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For the children? Perhaps not. In the Washington Post, Robert Samuelson casts a skeptical eye on the current crop of presidential candidates and their promises to take care of the children.
Our children face a future of rising taxes, squeezed — and perhaps falling — public services and aging — perhaps deteriorating — public [...]

Yet another article notes the, ah, uncertainties surrounding the use of “carbon offsets.”  This time, the New York Times reports that the the FTC is looking into the sales of carbon pardons, saying that there is the “potential for deception.”
In other words, it’s maybe kind of … a scam. Possibly?
The Federal Trade Commission, which regulates [...]

FreedomWorks chairman Dick Armey has another article today, this one in USA Today. The topic? Why Americans need tax relief.  Here’s a starter:
Americans today are still struggling with record levels of taxation. This year, the tax burden hit a 25-year high. Polls indicate that overwhelming majorities think taxes are too steep and the system by [...]

Responding to my earlier post on the GOP coalition, Daniel Larison writes:
If Huckabee’s Cato grade was a D, Romney’s was a C, yet we are gamely told by those who endorse Romney that he is much better as an economic conservative than Huckabee, when the truth is that, by the high standards of Cato and CfG, both [...]

Paleoconservative blog-superstar Daniel Larison takes issue with Dick Armey’s column on Huckabee, arguing first against Armey’s claim that Huckabee is seeking to split the GOP coalition in order to win the nomination.  This doesn’t seem to me to be a particularly odd claim, and Huckabee’s rhetoric has essentially admitted it. He’s railed against the Club [...]

The New Hampshire presidential primary is today, and our own Dick Armey weighs in on one of the candidates, Mike Huckabee, at RealClearPolitics. Here’s a sample:
Fiscal conservatives have spilled gallons of ink decrying his record, and for good reason. Yet the social conservatives who support him should be concerned as well, for Huckabee undermines the [...]

Obama and Clinton have been in a much-publicized spat over their respective health care plans. And while it’s true that Clinton’s would force absolutely everyone to purchase insurance and Obama’s would not, the thing to remember is that both are bad. The Wall Street Journal breaks it down for us:

“Universal” health care is of course [...]

What to make of $100 oil?  To read the daily newspapers on the topic, or listen to certain political candidates, you’d think it was an Earth-shattering event.
Here’s the Times with a story headlined “How $100 oil will change your life.” John Edwards said that the “report that the price of oil has reached $100 a [...]

Omnibusting is reporting that Bush is expected to announce tomorrow whether or not he’ll issue the much-anticipated executive order telling federal agencies to ignore the vast majority of the earmarks in this year’s omnibus.  This could be huge, and could give Bush, who has been struggling to bolster his fiscal conservative credentials, an big win [...]

In keeping with the Milton Friedman posts here at FreedomTalks, I thought I’d post this fascinating video.
It’s Uncle Milty on Donahue back in the 1970s defending capitalism. More importantly, however, he stands up for the concept which Adam Smith identified so eloquently in An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations- [...]