Tag Archives: government

Department Of Homeland Security Funding Battles And Entitlement Reform

02/24/2015 Published on Forbes.com
We may be headed for another shutdown. This time it’ll be the Department of Homeland Security, caught in the partisan crosshairs over the spending bill which Democrats insist should not have any immigration related amendments. Most Republicans and Democrats want…

When gatekeepers step aside, the local crowd flourishes

02/18/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
For years, people assumed encyclopedias had to be created by professionals. Then Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales attempted to create an encyclopedia without central planners. That sounded like a terrible idea to the old gatekeepers — people who hired experts to…

Washington, Silicon Valley and the beauty of spontaneous order

02/12/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
Most of life happens without a central planner. Yet people think we need one. Suppose you’d never seen a skating rink, and I told you that I want to lay down some ice and charge people money to strap sharp…

Patent Reform And The New Congress

01/30/2015 Published on Forbes.com
On December 5, 2013, the House of Representatives did something strange. It passed a bill that helped American businesses. In response, the Senate did something decidedly more familiar: it killed the bill. The 2013 Innovation Act was a Patent Reform…

Obama shows mixed results in delivering on State of the Union promises

01/20/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
Close Guantanamo. End the Iraq war. Tax the rich. Increase nuclear power. Drill for oil in the Atlantic. President Obama called for all these initiatives and more in previous State of the Union speeches. Some came to pass; others did…

Media go nuts over presidential corruption… in Nixon White House

08/08/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
A White House in disarray. The nation torn between left and right. Government agencies used for dirty tricks against political opponents. The CIA involved in domestic spying. It’s a good thing the American media are on the scene, giving detailed…

The risks of Israel’s Gaza incursion

07/18/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
While Israel has demonstrated enormous strategic patience with Hamas’ over 1,500 rocket attacks which sent some two-thirds of Israelis into bomb shelters, the potential cost to Israel of even a limited ground incursion in northern Gaza — the death of…

July Fourth: Be especially proud to be an American in 2014

07/04/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
(Reuters) American. Remember when that word meant something? When it gave you a lump in your throat to say it, or how your heart soared to hear “The Star-Spangled Banner”? That still happens – to some of us. According to…

Easter 2014: Hope for the dead

04/17/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
What is the connection between freedom and rising from the dead? When America was in its infancy and struggling to find a culture and frustrated at governance from Great Britain, the word most frequently uttered in speeches and pamphlets and…

NSA spying: What if secrecy trumps the Constitution?

04/03/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
The United States Constitution. (ARCHIVES.GOV) What if the National Security Agency (NSA) knows it is violating the Constitution by spying on all Americans without showing a judge probable cause of wrongdoing or identifying the persons it wishes to spy upon,…