Government

2016-11-25: What the "Anti-Federalists" Got Right
2015-09-16: Why They Sent Ahmed To Juvie
2015-07-08: National Debt: "We Owe It To Ourselves"? Not Quite.
2015-02-01: The TSA as Milgram Experiment
2014-09-02: NYTimes: Low Carb Eaters Lose More Fat, Show Better Health
2014-08-11: Most Federal Housing Subsidies Do *Not* Fund The Poor
2014-07-22: Potentially "Lethal Blow" For Obamacare: Subsidies Invalid In Most States
2014-06-25: Why Government Worker Unions Should Be Illegal
2013-10-31: All Project Failures Are Management Failures
2013-10-16: Healthcare.gov: 47 Different Contractors Built The Site?
2013-10-03: Untangling Obamacare's Web Glitches
2013-09-03: Finally, A Positive Take On The Future -- "America 3.0: The Coming Reinvention of America"
2013-08-12: Holder seeks to avert mandatory minimum sentences for some low-level drug offenders
2013-08-09: Silent Circle Preemptively Shuts Down Encrypted Email Service To Prevent NSA Spying
2013-08-06: There Is No Private Mortgage Market in the US
2013-07-15: If You Don't Want the Government to Spy on You, Move to Montana
2013-07-07: The Obamacare employer mandate delay is another symptom of our crumbling ‘rule of law’
2013-06-17: Schneier on Security: Blowback from the NSA Surveillance
2013-06-13: IRS Training with Assault Rifles
2013-06-11: Government is never "us." It is always "them."
2013-06-11: We should know much about *public* servants; they should know little about *private* citizens.
2013-06-04: "I am not here as a serf or vassal. I am not begging my lords for mercy."
2013-06-01: Canadian relief for Moore tornado victims denied at border
2013-05-31: The Impossible Dream Of Classical Liberalism
2013-05-24: Yes, Jimmy, the Democrats Are Socialists
2013-05-24: Tyranny in our time
2013-05-21: If We Had No IRS, We'd Have No Scandal
2013-04-18: Just Because The US Won Against Nazis and Communists, Does Not Mean The US Is Not Awful Itself
2013-03-25: The Founders’ Finance, and Ours
2013-03-08: Government Puts Man In Solitary For 2 Years: No Charges, No Trial, No Health Care
2013-02-11: I Have Changed My Mind -- We *Do* Need Gun Control
2013-02-08: Why are the feds loading up on so much ammo?
2013-01-29: Too Many College Graduates, Not Enough Jobs For Them
2013-01-26: David Mamet on Marx, Government, the Police, and Guns
2013-01-25: Government Bans Debt Rating Agency From Rating Government Debt
2013-01-15: Asking The Government To "Do Something" Is Not Scientific
2013-01-15: How To Tell If Your Art Sucks
2013-01-14: One Aaron Swartz Prosecutor Linked To Another Hacker's Suicide In 2008
2013-01-13: Legislation, Liberty, Equality, and Fairness
2013-01-07: Hugo Chavez Hit By Cuba's Surgical Strike
2012-12-14: Assets in Name Only
2012-12-12: Unions Begin Long War After Stunning Blow in Michigan
2012-12-10: Government-Caused Inequality
2012-12-10: I Am The Eye In The Sky, Looking At You
2012-12-10: Tennessee will not set up Obamacare exchange
2012-12-09: Three Differences Between Fox News and NPR
2012-11-22: How A Failed Commune Gave Us What Is Now Thanksgiving
2012-11-19: A solution to secession fever: Federalism!
2012-11-16: China’s Great Shame: 36 Million Starved On Purpose
2012-11-05: Markets or government: Whom do you trust? | WashingtonExaminer.com
2012-11-05: NYC Marathon generators and supplies unused in park in spite of Hurricane Sandy recovery needs
2012-11-02: Court May Force Mentally Disabled Nevada Woman to Have Abortion?
2012-10-31: FEMA Response, Once Rare, Is Now Routine and Overused
2012-10-15: Counterintuitive But Interesting: High Taxes, Spent Wisely, Reduce Employment?
2012-10-09: Taleb on Switzerland, Government, and Debt
2012-10-08: Explaining why "you didn't build that" so offended business people
2012-10-05: Big Bird Richer Than Mitt Romney
2012-10-02: Tough Luck!
2012-10-01: Everyone should pay income tax; yes, even the poor.
2012-10-01: Why Is Democracy Tolerable? Evidence from Affluence and Influence
2012-10-01: The Case for Abolishing Patents (Yes, All of Them)
2012-09-30: If the rich and powerful were forced to do time in prison for doing drugs, there would be a stronger incentive to end the drug war.
2012-09-24: "Same Pay For Same Work": Why There Should *Not* Be A Law
2012-09-16: Obama Has Violated His Oath To Preserve, Protect, And Defend?
2012-09-12: All of You Who Harshly Condemn Anti-Homosexuality Religious Beliefs, Take Note
2012-09-10: Teachers union on strike in Chicago -- for the children!
2012-09-04: Divorce the State from Marriage
2012-08-28: The Difference Between "Pro-Business" and "Pro-Markets"
2012-08-28: Incentives Under Socialism and Capitalism ("Socialism Kills")
2012-08-23: If You Were *Un*successful, You Didn't Do That On Your Own
2012-08-23: Child Porn, Coke Smuggling: Hundreds of DHS Employees Arrested Last Year
2012-08-15: Is America becoming a 'socialist state'? 40 percent say yes.
2012-08-02: New Jersey Town Rips Up Working-Class Neighborhood For Private Developers
2012-08-02: Congress isn’t gridlocked — it’s just totally irresponsible
2012-08-01: You Didn't Lift That: North Korean weightlifter credits Kim Jong Il for world-record feat
2012-07-26: Cars Let Us Get Away With Our Lives
2012-07-18: Ayn Rand Predicts "You didn't build that. Someone else did."
2012-07-18: Barack Obama Is Right. Someone *Did* Build The Roads: Rich People.
2012-07-11: House votes 244-185 to repeal Obama healthcare reform law - The Hill's Healthwatch
2012-07-10: In First U.S. Accounting of Wireless Phone Surveillance, Carriers Reveal 1.3 Million Requests For User Data | Popular Science
2012-07-04: Milton Friedman Responds to ObamACAre ... in 1978
2012-07-04: The Declaration of Independence, Annotated
2012-07-03: The Gun Mandate
2012-07-02: Declaration of Internet Freedom
2012-05-21: Continuing the March to Fascism: Congressmen Seek To Lift Propaganda Ban
2012-05-20: Invisible Bank Runs
2012-05-17: This Is Not How A Free Society Treats People
2012-04-18: "Food Deserts" Not Connected To Obesity
2012-04-08: But Don't Worry, Obamacare Won't Have "Death Panels" Like This
2012-04-03: Court Gives Obama A Homework Assignment
2012-03-31: The $30 Billion Social Security Hack
2012-03-30: National "Drug Shortages"
2012-03-16: Complex Societies Need Simple Laws
2012-02-16: Return-on-Investment of Lobbying Greater Than Entrepreneurship
2012-01-18: Obama's Dumbest Critics
2012-01-14: Government Health Care Kills 23-Year-Old Hottie
2012-01-13: 535 People Control 23% Of The Nation's Wealth
2012-01-02: Regulatory Capture in a Venn Diagram
2012-01-02: IP Feudalism and the Shrinking of the Public Domain — Marginal Revolution
2011-12-23: Statism Incomparably Worse Than Free Markets
2011-12-22: Argentina Gov't To Control Newsprint
2011-12-17: SOPA: Yet Another Reason To Keep Government Small
2011-12-08: "I Simply Do Not Know Where the Money Is"
2011-11-25: The Pilgrims: Communists! (But not for long.)
2011-11-14: 60% Say "Cut Everything"
2011-10-27: Occupy Wall Street vs. The Tea Party
2011-10-25: Why We Need More Capitalism, Not Less
2011-10-15: Solyndra and the Transcontinental Railroad
2011-10-05: Is Junk Food Really Cheaper? ("No.")
2011-08-26: Wal-Mart: Prepared When FEMA Is Not
2011-08-06: Obama Worse Than Bush On Spending, Which Is Really Saying Something
2011-08-04: A Cuts-Only Budget -- Well, Almost
2011-06-08: What does the Education Department need shotguns for?
2011-06-02: Why Hasn't Anyone Signed Up For the High-Risk Health Insurance Pools?
2011-05-11: In Defense of Flogging
2011-05-04: Grocery School
2011-05-01: Victims of Communism Day
2011-04-27: Massachusetts curtails public union bargaining rights
2011-04-18: $12,000 Per Person: This Can't Go On
2011-04-16: Spending Cuts Are *Supposed* To Hurt
2011-04-11: Our Suicidal Government
2011-04-09: If you worry about government cutting too much …
2011-04-08: Do We Really Need to Raise Taxes to Close the Deficit?
2011-04-06: Paul Ryan's budget proposal: "Brave, radical, and smart."
2011-03-26: Islam and the First Amendment
2011-03-26: Our Tax Code Is Corrupt
2011-03-15: "Subsidizing the markers of status doesn’t produce the character traits that result in that status; it undermines them."
2011-02-23: No Collective Bargaining for Public Servants
2011-01-03: Roller Skating and Economics
2010-12-21: George Ought To Help; Will You *Make* Him Help?
2010-12-03: No More Secrets
2010-12-01: Should China Rethink High Speed Rail?
2010-11-28: Pictures of the Socialistic Future
2010-11-22: Why Is the World Bailing Out Ireland?
2010-11-17: Two Strains of Conservatism
2010-11-16: Of Course The Fed's Plan Won't Work -- We're Deleveraging!
2010-11-06: The Coming of the 4th American Republic
2010-09-28: Obama's Assassination Plan -- Tyranny?
2010-09-22: The Problem Is *Spending*, Not Taxes
2010-09-17: Mao's Great Leap Forward 'killed 45 million in four years'
2010-09-14: The romance of government vs. the reality
2010-09-13: Austerity for Liberty
2010-09-02: Cuba Is A Plantation?
2010-09-01: Ideological War Spells Doom for America’s Schoolkids
2010-08-26: The Defiance of Miss Venezuela
2010-08-22: What Happens After 2037?
2010-08-04: Missouri Votes To Reject Obamacare Mandates
2010-08-03: Government Wrong On Carbs
2010-07-22: Non-Compliance Topples Arizona Traffic-Cam Program
2010-07-21: America's Ruling Class -- And the Perils of Revolution
2010-07-12: Debt Is A Cancer
2010-06-27: Is the U.S. a Fascist Police-State?
2010-06-19: The Helpless Titan
2010-05-24: The Privileged Call For "Limited" Dictatorship
2010-05-20: Illegal Immigration + Gun-Friendly Laws = Very Low Crime
2010-05-19: Let The Federal Government Collapse?
2010-05-17: The Twilight of the Welfare State?
2010-05-17: Bernie Madoff vs Social Security
2010-05-13: The Big-Spending, High-Taxing, Lousy-Services Paradigm
2010-05-12: This Is The War On Drugs
2010-05-11: Gambling With Other People's Money
2010-05-06: U.S. taxpayers are helping finance Greek bailout
2010-05-03: The Big Alienation
2010-05-02: Health Care Reform Will Increase Costs
2010-04-30: How Do We Get The Deficit To Zero?
2010-04-30: GM Loan Paid Back? Not Really.
2010-04-28: Gambling with Other People's Money
2010-04-28: Europe in Crisis
2010-04-28: Why Does Larry Summers Like Big Banks So Much?
2010-04-27: What the Tea Party Movement is Really About
2010-04-27: A Plague of ‘A’ Students
2010-04-13: Washington will spend $31,406 per household this year (Heritage Foundation)
2010-04-12: Progressives can't get past the Knowledge Problem
2010-04-11: Up from Slavery
2010-04-08: Why I Prefer Markets Over Government
2010-04-07: A VAT Is Coming
2010-04-03: Welcome to Europe
2010-03-26: On the Rule of Law
2010-03-01: Open Letter to Two NPR Reporters
2010-02-23: To Badly Go
2010-02-23: Guns: Not Just for the Home Anymore
2010-02-09: Put down the political pom-poms
2010-02-02: Barney Frank Doesn't Know What To Do
2010-01-21: Supreme Court Vindicates Political Speech, Pulverizes McCain-Feingold
2009-12-28: The truth about airplane security measures. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine
2009-12-17: On Breaking Up Big Banks
2009-12-08: The First Sign Of Corruption
2009-11-24: Where conservatives have it wrong
2009-11-17: Trying Terrorists
2009-11-12: Experimental Economics in EVE
2009-11-11: Camille Paglia Against The Health Care Bill?
2009-11-09: 20 Years Ago Today
2009-11-08: Liberty dies with thunderous applause
2009-11-08: The Road From Serfdom
2009-11-07: This is What Happens When You Drop the Ball
2009-11-02: ObamaCare: "a national version of the failing Massachusetts system"
2009-11-01: New TSA Signs!
2009-10-30: "Masterfleece Theater" (or, 1900 pages of theft)
2009-10-25: Don't Let U.S. Capitalism Go the Italian Route
2009-10-25: $5.5M for new Freddie Mac CFO
2009-10-23: Refund The Stimulus
2009-09-26: If Air Travel Worked Like Health Care
2009-09-21: America's "Pravda" ?
2009-09-15: Let's Try Hawley-Smoot Again!
2009-08-12: Finally, Some Sensible Health Care Reform Ideas
2009-08-12: 46 Million? No, more like 12 million (or less)
2009-08-02: What Is Poverty?
2009-07-23: The Arrogance of Health Care Reform
2009-07-19: Health Reform? Try Markets!
2009-07-19: Mass. "Capitation" Health Plan
2009-07-16: "Powerful GM" ?
2009-07-16: Obama as Health Care Salesman: He Sucks!
2009-07-14: Deflation Coming?
2009-07-12: War Against the Producers
2009-07-11: The hidden cost of national health care
2009-07-10: Cancel the So-Called Stimulus
2009-07-02: "We're in the Middle of a Crash": Black Swan
2009-07-02: Quick, Spend the Money Before the Taxpayers Find Out!
2009-06-30: Rationing Health Care Is Our Choice
2009-06-26: Fixing the Health Care System
2009-06-25: Health-care reform's dirty little secret
2009-06-24: The Illusion of Government Competence
2009-06-24: Bush & Cheney Questions Staged and Pre-Arranged
2009-06-22: Insurance as a Prisoners' Dilemma, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
2009-06-21: Canadian Kangroo Courts
2009-06-21: First They Came For The Private Pilots?
2009-06-18: Rational rationing?
2009-06-15: Health care reform: The real problem is lack of competition
2009-06-15: Economic View - Obama’s Difficult Choices on Medicare Spending - NYTimes.com
2009-06-12: Think Again About "Blaming Bush", Part 2
2009-06-12: The Anti-Stimulus
2009-06-11: Free Trade Is The Natural State
2009-06-11: Think Again About "Blaming Bush"
2009-06-10: America: closing her door to freedom
2009-06-09: If Only We Had Done Nothing!
2009-06-09: Obama's Phony "Jobs Saved" Claims
2009-06-09: Feds Killed Railroads, Will Kill Car Companies
2009-06-08: New Health Care Bill Explained
2009-06-08: Why So-Called Stimulus Spending Doesn't Work
2009-06-08: So-Called Stimulus Having Opposite Effect
2009-06-07: Here's Your Hockey Stick
2009-06-04: Fix Medicare First!
2009-06-01: Government Motors
2009-05-28: Federal "Terrorist" Legislation Could Threaten Gun Owners?
2009-05-20: Obama's Dangerous Debt
2009-05-20: Critics Deride Bill Designed to Keep Weapons Out of Terrorists' Hands
2009-05-19: Medical care and comparative effectiveness
2009-05-19: Towards A One-Party State?
2009-05-15: You Want Higher Taxes? Why Not Pay More Yourself?
2009-05-15: The state of the states
2009-05-15: Crimes suspected in 20 bailout cases -- for starters
2009-05-15: Is All Spending Created Equal?
2009-05-15: Don't Romaniticize Social Security; Overhaul It
2009-05-15: America passes a milestone!
2009-05-15: Cheerios Makes Drug Claims?
2009-05-15: Medicare Too Expensive, Let's Try Universal Coverage
2009-05-14: Tax Increases Could Kill the Recovery
2009-05-14: U.S. Eyes Bank Pay Overhaul
2009-05-14: Deficits Are Of *This* Administration, Not Previous One
2009-05-14: -1 For Lamar Alexander, +1 for Louisiana
2009-05-14: Chrysler and the Rule of Law
2009-05-13: Health Care Corporatism Arrives
2009-05-13: More Health Care Cost Fallacies
2009-05-13: Spend Now, Save Later
2009-05-13: Unemployment numbers worse than projected
2009-05-13: Medicare Insolvency Approaches
2009-05-13: "Structural Imbalance"? More Like "Spending Spree"
2009-05-13: Taxes Increases For All On The Way
2009-05-13: Chrysler: A Preview Of Health Care Reform
2009-05-13: Federal Budget Soars
2009-05-13: Shared Sacrifice? Not For Government
2009-05-12: Social Security and Medicare Finances Worsen
2009-05-12: Fallacy Related to Health Care Costs
2009-05-12: You can't hug trees with nuclear arms
2009-05-11: Obama's Kids are Special
2009-04-28: Federalism Amendments!
2009-04-28: Ruinous TARP
2009-04-18: Why Taxes May Double
2009-04-16: Memphis Tea Party: Success!
2009-02-09: Fundamental Error in the So-Called "Stimulus" Approach
2005-06-23: Property Rights Lose, 5-4