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National Taxpayers Union on the Bailout

An Open Letter to the United States Congress: Stand Up for Taxpayers by Standing Against Quick-Fix Bailouts! (I was Editor of Dollars & Sense, the newspaper of the NTU in…

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Two Years of Imprisonment and Abuse

Come November 6, it will be two years since an Egyptian student was imprisoned for expressing his opinions in his personal blog. It breaks the heart to think of what…

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Macaulay Remembered Again

In doing some research for my paper on “Classical Liberalism, Morality, and Poverty” I re-read Thomas Babington Macaulay’s brilliant refutation of Tory paternalism, “Southey’s Colloquies on Society.” (If you want…

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Whatever Happened to Limited Government?

The presidential debate, which I had on as I was working on a paper on “Classical Liberalism, Poverty, and Morality” for a volume in the Ethikon series, was rather depressing….

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Governor Mark Sanford on the Bailout

I had the pleasure of hearing Governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina in Charleston last Saturday address a Cato Institute meeting, where he gave an enthusiastic defense of liberty and…

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The Crisis of Interventionism Calls Us to the Ramparts!

The Washington Post (September 25, 2008): “Bailout Has Cato Saying, ‘Told You So’: Think Tank’s Scholars Pained and Pumped By Government Action” “Our job is to roll up our sleeves…

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Weird and Kinda Cool, but…Bizarre

Dan Hanna Getting a Little Older More information on how Mr. Hanna created it here.

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New Photos from Cato University 2008

Cato University 2008 Archive

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The Oxford Comma, Wikipedia, and Pedantry

The Scoop on “the Oxford Comma.” To my parents, Ayn Rand and God…… Hat tip: David Archer

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New Cato-on-Campus Feature

“Ask the Expert”

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