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Taxpayers Will Lose the Battle of the Energy Cronies

Senate Democrats are on a green energy blitz, reports Michael Bastasch of the Daily Caller: Sens. Tom Udall of New Mexico and Mark Udall of Colorado introduced a bill last week that would require that...

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Legal Hunting is Proven Conservation Method

A national furor, marked by the typical breathless outrage of social media, has erupted over a photo showing Huntress Melissa Bachman with a lion she hunted in South Africa. The usual suspects...

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Simon Lester, “The Good Old Days of Global Poverty:” Protectionism takes a lot of money from everyone, in order to give concentrated benefits to a small group of politically connected interest groups....

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Anthony J. Sadar, “A libertarian’s guide to climate change hype:” After giving some much-needed perspective on scientists, Delingpole tackles “science,” observing that political activists discovered...

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If Government Healthcare is So Wonderful, Why Are Many Seeking Private...

I’ve written before about Canadians having to turn to the private sector in order to receive timely and quality healthcare, despite supposedly having “universal” coverage. Similarly, most Medicare...

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Let Them Eat (Someone Else’s) Cake

At RedState Erick Erickson weighs in on the debate over whether or not bakers should be required to supply wedding cakes for gay couples if they don’t want to. He looks at the issue through the prism...

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Statists Getting Heartburn Over Free Internet?

The latest digital scare to captivate the media is the so-called Heartbleed bug, which constitutes a major vulnerability in OpenSSL, a common encryption program. In light of the find, the Washington...

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Reading Rainbow Ditches Government

Reading Rainbow was an iconic children’s show with a long run on PBS that ended in 2006. As one of millions who grew  up watching the show – it aired for the first time just days before I was born –...

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Minimum Wage Follies

The great Krugtron the Invincible argues the minimum wage can be increased without much consequence. He says there’s “hardly any cost to raising it,” and that “we can raise these wages without losing...

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No, The World Is Not Running Out of Chocolate

A Washington Post headline blares “The world’s biggest chocolate-maker says we’re running out of chocolate.” No such thing is happening, but this is a good opportunity to talk about prices and how they...

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Third Time Won’t Be the Charm in Greece

Greece is getting bailed out for the third time in just five years, proving yet again that lessons from political mistakes are rarely heeded. As I wrote last month in a column for EveryJoe: The simple...

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Getting Better All The Time

You wouldn’t know it from the popularity of Thomas Piketty’s anti-capitalism treatise, or the Pope’s routine railing against free markets, but the world is getting ever more prosperous. The dramatic...

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Market Power

The Week has a great story (hat-tip: Alex Tabarrok) about how Feeding America, which runs the largest network of food banks and is the third largest non-profit in the U.S., drastically improved its...

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Why Just Stop With Tariffs on China?

Noted scholar and respected intellectual Donald Trump has unveiled another part of his plan to “make America great again:” Donald J. Trump said he would favor a 45 percent tariff on Chinese exports to...

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