This Labor Day, celebrate by reading Director of Tax Policy Studies Chris Edwards' report Public Sector Unions : http: //bit. ly/9esC9e New Podcast: Obama Denigrates Human Rights http: //bit. ly/9op5YT (h/t cobrown) RT smalltownmarket: Tom Egelhoff: interview with Mark Calabria, Cato Institute, How Mortgage Markets Should Be Fixed: http: //ow. ly/2ybNX So we're clear, how is compelling people to buy insurance with threat of fines, jail an advancement of human rights? http: //bit. ly/ajpnjq Ed. union in LA is upset about reports of teacher effectiveness: http: //bit. ly/ddzVPa | LA spends $30k per pupil, but HS grad rate = 40. 6%. Good morning - Constitution Day is just around the corner - get 10 copies of the Cato Pocket Constitution for just $10: http: //bit. ly/93Rwam A little evening reading - in this NRO piece, Harvard law student Joel Alicea cites a Cato amicus curiae brief: http: //bit. ly/bWpOA3 hcr New Podcast: Propping Up Home Prices http: //bit. ly/bc3LQV (h/t cobrown) RT IndianBrownAle: http: //bit. ly/asKaht Down-trodden down under: http: //bit. ly/95AWSb (via danieljmitchell) Expansion of new facilities under way - join our capital campaign Liberating the Future : http: //bit. ly/csQdgK http: //twitpic. com/2kk8tp Cato's walterolson joins FBNStossel tonight to talk about consequences of the Americans with Disabilities Act: http: //bit. ly/aknjvx Free Market—Not More Money—Needed to Reform Public Defender Services http: //bit. ly/baYPHC tlot New Podcast: Obama's Surge http: //bit. ly/a1wtw9 (h/t cobrown) Director of Foreign Policy Studies Chris Preble reacts to BarackObama's Oval Office speech on Iraq last night: http: //bit. ly/9dTnoO tlot RT danieljmitchell: More Arguments Against a Value-Added Tax http: //tinyurl. com/2a4lwf2 Roger Pilon, Dir. for Cato's Center for Constitutional Studies, takes issue with Obama's human rights report to the UN: http: //bit. ly/cMweTA Value added taxes are no Rx for what ails the global economy, much less America: http: //bit. ly/astAbw Final rebuttals are up in the EconDebates over online privacy: http: //bit. ly/9NTiMc | Closing arguments tomorrow, vote for Jim_Harper! The Reality of the Iraq Transition http: //bit. ly/bzB7nX tlot New Podcast: ObamaCare and Human Rights http: //bit. ly/dA6XDH (h/t cobrown) Shorter Kelo v. New London: We break it, you buy it. http: //bit. ly/97NaSj tlot RT mfcannon: The Likelihood of Repealing ObamaCare: http: //ow. ly/2xtsZ hcr tlot tcot p2 Pres. Obama will talk Afghanistan on TV tonight; here's related opinion by Dir. of Foreign Policy Studies Chris Preble: http: //bit. ly/945YRZ Arne Duncan invited ED workers to attend TheRevAl's Reclaim the Dream rally; David_Boaz on why that's bad policy: http: //bit. ly/b1j1Zl RT LibertyCalendar: EVENT TOMORROW CatoInstitute noon luncheon Empire for Liberty: A History of American Imperialism http: //ow. ly/2wHvs New Podcast: Warrantless Government GPS Tracking http: //bit. ly/aqr4kI (h/t cobrown) From our blog, Jim_Harper has a few snippets of his rebuttal to opening remarks in his EconDebates about privacy: http: //bit. ly/aC0Ilb VIDEO: Dir. of FinReg Studies Mark Calabria on CNBC before and after Obama's speech today: http: //bit. ly/aoym89 | http: //bit. ly/d9zAsi the Tory-Lib Dem coalition is not a good role model for those who want limited government and fiscal responsibility. http: //bit. ly/ac85iu Latest remarks are up in Jim_Harper's EconDebates on the role of govt in online privacy: http: //bit. ly/cjNfrS | Have you voted yet? Second stimulus? Not so fast, says Director of FinReg Studies Mark Calabria: http: //bit. ly/bYEKUM RT danieljmitchell: Should the FDA Get More Power after Salmonella Egg Scare? http: //tinyurl. com/2337ofx Enrollees may be up, but don't expand safety nets; govt won't roll back when economy recovers, argues Michael Tanner: http: //bit. ly/bofRT7 Cato Senior Fellow Alan Reynolds will be on JerryReynolds radio 3: 30p ET to talk GDP, click here for your station: http: //bit. ly/9Sf9vR RT DanielGriswold: Is the Trade Gap to Blame for Slowing GDP Growth? http: //bit. ly/bawpZk freetrade trade Cato Legal Policy Analyst David Rittgers has a great Townhallcom column on Miranda rights and terrorism suspects: http: //bit. ly/c6sVjC Lunchtime listening: JPFreire at dcexaminer answers the question Does the GOP Want to Cut Government? http: //bit. ly/9RsGDX New Podcast: Does the GOP Want to Cut Government? http: //bit. ly/9RsGDX (h/t cobrown) Cato Executive Vice President David_Boaz says Let's regulate Barney Frank's pay : http: //bit. ly/9JbwVh The State of New York is taxing businesses for slicing bagels - Cato Budget Analyst Tad DeHaven is on the case: http: //bit. ly/9Pq60M New Podcast: The Failed Auto Bailout http: //bit. ly/9TcBXF (h/t cobrown) Manufactured fear drives the surveillance state, argues ggreenwald in a new edition of Cato: Unbound: http: //bit. ly/c11fYK fisa gov20 RT ARossP: My review of mattwridley's book, The Rational Optimist, was just published in the Cato Journal: http: //j. mp/ayYNsN (pdf) Have you seen the Andy Griffith ad at Medicare. gov? Cato's mfcannon has, and he's got a suggestion for BarackObama: http: //bit. ly/9YJMTm Tune in to FOXNews right now to catch Cato Director of Health Policy Studies MFCannon discussing Medicare! hcr handsoff Time for the Fed to Step Back http: //bit. ly/di0jzz tlot Cato Senior Fellow jeffreyamiron on the perverse incentives created by rebuilding the N. O. levees 5 yrs after Katrina: http: //bit. ly/cj33uR Cato's Director of Information Policy Jim_Harper has a new piece on netpolicy and mediabias: http: //bit. ly/a8eWoJ netneutrality RT jeffreyamiron: New blog post: Futile Efforts in the War on Drugs: http: //bit. ly/a5AWB3 RT kindle_blog: Cato Unbound - by The Cato Institute - Kindle Edition. http: //amzn. to/GyBPb Cost of K-12 education has quadrupled since 1970 (after adjusting for inflation) . What do we have to show for it? http: //bit. ly/bTv5yP . Jim_Harper is also debating the role of govt in online privacy at EconDebates thru next Friday: http: //bit. ly/cjNfrS | Be sure to vote! The Pentagon is pretty territorial about its cybersecurity - and that's not good, argues Jim_Harper: http: //bit. ly/bNDXUr infosec gov20 RT jchidalgo: My new post on CatoLiberty: The Kirchners Go After the Newspapers in Argentina http: //bit. ly/d9nR3G New Podcast: Venezuela's Crumbling Civil Society http: //bit. ly/bdih9G (h/t cobrown) UPDATE: Due to a conflict, Mark Calabria will NOT appear on CNBC tonight - but don't miss DanielJMitchell, starting at 7pm ET! TONIGHT on CNBC, starting at 7pm ET: Senior Fellow DanielJMitchell will discuss whether or not Obama's economy team should depart. change Starting tomorrow Cato's Jim_Harper will be participating in a debate on privacy at TheEconomist: http: //bit. ly/afhM4p Stimulus Highlights Political Arrogance http: //bit. ly/cE2g7E tlot Cato Senior Fellow DanielJMitchell teaches NYTimesOpinion a thing or two about fiscal planning: http: //bit. ly/a42iAf taxes budget New Podcast: A Half-Billion Dollar High School http: //bit. ly/axtzVT (h/t cobrown) Cato VP GeneHealy explores in dcexaminer whether a president can order executions abroad - with a Chuck Norris cameo: http: //bit. ly/aM5osk New Podcast: Is Money Demand Excessive? http: //bit. ly/aBpFjy (h/t cobrown) Technology Transfer and the Spread of Nuclear Weapons http: //bit. ly/aPyfPT tlot RT danieljmitchell: Taxpayers vs Bureaucrats, the Foreign Edition http: //tinyurl. com/29le24z Are you unsure where Cato stands on certain issues? The Cato Handbook for Policymakers is available free online: http: //bit. ly/9oO8W7 Cato's Thomas Firey wants to thank NYTimesKrugman for a nice 41st birthday present: http: //bit. ly/aDRGii Did you miss the webcast of the Cato Student Forum on Friday? Read DaveWeigel's remarks here: http: //bit. ly/a60c3N catosf Which do you favor more - the Ground Zero Mosque or ObamaCare? http: //bit. ly/9WE3MQ (via Jim_Harper) hcr gzm RT jeffreyamiron: Do Anti-Mosque Protests Breed Terrorism? http: //bit. ly/9fykLW RT danieljmitchell: Great Moments in Government Stupidity and Incompetence http: //tinyurl. com/2bvxhqf In the end, voters will be more scared of a Democrat. Cato Exec. Vice Pres. David_Boaz yesterday: http: //bit. ly/9MW3qr (h/t NewsBusters) Check out what GroverNorquist at TaxReformer had to say about Cato research on farm subsidies: http: //bit. ly/bsVaQn RT willwilkinson: I'm now blogging for TheEconomist: Park51 and the shame of American skittishness http: //bit. ly/bKgC5l Finally - a big THANK YOU to all 65, 000+ of you following us on Facebook - how soon can we get to 70, 000? http: //bit. ly/bTXp6d Cato Chairman (and legal scholar) Robert Levy sat down with ReasonMag to talk about 3 constitutional hurdles to hcr: http: //bit. ly/cRB9n2 RT smalltownmarket: Mark A. Calabria catoinstitute my guest on Open for Biz - Click Listen Live http: //bit. ly/KbgOf realestate Oversight and regulation is not without costs to contractors. And therein lies the rub writes Cato's David Isenberg: http: //huff. to/cuxLkQ Question from audience: If libertarians can't direct TeaParty (who hates big gov't) toward liberty, who can we direct? catosf Weigel: Tomorrow it could be some guy who thinks Obama is a Muslim, wants to nuke Mecca. TeaParty can't help this getting covered. catosf Samples: But that doesn't mean that DrRandPaul doesn't support shrinking spending. Took brave stance of you may get less. catosf Samples: DrRandPaul can't say in a rural state like KY that he'd cut farm subsidies. He wouldn't win the election. catosf Question from audience: How can TeaParty movement as a whole manage cults of personality that emerge around TP leaders ? catosf Samples: Movements have the ability to change politicians, but politicians can also change character of movements. catosf Weigel: TeaParty activists shied from libertarians because they didn't know places like CatoInstitute existed, had yrs of research. catosf Weigel: The TeaParty needs to do more work here. GOP talked about hcr as *bad* because the Dems were going to cut Medicare. catosf Weigel: The TeaParty may have actually organized better than the Obama campaign did. catosf Weigel: [Keeping Social Security in a lock box] is not necessarily [sic] a libertarian idea. catosf Weigel: SharronAngle is a TeaParty candidate, but her new ad shows her telling seniors that Social Security will be safe for them. catosf Weigel: Libertarians have been very successful (through the TeaParty) in applying pressure to the GOP. Obama Administration helped. catosf Weigel: If you look at current Gallup polls, people are generally against cutting Bush tax cuts - that's a success of the TeaParty. catosf Reminder: You can watch LIVE VIDEO of the CatoSF by clicking here: http: //bit. ly/cL4yQG Weigel: The TeaParty was caught off-guard by the way MSM covers politics after DrRandPaul won the primary. catosf Next up: DaveWeigel of Slate Magazine. catosf Samples: Even though TeaParty activists tend to be older they are just like young people in their concerns about future taxation. catosf Samples: The irony, despite TeaParty enthusiasm, is that it is unlikely that spending issues will go away. catosf Samples: The TeaParty is comprised of people looking down the line and are overwhelmed by what's going on. catosf Samples: The TeaParty took off in 2009 after negative budget forecasts began to surface; 4% of GDP spending increase. catosf Samples: If you look at any political movement in American history, you find similar problems that led to the TeaParty founding. catosf Samples: The TeaParty is generally skeptical of political parties, despite many self-identifying as Republican. catosf Samples: TeaParty activists generally do not want to focus on social issues. 80% are most concerned about the economy. catosf Samples: Polls find that 30% of TeaParty activists own small businesses. catosf jobs economy Please use the hashtag catosf if you're at the Student Forum or following online - help us keep track of the conversation! John Samples, Director of Cato's Center for Representative Government speaking now. catosf Our Student Forum The Future of American Politics: The TeaParty, DrRandPaul, and Young Voters is happening NOW: http: //bit. ly/cL4yQG New Podcast: U. S. Demand Fuels Mexican Drug War http: //bit. ly/bIY6md (h/t cobrown) RT mfcannon: Has ObamaCare’s Unpopularity Caused ‘Abject Panic at the WhiteHouse’? http: //ow. ly/2srZV hcr handsoff iamthemob Did you hear our podcast yesterday on executive pay? http: //bit. ly/cXWoCX | Also see Mark Calabria at TheEconomist: http: //bit. ly/a4M5mq Diversity is a fool's errand for public schools, says Cato's Neal McCluskey: http: //bit. ly/dhHXuY | NRO's coverage: http: //bit. ly/cmoMOy Attention DC! RT CatoOnCampus: Student & Intern event tomorrow at The Cato Institute. REGISTER BY MIDNIGHT TONIGHT: http: //bit. ly/bEQZCH RT wbjsarah: Akridge starts work on Cato Institute expansion http: //ow. ly/2s5uL | Join our capital campaign: http: //bit. ly/dwWsSL tlot In which Jim_Harper gives Sen. AlFranken a lesson on wireless and the Constitution: http: //bit. ly/dpzlem netpolicy netneutrality nn More people are noticing Cato research on public sector pay: http: //bit. ly/aXAO09 New Podcast: Let Shareholders Set Executive Pay http: //bit. ly/d8fOxV (h/t cobrown) RT danieljmitchell: “I Wish Republicans Had a Secret Plan for Personal Accounts” http: //tinyurl. com/2fmuo8y Combat operations have ended, but the war in Iraq is far from over argues Chris Preble: http: //is. gd/ep7F0 Conor Friedersdorf of dailydish likes our pragmatic brand of libertarianism: http: //bit. ly/c2tqgO Cites Cato's Tanner's research RT reasonmag: FBNStossel John Stossel on Obama's Misguided Attacks on Private Enterprise http: //ow. ly/2rWCG GM's IPO: Finally Taxpayers Get a Break http: //bit. ly/aIgvYf tlot Senior Fellow Michael Tanner has some ideas for reforming Social Security: http: //n. pr/bu4yUl budget tlot Cato's danieljmitchell is skeptical of the benefits of a GOP takeover: http: //tinyurl. com/26fcufm tlot PBS's Jim Lehrer interviewed Cato's William Poole following the Fannie/Freddie summit this week - watch here: http: //youtu. be/9BWqPVJlsnk What if the GOP embraced RepPaulRyan's entitlement plan? Cato Senior Fellow Jim Powell sounds off: http: //bit. ly/cm1QWD (via DailyCaller) New Podcast: Trimming Military Spending with Robert Gates http: //bit. ly/aBruCs (h/t cobrown) Cato's normative looks at the unintended consquences of netneutrality: http: //bit. ly/aPphO8 netpolicy nn Maximizing revenue shouldn't be the goal of tax policy, argues Cato's DanielJMitchell: http: //bit. ly/c4FTUz taxes budget laffer Ed O'Keefe at the WashingtonPost has taken an interest in our work on federal pay and the government's response: http: //bit. ly/cPPinb Why is the government in the mortgage market? http: //bit. ly/b8RO42 (via jeffreyamiron) Fuel-efficient cars are more effective at conservation than public rail, says Cato's Randal O'Toole: http: //bit. ly/9Kslc4 (via dorsettkcnn) RT David_Boaz: Beyond Toleration: George Washington's View of Liberty: http: //bit. ly/bgDlZM tlot Good morning - John Stossel cites a study by Cato's Michael Tanner in a post on Social Security privatization today: http: //bit. ly/9yOkvI New Podcast: How Much Money to Prevent the Improbable? http: //bit. ly/cwrjQS (h/t cobrown) We mentioned danieljmitchell will be on Cavuto at 4pm ET to talk Fannie & Freddie - here he is on CNBC: http: //youtu. be/Tj7Rv2-4i9c OPM Director John Berry fires back on federal pay, but Cato Budget Analyst Tad DeHaven isn't letting off the gas: http: //bit. ly/8ZdPrT In which ezraklein reacts to Gene Healy's piece in dcexaminer this morning and willwilkinson's blog post today: http: //bit. ly/cJsaWT GZM Unions and excessive regulation undid NAFTA compliance, argues Daniel Ikenson of the Center for Trade Policy Studies: http: //bit. ly/cFMsgL . . . small government is no more than a bullet point on the Right’s 'What We Believe' cheat sheet, says willwilkinson: http: //bit. ly/duI9Cl Finally danieljmitchell joins Cavuto on FoxBusiness at 4pm ET today to talk Fannie & Freddie- find your listing here: http: //bit. ly/9rqCLa VIDEO: If you missed our 7/21policy forum, here's Dan Griswold exploding myths of immigration: http: //youtu. be/1Czi3w6MSl4 cir And Dir. of Financial Reg. Studies Mark Calabria will talk housing summit on Bloomberg at 2: 45pm ET - listen here: http: //bit. ly/a917au Director of Foreign Policy Studies Chris Preble will discuss military spending on CNBC's Stree Signs 2: 35pm ET today: http: //bit. ly/9f5jYB National ID might stem some illegal immigration, but would cause more fraud & corruption, argues Jim_Harper: http: //bit. ly/aTIqMP cir Foreign policy analyst Malou Innocent (IndianBrownAle) reacts to General Petraeus' comments on Afghanistan draw-down: http: //bit. ly/aQocen New Weekly Video: August 16, 2010 featuring Daniel Griswold http: //bit. ly/cs3N2f tlot THIS FRIDAY in DC: The Future of American Politics: TeaParty, DrRandPaul, and Young Voters - attendees MUST RSVP: http: //bit. ly/bWceMg . . . states do not have the. . . powers to enforce [ObamaCare], writes petersuderman, who also quotes Cato's Roger Pilon: http: //bit. ly/dnprkF Calling Park51 a 'mosque' [is] just slightly more accurate than calling a YMCA a 'church' Gene Healy in dcexaminer: http: //bit. ly/9ANFSd Private sector banks. . . [can't] compete against Fannie and Freddie's current funding advantage, says Mark Calabria: http: //bit. ly/aqE86N RT jeffreyamiron: New blog post: Does Unemployment Insurance Encourage Unemployment? http: //bit. ly/aTWWnH tlot jobs economics Want to learn more about the Cato Institute? Check out the About Cato section of our website: http: //bit. ly/9QWLwA tlot RT cobrown: Podcast: The Law, Morality and Big Government - featuring James A. Dorn http: //ht. ly/18Bacj . climatebrad Thanks for updating your post. However, our individual contributors are on pp. 49-50 of the report we sent earlier. Housing Summit Must Address Fannie and Freddie http: //bit. ly/ad1h0a tlot RT ThinkTankedBlog: How many think tanks can say that & lt; 1% of their funding is from corporations? RT ThinkTankedBlog: Here's what CatoInstitute told me abt [climate expert Pat] Michaels & his 40% industry funding http: //bit. ly/9Dnflj Senior Fellow Alan Reynolds says NYTimesKrugman is wrong on Carter and Reagan. . . again: http: //bit. ly/bPEDHz tlot economics New Podcast: The Law, Morality and Big Government http: //bit. ly/9lhCPR (h/t cobrown) . mattyglesias Here's our 2009 annual report, financial disclosures on p. 48: http: //bit. ly/aWwiIt | & lt; 1% operating income is corp-funded. . chrislhayes Thanks for the RT on our finances. Mark Calabria, Director of Financial Regulation Studies, is participating in a debate at EconDebates on executive pay: http: //bit. ly/d6Dti6 . kdrum Thanks for the RT on our finances. . climatebrad Here's our 2009 annual report, financial disclosures on p. 48: http: //bit. ly/aWwiIt | & lt; 1% operating income is corp-funded. RT normative: My contribution to the ongoing Cato Unbound roundtable on the Digital Surveillance State: http: //bit. ly/avcc7J . kdrum Here's our 2009 annual report, financial disclosures on p. 48: http: //bit. ly/aWwiIt | Less than 1% operating income is corp-driven. A little mid-day humor in advance of GM's new IPO release, from Cato Senior Fellow danieljmitchell: http: //bit. ly/cs2LU0 China has surpassed Japan in GDP, but Cato Senior Fellow and Harvard economist jeffreyamiron isn't *too* worried: http: //bit. ly/boqqDa Trying to save existing jobs is a fool's errand, writes Cato adjunct scholar Arnold Kling: http: //bit. ly/bDzS0V stimulus arra jobs In which Cato's mfcannon takes WashingtonPost to task over reporting on Social Security, Medicare trust funds : http: //bit. ly/b0qWR2 hcr Iraq and Afghanistan have left Americans with blood on our hands, says Cato's willwilkinson: http: //bit. ly/9wDCmj Wikileaks Good morning - here's Cato's VP for Research Brink Lindsey on 5 essential books for classical liberals, and why: http: //bit. ly/anG1K1 tlot Welcome aboard RT evanbanks: 1st day at the catoinstitute starts in one minute! Am excited, hoping there's no initiations/trials by fire. . . . surveillance cameras. . . have a spotty record of preventing crime. Cato's Jim_Harper talks with CBS News: http: //bit. ly/cApfWr privacy Managers. . . make about the same. . . But sales, office and service workers have a significant edge in the public sector. http: //bit. ly/bFj0n8 RT davekopel: ACORN decision explained: Funding cut-off is not a Bill of Attainder. http: //bit. ly/9nMjTj . . . standing for religious liberty isn't just good policy. It is good politics, writes Cato Senior Fellow Doug Bandow: http: //bit. ly/99s9Db Economic costs are not the same as accounting costs. Michael Cannon on RepPaulRyan's Roadmap: http: //bit. ly/c29ZQx hcr budget The central flaw in our current [mortgage] system is that the gains from risk-taking are divorced from losses. http: //bit. ly/aEqJcM Workers should be free to choose limited-benefit plans, says Cato director of health policy Michael Cannon: http: //bit. ly/dyjCz8 hcr New Podcast: Rights, Powers and the Libertarian Vision http: //bit. ly/aer2JS (h/t cobrown) RT David_Boaz: Mayor Bloomberg Loves Property Rights: http: //bit. ly/9Mtw9p New Weekly Video: Cato's Ted Galen Carpenter evaluates US/China relations: http: //bit. ly/dsFwsj Beijing needs to look at ideas that have worked and speed up the transition to a free capital market says James Dorn: http: //bit. ly/atAQzI Government Needs to Divorce the Marriage Business, says Cato Senior Fellow and Harvard economist jeffreyamiron: http: //bit. ly/aoWE2H RT MikeNelson: Just listened to Larry Lessig's incredible talk about corruption on the Hill to Cato in Jan. http: //bit. ly/c7iijT Want to connect directly with some of Cato's experts? Then followfriday this list: catoinstitute/cato-experts We are pleased to report that, before Friday even arrived, we reached 50, 000 followers - thank you for supporting liberty! RT jeffreyamiron: New blog post: Birthright Citizenship http: //bit. ly/aSkAME cir immigration RT jchidalgo: My take on the meeting between Colombia's Juan Manuel Santos and Venezuela's Hugo Chávez (Al Jazeera) : http: //bit. ly/dbijBb RT DanielGriswold: More Nonsense about the Trade Deficit http: //bit. ly/d3Smob freetrade trade New Podcast: Bigger than a Teacher Bailout http: //bit. ly/aMiNRm (h/t cobrown) TARP - Traveling Asset Relief Program? http: //bit. ly/bqzPDC President Obama says he wants to “invest in our people without leaving them a mountain of debt. ” http: //bit. ly/9s8hCE budget It's hard to measure wins if your goals aren't clear, says IndianBrownAle: http: //bit. ly/dCu6Uh afghanistan RT normative: Libertarian Politics in the Media http: //j. mp/afIM1N New Weekly Video: August 10, 2010 featuring David Boaz http: //bit. ly/a4xegX tlot RT normative: From the latest Nat'l Review, reminding conservatives intel is a big government bureaucracy too. http: //bit. ly/c8vhQL Some of you have asked us for thoughts on the Google/Verizon netneutrality proposal. Here's Jim_Harper: http: //bit. ly/bsOH9N netpolicy Is history repeating itself in southeast Asia? Cato's Ted Galen Carpenter and IndianBrownAle think so: http: //bit. ly/auzX0J Fannie and Freddie did not block that parade; they joined it — indeed, in some respects led it Cato's William Poole: http: //nyti. ms/aMuax2 privacy RT normative: GPS tracking & the mosaic theory of the Fourth Amendment http: //bit. ly/d6u2H9 We know it isn't Friday yet, but we're 163 followers from 50, 000. . . can you help us get there today? We agree. RT Duncan365: DanielJMitchell's new blog post on catoinstitute is fantastic. . . http: //bit. ly/9iHf4k Wow - we're 227 followers from 50, 000. . . who's going to show their support for the Constitution by being our next follower? RT normative: Prior Restraint Lives: Newspaper Blocked From Publishing Photo of Murder Suspect http: //j. mp/ahE76Q Change. RT normative: Of 2, 000 civil liberties complaints, Justice Dept. investigates one http: //j. mp/cavBd6 Dan Mitchell is back in the running for Best Blog Title of the Week - and even has a new fan: http: //bit. ly/96vIMs taxes budget ¿Hablas español? Sigue a ElCatoEnCorto y jchidalgo y gabricalderon para temas de libertad en América Latina. RT DanielGriswold: ‘Border Enforcement’ Bill Driven by Election-year Politics http: //bit. ly/9DP3EL freetrade trade VIDEO: Cato EVP David_Boaz talks about the rise of passion for limited government in the Bush/Obama years: http: //bit. ly/dsFwsj tlot RT instapundit: NOT JUST A SPECIAL INTEREST, a super special interest! …: http: //bit. ly/c5821m Cato's Michael Tanner calls out the culture warriors: http: //bit. ly/cyighk | And JonahNRO gets Tanner's back: http: //bit. ly/9ZZ2RQ tlot Tad DeHaven follows up on avg. pay, growth rates for fed. employees: http: //bit. ly/cQbll8 | Downsize the Federal Gov't: http: //bit. ly/9Elnzm Mistrust of Government Is A Beautiful Thing, says Cato's H. L. Mencken Research Fellow, magician pennjillette: http: //bit. ly/d34nAf tlot tlot RT jeffreyamiron: New blog post: The Fed's Policy Announcement http: //bit. ly/cnnRZk New Podcast: Social Security Payouts Growing Faster http: //bit. ly/baVgrE (h/t cobrown) Questions about netneutrality? Jim_Harper goes over the basics of the policy debate here (video) : http: //youtu. be/Qy_Gxtvfsnk netpolicy Director of Information Policy Jim_Harper participates in a debate on netneutrality at the NYTimes: http: //nyti. ms/dnmdsf netpolicy Jeremy Lott's ReasonMag piece on Cato's John Samples: http: //bit. ly/ancmCn | Samples' Struggle to Limit Government http: //amzn. to/aCAFK3 New Podcast: The Profit Motive and Education Subsidies http: //bit. ly/9rmW3n (h/t cobrown) Dr. Jeff Cornwall (cornwallj) at BelmontUniv has a brief review of Timothy Sandefur's book Right to Earn a Living : http: //bit. ly/cX3eid If you liked ggreenwald's piece yesterday on the surveillance state, check out this one by Cato's normative: http: //bit. ly/aWovj3 privacy the DeptofDefense budget has grown so large that it is weakening. . . the country's economy Chris Edwards sounds off: http: //bit. ly/bYEpRe Our friend nickgillespie at ReasonMag also has a piece on the pay gap between public and private sector workers: http: //bit. ly/duGXUc Are you keeping in touch with us on Facebook too? Follow us here for additional content updates: http: //bit. ly/a0BjIY tlot RT Media_Intel: Gene Healy of CatoInstitute, writes an excellent piece about Cameron's first 3 mos. for DCExaminer http: //bit. ly/9YjRoa Public sector unions are starting to worry about citizens' attention on federal pay: http: //bit. ly/cJvOIt tlot budget recovery Federal Pay Continues to Outpace Private Sector Pay http: //bit. ly/9bEPaT tlot . . . the TeaParty. . . could learn a lot from. . . Cameron and Clegg. . . Cato's Gene Healy on hope & change in the UK: http: //bit. ly/dmkVOK Cato's Jim Powell looks at the top 10 Obama jobs killers in today's IDBeditorials: http: //bit. ly/9nrXAp economy recovery Back in March 2010, Budget Analyst Chris Edwards also talked about federal pay with amorris_wfed at FedNewsRadio: http: //bit. ly/9Z4Ntl Budget analyst Chris Edwards asks Can't we now all agree that federal workers are overpaid & do something about it? http: //bit. ly/94pcMu RT willwilkinson: I blogged: Liberalism and Birthright Citizenship: http: //bit. ly/bdEXDR RT cobrown: Podcast: WikiLeaks and Information Security - featuring Jim_Harper http: //ht. ly/18v2CK infosec RT ggreenwald: The Cato forum on the sprawling Surveillance State: http: //is. gd/eaApN Cato's Dan Mitchell: . . . the class-warfare crowd is either oblivious or uncaring about real-world effects [of taxes]. http: //bit. ly/9Zyzo9 RT walterolson: Wolk v. Olson: Overlawyered in the News [judge dismisses suit against me & overlawyered] http: //is. gd/eagmy RT jeffreyamiron: For those who think China is evolving into a capitalist paradise that will soon overtake the West: http: //nyti. ms/djpNxl New Podcast: WikiLeaks and Information Security http: //bit. ly/bobiYl (h/t cobrown) In a new edition of Cato: Unbound, ggreenwald examines the surveillance state in America: http: //bit. ly/amIaKx FISA patriotact Cato's Jim Powell asks, What would it take to cut government spending? http: //bit. ly/9v1Emg tlot budget recovery The _____ Act of _____. Yes, seriously: http: //bit. ly/96XSUA tlot congress Cato's Neal McCluskey sounds off on federal math and reading standards: http: //bit. ly/daecNe federalism education (h/t dcexaminer) WhiteHouse advisers flee as economy sinks http: //bit. ly/ce6Ecl | Cato Tax Policy expert Chris Edwards weighs in. (via sfexaminerlocal) Our Jim_Harper has a great piece on privacy and digital commerce in the WSJ this morning: http: //bit. ly/aGiBLx ecommerce pii Dan Mitchell discusses Reagonomics vs. Obamanomics today on MSNBC: http: //bit. ly/dhjL0Y recovery economy change NPR calls us conservative, based on Michael Tanner's cost/benefit analysis of hcr reform and Social Security: http: //n. pr/cl6BFK handsoff Jim Harper recently testified about online privacy and the role of the federal government: http: //oreil. ly/c197oJ (h/t digiphile) Legal Policy Analyst David Rittgers is on the case. . . about Anthony Graber's case in MD: http: //bit. ly/9UKasL tlot wiretapping privacy Additionally, you can purchase Richard Immerman's book here: http: //amzn. to/dakVbC | Kindle edition also available. catobf tlot SAVE THE DATE: Empire for Liberty: A History of American Imperialism from Benjamin Franklin to Paul Wolfowitz http: //bit. ly/deOAtz catobf First pass, then post - Cato's Jim Harper weighs in on Sunlight Before Signing: http: //bit. ly/cVaEj8 gov20 opengov transparency Cato's Dan Mitchell may win the Blog Title of the Week Award: http: //bit. ly/csUR9k economics tlot File under stuff we can't make up - Ilya Shapiro, the State of Oregon, and a 7-year-old's lemonade stand: http: //bit. ly/95rAZW tlot Senior Fellow Alan Reynolds points to scholarship on capital gains tax reforms: http: //bit. ly/cgnIsj taxes economy recovery followfriday CatoInstitute/cato-experts | Our list of policy experts on Twitter New Podcast: Gay Marriage and Conservatives http: //bit. ly/d3nyOA (h/t cobrown) Senate Confirms Kagan for Supreme Court http: //bit. ly/cHm5qn tlot Are you a student? Check out Cato on Campus on Facebook: http: //bit. ly/aRnG2A | Next event: August 20 in DC and on the web. Kagan Confirmed, Constitution Ignored - Ilya Shapiro reacts to Elena Kagan's confirmation to the Supreme Court: http: //bit. ly/d6X0TZ Director of Tax Policy Chris Edwards predicts a postponement of the debate over Bush tax cuts until after November: http: //bit. ly/bPkKyc Tanner also surmises that the Missouri overturn of the ObamaCare mandate could pass in other states: http: //bit. ly/9unA6i hcr handsoff Cato Domestic Policy expert Michael Tanner projects near-term costs of health care reform: http: //bit. ly/chRkab hcr handsoff TONIGHT: Cato's Randal O'Toole joins FBNStossel at 9p ET and 12a ET on FBN to talk about transportation privatization - be sure to tune in. It is. . . a naked ploy to appease teachers' unions. . . that Democrats need motivated for the mid-term elections. http: //bit. ly/bKtGZm tlot SAVE THE DATE: Cato's Pat Michaels (http: //bit. ly/anwqon) will join SeanHannity Aug. 27 to discuss ClimateGate and global warming. cru We'll miss you - thanks for your hard work. RT peterantosh: 2nd to last day at the catoinstitute I can't believe I'm leaving. Ilya Shapiro's piece on Missouri's ObamaCare mandate overturn made RCPblog's Best of the Blogs : http: //bit. ly/9MErmb hcr tlot tcot New Podcast: Manufacturing Politics http: //bit. ly/asKRHG Judge Strikes Down California's Gay Marriage Ban http: //bit. ly/cyzdE6 tlot Budget Analyst Tad DeHaven examines two factions in today's GOP - power leadership and policy leadership: http: //bit. ly/bzI0Vv Secrecy should be. . . avoided whenever possible. Cato's Jim Harper on Wikileaks: http: //bit. ly/akOTa4 transparency opengov gov20 Yesterday we aimed to pass 5, 000 fans of Downsizing the Federal Government - we actually passed 6, 000: http: //bit. ly/bgGguA | Thank you! Our Downsizing the Federal Government project page is only 198 from 5, 000 fans: http: //bit. ly/951qyF | Are you a fan? tlot RIP Manuel Ayau http: //bit. ly/94uVHE tlot Our Downsizing the Federal Government project is nearing 5, 000 Facebook fans- can you put us there by midnight? http: //bit. ly/9Elnzm tlot . . . our children now face the prospect of reduced living standards and crushing debt. http: //bit. ly/cwoSZv stimulus tlot Michael Tanner reminds that the public option failed the final votes, but is nowhere near dead: http: //bit. ly/9M1CSV hcr tlot tcot In which our Dan Mitchell responds to criticism from ezraklein and NYTimesKrugman: http: //bit. ly/d08ahR tlot economy recovery Has Congress become useless? Cato's Gene Healy investigates: http: //bit. ly/cNfTlH tlot Our hcr expert Michael Cannon joined cspanwj this morning - video here: http: //bit. ly/cGmRHQ Obama advisers refuse to believe they're failing - Cato's Richard Rahn has an analysis: http: //bit. ly/ae6crU tlot change Thanks Heritage for citing Arnold Kling on stimulus spending metrics: http: //bit. ly/cIvpC2 economy recovery jobs Our Foreign Policy Analyst Malou Innocent joined WTOP this morning to talk Israel & Iran. Listen here: http: //bit. ly/d8Vrti EVP David_Boaz takes on one of progressives' pet issues - reforming the Senate: http: //bit. ly/9qSa4A tlot Democrats are too focused on a goods economy, ignoring the services economy in America, says Cato's Dan Griswold: http: //bit. ly/9byBSF In which jchidalgo asks, Is anyone in Washington paying attention (to the failing war on drugs) ? http: //bit. ly/aBzmQ1 tlot Cato's Ilya Shapiro and Andrew Coulson have filed an amicus brief in ACSTO v. Winn: http: //bit. ly/bOZ7pc education Missouri's mandate overturn will embolden Obamacare suits nationally - good, says Cato's Ilya Shapiro: http: //bit. ly/9SOJYT hcr tlot US Marshalls and TSA are capturing imagery in airport scans, says Cato's Jim Harper: http: //bit. ly/d5rZbu privacy tlot Is the Conway campaign trying to subvert DrRandPaul? Cato's John Samples takes a look: http: //bit. ly/cZic4S kysen tlot Inflation, Deflation, and the Federal Reserve: http: //bit. ly/bnv2Ro | Cato's Jagadeesh Gokhale sets NPR straight on monetary policy. Collateral Murder, Indeed - Afghan war vet and Cato Legal Policy analyst David Rittgers on Wikileaks: http: //bit. ly/dr3KEh Have you heard about our new Downsizing the Federal Government project? Join us on Facebook: http: //bit. ly/bgGguA tlot tcot Delayed START http: //bit. ly/aWXgvI tlot New Podcast: Repealing Tax Cuts Won't Curb Deficit http: //bit. ly/bbdWw9 We've made some additions to our list of scholars: CatoInstitute/cato-experts | Enjoy! Liberty wins the battle, but the war is still to be decided: http: //bit. ly/dz7VsZ New Podcast: Escaping the Graveyard of Empires : A Strategy to Exit Afghanistan http: //bit. ly/9s2MfA A leading scholar on Social Security takes down the purported SS fact checkers on the left: http: //bit. ly/bWoZHs RT ezraklein news show I just walked past: Can US afford defense cuts? Yes. The answer is yes. // We were on & we agree with you, Ezra. Cato's Dr. Christopher Preble on CNBC Street Signs talking defense spending right now. New Podcast: DISCLOSE Act and the Fall Elections http: //bit. ly/aB4keX How Do You Solve a Problem Like Korea? http: //bit. ly/90jTrD tlot Obama's goals in Afghanistan seem about as modest as his goals for ObamaCare: http: //bit. ly/a8LAE8 Don't trust Mayberry's Sheriff (or Matlock) on this one: http: //bit. ly/d8MJop yourtaxdollarsatwork ObamaCare By soaking the rich, the WH tax policy would also dry up America's prosperous middle class: http: //bit. ly/aT960k New Podcast: POTUS Wants Your Private Data http: //bit. ly/9EsBxa New Podcast: Growth and Credible Commitments http: //bit. ly/9A8c2y Perhaps the most powerful person on the planet: http: //bit. ly/c1WHO7 IJ The governments get more addicted to the tax than the players to the games. http: //bit. ly/c5RDpI The now 20-year-old ADA strikes at burrito counters: http: //bit. ly/9W7eEg ChipotleTweets walterolson Didn't China and the USSR prove that Five Year Plans don't work? http: //bit. ly/b3y0hX In just 3 sentences you can see the White House attitude toward the Constitution & court precedent: http: //bit. ly/b5MDha The freedom of individuals to trade across borders has rarely been held in so much contempt. http: //bit. ly/blwQrm Why attempt to circumnavigate 1st Amendment has failed (for now) : http: //bit. ly/bH6lVa Three words that apparently candidates can't say in an election: _______ _______ Reform http: //bit. ly/aiXqZa Dear Dems, Your list looks good. I've enclosed a few edits below. Tell me when you can start. Sincerely, Cato http: //bit. ly/c6Cx2i Great Cato event right now on union influence w/ John Fund WSJ and Cato's eloquent John Samples. Watch live (or later) http: //bit. ly/bx0Rlx Great Cato event, noon EST, on union influence w/ John Fund WSJ and Cato's eloquent John Samples. Watch live (or later) http: //bit. ly/bx0Rlx Scandals from the org. running public housing: '81-'89, '93-'97, '97-'01, '01-'09. Time to end it? http: //bit. ly/aqsDGu ObamaCare was built around three goals. Just & gt; 100 days later, can it already be failing on all three? http: //bit. ly/ce9OPp Missa_Marissa Cato fall intern? Congratulations! 3 things that the U. S. and Greece have in common: runaway spending, union problems and _________. http: //bit. ly/aZxBoe RockTownsend Thanks, Rock. Keep on fighting for liberty. The Mother of all Special Interest bills: http: //bit. ly/9Mv3eK The (Bureaucratic) War on Terror: http: //bit. ly/d6Vn6q Cato economist Richard Rahn on CNBC CNBCSquawkSt right now answering the question: less hours for workers, more jobs? The U. S. Supreme Court is a lot of things, but conservative? http: //bit. ly/cvUtGw (it's certainly not libertarian. . . ) New Podcast: Venezuela's Faltering Central Plan http: //bit. ly/9ngHwr She just turned 20 and she's still ugly. (But don't tell her that. . . ) http: //bit. ly/93WLT8 walterolson They're considering privatizing that industry, why not this one too? seattletimes theolympian http: //bit. ly/b0w8fU If you tax the rich, you tax the poor too: http: //bit. ly/ayoVkW BushTaxCuts NoFreeLunch Paint is cheap, rail systems are very expensive http: //bit. ly/bzROaQ Class Warfare and Tax Policy http: //bit. ly/bijgov tlot Cato senior fellow Randy Barnett in interview with WSJ answers Is ObamaCare constitutional? http: //bit. ly/diiGN6 docAvelar Best of Luck! http: //www. cato. org/jobs/intern/ New Podcast: Devolve Entitlement Spending to States http: //bit. ly/cIF2Uq stevepaulo We don't mind the antipathy so long as you put that Constitution to good use. http: //bit. ly/b6wYxz ifihadatrillion I'd probably look for a tax haven also. . . . JohnKerry http: //bit. ly/9MB2nU 'Darker Shade of Green' forum on federal push for a greener economy going on right now. Watch live, ask your Qs here: http: //bit. ly/aLrv6t 4PM EST Cato On Campus hosts 'A Darker Shade of Green' fed. push for a greener economy. Watch live, ask your Qs here: http: //bit. ly/aLrv6t Responsible people want to take responsibility for our health care out of the hands of politicians : http: //bit. ly/cHyZ0P mfcannon hcr Be sure to catch Cato On Campus' 'A Darker Shade of Green' today at 4 and ask your questions in person or online here: http: //bit. ly/bwzu2q Why National Standards will only add to public (government) schools' problems: http: //nyti. ms/99Krwq nytimes znbailey The 1099 provision was bad news indeed: http: //bit. ly/cYiu1n aarjav We've been on the 1099 subject: http: //bit. ly/cYiu1n Immigration Debate in the Courts http: //bit. ly/c85jpa tlot Outrageous: Business owning couple given 30 days to leave country. Why? Profits are down. http: //bit. ly/aw3AB2 New Podcast: Unemployed Options http: //bit. ly/bqm3Ei The return of the Public Option. . . and more CBO. . . magic. . . http: //bit. ly/aAkhte hcr ObamaCare At $500, 000 per job, that's an expensive way to try to recharge the economy: http: //bit. ly/bDNIrz Probably the most depressing graph you'll see today: http: //bit. ly/cR6zNq Trent Lott, GOP leadership openly try to compromise candidates that want to cut federal spending: http: //bit. ly/b7rQNF New Podcast: A Fresh North Korean Tragedy http: //bit. ly/aPDRdp Tomorrow 4PM Cato-on-Campus: 'A Darker Shade of Green', a student forum on the federal push for a greener economy http: //bit. ly/bwzu2q 1910: No Dept. of Edu. , no national standards, local control of schools. Outcome? http: //bit. ly/9hGWk3 Scary Stuff: Chavez makes his move on globovision Venezuela's last independent TV station http: //bit. ly/asKazx jchidalgo A big event today at the Cato Institute: The Politics and Law of Immigration. Watch it live at noon, here http: //bit. ly/bfnPz4 The Inefficiency of Clearing Mandates http: //bit. ly/bpqT15 tlot You can talk about it all you want, it's not getting any more successful: http: //bit. ly/9RGRFf Another prohibition (other than drugs) that needs to end: http: //bit. ly/cbLDJQ radleybalko Markets not massive donations are the best solution for U. S. schools BillGates http: //bit. ly/aJyeMF With an acronym like BEST PRACTICES you know this could be really bad. http: //bit. ly/bAunRp Jim_Harper At 2, 500+ pages it's longer than 2 copies of Atlas Shrugged, but I guarantee, a lot less inspiring— http: //bit. ly/b6HTSB Cato's Mark Calabria on CNBC CNBCSquawkSt on the credit crisis. New Podcast: Can the Feds Regulate Uncertainty? http: //bit. ly/a2SpzW maggiemahar Is ObamaCare really becoming more popular? Cato's mfcannon examines the evidence: http: //bit. ly/bXaZ5J youlookprettystupid trying to change your position on the health care mandate: http: //bit. ly/9ADaKL Public (i. e. Government) Transit: It just keeps getting worse and worse http: //bit. ly/a79yhi Welcome Aboard, Sir! RT stackiii Joining the CatoInstitute as Manager of New Media beginning Aug. 2; looking forward to the opportunity! thedailybeast 16 thought leaders support more stimulus? 250 economists (incl. 4 Nobel Laureates) disagree: http: //bit. ly/btAm6p Scaring the very wealthy away from America doesn't seem like very smart tax policy. . . http: //bit. ly/a6dbRU HUGE: Gov't abandons Commerce Clause defense of ObamaCare. Begins calling OC a tax. http: //bit. ly/bjNk3Y The (Job) Creation Myth: http: //bit. ly/b8ia7e . . . turn that off. It’s illegal to videotape. . . against the law in the state of Maryland http: //bit. ly/clIumO 50 States, 50 Ways to Curb Entitlement Spending: http: //bit. ly/cVvZke jeffreyamiron politico Cato's Dan Mitchell spent a few nights with the Victoria's Secret Angels. . . http: //bit. ly/cf2ypj obamanomics whlogic New Podcast: Tea Partiers, Wars and Fiscal Restraint http: //bit. ly/bNgDar From IJ — Cato's Ilya Shapiro and IJ scholars do battle in defense of the Citizens United decision. http: //iam. ij. org/bbMn4s President Obama's 'Sunlight Promise' has not resulted in more gov't. transparency: http: //bit. ly/cpFMxr Cato's walterolson blows the whistle on the whistleblowers: http: //bit. ly/aS79rp Watch jeffreyamiron of Harvard and Cato is on msnbc Hardball right now taking on myths about unemployment benefits. Watch Cato's Jeffrey Miron on Hardball on msnbc right now talking unemployment benefits. Cato's Mark Calabria on Cavuto foxnews right now discussing the dismal financial reform bill that passed the Senate today. ATTN nytimes WSJ latimes politico Reuters — No such thing as a free lunch or free health care: http: //bit. ly/bQOlvw Principal-in-Chief? This is truly disgusting: http: //bit. ly/aH6RZO thistweetisdedicated2 the lobbyists, who will soon be choosing our health insurance for us: http: //bit. ly/9bJFGv Hey Republicans: this spill needs more than just a cap. http: //bit. ly/cRopjv Cato, the Constitution, and Stephen Colbert wielding a pistol: http: //bit. ly/azr9jo Senate Bill Sows Seeds of Next Financial Crisis http: //bit. ly/9wK71e tlot Is Congress full of devilish necromancers? Because it looks like the Death Tax will be resurrected http: //bit. ly/9jpMAl The Feds are the ones playing dirty in their obscenity case against a porn producer: http: //bit. ly/9Px8VE Do newspapers and broadcast co. s deserve a bailout just because their audience is bailing on them? http: //bit. ly/c6nRTG Federal_Farmer Calls to mind this sort of fringe minority : http: //bit. ly/btAm6p Cato's Dan Mitchell on MSNBC right now talking about America's cancerous deficit. New Podcast: 'Point of No Return' Approaching for U. S. Debt http: //bit. ly/9c1oeD San Francisco v. Cola (and Liberty) Redux: http: //bit. ly/bPJ6MY sf sugar After & gt; 2 weeks of confirmation hearings, senators finally ask Kagan about ObamaCare http: //bit. ly/c0fGlz The U. S. -South Korea Alliance: Outdated, Unnecessary, and Dangerous http: //bit. ly/andSx2 tlot First Amendment 1, Censorship 0: http: //bit. ly/9bKJ6Y Should the U. S. restrict immigration? http: //bit. ly/aM06KN An argument that a Darwinian science of human evolution supports classical liberalism: http: //bit. ly/bGH3qV How can we begin to discuss free trade abroad when we don't allow it on American soil? http: //bit. ly/bRu4mm It's time to end the 'Al Gore Tax' http: //bit. ly/8Y71xI Venezuela's last independent television station feels the heat: http: //bit. ly/acPNde Britain's NHS gets a lesson in the free market: http: //bit. ly/bgFBT6 New Podcast: ObamaCare Fails on Its Own Terms http: //bit. ly/dA4lOt Our opening salvo against World Court gun trade regulation: http: //bit. ly/bvISTP Among major European nations, the French are most in favor of smaller government. Sacre Bleu! http: //bit. ly/bS4Pd1 George Will Keynotes the 2010 Milton Friedman Prize Dinner: http: //bit. ly/9n0gYB New Podcast: Rerank the Presidents http: //bit. ly/bdxAht Jilted Cleveland Cavaliers fans should blame Ohio's income tax: http: //bit. ly/9x2WKg Costs and Consquences of the New Health Care Law http: //bit. ly/czij24 tlot New Podcast: Too Big to Fail: Alive and Well http: //bit. ly/c1leur News about Consumer Watchdog getting a bit creepy with Congress: http: //bit. ly/9wlz5W Welcome to the Post-Unipolar World: Great for the U. S. and for the Rest http: //bit. ly/d9U4kA A case for decommissioning failed regulators: http: //bit. ly/9YOTbs Lowering the standard: Why Should a Supreme Court Justice Care about Natural Rights? http: //bit. ly/96xnbT Division by religion in Morocco: the limits of Islamic religious tolerance: http: //bit. ly/9lc5ie New Podcast: Why We Fight: Higher Education http: //bit. ly/bhO3l4 A case against any more stimulus spending: http: //bit. ly/cC1xGy Is lindsaylohan a closet fan of ours? Cato gets some unsolicited support: http: //bit. ly/9wMJg1 Cyber surveillance of the Internet: shouldn't the NSA at least tell us what it's doing? http: //bit. ly/d1JDsq Upset over all those soft drinks in vending machines? San Francisco has the (wrong) answer: http: //bit. ly/9l9kdX Limits on banker bonuses will never be effective: http: //bit. ly/cegKhA New Podcast: Guest Workers Aid Border Security http: //bit. ly/dy0WLX Keynes vs. Hayek: The Great Debate Continues: http: //bit. ly/cVy1Rt The government taxes all of your income, even the imaginary part: http: //bit. ly/cXLzxh Is Facebook selling your personal data? Not exactly: http: //bit. ly/aFsBuR Can we say that Kagan lived up to her own standards? Cato's Ilya Shapiro thinks not: http: //bit. ly/a4Ksdx Understanding the key problems with soft drink taxes: http: //bit. ly/ckiH4G Looking at Britain to learn more about the problems with the U. S. Postal Service: http: //bit. ly/9CucHD India can't reach its GDP growth target without a regimen of liberalization. http: //bit. ly/9Ckzad The Chinese attempt to 'eradicate all social evils' and what it has to do with us: http: //bit. ly/9rMaXP Gun control advocates should applaud the Supreme Court: http: //bit. ly/cRu65d Happy July 4th from Cato http: //bit. ly/b2GEkh tlot Kagan wants to keep an eye on our diets so we don't have to: http: //bit. ly/b3H9br Surprising demographics within the Tea Party? http: //bit. ly/cyA2Ww Terrorists: What did we ever do to them? Quite a bit, it turns out. http: //huff. to/b8XSJt Celebrate your independence (and educate a few friends) with 10 Pocket Constitutions for $10. http: //bit. ly/93Rwam Let the sun shine: Obama is showing (some) progress on transparency http: //bit. ly/c3h4dT Presidential power rankings: who were our 'best' Presidents? http: //bit. ly/csimj5 New Podcast: Immigration Fact and Fiction http: //bit. ly/9kMGi1 This 4th of July $10 will buy you and 9 friends a world class education in constitutional law: http: //bit. ly/93Rwam New Regulation Looks at Consumer Law, Energy Speculation, and Smoking Bans http: //bit. ly/a5TFKH tlot Rand Paul: not so extreme (or libertarian) when it comes to farm subsidies: http: //bit. ly/9PJWH0 Argentina shows why it's unwise to entrust the government with pensions or retirement plans: http: //bit. ly/czfrsd The dark side of Charter Schools and the need for private school choice: http: //bit. ly/9NFouo If the U. S. cut its military budget in half, it would still outspend any current/potential rival: http: //bit. ly/bQDu6I New Podcast: Breyer Versus Second Amendment http: //bit. ly/b6ypEQ Today's confirmation hearings for Kagan in summary: http: //bit. ly/9pKTa4 scotus In the world of politics you keep your friends close, your enemies closer: http: //bit. ly/9q12Lc Whirlpool, tailspin, vortex, maelstrom, eddy, death spiral, ObamaCare: http: //bit. ly/bgeHeE Children will profit when entrepreneurs profit: the case for free enterprise education http: //bit. ly/dkXdXz ObamaCare is like hair regrowth products on late night television: unlikely to stop the recession http: //bit. ly/dhMhAn Best question to Kagan yet: Can Congress make eating your fruits and veggies mandatory? http: //bit. ly/9ap4Bb Kagan confirmation hearings Day 2: http: //bit. ly/9oP3HF Immigrants and Crime: Perception vs. Reality http: //bit. ly/9MbR1t tlot New Podcast: The Bastiat Project http: //bit. ly/a5xpjV Can free speech and publicly funded education be reconciled? http: //bit. ly/bZhyCq It probably wasn't America's tax code those Russian spies were after. . . http: //bit. ly/cYgSTy Government stimulus: almost no benefits now, high costs later: http: //bit. ly/aNGMbI Can't watch C-SPAN at work? A summary of what's happened so far at the Kagan confirmation hearings: http: //bit. ly/9ebsXa Robert Byrd and the Constitution: http: //bit. ly/9HBHEb & http: //bit. ly/c2cFx8 Supreme Court Rules Chicago Gun Ban Unconstitutional http: //bit. ly/bSN2Hh tlot America is on the wrong side of this curve: http: //bit. ly/d146WK From 2000 to now, private sector employment has shrunk. As for that other sector of employment. . . http: //bit. ly/cvuZq5 New Podcast: Cut Military Spending: A Way Forward http: //bit. ly/arlZzL New Podcast: Beachfront Property and Substantive Due Process http: //bit. ly/cwdtgx Apparently spilled milk must threaten the environment. . . http: //bit. ly/b3fPfL EPA overregulation New Podcast: The Afghanistan Mission Next Steps http: //bit. ly/bxFJ7D DISCLOSE Act Would Chill Free Speech http: //bit. ly/dhraRG tlot Cato's Mark Calabria on CNBC PowerLunch right now, taking on the faulty financial reform bill. The G-20 http: //bit. ly/bwjBRG tlot Big Government sits atop the G-20 Summit: http: //bit. ly/d9VRyA The unjust Kelo decision turns five today, but the fight for propertyrights is gaining strength: http: //bit. ly/b0CfG8 NYTimeskrugman & Cato's Michael Tanner agree: Jobless benefits keep people jobless. politico http: //politi. co/cCem2J New Podcast: McChrystal and the Incoherent Afghanistan Mission http: //bit. ly/daeoXl cassbakes Thanks for the pre-friday love. The Empire State earns its nickname: http: //bit. ly/9viXjm propertyrights eminentdomain Watch How Will ObamaCare Affect Young Adults? forum live right now and ask scholars your hcr questions online: http: //bit. ly/9y2MP8 Cato's danieljmitchell on msnbc right now talking housing market fraud. The Mineral Management Service has changed its name, but the MMS's squalid past will still follow it: http: //bit. ly/cODjyA Cato financial expert Mark Calabria on StreetSignsCNBC right now talking about how to reform the housing market A law so broad and vague that the prosecuting attorney can't tell you what the law means http: //bit. ly/apiqpu Cato & galeninstitute host forum on how ObamaCare affects young people, 4pm today. Ask your Qs & watch live online- http: //bit. ly/9y2MP8 How U. S. organ transplant policy costs lives and how to change it: http: //bit. ly/boSNpv Uncertainty about future rules and taxes has paralyzed Businesses: http: //bit. ly/aaxc7O recession RT LibertyCalendar EVENT TOMORROW CatoInstitute & galeninstitute 4pm: How Will ObamaCare Affect Young Adults? http: //ow. ly/21mrJ The Jones Act used to just kill free trade. Now it's killing beach and sea life too: http: //bit. ly/aUNBZE oilspill Why public schools cause civil wars: http: //bit. ly/bJk7iy New federal stimulus rationales are bad excuses for a bad idea: http: //bit. ly/bBNpTv McChrystal Flap Opens Broader Questions http: //bit. ly/b2lMlx tlot A hit job on the successful D. C. voucher program: http: //bit. ly/a6cESt The problems in Afghanistan run much deeper than one general: http: //bit. ly/dnHxpQ New Podcast: Incorporating the Second Amendment http: //bit. ly/aHDbS8 Afghan warlords chasing U. S. tax dollars: http: //bit. ly/ayy66c 2008-2009: Soak-the-Rich. 2010-2011: Soak-the-Middle-Class ? http: //bit. ly/bnuQSc The mineral riches in Afghanistan are like a jewel that comes with a curse: http: //bit. ly/9DiF31 The new hcr protections remind me of the protection that Vito Corleone gave: http: //bit. ly/bhK5Z0 Cato's Financial Reg. Expert Mark Calabria on CNBCTheCall talking consumer finance protection right now. trish_regan larry_kudlow Cato's Financial Reg. Expert Mark Calabria on CNBCTheCall talking consumer finance protection coming up! trish_regan larry_kudlow In defense of portly presidents: http: //bit. ly/bTohwY Why real competition in education promises higher achievement in schools: http: //bit. ly/99qI44 There's no Missouri Ave. on the board, but the Show-Me-State still likes to play monopoly. . . http: //bit. ly/9bUKm3 New Podcast: Simulating the Future of Social Security http: //bit. ly/bCmpsi Cato + 5 others on why national standards for state schools are neither voluntary nor good for kids: http: //bit. ly/bZHTef Rwandans better off than Americans? Psychological factors behind universal coverage: http: //bit. ly/b3dzQu hcr Cato's mfcannon on kpccAirTalk right now talking hcr and healthcare! Click here to listen live: http: //bit. ly/a9xWD0 Cato's mfcannon on kpccAirTalk 1: 30 PM talking hcr and healthcare. Click here to listen live: http: //bit. ly/a9xWD0 Don Obama is still tilting at (and eying more) windmills: http: //bit. ly/9mbB9C bp greenenergy oilspill Nat Hentoff, critic, scholar, on Duke Ellington, jazz, individual liberties: http: //nyti. ms/dB0DD2 NYT tlot jazz Some (former) communists are smarter than the U. S. Congress in at least one respect: http: //bit. ly/cYgSTy New Podcast: Speechnow. org and the DiSCLOSE Act http: //bit. ly/brSXML Oh come on. Really? Are you kidding me? because of plastic army men? http: //bit. ly/dBd9Tx I love Extreme Makeover Home Edition, but here's a piece of Housing that just needs the wrecking ball: http: //bit. ly/9XBuJa In case you've been worried about Brazilian farmers lately, have no fear: we're subsidizing them too: http: //bit. ly/aUbspW Under the new Scrabble rules, O-B-A-M-A-C-A-R-E can be played. But not under the Constitution's rules: http: //bit. ly/bOnjCG FCC insists it's not trying to regulate the internet by reclassifying ISPs. Hmmmm. . . . . http: //bit. ly/cycz2a distrust New Podcast: This Time It's Different http: //bit. ly/a5XYg4 Dirty policies over at the MUD, err. . . HUD http: //bit. ly/bDLwa6 Was Rand Paul right or wrong? Scholars examine civil rights laws in-depth, this month's Cato Unbound http: //bit. ly/c3ipSm RT hochmann: just discovered CatoInstitute events podcasts http: //is. gd/cSZtF -- some fantastic speeches to feed my earbuds More Guns, Less Crime book forum going on at Cato right now. Watch it live: http: //bit. ly/az9FzD PatrickDowns you're right: Hey Gub-mint! Leave them kids alone! http: //bit. ly/d7lfQE Libertarian aid workers, not U. S. troops, are working for peace in Kyrgyzstan today. http: //bit. ly/cnkDHo You can help! Hey, Govenment! Leave them kids alone. . . http: //bit. ly/cNQvz7 Let's work to cap the Gulf oil leak. But let's work to uncap liability for oil companies: http: //bit. ly/avwS33 Where does your state rank on the new Moocher Index? http: //bit. ly/bYAJps 6/15: Gov't. buys fatty dark meat for poor. 6/16: Gov't. tells everyone to eat less fatty meat. http: //bit. ly/cdWGig What the evidence has to say about Don't Ask Don't Tell: http: //bit. ly/do9Isp DADT New Podcast: DISCLOSE Act and Citizens United http: //bit. ly/9FCSzp Freedom and Exchange in Communist Cuba http: //bit. ly/agubEJ tlot A vote to repeal the hcr mandate? We say: Nice, but why not repeal all of ObamaCare? http: //bit. ly/dhkVni repealthebill An actor who had some good ideas about immigration: http: //bit. ly/9QljBu What will the mineral find in Afghanistan mean for the average Aghan? and American involvement? http: //bit. ly/c0KLIz To understand why the unemployment rate is so high, you need to understand what minimum wage laws do: http: //bit. ly/cSUigc Congress has some new ideas for campaign finance rules: excluding big special interests is one of them http: //bit. ly/9bMEol Money Spill: the proposed $50 billion bailout would flood special interests, unions with tax payer cash http: //bit. ly/aIUq2n Somethin' to read with the ol' cup of joe? Cult of the Presidency by GeneHealy free e-book & download http: //bit. ly/bfJ527 4alimitedtime Mandatory Minimum Sentences can have horrible consequences for families and first-time offenders: http: //bit. ly/aDrZts National Defense Spending ? Whose nation are we defending? toughbudgetcuts http: //bit. ly/bpAtIl Massachusetts Treasurer warns that ObamaCare will do to U. S. what RomneyCare did to MA: http: //bit. ly/cHlLnm New Podcast: The Taxing Bush/Obama Years http: //bit. ly/ajAsSu The Social Security crisis is at the gates, though some leaders don't seem too eager to save the city. . . http: //bit. ly/byDf2j We dig through the waste in the Department of Transportation and show how to Downsize the Fed. Government: http: //bit. ly/95b2XO Downsizing the Department of Transportation http: //bit. ly/cUNctk tlot VA gives movie studios bailouts in the form of tax credits. Why no proven-to-work education tax credits instead? http: //bit. ly/9NA4jX Do Something! Government http: //bit. ly/bAsqHM tlot New Podcast: Lawyering Up and the Oil Spill http: //bit. ly/9j2nwm Increasing trade barriers w/ China makes little sense. But that's what Congress is trying to do. Surprised? http: //bit. ly/dmE3om We typically don't paste headlines on our feed, but this is just too good: Ninja Bureaucrats on the Loose http: //bit. ly/cRzTPM At least somebody's doing things right: Hungary’s new gov plans flat tax of 16% from 2011 http: //bit. ly/btO52E WIN taxes Don't miss Stossel tonight at 8 PM EST on Fox Business. Cato's David_Boaz will be on to discuss impact of Milton Friedman. Check out these ridic warnings on products. Here's one from a Go-Cart: ‘Warning: This Product Moves When Used’ http: //bit. ly/bowRzC In Washington, always check the numbers behind report titles: The Pentagon 'Cost Saving Plan' does not save. http: //bit. ly/bLKx6J Hayek’s 'Road to Serfdom' 1 on Amazon. You should go buy it too. http: //bit. ly/bLyfLH Reality: Sanctions won’t stop Iran’s nuke program. http: //bit. ly/aususy Virginia town commemorates Stalin with bust in WWII Memorial http: //bit. ly/akfL8s New Podcast: Anti-Incumbency and the GOP http: //bit. ly/a4cToD New Podcast: The Obama Labor Market http: //bit. ly/917JFK VIDEO: How to explain why free trade works in under 3 minutes http: //bit. ly/95hxzt Please share & RT! tcot p2 tlot liberty Runaway Federal Spending http: //bit. ly/cwN6OF tlot New Podcast: Don't Overreact to Terrorism http: //bit. ly/bmTzl5 National Curriculum Standards Ignore Reality http: //bit. ly/9PIdng tlot RT GeneHealy Gone all Radiohead with my book, Cult --download for free (esp. good for Kindle owners) : http: //bit. ly/bfJ527 CATO IS HIRING: We're looking for video and social media experts. Details - http: //bit. ly/9JNdwR jobs libertarian tlot liberty Congress to spend $23 billion on teacher employment. Why the economy needs fewer public school jobs, not more: http: //bit. ly/9yct06 New Podcast: Shadow Banking and Financial Crisis http: //bit. ly/adBMeF The commission created to shrink the deficit wants a bigger budget: http: //bit. ly/c8E5xm Washingtonwork I thought that alcohol cartels disappeared with Prohibition. . . http: //bit. ly/9mYGAs Cato's Benjamin Friedman on msbnc talking about the new book 'Terrorizing Ourselves': http: //bit. ly/axYQz4 Economist and monetary expert Steve Hanke on why NYTimeskrugman is wrong about deficit spending: http: //bit. ly/aGErCC Ah, the benefits of a free society where talent and drive can make up for little education! http: //bit. ly/aoJ0xY trivialpursuit Americans have paid for the defense of the world's 2nd richest country for 65 years: http: //bit. ly/aKiGbe militarywelfare Cato Institute: Bleeding edge since 1977 http: //bit. ly/c2GWfF driverlesscars Put 'Bureaucrats v. Taxpayers' on your docket of videos to watch today. http: //bit. ly/cdJHmJ by danieljmitchell RobinHood vs. the modern American liberal establishment. http: //bit. ly/9duCR2 I posted the wrong link a bit ago, but I corrected it. I'll blame the mistake on 'bureaucratic sabotage': http: //bit. ly/d7z8TX I couldn't think of a diplomatic way to say it: The Government is Trying to Takeover the Internet: http: //bit. ly/ap4K2J A Mission Accomplished moment for the Obama's administration's auto-bailout: http: //bit. ly/aBd1d1 Rethinking Darfur: A new study examines policy proposals to helping a devastated land. http: //bit. ly/9vj0tl Africa Sudan Genocide If you like how the VA treats veterans, you’ll love how ObamaCare will treat you. http: //bit. ly/bmx485 New Podcast: Peril in Public Pensions http: //bit. ly/dtgqg1 A man in MD is facing felony charges today. His crime? Recording a traffic stop with a video camera. http: //bit. ly/bjmOEK Members of Congress want to create an internal passport and send employers to jail who don't use it for hiring. http: //bit. ly/aZ0Yrr Krugman vs. Cato on cutting back spending http: //bit. ly/deEq7r New bill would limit annual increases in overall federal spending. About. Time. http: //bit. ly/caV5Ah An FCC with the power to regulate Internet access services would use it to control Internet content. http: //bit. ly/arNGUI Crisis is the logical outcome of the welfare state. Exhibit A: Greece. Exhibit B: Canada http: //bit. ly/8YLq5e So what's a think tank anyway? Some explanations from ThinkTankedBlog http: //bit. ly/bnixoe (With help from Cato's WalterOlson) As a kid I don't recall ever having to be fingerprinted to check out a library book. . . http: //bit. ly/bdfen7 Dear Mr. President, let's not disobey the Constitution to give you a power that won't even stop spending: http: //bit. ly/d6Eu4n Harvard Economist jeffreyamiron writes in thecrimson why Californians should legalize marijuana: http: //bit. ly/assm6k How can this bailout be for our children when it would pile up more debt for our children? http: //bit. ly/aJh8ce unionbailout Nixon, LBJ, Carter, scandals even during Reagan and JFK admins- why do we still believe in 'SuperPresident'? http: //bit. ly/9G6LZr Is the oilspill Obama's fault? or does America have unrealistic expectations for their presidents? http: //bit. ly/9G6LZr Politicians involved in illegal horse-trading? We should be upset, but we shouldn't be surprised. http: //bit. ly/9E1A1G sestak Teachers suspended for showing film about constitutional rights during police encounters: http: //bit. ly/cmD8rr see film: http: //bit. ly/bD7dNH RT ggreenwald: NYT contribution on the BP oil spill, Obama, and the Cult of the Presidency: http: //is. gd/crwZq New Podcast: The Trouble with Comstock http: //bit. ly/cugBMy DC softball today: Cato 9, SEIU 7 RT SEIU Close game, but tough loss against CatoInstitute - a lot of fun and can't wait to do it again. Barack Obama’s War on ‘Chooming’ http: //bit. ly/aqInUR New Study: Spending on regulatory agencies actually ROSE under Bush. http: //bit. ly/bQdfwt Surprised? School Vouchers vs. Tax Credits: A quick explanation http: //bit. ly/cbYKCh It's true: ‘Death panels’ were an overblown claim . . . Until now. http: //bit. ly/bGR7Kt Please share and RT. hcr Nat Hentoff on Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan: Can free speech be redistributed? http: //bit. ly/aLJgC8 Prepare to spend more on booze: Special interest groups lobbying to reverse legalizing direct wine shipping. http: //bit. ly/9pxdPJ A Look at the Senate Democratic Proposal for Immigration Reform http: //bit. ly/deYqXE tlot Sending 1, 200 National Guardsman to the Mexican border is no substitute for substantive immigration reform http: //bit. ly/brwn4C Over at Newsweek, Conor64 calls out the insane drug war. He's absolutely right. http: //bit. ly/dls39z New Podcast: Terrorism and the US Military http: //bit. ly/crrYFE Cato's GeneHealy discusses Obama's continuation of the war on drugs. Listen in: http: //bit. ly/9R4p8H President Obama lacks the moral authority to lock people up for behavior he engaged in as a young man. http: //bit. ly/bSExqb DrugWar We're working hard to spread liberty throughout the world. Libertarianism: A Primer now in 15 languages http: //bit. ly/dapuFX Want to skip the chatter and read an honest legal assessment of Arizona's immigration law? Look no further - http: //bit. ly/aGMrFX Graduating from law school? Cato is seeking legal associates. Details -- http: //bit. ly/9Nx6MT law When Will the Eurozone Collapse? http: //bit. ly/96n2Ug tlot New Podcast: Obama's Drug War http: //bit. ly/d4WuJ1 What a deal! $288 a month for an Upper East Side studio! Oh wait. . . http: //bit. ly/dvVDmd Harvard's JeffreyAMiron explains how to avoid the skid of Greece. Listen in http: //bit. ly/c4k3fU podcast Time to stop using the oil spill to grind old political axes and move the debate forward on energy policy. http: //bit. ly/b44Lfi RT Jim_Harper Just handed DHS Sec. Napolitano a copy of our new book, 'Terrorizing Ourselves. ' http: //amzn. to/bjvYVu' Don't ask, don't tell repeal = good news for military effectiveness & consistent w/highest ideals of society http: //bit. ly/apkuYo Four policies that can reduce illegal immigration. http: //bit. ly/c3Sbmm Why Rand Paul is right … and wrong. http: //bit. ly/atsrCh Irony: Sen. Chuck Schumer, a proponent of a national ID card, attacks Facebook over privacy concerns http: //bit. ly/c27R5K A few thoughts on DrRandPaul and the Americans with Disabilities Act http: //bit. ly/9QfYc9 A helpful legal analysis of the new Arizona immigration law http: //bit. ly/cEbqcY AZ More citizens charged in MD for recording interactions with police. http: //bit. ly/d8jFA6 Support for Repealing ObamaCare Hits 63 Percent http: //bit. ly/cjtou0 hcr healthcare Stimulus by Spending Cuts: Lessons from 1946 http: //bit. ly/ae0Tq9 tlot Either Health Savings Accounts or ObamaCare: One has to go. http: //bit. ly/baMq2k New Podcast: Avoiding the Skid of Greece http: //bit. ly/a9w7e7 hey ricksanchezcnn and KuhnCNN Cato is indeed commenting on Paul: http: //bit. ly/d0wPGB Congress: Do what Mom always told you and take turns. http: //bit. ly/9PpYoa termlimits chavezcandanga your 21st century socialism looks just like the old variety: blackouts, shortages, inflation: http: //bit. ly/bwOdM1 How to make brownies: 26 pages of Pentagon instructions http: //bit. ly/cnIvC1 ultimateredtape A good bill in Congress on education? is this too good to be true? http: //bit. ly/9fVgIz alasitsonlyabill Is anti-govt the same as limited govt ? Is libertarianism anarchism? http: //bit. ly/9BOgUz Senate Passes Financial Regulation Overhaul http: //bit. ly/96ydJk tlot Mr. President you proclaimed it World Trade Week. It's already Thur. so we better get to reformin': http: //bit. ly/dtWm81 Whether you're accused of a sex crime or of terrorism, the gov't. should guarantee you due process: http: //bit. ly/d8Itpw You're probably a criminal: http: //bit. ly/cpnfIr overcriminalization jeffreyamiron has just released a short book on libertarian views toward policy, A-Z: http: //amzn. to/aKME1k Private citizens who harm others are held lawfully accountable. Presidents who wage unnecessary war are not: http: //bit. ly/bqP6SL Federal Aid to States: unconstitutional, uneconomical, unsuccessful, unproductive and unhelpful to the poor: http: //bit. ly/aqRiiL What'd be the point of conviction if the feds could strip American citizenship just on suspicion? http: //bit. ly/cbcIsP New Podcast: On Designating Terrorists http: //bit. ly/cL3bn9 In light of the McConnell clan's loss in the KY primary, flashback to Dec. 2008: http: //bit. ly/d5J0bw connection? Abuse of power is in the Government's DNA. So shouldn't they should keep their hands off our DNA? http: //bit. ly/aq4exW The fight for liberty is difficult. There seems to be no end to the battles: LEAVE MY HOTDOGS ALONE http: //bit. ly/9TssiM Couldn't sleep last night. Must have been the thought that people like this are at the helm of Congress: http: //bit. ly/d1Z3oW jeffreyamiron has 4 ways to solve illegal immigration. And no, a reallylooooooongfence isn't one of them http: //bit. ly/c3Sbmm 4500+ federal crimes on the books. 500 more each decade, most don't require criminal intent: http: //bit. ly/cmHWDu Mr. Krugman, you got libertarianism (and the facts) all wrong. http: //bit. ly/9u0RCV $23billion in federal funds for state/local teachers hidden in an Afghan War bill? It gets worse: http: //bit. ly/chBacZ New Podcast: 2010 Milton Friedman Prize Dinner Keynote Address http: //bit. ly/dDwl7L Could a Republican say NO to our war on drugs and our wars in the middle east? http: //bit. ly/cxfHPm by GeneHealy Thanks for comin' by! RT craignewmark: I'm at Cato Institute (1000 Massachusetts Ave NW, at 10th St NW, Washington) http: //4sq. com/96IUvz Rethink insider trading: http: //bit. ly/clggdz unconventionalwisdom 10 ways to cut the federal budget by a total of 10% without touching sacred cows like SocSec and Medicare: http: //bit. ly/b5hHGA U. S. v. Comstock = Policy Trumping Law http: //bit. ly/dAbI7h tlot New Podcast: Arizona and Immigration http: //bit. ly/clEUi0 What the experts are saying about Lady KaGa- err. . . Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagen. Debates and opinions: http: //bit. ly/b94OtH Dear Mr. President, to celebrate your new World Trade Week, how about some free trade policy for once. . . http: //bit. ly/9KEPW3 Shouldn't 'constitutional law' concern what's in the Constitution? http: //bit. ly/d9GC9b Obama used to be a professor, but now that he's President, it's time he stepped away from our schools: http: //bit. ly/bxuRr8 Obama and Mexican Pres. Calderon meet this week: Will they listen to El Paso's call to legalize marijuana? http: //bit. ly/dmV4E1 New Podcast: Akbar Ganji Receives Milton Friedman Prize http: //bit. ly/cDTn1t New Podcast: Robert Gates Is No Dwight Eisenhower http: //bit. ly/a3hTmb Dear Senate Judiciary Committee -- Ask Kagan about ObamaCare http: //bit. ly/ct0rMo DHS to States: Pleeease Spend This Money! http: //bit. ly/ahtcpy Why yes, there are Americans who don't fall neatly into red-blue, liberal-conservative columns. http: //bit. ly/bXK8yD Republicans unveil bold new strategy to cut 0. 017% from the $3. 7 trillion federal budget. http: //bit. ly/9Yi6mx sarcasm p2 GOP tcot We're awarding the 2010 Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty to Iranian journalist Akbar Ganji tonight. Details - http: //bit. ly/pDMgo England has become the new France. Their public spending has skyrocketed. Check it out - http: //bit. ly/dwWbAp LookFamiliar? Transparency! Senate introduced bill requiring Congress to bring earmarks out of the shadows http: //bit. ly/bywbFo When authorities go after one drug cartel, they help their competition--other drug cartels. http: //bit. ly/cVewHF Enough with the Kagan kicked the military off campus meme. It's a dishonest criticism. http: //bit. ly/boQhlS p2 tcot Our “enforcement only” approach will continue to fail until we create a legal alternative to illegal immigration http: //bit. ly/awoOtX Senate Climate Bill Trade FAIL http: //bit. ly/bEOvEe Protectionist much? Is the president of Romania the next Ronald Reagan? http: //bit. ly/bONtK1 CA mandates that new homes have fire-sprinklers. Surprise! Fire-sprinkler companies were major force behind it http: //bit. ly/d8HRZz VIDEO: Cato expert José Piñera explains the Eurozone crisis and how to avoid it here. He predicted it years ago http: //bit. ly/9RzHpA A few questions to ask Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan. http: //bit. ly/9IWCCJ In England there are 4 million security cameras, one for every 14 Britons. Are we headed in that direction? http: //bit. ly/dt192K How to treat a taxaholic http: //bit. ly/9Lvtbe taxes tcot tlot politics Obama just announced his new drug strategy. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. . . http: //bit. ly/bew2yr Restoring Global Financial Stability http: //bit. ly/cElgXw tlot Bailout do not solve the problems. It just means taxpayers bear the costs rather than banks. Spread the word. http: //bit. ly/aJs3Sa New Podcast: Understanding 'Epistemic Closure' http: //bit. ly/9n48e3 It's not too late to audit the Fed. http: //bit. ly/d43Rud In 2009, 7, 600 people died in drug-related episodes in Mexico. Here's what we can do to put an end to it. http: //bit. ly/aLs35E Another day, another unwelcome surprise in the new health care law. http: //bit. ly/bYd955 They have it backwards: How one free-trade agreement might include new trade barriers. http: //bit. ly/8Zv55V New Podcast: Kagan and the Court http: //bit. ly/9d0S60 RT WalterOlson The Court as faculty lounge: my quick reaction to Elena Kagan nomination http: //bit. ly/aKxViO Does Elena Kagan support limited government? http: //bit. ly/9V3mUL What Elena Kagan's nomination will mean for the future of the high Court http: //bit. ly/bVDl2c Obama To Pick Kagan for Supreme Court http: //bit. ly/ckimN0 tlot New Podcast: National ID Means National DMV http: //bit. ly/cwwO2F Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness. . . and according to progressives in Europe: a Vacation. A paid Vacation. http: //bit. ly/a1Eu3a What the 'Camelot' facade hid from the public in the Kennedy WH by GeneHealy A case for limited executive powers. http: //bit. ly/9iSRqi Scary: video of SWAT team raid for just a small amount of pot. Horrifying: these kinds of raids are common. http: //bit. ly/bSAURi New Podcast: ObamaCare Is (Still) Unconstitutional http: //bit. ly/ddTu3Y Ah, life under prohibition: Washington DC has the highest percentage of marijuana smokers in the nation http: //bit. ly/9sbdWr Tune into The EdMorrisey Show at 3: 30 ET http: //bit. ly/9twh2I Discussing Cato's advice to the TeaParty http: //bit. ly/cTXT93 Send a letter to Kareem, Egyptian blogger imprisoned for writing about liberty. Flood the jail with mail http: //bit. ly/afc2Sr Has anyone noticed what a behemoth the Department of Education has become lately? Anybody? http: //bit. ly/baF1CM MT GGreenwald Not much point to having a Bill of Rights if gov't gets to revoke those rights at its whim http: //bit. ly/bdaWxb U. S. Corporate Taxes Highest in OECD tlot New Podcast: Cameras, Crime, and Terrorism http: //bit. ly/b5RvLY Welcome! RT WalterOlson Announcement: I'm joining CatoInstitute after many productive years with ManhattanInst http: //is. gd/bTZpC Harvard's JeffreyAMiron: Don't bail out Greece http: //bit. ly/cDH2p5 Liberty Fund releases DVD with 1, 000 books/essays/articles. All you have to do is ask http: //bit. ly/bNIQIj Coming soon on e-Reader C'mon, government. Don't make it THIS easy for us to show how creepy you can be. http: //bit. ly/cCp8re taxes Want your own lobbyist to help you (legally) steal from your neighbor? This guy will do it on the cheap! http: //bit. ly/d0Idw1 CBO warns that as many as 10 million American workers will lose their current insurance under Obamacare. http: //bit. ly/bAwWwK The Times Square plot was foiled by an alert person and a prompt police response — not by a camera. http: //bit. ly/cwP4Kg Don’t BELIEVE the hype— the national ID plan is rife with threats to privacy and civil liberties http: //bit. ly/acN4uI Growing Tensions Threaten the U. S. -China Economic Relationship http: //bit. ly/9sKct2 tlot The Constitution offers no haven to the individual mandate http: //bit. ly/bOKVwF Obamacare hcr Life of a foreign policy wonk: Cato experts land in Kabul, Afghanistan. First dispatch from the valley: http: //bit. ly/a09KHX New Podcast: Will Tea Parties Rise above 'Historical Footnote? ' http: //bit. ly/9nu6aa Barack Obama vs. Common Sense http: //bit. ly/9FhDRH (Meanwhile, Thomas Paine does back flips in his grave. . . ) Some blame the Greek fiscal crisis on 'tax evasion. ' That's grossly inaccurate. Here's why: http: //bit. ly/bwvzxC VIDEO: 6 reasons to abolish the capital gains tax http: //bit. ly/a0Stsg taxes tcot tlot New Podcast: A Free-Market Five Year Plan for Exports http: //bit. ly/d8shKA Debate Erupts Over Immigration http: //bit. ly/aXxLA4 tlot New Podcast: Bookmaking and Investment Banking http: //bit. ly/aApswQ 7 (Free-Market) Ways to Boost U. S. Exports http: //bit. ly/9BIVdS. Follow DanielGriswold for more on trade/immigration Economist ArnoldKling: The case for auditing the Fed is obvious. http: //bit. ly/aKOPMz There is a difference between being pro-free market and pro-business. Case in point right here: http: //bit. ly/9XsyxW Obama on ‘Conservative Judicial Activism’ http: //bit. ly/dijTZO Should Germany bailout Greece? Economist DanielJMitchell: Germany should tell Greece to go jump in a lake http: //bit. ly/9NZzOb Is it legal to record a police officer? We explain. Listen in: http: //bit. ly/d4cUTT Congress proposes more subtle constraints on speech in reaction to the Citizens United ruling http: //bit. ly/dkxtoS Economist: It’s going to be much harder to start a business under new proposed financial regulation. http: //bit. ly/cz9ogT New Podcast: Don't Tape Me Bro http: //bit. ly/cCj97J The '08 Arizona crime rate = lowest it has been in 40 years. Such fears of illegal immigrants are misguided http: //bit. ly/cqvLQc Say, where's the clause in the Constitution giving authorities unlimited jurisdiction over your palate? http: //bit. ly/cInWws 5 quick pieces of advice for Tea Partiers http: //bit. ly/cTXT93 TeaParty tcot tlot tea taxes Surprise! The financial reform bill is full of kickbacks to well connected cronies http: //bit. ly/am1WKC Finreg The key to reducing illegal immigration: A robust temporary-worker program http: //bit. ly/dsJ6IL Follow DanielGriswold for more The Case for Auditing the Fed http: //bit. ly/aOGxOg tlot Good idea: Science & democracy tips from ancient Greeks. Bad idea: Fiscal policy tips from modern Greeks http: //bit. ly/aGTWm6 As the immigration debate heats up, you'll want to follow DanielGriswold, Cato's immigration & trade expert Why porn charges at the SEC are the LEAST of their worries http: //bit. ly/9IrmDA incompetence New Podcast: Public Sector Unions Threaten Prosperity http: //bit. ly/cGqkOk Why new financial reform plans could make American business less competitive http: //bit. ly/bKvfqY Finreg Fact: The federal government has more food subsidy programs than Tiger Woods had girlfriends http: //bit. ly/bLhzT6 Food stamp usage is at record highs. And no, it’s not good for the economy. http: //bit. ly/cTgEDf Follow Downsizethefeds for more The General Motors ads that claim they paid back their gov't loan are BS — GM is still Government Motors http: //bit. ly/9fBfVB IMF urging governments to impose regulatory & tax cartels. Their scheme should be rejected. http: //bit. ly/aee5Qe RT EdMorrissey Cato's Jonathan Adler on CWRA: a land grab that won't work http: //is. gd/bIG1k Even SNL is taking shots at government employees. Time for unions to start worrying? http: //bit. ly/a8v0Ci The State of Liberal Democracy in Africa http: //bit. ly/a1pAqc tlot Surprise! New financial reform plans could make American business less competitive http: //bit. ly/bKvfqY FinReg New Podcast: Distributors of Whine http: //bit. ly/adFNaX Are you following the Institute for Justice IJ? They're the nation's leading legal advocate for liberty and they do great work FF It's really not a problem that US companies buy foreign oil. http: //bit. ly/corZCi Foreign trade is a good thing Top libertarian scholars discuss -- Was there ever really a golden age of liberty in the US? http: //bit. ly/bWgYRN Good news for Friday: A rare bipartisan effort to reduce the size of government--http: //bit. ly/9SfEv1 A job killer: How Sen. Dodd’s FinRef will will hurt Main Street http: //bit. ly/djZwqF Clear and simple: It is unconstitutional for the federal government to force people to buy a private product http: //bit. ly/9m9um8 How to keep the environment clean without stalling improvements in the human condition http: //bit. ly/b3zLBD HappyEarthDay Who are these centrist, independent voters who will be crucial in 2010 elections? They’re not conservative http: //bit. ly/bL8NfA Businessmen—not bureaucrats or environmental activists—deserve most credit for environmental gains http: //bit. ly/9nVkKP HappyEarthDay TSA releases new security procedures. Here's our attempt to make sense of them http: //bit. ly/9hYClx - Pass along if traveling soon New Podcast: A Small Step Forward for Online Privacy http: //bit. ly/bKYoox RT David_Boaz Really Congress? You think Sigourney Weaver has important information you need to know? Really? http: //bit. ly/c0GOlu The Business of Earth Day http: //bit. ly/cqeVij tlot VIDEO: You would have to take all income from every American 9x over to pay down future gov't spending http: //bit. ly/bwUcec New Podcast: Ending (or Entrenching) Bailouts http: //bit. ly/9oPpkr Want to join Cato experts for a week in San Diego this summer? Scholarships now available for Cato University http: //bit. ly/cWFtyM Libertarianism and big business: A dissent http: //bit. ly/aYaLnX tlot libertarian liberty corporatism The Progressive movement’s history of racism, imperialism, executive supremacism & contempt for civil liberties http: //bit. ly/cqOQsf A word of encouragement for all who believe in limited government http: //bit. ly/cCUFAW Cato's DanielJMitchell debates: Should the U. S. adopt a flat tax? Vote now for the winner - http: //bit. ly/a7xObX taxes The U. S. ought to praise China for its growing appetite for our goods, not threaten it with trade sanctions http: //bit. ly/99Xb9v FCC wants to reclassify the internet. i. e. the FCC wants to regulate, restrain, retard, and reshape the internet: http: //bit. ly/darApI New Podcast: Clearing and Derivatives http: //bit. ly/aZkxaj School uses student laptops as Spycams, takes more than 50, 000 photos: http: //bit. ly/bC1Kd1 Students Have the Right to Free Speech: http: //bit. ly/cGzS6y Latest Court Ruling Is about Free Speech, Not Animal Cruelty: http: //bit. ly/aRBkUP The Struggle to Limit Government http: //bit. ly/93WIVU tlot New Podcast: Private Costs of Cap and Trade http: //bit. ly/9GVFxg New Podcast: The Right to Marry http: //bit. ly/99IzGm VIDEO: Romney's conservative health care plan in Massachusetts sure looks a lot like Obama's hcr. http: //bit. ly/cXokRf How not to reform our immigration system http: //bit. ly/cBukGO How Sen. Dodd's financial reform bill would harm start-up companies http: //bit. ly/cPosnF Are libertarians anti-government? No. We support limited, constitutional gov't. There's a difference http: //bit. ly/arSsqo VIDEO: Why is America's tax system so messed up? http: //bit. ly/dz0tBY taxes tcot tlot taxday Are conservatives finally waking up to the ideas of limited gov't? (Or is it just political posturing? ) http: //bit. ly/broGsc Scrambling to fill out your complicated tax form? You wouldn’t have this problem under a flat tax system http: //bit. ly/c9UW45 RT BankruptingAm Today is tax day AND budget day. The difference? Congress gets to ignore budget day: http: //ow. ly/1yXEA A few numbers to make your Tax Day even more depressing http: //bit. ly/bFZLGP AsIfThatWereEvenPossible Today is the day we mourn the loss of a year’s worth of productive private resources to our bloated federal government. New Podcast: Stevens Retirement and Federal Power http: //bit. ly/bkmuoO The Lesson of Tax Day http: //bit. ly/crTe2Q tlot Tax Fact: There are more than 70, 000 pages of US tax law, up 50% in just the last decade http: //bit. ly/dz0tBY Economist: Washington is engaged in the most massive act of wealth destruction since World War II http: //bit. ly/buHtCu New Podcast: The Beijing Consensus http: //bit. ly/bA0pt5 How special interests respond to governors who address their state's budget deficit (It's not pretty) http: //bit. ly/czxSUg Why big special interests are against a flat tax http: //bit. ly/c9UW45 taxes Anyone else notice a difference in hcr coverage now that the bill has passed? Check out these headlines http: //bit. ly/bTKBgS It's time Obama stood up to special interests & reform the system that caused the financial crisis http: //bit. ly/cyZIZs Man faces felony charges for recording plainclothes officer. 5 years in prison for this? Video: http: //bit. ly/c1BhBG Student Essay Contest: Win Free Tickets to the Friedman Prize Dinner in Washington DC http: //bit. ly/9HiSd7 ($500 value) GOV FAIL: Congress will not meet its April 15 requirement to pass a budget resolution. http: //bit. ly/bjyMPM Study: Gov't programs people are willing to cut only make up a tiny portion of the whole budget http: //bit. ly/c3QznV Did the IMF deliberately exaggerate the 2008 financial crisis? http: //bit. ly/anpRgT How do libertarians view abortion, gay marriage and immigration? This video discusses all of those issues http: //bit. ly/bbtCYy Cato holding essay contest for 2 free tickets to Friedman Prize dinner on May 13. Worth $500 each! http: //bit. ly/9HiSd7 Do earmarks crowd out local private investment? There’s no free lunch, even when someone else is paying. http: //bit. ly/a9ePq3 A libertarian take on dealing with Iran http: //bit. ly/bAoIpx Yet another reason why citizens must not be restricted from video taping police officers http: //bit. ly/aOYcpV New Podcast: Stevens' Undue Deference http: //bit. ly/cKyIXV RT bradwayland 7 Essential Libertarian Resources http: //dld. bz/abVh If you enjoy your iPod and uncensored Internet access, you have Justice Stevens to thank http: //bit. ly/9r84Ow SCOTUS Cato economist Chris Edwards on Glenn Beck tonight at 5 PM ET. Follow DownsizeTheFeds for more http: //bit. ly/bEULiY . MarcThiessen If Bush had a “conservative record without parallel, ” then Obama is the 2nd coming of Reagan http: //bit. ly/atLDSd Economics 101 Video: The cost of the tax code. http: //bit. ly/cpADwo taxes Iranian journalist awarded the Friedman Prize, a $500, 000 award for advancing liberty. Help spread his story http: //bit. ly/cyoymU Relax. Reducing the size of our nuclear arsenal won't make the U. S. more vulnerable. http: //bit. ly/9tiAUq Romney's state health care plan sure looks a lot like Obamacare. So can he lead the fight against the hcr? http: //bit. ly/9213Cc New Podcast: Why the Left Should Love Speechnow. org http: //bit. ly/abb4Kn Akbar Ganji Named Recipient of the 2010 Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty http: //bit. ly/dACVAw tlot New Nuclear Strategy for U. S. http: //bit. ly/cDyXWh tlot Pics and video from the biggest school choice rally in US history http: //bit. ly/ceAEIh A Value Added Tax would pretty well finish the transformation of US into a European-style slow-growth nation http: //bit. ly/cB0yis To any libertarians pining for the days of 19th century: There’s no such thing as a golden age of liberty http: //bit. ly/aHJppO Unlimited government: Obama administration authorizes targeted killing of an American citizen. http: //bit. ly/a8sGM4 Securing computers, networks, and data is important. But there’s no such thing as cyberterrorism http: //bit. ly/9tQVc1 It's 85 in DC area, but bureaucrats have made it illegal for owners of Virginia apt. buildings to turn on AC http: //bit. ly/cHGm25 Tonight on Stossel: Don't miss What's a libertarian? Thursday 8 PM EST on Fox Business. Spread the word! http: //bit. ly/dnjFvT New Podcast: Neutralizing Net Regulation http: //bit. ly/cp1mKt New Podcast: Obama's Plan to Reduce Nukes http: //bit. ly/di9OdU There's no such thing as a golden age of lost liberty says David_Boaz http: //bit. ly/cENZrT A few things you might not know about the cost of public sector unions http: //bit. ly/d3sfUC Is the Obama mortgage foreclosure plan legal? http: //bit. ly/bmn9A4 Gov't offering subsidy for businesses to treat clients to MLB games http: //bit. ly/bg3y6f baseball Postal Service in Finland will now open mail, scan it, & send e-copy instead of delivering letters. http: //bit. ly/aKJ2N2 Are int'l alliances worth it? http: //bit. ly/aFpKZ9 Washington collects alliances like people collect Facebook friends. . . Cato foreign policy expert: the Iraq War remains a mistake of mammoth proportions. http: //bit. ly/aQTWcZ Why terrorism isn't an existential threat http: //bit. ly/9d0P1t How to make tax law more fair, certain and efficient http: //bit. ly/9LVEYE taxes New Podcast: Forestalling Foreclosures Redux http: //bit. ly/b9AtAn Challenge: Cato legal scholar will travel anywhere at anytime to debate constitutionality of Obamacare http: //bit. ly/9N9jG5 Insecurity Cameras: Nearly half of the security cameras in the NYC subway system don’t work http: //bit. ly/aOeMjt Constitution, Schmonstitution: Congressman: I don’t worry about the Constitution http: //bit. ly/9BedOo hcr tcot Switzerland runs a smaller gov as a share of GDP than the US and offers better services. Here's how: http: //bit. ly/dvtTkX econ REAL education reform: Unleash freedoms & incentives of the marketplace so that kids can thrive http: //bit. ly/9q5cRo Not a pretty picture: The economic consequences of imposing more trade sanctions on Chinese imports http: //bit. ly/cpFmpP F. A. Hayek v. President Obama http: //bit. ly/aEbJkU Oh, hi KarlRove, we'll just leave this here - Was the Bush administration conservative? http: //bit. ly/a4qg3Z tcot p2 Looking for quick overview of whether Obamacare is constitutional? Take a few minutes and listen to this http: //bit. ly/a4BLdH hcr New Podcast: Policing for Profit http: //bit. ly/cmY25w Is Obamacare Constitutional? http: //bit. ly/b3k78p tlot VIDEO: Legal scholar says he will debate whether hcr is constitutional anytime, anywhere. http: //bit. ly/8Y2yoQ The obligatory 'time to compare 2010 to 1994' post - http: //bit. ly/993JJg politics New Podcast: Obamacare's Unconstitutional Coercion http: //bit. ly/92LvOJ Economics in plain English. Follow DanielJMitchell He blogs too - http: //bit. ly/9z4aPQ FollowFriday FF Econ Bush tried to advance a theory of executive power that would have made the writ of habeas corpus worthless. http: //bit. ly/dySzqp If you want hcr overturned, whatever you do, don’t put your faith in the courts http: //bit. ly/dlOvXP When Regulators Attack! Feds now trying to ban Menthol flavored cigarettes http: //bit. ly/anl1Yj Change: Under new budget proposal, federal gov will consume 1/4th of nation’s output for years to come http: //bit. ly/cWOUHk The Beautiful Tree Wins the 2010 Fisher Award http: //bit. ly/bqM8uT tlot Judge finds Bush wiretapping illegal http: //nyti. ms/cJ0suI A lesson in black markets: When legal channels cost too much in time & $, people will turn to illegal channels. http: //bit. ly/akLWoX Obama Proposes Expansion of Offshore Drilling http: //bit. ly/a5ZYZE tlot Should Congress pursue constitutional amendment that would limit fed spending to 1/5th of the economy? http: //bit. ly/bNcWw6 Thought experiment: Let's say Congress actually repeals hcr. What should they put in its place? http: //bit. ly/dDsYOW Obama declared passage of a major student-aid reform law yesterday. Will it help? It's a mixed bag http: //bit. ly/aTNdb1 John McCain channels Dick Cheney http: //bit. ly/9lwiF5 terrorism Gitmo GlennGreenwald In case you thought we were joking a few months ago, hcr is still a really bad deal for young adults http: //bit. ly/cArxr8 In past 4 years there has been a 39% increase of Congressional staffers earning at least $163, 358 per year http: //bit. ly/9lF4bD Cato legal scholar: I will debate constitutionality of Obamacare anytime, anywhere http: //bit. ly/ajZmig hcr Cell phones have more power than computers that put Apollo 11 on the moon. So why are these guys complaining? http: //bit. ly/ab3BPv Some good news for your Wednesday: Lots of school choice victories already in 2010 http: //bit. ly/9UkuaN Education Guess what happens when college students from well-to-do families find out they're eligible for food stamps. . . http: //bit. ly/aLdqBj Health Care Bill Also Transforms Student Aid http: //bit. ly/cUJ1Ma tlot New Podcast: Obama's Intelligence Gathering Needs Oversight http: //bit. ly/93lp78 VIDEO: Do natural disasters, earthquakes, or wars stimulate an economy? http: //bit. ly/9H1Yil Bastiat Econ Via DailyCaller, thoughts on Obama's surprise visit to Afghanistan http: //bit. ly/bgZaRA Demographic trends show Democratic constituencies growing and traditional Republican ones shrinking http: //bit. ly/bQmIxb Why the rich can't pay for the health care overhaul http: //bit. ly/d0DvTj hcr The flat tax: Good for America, Bad for Washington http: //bit. ly/cXC2Zx taxes New Podcast: Rating the Rating Houses http: //bit. ly/987SEi Medicare Fraud: 1, Anti-Fraud Measures: 0 http: //bit. ly/diafFJ Congrats Delaware & Tennessee- you’ve won the Race to the Top beauty contest! What that actually means: http: //bit. ly/afMYC0 Watch It Here: 10 Rules for Dealing with Police http: //bit. ly/aL9Yft It's about time we saw some ideological diversity in elite newsrooms, don't you think? http: //bit. ly/axCXA1 President Obama in his own words: Why Congress shouldn't force people to buy health insurance http: //bit. ly/azjFRn hcr Bootleggers and Baptists all over again: CA pot growers against legalization because it could hurt profits http: //bit. ly/b4cTEs In Chavez's footsteps: Newspaper columnist sentenced to 3 years in prison in Ecuador http: //bit. ly/dmmIhz Can CharlieCristFL call himself fiscally responsible? Not anymore http: //bit. ly/bkqEid Florida postonpolitics States Shouldn't Shirk Responsibility to Indigent Defendants by Erik Luna http: //bit. ly/9yAVdW tlot Friday FAIL: This week in government failure http: //bit. ly/a5kgKJ Why Obama is right on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” http: //bit. ly/cfWGd4 It's PMC Déjà vu All Over Again by David Isenberg http: //bit. ly/bwDVYn tlot Free speech isn’t exactly free in Canada http: //bit. ly/cYm6QK Venezuela TV network head arrested for criticism of Chavez. Help spread his story: http: //bit. ly/cv3rjU CBO: Combined deficits for 2011-2020 under president’s budget $1. 2 trillion higher than forecast http: //bit. ly/b2QTtM New Nuclear Treaty a Good Step http: //bit. ly/aQlSdz tlot What censorship looks like: Chinese issue instructions to media on how they may report on Google decision http: //bit. ly/911hUN If you're a fan of divided government, this is worth a listen http: //bit. ly/ddJqTo Thinking of going to Costa Rica to escape Obamacare? Take it from Tico JCHidalgo: that makes no sense http: //bit. ly/bGYgZl hcr Et tu, Constitution? Never before has gov said every man, woman & child has to buy a particular product http: //bit. ly/dCpb24 Appreciate this: Chinese currency rise will have a negligible effect on the trade deficit http: //bit. ly/9nJKUP China As hcr crosses home plate, global warming legislation steps up to bat http: //bit. ly/cV3d3u Epistemology and PMC by David Isenberg http: //bit. ly/byjFQ1 tlot Social Security in the Red http: //bit. ly/dzz1TY tlot Now that hcr is law, you should know exactly how it's going to affect you Here's a helpful breakdown http: //bit. ly/cdT2nP Too bad no one saw this coming: Social Security now in the red. http: //nyti. ms/aE1HAw Oh wait. . . http: //bit. ly/cNsGEu New Podcast: A Plea for Divided Government http: //bit. ly/cHfXaj cobrown tlot New Podcast: Appreciate This: Chinese Currency Rise Will Have a Negligible Effect on the Trade Deficit http: //bit. ly/df9LeQ cobrown tlot Health spending is truly skyrocketing and Obama has just put us into orbit http: //bit. ly/cJ1SwL hcr Gov't spending will climb to 45% of GDP over next few decades. . . and that's a low-ball estimate http: //bit. ly/bc5Z4N Everyone should read up on Goodwin Liu, Obama's newest nominee for the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals http: //bit. ly/aNBbNQ When gov prevents failure in the market, decisions are invariably corrupted by the political process http: //bit. ly/c0TK6c Chinese Currency and the Trade Deficit http: //bit. ly/djKFaU tlot Idea of the day: Repeal the 16th Amendment, which gives Congress the power to lay and collect taxes http: //bit. ly/9a2m2x Endangered Findings by Patrick J. Michaels http: //bit. ly/aa07sO tlot The Case against Rail Transit http: //bit. ly/brqElF tlot Trade deficit plunged from $706 billion in '08 to $420 billion last year, smallest deficit since 2001 http: //bit. ly/bUwUKC If the Postal Service no longer offers Saturday service, they should lift ban on competition on those days http: //bit. ly/9GuF6c So, you may ask, what is hcr going to cost me? Glad you asked: http: //bit. ly/bosgGJ New ed standards: Put this in the things you missed during the health care debate file. . . http: //bit. ly/bl8bGI Will claims that hcr is unconstitutional get anywhere? Here is your guide to legal challenges to the law http: //bit. ly/aQXB68 Pay up: Estimates of hcr real cost over 10 years run as high as $3. 5 trillion http: //bit. ly/b6Wqqg tcot p2 healthcare Obamacare: The New Battles Ahead by Michael D. Tanner http: //bit. ly/bOZDA0 tlot New Podcast: The Price of Obamacare http: //bit. ly/d9WvER cobrown tlot Don't bet on it: Why Republicans won't really try to repeal the health care overhaul. http: //bit. ly/blz0qZ hcr GOP Understand the US health care system: Get a free copy of the book 'Healthy Competition' for your Kindle http: //bit. ly/cvP6rJ Do the Math -- Obamacare would increase deficits by $59 Billion http: //bit. ly/95q6Mx hcr tcot Washington Lucked Out by Doug Bandow http: //bit. ly/cfCYuU tlot Does any serious student of Congress believe hcr will cost only $1. 2 trillion? Or reduce the deficit? http: //bit. ly/bPTdgr It’s NOT a Health Bill, NOT a Medicare Tax and It Can’t Possibly Cost Only $940 Billion http: //bit. ly/cc19T4 hcr tcot p2 Almost lost in the details of the hcr coverage was a reorganization of the student loan program http: //bit. ly/aj5eQi Health Care Bill Also Transforms Student Aid http: //bit. ly/aL9jCy tlot Do the Math — Obamacare Would Increase Deficits by $59 Billion by Michael F. Cannon http: //bit. ly/b9oYX4 tlot House Passes Massive Health Care Overhaul http: //bit. ly/cUiH47 tlot New Podcast: 'Tenthers, ' Federalism and Health Care http: //bit. ly/b4h2p7 cobrown tlot Seven myths about health care reform http: //bit. ly/aItNmW hcr Real problem with US health care: Nearly 9 of 10 medical $ are paid in the first instance by someone else http: //bit. ly/bGmQ4t hcr How to spot a politician who calls himself a libertarian, but is really just another conservative. http: //bit. ly/cpeAyU Schumer & Graham get immigration reform (almost) right. But still 1 glaring problem: National ID. http: //bit. ly/aMJiAj Voucher Vote a Double Negative for Democrats by Andrew J. Coulson http: //bit. ly/9Fyqj0 tlot Seven Years in Iraq http: //bit. ly/bUog6E tlot VIDEO: Most Republicans in Congress think Iraq War was a mistake http: //bit. ly/c232OX p2 tcot topprog Great speech: JoeNBC takes on neo-cons, Obama's foreign policy record & why we're still at war http: //bit. ly/9gMvJr New Podcast: Afghanistan and Conservatives http: //bit. ly/ca2cnu cobrown tlot Joe Scarborough: Obama has doubled troops in Afghanistan & continued nation building mission http: //bit. ly/9sdyRr Joe Scarborough about to deliver address at Cato on Afghanistan War. Watching live: http: //bit. ly/9sdyRr JoeNBC Watching online now: Escalate or Withdraw? Conservatives and the War in Afghanistan http: //bit. ly/9sdyRr Something so ridiculous, this only could have been written by someone on full academic tenure. . . http: //bit. ly/b4IHn0 Massachusetts Treasurer: Our state health care law has nearly bankrupted the state. ” http: //bit. ly/9uPdUk hcr Obamacare Video: There's nothing conservative about the war in Afghanistan http: //bit. ly/9vQRzI war p2 tcot tlot (via JaseLiberty) New Podcast: ObamaCare Threatens Innovation http: //bit. ly/d3chlA cobrown tlot More questions for thoughtful ObamaCare supporters http: //bit. ly/acL6Q2 hcr p2 How a good libertarian should fill out Census forms http: //bit. ly/b5uDm8 Reveal of people in your house. Nothing more. CBO: premiums for people buying their own coverage will go up 10-13% under ObamaCare http: //bit. ly/9J66b7 hcr From WashingtonWatch, clear explanation of deeming. If u want to understand what's going on, read this http: //bit. ly/bBrObL If Kucinich is a good negotiator, it hurts ObamaCare. If he's a lousy negotiator, it helps. Here's why: http: //bit. ly/9uTOxh hcr Political Plunder -- Again by Richard W. Rahn http: //bit. ly/a3Ew68 tlot Should We Ban Monopoly Unions? http: //bit. ly/b0eayb tlot Will conservatives ultimately oppose war in Afghanistan? JoeNBC discussing this & more at Cato Thurs. You're invited - http: //bit. ly/dq7cCS Surprise! Public schools dishonest about true cost of education. Video explains it all in under 3 minutes http: //bit. ly/bpI8zE The truth about health insurance premiums and profits http: //bit. ly/cYpfKL hcr hcreform p2 TheDailyCaller You want THEM running the Internet? FCC posts exec summary of “National Broadband Plan” in PDF only http: //bit. ly/azoKAt FAIL Drug War: 18, 000 dead in Mexico since 2006. More than 3x U. S. military deaths in Iraq & Afghanistan combined http: //bit. ly/bDOneR Throw all you want into fed education bag, but as long as politicians make the decisions you’ll come up empty http: //bit. ly/cI4zC8 VIDEO: Why is Obama trying to make America more Like Sweden when Swedes are trying to be less like Sweden? http: //bit. ly/b2cCVU Dana Milbank could use a history lesson http: //bit. ly/c75oe3 Does promising Iran material benefits make a nuke deal less likely? http: //bit. ly/9DHt5j Iran nuclear foreignpolicy New Podcast: Reagan and the Tyranny of the Status Quo http: //bit. ly/dtHaYp cobrown tlot Are you a House Democrat? You might want to watch this video http: //bit. ly/cQC60r SchoolHouseRock congress hcr If the House enacts Senate hcr bill w/out voting on it, are we under obligation to obey it? Answer may be no http: //bit. ly/b6KPnp Obama's (and Bush's) Enemy Combatant Policy by Gene Healy http: //bit. ly/cWQ3BA tlot Podcast: Documenting Human Rights Abuses in Venezuela” http: //bit. ly/9U5Ke7 (Don't tell Sean Penn) Chavez Socialism The unintended consequences of a National ID card. (Now with support from both sides of the aisle. ) http: //bit. ly/avtMTk REALID Increasing minimum wage will kill even more jobs for black teens, who are now facing 45% unemployment http: //bit. ly/c6mgt7 Question of the day: Would Obamacare end corruption—or expand it? http: //bit. ly/aBq7Iv hcr healthcare Why top-down federal education standards are based on a completely false premise http: //bit. ly/bDxtam ed politics unions tcot Axelrod shocked to find corporate $ in elections http: //bit. ly/c3jK2o Someone should ask Obama if he took corporate $ in Illinois New bill would use military detention to incapacitate suspected domestic terrorists, including US citizens http: //bit. ly/aojgTQ Axelrod: ‘Louisiana Purchase’ somehow not one of those corrupt, state-specific bribes http: //bit. ly/cC4NAc newspeak hcr obama The Truth about Health Insurance Premiums and Profits by Alan Reynolds http: //bit. ly/cA6LJT tlot Is the Trans-Pacific Partnership Worth the Fuss? http: //bit. ly/b69Jv3 tlot The False Premise of National Education Standards by Andrew J. Coulson http: //bit. ly/bAAgV1 tlot New Podcast: Bad Statutes, New Crimes http: //bit. ly/afqa7c cobrown tlot Message to Republicans: Stop Hiding Behind the Troops http: //bit. ly/98B6IF GOP war Afghanistan p2 topprog tcot Ever wonder why fraud tends to be prevalent in government programs? http: //bit. ly/bc7d1A Enemies of limited gov't all around: GOP jumping on National ID Card bandwagon http: //bit. ly/bV0U0q Papers, comrade. RealID Could Dennis_Kucinich bring both sides of the aisle together to end the war in Afghanistan? http: //bit. ly/bgYNfa p2 11 questions for thoughtful ObamaCare supporters http: //bit. ly/cd3zQi Please RT! topprog p2 hcr hc hcreform tcot tlot Why free trade & globalization are great blessings to families across America http: //bit. ly/c1NUWX jobs unemployment p2 Paper: Those who oppose hcr can expect political equivalent of a horse head between their sheets. http: //bit. ly/coPWm8 mob Podcast: It's like the 70s all over again. . . minus the bell-bottoms. . . http: //bit. ly/czObom taxes Greece, here we come: CBO estimates budget deficits will average $1 trillion per year for next decade http: //bit. ly/92IzZP econ National Curricular Standards Ignore Reality http: //bit. ly/9rVsJV tlot New Podcast: Seventies Redux? http: //bit. ly/beN2i7 cobrown tlot All the President's Economists by Richard W. Rahn http: //bit. ly/aLQKGg tlot The Real Cost of Public Schools http: //bit. ly/cMQKbo tlot New Podcast: Reconciling ObamaCare http: //bit. ly/adtx2N cobrown tlot Is Scalia abandoning idea that judges should interpret the Constitution according to original meaning? http: //bit. ly/dB1Ps2 Why the line-item veto is no quick fix for massive spending http: //bit. ly/9V0jLx politics president In case anyone needs a reminder: Even unpopular causes get full First Amendment protection http: //bit. ly/amYMv1 An important question on hcr that the President needs to answer http: //bit. ly/dCES7K 78% believe Internet access “should be a fundamental right of all people. ” Here's a closer look at that poll http: //bit. ly/9FAb0b And just like that, the US entered the era of the national ID card http: //bit. ly/d8xcXB Your papers, comrade. Michael Foot, a socialist who actually understood socialism. http: //bit. ly/dyA6NX war MP Wednesday marked Obama's 35th major speech on hcr. But this time he really, really, really means it http: //bit. ly/9GBryk hc Is Justice Scalia Abandoning Originalism? by Josh Blackman and Ilya Shapiro http: //bit. ly/aoUZ0h tlot Real world evidence for the Laffer Curve from the DC government http: //bit. ly/96wORf taxes Are you a libertarian? Are you on Twitter ? Are you in FeeOnline's libertarian Twitter Guide? http: //fwd4. me/2Ff RT jeffreyamiron RSS Feed Now Available for New Site: http: //jeffreymiron. com/feed/ libertarian ObamaCare - Now with GOP sprinkles! http: //bit. ly/dtSM7W hcr hc tcot tlot Joe Scarborough speaking at Cato 3/18: Conservatives and the War in Afghanistan. Details: http: //bit. ly/dq7cCS JoeNBC Six reasons to downsize the federal government http: //bit. ly/dxGFPY DownsizeTheFeds tlot tcot A quick lesson on taxes http: //bit. ly/deGQbd taxes tax econ Analysis of Chicago gun case: Supreme Court protects gun rights, fails to restore greater freedom. http: //bit. ly/aGoVdE scotus Many European countries working toward privatizing government post offices. The U. S. should do the same. http: //bit. ly/aUxI6K Conservatives and the War in Afghanistan http: //bit. ly/94fdsP tlot HC expert MFCannon answers some tough questions about hcr and free markets. Listen in: http: //bit. ly/bIzkEr p2 healthcare Fraudulent Tax Revenue Forecasts by Richard W. Rahn http: //bit. ly/9qufj7 tlot Congratulations to the same-sex couples who will now be able to marry in Washington, DC. -Jason Kuznicki http: //bit. ly/dywLTh p2 How state recognition of marriage actually keeps the government OUT of private life http: //bit. ly/dywLTh tcot liberty How countries run into fiscal crisis - Just follow these 10 easy steps! http: //bit. ly/bfreod tcot tlot greece econ Dropping a few GOP ideas into a gov health care takeover = sterilizing the needle before lethal injection http: //bit. ly/cKFLei Why More Consumer Protection When Too Much Led To Crisis? by Mark A. Calabria http: //bit. ly/98XTzh tlot Gun Rights Secure, Liberty Less So http: //bit. ly/9hPpGV tlot New Podcast: Bearing Arms in DC http: //bit. ly/9lYOAy cobrown tlot What happens when gov't monopolies don't allow competition http: //bit. ly/b75jmS 'Postal Service Continues to Implode. ' Gun Advocates ? David_Boaz calls out a little media bias over at NPRPolitics http: //bit. ly/cOUlk7 tcot p2 NRA liberty Sen Bunning may be the most unpopular man in Washington right now. But is he doing the right thing? http: //bit. ly/aWtbVx Economic freedom, reliable rule of law, and prosperity - Why Chile survived the great quake http: //bit. ly/bNyztK Why conservatives—including ones on the Supreme Court—are right on guns, but they’re wrong on rights http: //bit. ly/d9PU4Q scotus Why both the Left and Right are wrong about using drones to counter terrorism worldwide http: //bit. ly/bNZBIJ military defense Kids these days. . . New study shows most Millennials think government should do more to solve problems. http: //bit. ly/97IB16 They just keep coming - Al Gore's latest global warming whopper http: //bit. ly/df5gsF globalwarming climatechange tcot Using Guns to Protect Liberty http: //bit. ly/dBC7BX tlot Don't Trust Anyone under 30? by Gene Healy http: //bit. ly/9BqiZr tlot Really Berkeley? Students break windows, set fires because 2 Subway sandwich shops opened on same block http: //bit. ly/9NUV71 Idea of the Day, from DownsizeTheFeds: Fannie & Freddie should be put in the budget, and then privatized http: //bit. ly/d7SRdV Spending Binge: 2 most recent 1st quarter deficits $100 billion higher than avg ANNUAL deficits from 2002-2008 http: //bit. ly/98xx5f Fixing the housing crisis: When you’re in a hole, stop digging. One of the cures of housing bubble is to build less http: //bit. ly/9ikZ4n Of every $ spent on health care, just 13 cents is paid for by the person actually consuming the services http: //bit. ly/d7eY8o hcr Last call! Today is the final day to apply for Cato summer internship program. Apply here: http: //bit. ly/a8yi4n tlot libertarian A quick rundown of some of the best (and worst) ideas thrown around for health care reform http: //bit. ly/99Xtyh hcr hcreform The Case for High-Deductible Health Insurance by Michael D. Tanner http: //bit. ly/8XU7oT tlot Three Women Who Resurrected Classical Liberalism http: //bit. ly/blOIyA tlot New Podcast: Charge Back, Forward on Financial Regulations http: //bit. ly/9QgPiw cobrown tlot Burger King catches ObamaCare Fever! (Pic) http: //bit. ly/cBAlz9 The health care summit was actually pretty good from a gov't transparency standpoint http: //bit. ly/cYd7Us hcr Should the U. S. withdraw from NAFTA? Hmmmm http: //bit. ly/cZshXd trade mexico canada Someone really needs to explain to the Obama administration what the term free market actually means. http: //bit. ly/adu6nz econ Mental Health and Private Military Contractors by David Isenberg http: //bit. ly/a5HG79 tlot Something you might want to brush up on: The Reconciliation Rulebook. http: //bit. ly/dn1TYN congress tcot tlot p2 hcr politics For research/info on how to shrink government, follow DownsizeTheFeds FollowFriday FF libertarian liberty teaparty tcot tlot Winner for the worst idea for hcr goes to. . . http: //bit. ly/9XUtLq (OK. . . it's price controls) http: //bit. ly/9XUtLq If people were allowed to shop in any state for health care insurance, uninsured could drop by 11. 1 million http: //bit. ly/8YyPYq hcr How Republicans and Democrats are both totally missing the point of health care reform http: //bit. ly/ah1bNN hcr p2 tcot New Podcast: LaHood and Livability http: //bit. ly/cABsyb cobrown tlot New Podcast: Drone Logic http: //bit. ly/dewPfv cobrown tlot Obama admits u get cheaper insurance if u allow higher deductibles, co-payments & less coverage. So why not let people do it? -ArnoldKling You can catch Cato's live blog of hcsummit http: //bit. ly/cau7J7 or chime on on Cato's Facebook page http: //bit. ly/byjZJH hcr Just because you SUBSIDIZE health care premiums does not make the premiums lower. -MFCannon hcsummit hcr Obama: We've tried to adopt every single cost-containment idea. Except letting Americans control their own health care $. -MFCannon If small business hiring is hampered by health care costs, then why do we want an employer mandate? -ArnoldKling hcsummit hcr The 45, 000 deaths from not having insurance is not a fact. But Harry Reid is entitled to his own facts. -Arnold Kling hcsummit hcr Housing Problem Was the Bubble, Not the Bust by Mark A. Calabria http: //bit. ly/cyVRUO tlot Live-blogging WhiteHouse health care summit. Join us! Live streaming it, too. http: //bit. ly/cau7J7 hcr tlot tcot Dispatches from Vancouver, Vol. V: A Tale of Two Hockeys by Ilya Shapiro http: //bit. ly/9f3cFw tlot RT David_Boaz Libertarian is not a four-letter word http: //bit. ly/9ER9eh tlot liberty libertarian freedom New Podcast: POTUS and Price Controls in Health Care http: //bit. ly/bGKgm9 cobrown tlot Cato's DanielJMitchell guest-hosting Kudlow Report on CNBC: http: //bit. ly/aw6WbX How'd he do? Let him know. Cato endorses socialized medicine! Ok, that's not true. But it's about as believable as headline on WH hcr site. http: //bit. ly/dwuvJq Was the man who crashed a plane into an IRS office a terrorist? http: //bit. ly/dBN3kS terrorism IRS Texas ObamaCare 3. 0: Higher Implicit Taxes, Quicker Death Spiral http: //bit. ly/b49Grl hcr healthcare -MFCannon By increasing incentives to drop coverage, Obama hcr plan would cause private insurers to unravel faster than the House & Senate bills Tea partiers - Devolvement of federal programs to states should be at forefront of effort to reduce federal gov't http: //bit. ly/9ymY67 Really hcr? Price controls? Really? http: //bit. ly/abeCKk Facepalm econ tcot tlot p2 topprog Obama wants pres commission on the deficit. Isn’t that like W. C. Fields asking for a commission on sobriety? http: //bit. ly/aoDjIK Does this federal government make me look fat? And be honest. . . (Yes) http: //bit. ly/cg312Z obesity food politics p2 tlot Price controls failed in the past & there's no reason to think they will work on health care. http: //bit. ly/btEJWK hcr Why DC Shouldn’t Subsidize Parking Garages http: //bit. ly/ahKhj2 SamuelMoore beyonddc How the stimulus raised unemployment rates http: //bit. ly/bkihio econ p2 stimulus tlot tcot obama politics Lose Weight: Actually, It's Feds Who Are Making Americans Fat by Gene Healy http: //bit. ly/ah3KXJ tlot In praise of libertarian fickleness http: //bit. ly/cjv9k9 Taxes and Small Business Job Creation http: //bit. ly/9pSi0b tlot New Podcast: How Many Libertarians? http: //bit. ly/dg6S6W cobrown tlot Do gays have a place in the conservative movement? Watch the full discussion http: //bit. ly/9iA6Rd gayrights tcot Obama announces price controls as key feature of hcr blueprint. That's what killed the Clinton health plan. http: //bit. ly/dwdEPH Obama administration embracing ideas of Milton Friedman on education? Well. . . sorta. . . http: //bit. ly/byDCIZ ed obama tlot HCR blueprint released today. New gov't powers could make it even harder for people to obtain care they need http: //bit. ly/aOcCda So how many libertarians are there in America? David_Boaz explores http: //bit. ly/cwRY33 podcast tlot libertarian liberty Harvard's JeffreyAMiron: Economists find weak evidence that higher gov't spending spurs the economy http: //bit. ly/alFv28 econ Idea of the day: Cut the Commerce Department to boost real business. http: //bit. ly/aPFlWK tlot tcot politics Progressives should rejoice SCOTUS decision to overturn limits on corporate political advertising http: //bit. ly/9k5RC1 p2 topprog Will the Senate Health Care Bill Keep the Poor Poor? We're discussing it now at Cato. Watch live: http: //bit. ly/b90ahO hcr Supporting the Troops: Making Them Sick by David Isenberg http: //bit. ly/9k2Cer tlot Evading Structural Reform in Health Care Markets http: //bit. ly/9OCihY tlot New Podcast: Bernanke Outlines Escape Plan http: //bit. ly/acOfpN cobrown tlot Roughly 60 percent of the public wants Congress to scrap hcr legislation and start over. http: //bit. ly/b9VH03 p2 tcot Frightening stats on how many Americans disagree with the 1st amendment. http: //bit. ly/a8o22v tcot tlot freedom p2 Check out Stossel on Fox Business tonight at 8 & 11 PM EST. He's tackling the failures of state-run education system. It's simple, really. Public Schools = One Big Jobs Program http: //bit. ly/dseivV ed education tcot tlot p2 topprog New bureaucracy to distribute $140 million for regional “smart growth. ” This should keep Cato busy. http: //bit. ly/cIOP3R Let's just call it what it is: Mandating coverage of pre-existing conditions = price controls http: //bit. ly/d3vJMI hcr hcreform Worth a listen: Arnold Kling on Haiti, poverty, and capitalism. http: //bit. ly/asbZpG econ haiti Things you might not know about rail travel. (Hint: It's not all it's cracked up to be. . . ) http: //bit. ly/cPk0Cv Friedman Prize Dinner Set for May 13 http: //bit. ly/ctGQzc tlot Quiz Time! What's only country in the EU to register economic growth w/out going thru a recession last year? http: //bit. ly/bdHwEp What happens to American jobs when you have 1 of the highest corp tax rates in the world. http: //bit. ly/9igZwd DanielJMitchell Shameless vote-buying through education? There's an act for that. http: //bit. ly/cDP3hc mattyglesias Poland versus Greece by Richard W. Rahn http: //bit. ly/cIA0BG tlot New Podcast: Taxing Multinationals http: //bit. ly/bXQLXa cobrown tlot Surprise, surprise: Unemployment high in most of the country, but Washington area adding jobs http: //bit. ly/djCWVu Unionized teachers refuse to work 25 minutes more a day, town fires all of them. http: //bit. ly/dirIiy RT DanielJMitchell Class warfare tax policy may be emotionally satisfying to some, but it's bad economics http: //bit. ly/aIprRa A few things you should know about campaign finance reform and free speech http: //bit. ly/cbXogJ What happens when the Olympics don't go completely according to plan. http: //bit. ly/bXOTdV Vancouver Torture under Obama by Nat Hentoff http: //bit. ly/9sDks9 tlot Are there loopholes in Obama's ban on torture? http: //bit. ly/dmynIg p2 topprog terrorism The mistake of subsidizing pet energy causes. . . and that includes nuclear plants http: //bit. ly/TCbwL Is there a place for gay people in conservative politics? We're discussing it at Cato now. Watch live: http: //bit. ly/bNVPg6 tcot p2 Is there a place for gay people in conservatism? Cato discussing it at noon. Watch live here: http: //bit. ly/bNVPg6 tcot p2 Assessing the Case for National Curriculum Standards http: //bit. ly/9BBfjR tlot New Podcast: Scrap 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' http: //bit. ly/cFYVPi cobrown tlot Snow Saves Taxpayers Billions http: //bit. ly/9lBmLz tlot New Podcast: Ryan v. Obama on Budgeting http: //bit. ly/dnoB3Q cobrown tlot Americans' First Loyalty Must Be to the Constitution by Nat Hentoff http: //bit. ly/b3Ewfb tlot Europe Doesn't Matter by Doug Bandow http: //bit. ly/bPgyzi tlot The Atomic Terrorist? http: //bit. ly/c8Yz9q tlot Imagine a US Where Presidents are Without Arrogance of Power by Gene Healy http: //bit. ly/94GlHn tlot Drug Czar Should Go by Tim Lynch http: //bit. ly/bmeeFj tlot Manipulating Science http: //bit. ly/ar1hx0 tlot New Podcast: Fed's Share of Health Spending Climbs http: //bit. ly/d9eoeb cobrown tlot jefoster It costs $ to spread speech, (Cameras, printers, etc. . . ) When ppl form groups, they don't lose rights http: //bit. ly/baQZR9 If speech has a corrupting effect on politics, then the political system itself is corrupt. http: //bit. ly/aHbuPh There may be no end: Obama's bank reform gives regulators authority to bail out banks on a regular/permanent basis. http: //bit. ly/djV7KQ Dear WhiteHouse: Here are ways you can cut down on defense spending. . . . and why you should look into it. http: //bit. ly/a1mECR Faced with inability to pass hcr & cap-and-trade, Obama now chooses to command the impossible -- http: //bit. ly/cpPBAJ Need a mortgage? Your papers, please. . . http: //bit. ly/bEpI4l EVerify Video: Krauthammer demonstrates shocking ignorance of basic principles of international relations. http: //bit. ly/9vQ11R New Podcast: Obama's Permanent Bailouts http: //bit. ly/9GqMby cobrown tlot Institute for Justice IJ taking applications for summer conference. All law students welcome to apply http: //tinyurl. com/ycmw9l8 Smarter spending: Axing 1 of 4 F-22s would save $200 million & could provide a year of counseling for 49, 000 vets suffering PTS syndrome Military spending fact: Canceling purchase of 1 Virginia-class sub would fund 1st year of base pay for 117, 000 new enlistees. Tea Partiers Shouldn't Date the GOP by John Samples http: //bit. ly/cw0SRm tlot TARP as Congressional Failure http: //bit. ly/de3HIs tlot How to tell when ObamaCare is dead. http: //bit. ly/b3n1Kr hcreform hcr healthcare We need to stand up to the special interests. . . and pass the farm bill immediately. -Barack Obama Facepalm irony tcot tlot p2 Cato Institute 5 in the World http: //bit. ly/c5LERL tlot Snow Forecast: Cloudy With a Chance of Accuracy by Patrick J. Michaels http: //bit. ly/a6zNC9 tlot How to Reform Health Care? ‘Let Them Have Choice’ http: //bit. ly/cPIxg3 hcr healthcare hcreform p2 tlot tcot Yes, Bush deserves most of the blame for 2009 deficit, but the 2010 & 2011 deficits will be on Obama. http: //bit. ly/ah4UBv FBI analysts illegally circumvent minimal checks on power to demand telephone records under PATRIOT Act http: //bit. ly/cGfUKF GetFisaRight Obama proposes to end Bush's initiative to return to the moon by 2020. http: //bit. ly/9ZYwHZ NASA p2 tlot politics Hugo Chavez calls Twitter criticism terrorism. http: //bit. ly/bvixJ5 p2 freedom liberty tlot tcot Venezuela The factor that explains the largest share of the centralism and growth of the American state is war. Discuss. http: //bit. ly/bKs9NS Interesting: Would John Maynard Keynes be a Keynesian if he were alive today? http: //bit. ly/astwe2 econ eirik_k Take a look at the numbers from Mass. http: //bit. ly/aBjwjF Same thing as Obamacare: costs much higher than projections. New Podcast: Stimulus Means More Meddling in Education http: //bit. ly/d34J0I cobrown tlot Obama's budget and the $1 trillion mistake http: //bit. ly/diGiYs budget politics tlot tcot p2 obama South of the Border, the Cult of the Presidency by Gene Healy http: //bit. ly/aSEBmx tlot When will KarlRove accept some blame for exploding size of gov't during his tenure at the White House? http: //bit. ly/daXLLm p2 Finally, after 224 days, Obama admits CBO estimates of hcr do not reflect full costs. It's. About. Time. http: //bit. ly/baZZG8 Do Democratic presidents create more jobs? http: //bit. ly/aoy2kd Obama's Budget and the $1 Trillion Mistake http: //bit. ly/9ytHD7 tlot Now w/link: New article from Harvard's JeffreyAMiron: Leave Mideast, end terrorism. http: //bit. ly/agguMt Were you a Cato intern? Let us know! We're having a reunion in May. http: //bit. ly/91pluo Could Iran's nuclear program be a sacrificial pawn? http: //bit. ly/9AKn6r New article from Harvard's JeffreyAMiron: Leave Mideast, end terrorism. Why remaining in Afghanistan and creating a stable gov't there is not a precondition to keeping America safe http: //bit. ly/bEuOiB Obama can blame Bush all he wants, but his budget is even worse http: //bit. ly/9l6N3Q Another day, another IPCC-gate. . . http: //bit. ly/bjcGmJ MenziesHouse Global Warming, Climate Change, IPCC, ClimateGate New Podcast: Liberate Bone Marrow Donors http: //bit. ly/b7z2WD cobrown tlot Follow the voice of the Cato Podcasts here: CoBrown RT PaulaCassin Listened to a dozen Cato Daily Podcasts on my drive. . . great stuff. Obama's Budget and the $1 Trillion Mistake by Chris Edwards http: //bit. ly/afjQjM tlot Watching analysts interpret QDR as if it were sacred text is sad reminder of inanity of DC defense debate -Justin Logan http: //bit. ly/9CkhsH Globalization: Curse or Cure? http: //bit. ly/dBxmjv tlot How Obama is handling Bush's faith-based initiative program. http: //bit. ly/d8asMd Collective property rights in Avatar? http: //bit. ly/aSiL5N