FreedomTalks

In his New York Times column today, Paul Krugman provides a frightenly blunt explanation of the liberal rationale for health-care mandates:
The central question is whether there should be a health insurance “mandate”– a requirement that everyone sign up for health insurance, even if they don’t think they need it. The Edwards and Clinton plans have […]

From boredom to brothels to catepillar biomass shift, the media has blamed everything on global warming. Christopher Alleva at the American Thinker blogs about Dr. John Brignell, a British engineering professor, who runs a website called numberwatch. As Dr. Brignell works daily to “combat math hysteria” he has been accumulating an amazing list […]

I have to agree with Philip Klein, Rob Bluey and the Club for Growth about last night’s answers to the farm subsidies question in the GOP YouTube/CNN debate.
Farm subsidies are just another name for taxpayer dollars spent on wealthy agribusinesses in places like Iowa. I am still waiting for a presidential candidate to come out […]

FreedomWorks chairman Dick Armey will be at the CNN/YouTube Republican debate tomorrow, talking about the candidates and tax reform. Armey submitted a question to the debate on tax reform that was voted on by more than 1,000 FreedomWorks members, and today he’s got an op-ed at Townhall.com that details some of the reasons […]

In the Wall Street Journal, Jonathan Adler takes on Break Through, a book by two liberals that offers plan for a new environmentalism–a supposedly “pro-growth” environmentalism–and knocks it down it fairly nicely.

Messrs. Nordhaus and Shellenberger want “an explicitly pro-growth agenda,” on the theory that investment, innovation and imagination may ultimately do more to improve the […]

It’s official: despite his claims to the contrary, Michael Gerson’s conservatism doesn’t fly.
The reviews of Gerson’s new book, Heroic Conservatism, are in, and from every side, he’s being lambasted.
Here’s George Will writing in the Washington Post, where Gerson has a column:
 Gerson, an evangelical Christian, makes “compassion” the defining attribute of political heroism. But compassion is […]

I was glad to hear former Senator and current presidential candidate Fred Thompson express support for an optional flat tax Sunday on Fox News. The Wall Street Journal’s Amy Schatz has a piece on Thompson’s tax plan here.
Thompson supports the main idea behind the Taxpayer Choice Act, which is a Republican Study Committee idea promoted […]

All of this intraparty sniping between the Democrats on health care is pretty amusing. Here’s the New York Times on the most recent skirmish:
[Clinton] whacked Senator Barack Obama again – this time by name – over his health insurance plan and the estimates that it would not cover about 15 million Americans.
“It’s been kind […]

At his blog, New York Times op-ed columnist Paul Krugman accuses journalists of playing “gotcha” games with past quotes rather than debating facts and figures– the substance, he says — of pertinent issues.  In typical big-paper fashion, he doesn’t name his target, but it’s obvious that he’s responding to Ruth Marcus of the Washington […]

Did you grow your own sugar? Did you build your own laptop? Maybe, but odds are you didn’t. You almost certainly traded money for sugar and your laptop.
We buy things because we don’t have the time, resources or know-how to make them ourselves. Heck, sometimes, we’re just too lazy, (thank God for Domino’s Pizza). […]