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It’s Time For ObamaCare To Face A Death Panel

Posted on March 26, 2012 by Jay Reding

The Supreme Court is currently conducting a marathon three-day session of oral arguments on the challenges to ObamaCare, an almost unprecedented amount of time for the Court to consider any case. But the ObamaCare issue isn’t just another case, or even just another case involving weighty constitutional issues. If the Court upholds ObamaCare’s individual mandate, [...]

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Obama’s War

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Jay Reding

The Washington Examiner has an interesting article on how President Obama used parliamentary trickery to talk Congress into approving a Libyan no-fly zone. It’s as though we have traveled into some bizarre parallel universe: President Obama, the peace candidate, has now fully embraced the the doctrine of preemptive military action. President Obama, who in 2007 [...]

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Yes, Virginia, Congresscritters Should Care About The Constitution

Posted on September 29, 2010 by Jay Reding

Newsweek has a stereotypical hit piece on the recent Republican Pledge to America. Ramesh Ponnuru notes a curious passage from the piece: Not so harmless, however, is the promise to require every bill to be certified as constitutional before it is voted on. We have a mechanism for assessing the constitutionality of legislation, which is [...]

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Cash For A Clunker Of A Policy

Posted on August 4, 2009 by Jay Reding

Law prof Richard A. Epstein has a withering look at the “Cash for Clunkers” program that gave car buyers a $4500 check to trade in an old car for a new one. As with any government program, the intentions of the program and the reality of the program were not quite at odds with each [...]

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Capping Prosperity, Trading It For Poverty

Posted on June 26, 2009 by Jay Reding

As the media fixates on the death of Michael Jackson, Congress stands ready to enact the largest and most regressive tax hike in history in the guise of “cap-and-trade.” Jim Lindgren explains why this bill is so dangerous: The cap-and-trade bill, if passed by the Senate and actually implemented over the next few decades, would [...]

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Atlas Is Shrugging

Posted on February 6, 2009 by Jay Reding

The U.S. economy shed 598,000 jobs in January, the worst job loss since 1974. There is no doubt that the U.S. economy is in a state of crisis. Our government is only making it worse. It is more than mere coincidence that this huge job loss occurred in the same month that President Obama signed [...]

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‘Shovel Ready’ BS

Posted on February 5, 2009 by Jay Reding

Popular Mechanics has a great piece on the myth of “shovel ready” infrastructure projects: The programs that would meet the bill’s 90-day restriction are, for the most part, an unappealing mix of projects that were either shelved after being fully designed and engineered, and have since become outmoded or irrelevant, or projects with limited scope [...]

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