America Has Tobacco Prohibition Through Regulation
Most Americans don't like tobacco use. That's why state after state, city after city, has passed increasingly aggressive bans on...
Month: March 2013
Obama: "We don’t have an immediate crisis in terms of debt"
We didn't need President Obama to tell us this directly. The fiscally seriousness budget Senate Democrats have released, and the...
Affordable Care Act: "Some Americans could see their insurance bills double next year"
Remember when Obamacare was all about "bending the cost curve" and making health insurance cheaper and easier to get? Yeah,...
Minnesota Considering "Medical Amnesty" Bill For Underage Drinkers
In Minnesota legislators are considering a bill that would waive legal consequences for underage drinkers in medical emergencies, the idea...
Burning Fossil Fuels Is Greening The Earth
Matt Ridley, author of The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (P.S.), gives this fascinating lecture on Reason.tv about how fossil...
Heitkamp Votes Against Defunding Obamacare
This won't really come as news to much of anyone, but Senator Heidi Heitkamp won a narrow election in a...
Heitkamp Is Right: North Dakota Needs Another Census
In April of last year I wrote that North Dakota needs to do another census. Population in western North Dakota...
Things Not Going Great For Ed Schultz
The rise of Ed Schultz's media career has always been surprising to me. From a regional talk radio host here...
Balanced: Democrat Budget Increases Spending By 62%, Taxes By $1.5 Trillion
The ideological break down in the national budget debate has folks on the right arguing for deficit reduction through spending...
Propaganda: This Is How North Koreans Think Americans Live
This is, apparently, a bit of North Korean propaganda illustrating, not very accurately, how Americans live. I'd say it's a...
