Politics


Samuelson’s Almost-Got-It Approach to Retirement Issues

Starting the Biggest Chain Letter in History Robert Samuelson is one of the best economic journalists around. His latest Washington Post column, “Welfare Junkies” (requires simple registration) offers some insightful…

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Samuelson’s Almost-Got-It Approach to Retirement Issues

Starting the Biggest Chain Letter in History Robert Samuelson is one of the best economic journalists around. His latest Washington Post column, “Welfare Junkies” (requires simple registration) offers some insightful…

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Crazy as a Loon, but Free

Off to Iceland! Well, Bobby Fischer has his Icelandic passport. The U.S. government can now stop persecuting him for the crime of playing chess in Yugoslavia. Fischer may be out…

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Social Security and Those (Allegedly) Ultra Cautious Youth

Are Today’s Young People So Cowardly? Jude Blanchette, Henry Hazlitt Research Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education, has a nice essay up at National Review Online unpacking the claim…

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North Korean Karaoke?

The Maximum Leader! (C’mon…Cheer!!!… as if your life depended on it) According to a report in the March 23 JoonAng Daily, there are reports of privately run-shops being opened in…

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Campaign Finance Reform = Restrictions

My former colleague Ryan Sager, now of the New York Post, has an illuminating essay on Tech Central Station on the movement to restrict the rights of the people to…

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Giving the Term “Law Suits” New Meaning

Zambia’s former president Frederick Chiluba has undergone yet another trial of his patience. According to the BBC, the government of his successor has seized hundreds of his suits, shirts, and…

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Giving the Term “Law Suits” New Meaning

Zambia’s former president Frederick Chiluba has undergone yet another trial of his patience. According to the BBC, the government of his successor has seized hundreds of his suits, shirts, and…

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Giving the Term “Law Suits” New Meaning

Zambia’s former president Frederick Chiluba has undergone yet another trial of his patience. According to the BBC, the government of his successor has seized hundreds of his suits, shirts, and…

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Giving the Term “Law Suits” New Meaning

Zambia’s former president Frederick Chiluba has undergone yet another trial of his patience. According to the BBC, the government of his successor has seized hundreds of his suits, shirts, and…

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