about his desire for nations to cut their carbon emissions.

“By setting this goal, we acknowledge there is a problem, and by setting this goal, we commit ourselves to doing something about it,” Bush said in a speech that capped two days of talks at a White House-sponsored climate change […]

David Brooks isn’t exactly a Cato-style libertarian, and his promotion of a conservatism that’s willing to use government to promote its agenda isn’t exactly aligned with mine, but he’s a good, smart writer, and a thoughtful, honest commentator. Today, I think he makes an important point about how S-CHIP is funded:
Recent sociological research shows that […]

We are deeply saddened to learn of the untimely passing of John Berthoud today. We worked closely with him in his role as President of the National Taxpayers Union (NTU) . John had a real passion for the fight for human liberty. He was a tireless advocate with a real willingness to […]

The Washington Times reports today that Hillary Clinton’s campaign has picked up a few key players from the George Soros-funded America Coming Together, which the FEC just fined for misusing $70 million dollars in the 2004 election.
At least four persons who worked for the America Coming Together (ACT) fundraising group, which the Federal Election Commission […]

Thank goodness for James Pethokoukis at U.S. News.  I didn’t watch the Democratic debate last night (this is what, debate number 2,389,233,902,390? And the candidates say, erm… almost nothing of substance each and every time?), but fortunately he did.  He’s got a great list of economic oddities that resulted, but I particularly liked this one:
Thank […]

That’s what NRO’s David Freddoso calls industry support for S-CHIP, as business owners stand to profit from dumping dependents on the state. This isn’t a new thing — my friend Tim Carney wrote an entire book about businesses that feed off of various government subsidies and programs — but it’s depressing all the same. […]

This isn’t exactly news, but city-run wi-fi projects are expensive and worthless — and businesses aren’t getting much out of their investments in them.  Via TLF’s Adam Thierer, WSJ’s Ben Charny has the goods:
Many cities with wireless networks say that there’s been little demand for their premium services and that technology issues have limited the […]