Almost 20 years ago, Bill Clinton said “The era of big government is over.” He was lying, of course. But for a reason: To convince voters he wasn’t too dumb to grasp that painful experience over at least three decades had proved big compulsory bureaucratic state programs weren’t just wasteful but actively harmful. So why do politicians go on creating them in response to every problem, real or imagined? Click here to read the rest.
O Canada, land of our ancestors, what hath become of thy anthem? Click here to read the rest.
At times like this, you’re sure glad Barack Obama is a uniter, not adivider, and used to be a professor of constitutional law. Think what harm a sneering hack in the White House might do at this worrisome juncture in America’s fiscal affairs.
The middle class is hurting. Maybe the government should do something. Click here to read the rest.
What just happened in that mall in Kenya? I know that shouldn’t be such a difficult question. But for a lot of people it apparently is because they just can’t grasp that ideas matter. Click here to read the rest.
What is government for? Where does it get its powers? What can’t it do? Such questions are often scorned as “academic” by the brisk pragmatists who rush about the corridors of power concocting hare-brained schemes to offend and annoy the public at great cost. But unless you answer them, correctly, your policies and statements are likely to be terribly confused. Click here to read the rest.