Daily Archives: April 9, 2012

‘Rick Warren Schools President Obama on Freedom’

Written on April 9, 2012 at 5:08 pm, by

Kathryn Jean Lopez at NRO adds more on Rick Warren’s interview with ABC’s Jake Tapper (which Sanera posted about this morning). Tapper asked if the president was right in certain remarks (which, incidentally, were made at the annual prayer breakfast; the president twisted the biblical injunction to care for the poor for use as justificationContinue Reading

Revisiting the debate over the causes of the Great Depression

Written on April 9, 2012 at 3:46 pm, by

Eight decades after the Great Depression, there’s still no universal agreement among economists about its causes or the proper policy responses to it. The latest installment in Duke University’s Hayek Lecture Series featured a discussion on the topic between Dartmouth economist Douglas Irwin and George Mason’s Lawrence H. White. Click play below to watch theContinue Reading

U.S. Government Services Administration (GSA) is “going green”

Written on April 9, 2012 at 12:35 pm, by

If you like bureaucrats who sing and dance, this video is for you.

Luddy shares with U.S. News readers ideas for bringing back American prosperity

Written on April 9, 2012 at 11:26 am, by

Raleigh entrepreneur and John Locke Foundation supporter Robert Luddy shares with U.S. News readers today some interesting ideas about bringing back American prosperity. The good news is there is a way to correct the course. It is found in the spirit of risk-taking, entrepreneurism, and invention, which are still alive and well in spite of,Continue Reading

An interesting comment over on NR’s “Morning Jolt”

Written on April 9, 2012 at 10:19 am, by

There is no link because “Morning Jolt” is unlinkable. (The guys at NR need to join the 21st century.) 3. Has America Lost Its Ability to Delay Gratification? This Easter weekend, Jake Tapper talked to Rick Warren: Saddleback Church Pastor Rick Warren told me that the poor economy has continued to impact his congregation, saying,Continue Reading

The “safety net” is a snare

Written on April 9, 2012 at 9:21 am, by

So argues economist Gary North in this essay.

Powers no politician should have

Written on April 9, 2012 at 8:51 am, by

As Sheldon Richman writes in his latest Freeman column, under the National Defense Authorization Act, the president is just a stroke of the pen (that is, signing an executive order) from having powers that no politician (not just the president) was supposed to have under our Constitution and no politician should ever have anywhere. AllContinue Reading

When you see no difference between a government mandate and a tax credit …

Written on April 9, 2012 at 6:52 am, by

… you have real problems. Peter Gosselin has real problems, if the latest Bloomberg Businessweek quotes him correctly. The alternative that comes closest to preserving the mandate would be to give tax credits to everyone who carries health insurance. That’s functionally the same as fining those who don’t have coverage, and less subject to constitutionalContinue Reading