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Getting Excited About Elizabeth Warren
E.J. Dionne of the Washington Post seems to have a thing for Elizabeth Warren, the wannabe Native American junior senator from Massachusetts. Dionne never tires of praising or defending Warren, even if it means setting up and knocking down a straw man, … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Politics
Tagged big government, E.J. Dionne, economic infrastructure, Elizabeth Warren, infrastructure, liberal mind, liberals
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Higher Taxes
The New Republic’s Jonathan Cohn is positively giddy about tax day (see here). Echoing the first George Bush, Cohn wants everybody to “read his lips.” Except unlike Bush, Cohn is demanding more new taxes rather than no new taxes. Ah yes, what … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Politics
Tagged big government, competition, Jonathan Cohn, liberal mind, taxes, welfare, welfare state
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More Government Incompetence
Anyone who has plans to visit the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in D.C. (the world’s second most visited museum) to view the museum’s dinosaur hall will be out of luck beginning April 28. At that time, the hall will close for … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged big government, dinosaur hall, Fossil Hall, liberals, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian
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Clinging to Central Planning In Healthcare
The Washington Post continues its support of the central planning that is engulfing one-sixth of the world’s largest economy, also known as “Obamacare.” The latest efforts include an editorial extolling the virtues of a thing called the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) (see here) and an article attacking a … Continue reading
The New Tories
Writing in the Washington Post, Colbert King sounds the alarm over “an insurgent poli-tical force” that he calls the “New Confederacy.” According to King, the behavior of this force is “malicious and appalling” as it, in his view, takes up where the Old Confederacy left off in … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged big government, Colbert King, liberals, New Confederacy, racism
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Where Are The Moderate Democrats?
Pretty much the entire mainstream media and the liberals they work for are busy laying the blame for the government shutdown and stalemate over the debt ceiling at the feet of Republicans. According to the liberals, there’s a small radical faction within the … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Politics
Tagged big government, debt ceiling, government shutdown, liberals
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Competition Deniers
In this post at The Incidental Economist, Aaron Carroll agrees that Obamacare may cause hospital layoffs, but tells us that’s to be expected because, after all, if we contain costs, there will be less money for wages and profits. And Carroll further concludes that the result would … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Healthcare, Politics
Tagged Aaron Carroll, big government, central planning, competition, free markets, ObamaCare
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Embracing Central Authority
WaPo columnist Anne Applebaum sees the GOP as endangering democracy by closing the government in an attempt to stop Obamacare. In her column, Applebaum implies (see here) that those who resist Obamacare are members of an “irrational fringe” and no better than “insurgents” or “coup plotters” who should be … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Healthcare, Politics
Tagged Anne Applebaum, big government, government shutdown, ObamaCare
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Succinct Wise Boy
So now Wise Boy a/k/a Ezra Klein adopts this single sentence from a book written by Thomas Mann and Norm Ornstein to describe our current governing crisis: The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics — it is ideolog-ically extreme; … Continue reading
The Nature Of The Firm
In a rambling post at the blog The Determined Statist (aka The Incidental Economist), Harold Pollack touches on several topics that ostensibly relate to the work of Ronald Coase, a Nobel Prize winning economist who died recently at the age of 102. Pollack … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Politics
Tagged big government, central planning, Matthew Yglesias, Ronald Coase, The Incidental Economist
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