Bill Gates, Keynesian
Philanthropist and gazillionaire Bill Gates showed that, like his father (who is associated with the far-left United for a Fair Economy), he knows almost nothing about economics. In a speech Gates…
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U.S. National Debt = $102 Trillion
The national debt, including unfunded liabilities, is about $102 trillion and climbing, according to the National Center for Policy Analysis. Some thoughts on the subject from Reason’s Jacob Sullum…
A Piece of the Action: Labor Expects Much from the Next Congress, New Administration
(Labor Watch, December 2008 PDF here) The elections in November ushered in a new era for organized labor. The unions had poor relations…
Food Fights Back
PETA must be happy. A wounded male deer in Missouri attacked the hunter who shot it. After the attack it ran away and was then finished off by the…
Nutty Prosecutor’s Case Against Cheney Dismissed
An indictment laid by a grand jury in Texas that charged Vice President Dick Cheney with “profiteering from depriving human beings of their liberty” has been dismissed by a judge on…
Smelly Tourists?
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) is happy that the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center opened this morning because now his olfactories won’t be offended by the common rabble, the…
Detroit: The Blue-Green Bailout
Timothy Carney had an excellent post in yesterday’s DC Examiner regarding the possible bailout of the Big Three automakers. Carney points out that a bailout of the car companies…
The Democracy Alliance Does America
(Foundation Watch, December 2008 PDF here) (Editor’s note: This special report on the Democracy Alliance updates our January 2008 and December…
One of the Reasons ACORN Opposes Norm Coleman
ACORN, of course, can like or dislike the policies of any politician it chooses, but it appears one of the reasons the radical vote fraud conglomerate dislikes Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) is that Coleman…
UAW Wants An Auto Industry Bailout to Save Itself
Ron Gettelfinger, head of the United Auto Workers, is demanding a bailout for his union. The $25 billion he wants the federal government to give the Big Three automakers…