(Organization Trends, April 2009 PDF here) Did liberals cause the mortgage meltdown? The Left blames the recession on capitalism and laissez-faire. But…
The governments of Iran and Venezuela have joined forces to create a joint bank aimed at promoting their exports, Reason’s Hit and Run blog reports. At the ribbon-cutting in…
Edward Hudgins has a good article called “Obama’s Grab-Bag Socialism” at the Atlas Society website. Although comparing Fascism and socialism is often like discussing how many angels can dance…
A variation on Simon and Garfunkel’s “Mrs. Robinson” by The Mike Church Show Band offers apt commentary on America’s current political situation: (Hat tip: Doug Bandow of AmSpecBlog who got…
A practitioner of the statistical voodoo known as “sampling” has been selected by President Obama to head the Census Bureau, which is poised to carry out the decennial census next…
Attorneys working for the taxpayer-funded Legal Services Corporation may soon be free to litigate in an effort to make government bigger, writes John Carlisle, director of policy at the…
Quasi-governmental good news for a change. The so-called “mark to market” accounting rule helped to deepen the financial crisis but the Financial Accounting Standards Board decided today to ease the accounting fiat –and…
At long last Ayn Rand’s opus, Atlas Shrugged, may be turned into a movie, according to riskybusinessblog: Hollywood could soon be going Objectivist. After decades in development hell,…
Quin Hillyer of the American Spectator has a thoughtful article on America’s march toward Mussolini-style corporatism that began under President Bush and accelerated dramatically under President Obama. (John Fund…
Yeeaarrahh! Former Democratic presidential candidate and former DNC chairman Howard Dean is back pitching Big Government rationing of health care. MoveOn.org sent out this email today: Dear MoveOn member,…