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Relevance: 22% Posted on: October 20, 2011
Though President Obama has a reputation amongst conservatives for being “soft” on illegal immigration, he has, in fact, presided over an administration that has sent record numbers of folks back to their countries of origin. And this has hit the agricultural sector. Hard. The one fifth of Americans who are…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: May 9, 2011
A former Uganda Supreme Court justice has said that were the country’s top banana, President Yoweri Museveni, to meet his own self of a quarter century ago, “they would shoot each other.” Will Ross, reporting for the BBC News, provides a fascinating account of what’s gone wrong in the country…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: April 13, 2011
Has Congress rescinded the Obamacare yet? No? Bad news if you favor free-market medicine. Nifty news if you’re a doddering corporate dinosaur of old media — like the Washington Post and CBS New and NBC News — with millions, or billions, in the kitty. And zero compunction about holding out…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: March 9, 2011
The answer is 42. The question? Not Douglas Adams’s Ultimate Question concerning “life, the universe, and everything.” Instead, it’s the answer to the question, “How many mandates does the State of Oregon place on the medical insurance packages Oregonians are allowed to buy?” Forty-two. The number is far too large…
Relevance: 21% Posted on: February 4, 2015
“To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at…
Relevance: 21% Posted on: October 23, 2016
2015 was a record-setting year for the Federal Register, according to numbers the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., released Wednesday. This year’s daily publication of the federal government’s rules, proposed rules and notices amounted to 81,611 pages as of Wednesday, higher than last year's 77,687 pages and higher than…
Relevance: 21% Posted on: February 19, 2019
Stay calm. Dan Glickman has discovered serious problems. “Washington is a divided town in a very politically divided nation,” Glickman wrote in The Hill last year. “From the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh, to the extreme rhetoric on social media, to the bombs mailed to public officials, to the mass shooting…
Relevance: 21% Posted on: December 27, 1999
It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game. Old-fashioned I know, but I think it's right. Don't care any less about winning. The point is to care most about playing by a high standard, which makes winning truly worthwhile. Today, too often, we see a…
Relevance: 21% Posted on: June 29, 2011
Today’s ideological impasse is not well understood. To be a modern “liberal” or “progressive” means generally to favor governmental ways of accomplishing things over private ways, especially over voluntary economic transactions. Programs such as Arizona’s “Clean Elections” law, discussed yesterday — like similar ideas elsewhere — are designed to make…
Relevance: 21% Posted on: April 7, 2021
Ten months ago, I commented on a Newsweek article informing that “the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the organization led by Dr. [Anthony] Fauci, funded scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and other institutions for work on gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses.” A deadly worldwide pandemic along…