Over at Reason, Nick Gillespie writes about Keith Olbermann, in a post entitled, Dramatic Olbermann vs. Dramatic Chipmunk. Gillespie writes of Olbermann: No one is more self dramatizing on cable news than male hysteric, unsolicited janitor of Cooperstown, and Countdown host Keith Olbermann, who includes more special effects during his Castro-length “Special Comment” segments than…
Libertarians
Economy, Free Markets, Libertarians
Libertarian Cato Institute Deservedly Named One of World’s Leading Think Tanks
by JOHN ADAMS •
Congratulations to the Cato Institute, named one of the leading policy institutes in the world, following a major academic survey. Libertarians have reason for confidence in their views in any event, but the policy scholars at Cato are admirably advancing ideas for “individual liberty, free markets, and peace.” Now you know, and I know, that…
Libertarians
A Time for Less Government? – Cato @ Liberty
by JOHN ADAMS •
Libertarians, Politics
Left and Right Worth Reading
by JOHN ADAMS •
I’m a libertarian — neither Republican nor Democrat, conservative nor progressive. That doesn’t mean that I don’t read from among advocates of left and right. I am quite sure that I read more from those who are of either view than I do of libertarians. It would be foolish to avoid so many clever people…
Libertarians
From Reason.tv: Three Reasons Not to Sweat Citizens United
by JOHN ADAMS •
I have posted previously on the recent United States Supreme Court decision in Citizens United. Here’s a video from Reason that explains why the decision is a good one, and surely no cause for alarm. Link: 3 Reasons not to Sweat Citizens United. For my post on the decision, see The Free Speech Victory in…
Libertarians
Fiscal Fraud or Frugality? – Reason Magazine
by JOHN ADAMS •
Libertarians
Bush’s Third Term – Cato @ Liberty
by JOHN ADAMS •
Libertarians
Cato Experts Live-Blogging Obama’s State of the Union Address
by JOHN ADAMS •
Libertarians
The Libertarian Vote
by JOHN ADAMS •
Blogger and law professor Ilya Somin has a post up called ‘The Libertarian Vote,’ in which he describes recent findings on the number of libertarians in America: David Kirby and David Boaz have published a new Cato Institute study estimating the size of the “libertarian vote.” They conclude that about 14% of American voters are…
Libertarians
NPR.org – For This Libertarian, Obama’s First Year Looks Grim
by JOHN ADAMS •
David Boaz, executive vice president of the libertarian Cato Institute, offers thoughtful remarks on where the Obama Administration has gone wrong, and what the president might do about it. By pressing such a big-government program, Obama has energized a small-government element in the electorate that had been demoralized and pushed aside by a big-government Republican…
Libertarians
Shelby Steele on Reagan
by JOHN ADAMS •
From Shelby Steele’s essay, “Obama and Our Post-Modern Race Problem,” where Steele comments on Reagan: Reagan reached the White House through a great deal of what is called “individuating”—that is he took principled positions throughout his long career that jeopardized his popularity, and in so doing he came to know who he was as a…
Development, Economy, Free Markets, Libertarians
Reason: Luck and Virtue in America and Haiti
by JOHN ADAMS •
Over at Reason.com, Steve Chapman writes about the earthquake in Haiti, and about prosperity in America, in an article entitled, Luck and Virtue in America and Haiti: Understanding the impact of the Haitian earthquake. From his essay: I look after the trees in my yard, making sure they get water, checking them periodically for signs…
Libertarians, Planning, Press
Libertarian Party of WI: Doyle’s Clean Energy Plan is Good News/Bad News
by JOHN ADAMS •
There’s a press release from the Libertarian Party of Wisconsin available about Gov. Doyle’s clean energy plan. The release happily acknowledges that the plan requires no new state spending, but correctly observes that mandates and regulations will further burden Wisconsin’s beleaguered economy. See, Doyle’s Clean Energy Plan is Good News/Bad News.
Economy, Free Markets, Libertarians
Rep. Paul Ryan on Business and Markets
by JOHN ADAMS •
Whitewater, Wisconsin is divided between two congressional districts, one of which is served by Rep. Paul Ryan. The online Washington Examiner has a brief opinion piece called, “Paul Ryan’s Free-Market Populism.” The article mentions an essay that Ryan recently wrote for Forbes in which he decried the tendency of large corporations to seek government handouts…