- Congressmen Living High on the Taxpayer Dime.
- An Economist’s Take on Big-Government Health Care. “What is curious is that this rise in education costs is deemed by the liberal establishment smart and farsighted while the rise in health-care costs is a curse to be stopped at any cost. What is curiouser still is that in education, where they always advocate more ‘investment,’ past increases have gone hand-in-hand with demonstrably deteriorating outcomes. The rising cost in health care has been accompanied by clearly superior results. Thus we would shift dollars from where they do a lot of good to an area where they don’t.”
- Conservatives and Support Public Transportation “The most important thing that a liberal needs to know in talking to conservatives about public transportation is not to use liberal arguments. You can’t argue for transit on the basis that the poor need it.”
- He’s Barack Obama! In their latest high-quality video, JibJab pokes fun at the President.
- Treason! Paul Krugman says it’s “treason against the planet” to argue against legislation, laden with special-interest handouts, that would raise taxes during a recession and not accomplish its principal goal of lowering carbon emissions.
- A Contrarian Take on Honduras. “It’s not surprising that chavistas throughout the region are claiming that he was victim of a military coup. They want to hide the fact that the military was acting on a court order to defend the rule of law and the constitution, and that the Congress asserted itself for that purpose, too.”
- The National Debt Road Trip
- How Iran Is Not Poland. The differences between 1981 Poland and 2009 Iran and what that means for American policy.
- Daniel Henninger on the ‘Public Option.’ Can we really believe what proponents of a government insurance plan have to say?
- Larison on the Iranian Election. “How much of the Mousavi voters’ outrage is of the 1972 ‘no one I know voted for Nixon’ variety? What if Iran’s so-called ‘silent majority’ is not opposed to the régime as it currently exists as most observers seem to assume?”
- Tyler Cowen on Health Care Reform. “The Obama administration is proposing that we start by spending more now so we can spend less later. This runs the risk of becoming the new voodoo economics.”
- The Next Urban Renewal Boondoggle. Bulldozing decaying cities may be good policy in some places. But if it’s adopted at the federal level, it could be another in a long line of failed urban renewal policies.
- Can Washington Be ‘Hands-Off’ With GM? “Many commentators worry that this new, nationalized GM will answer to politicians rather than profit and loss. They fear that this could lead to a $100 billion quagmire. Their fears are not without reason.”