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Pork Party in D.C. Goes on Unabated

Whichever of the two big parties running the majority at the asylum on the Potomac is not in charge tends to be for full disclosure of the details behind "earmarking" -- the practice where politicians attach (hide, really) their own pet pork projects onto bigger bills with very important sounding names... Names that few dare vote against. Such pork was heavily attached to the recent Iraq troop funding bill, a news item that has made its round as of late. (Who would dare vote against funding...

You Pay for Their Party

The $100 million for the political party conventions — $50 million for the Democratic convention in Denver and $50 million for the Republican convention in St. Paul, Minn. — is included in a section described as “Katrina recovery, veterans’ care and for other purposes.” Isn't that nice. Nothing like lots of pork in a spending bill flying through Congress under the banner of "supporting our troops."  Indeed, it was in the Iraq troop funding bill that this pork is being snuck through. What'...

Pro Legalization vs. Pro Drugs

If someone tells you that libertarians are pro drugs, tell whoever says as much that they don't know what they are talking about. In fact, send them this link: It's a Bloomberg interview of Harvard economics professor, Jefrey Miron, who explains a short and rational argument for legalization. Listen Now/ Download Even if you hate drugs for whatever reasons you have -- family or otherwise -- give this argument for legalization a listen. Legalization might actually solve some of the worst...

The Coming Meltdown in Government Entitlements

Libertarians are fiscal realists. Everyone knows there is no such thing as a free lunch, yet when it comes to politicians and voters, the siren song of "free this" or "free that" is apparently too tempting, especially when melded with an important issue that the government says it will solve. If you look at the record, however, whatever politicians and government gets into is rarely if ever solved, and the problems around it always seem to grow. Readers would do well to note the pattern. A...

State Employees

This one is titled State Employees, but it could just as easily be titled "Consequences of the Nanny State."

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