Coal Meets Markets
While Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign fades in the rear-view mirror, the issues he ran on — particularly, his charge that President Obama is engaged in an economically disastrous “war ...
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Why Are the Kochs after Cato?
Five weeks ago, Charles and David Koch filed suit against the Cato Institute, seeking to gain majority control of the institute under a shareholders’ agreement that had lain dormant for ...
Obama’s Green-Energy Mirage
President Obama is obsessed with green energy as a terrier is obsessed with a bone. He digs the issue up time and time again with a single-mindedness that is remarkable ...
Ethanol: Let Protectionism Expire
After more than three decades, the U.S. ethanol blenders’ tax credit and the ethanol-import tariff that was put in place to offset it are set to expire at the end ...
Plug-In Pablum
When politicians and environmental activists hammer the table about the need to break our so-called “addiction to oil” — as they are doing with increased fervor in response to the ...
Market Power
The story most conservatives tell about energy policy is different from the stories they tell about other economic-policy matters. Rather than defend free markets, they bang the table about the ...
Chumps for Clunkers
Suppose we came to your house one day and said, “Look over there at Ted — the guy with the Toyota Tundra in the driveway.” You look — yup, that’s ...
Re: Immigration is the Health of the State
Mark, do you have some regression analyses to back up this claim of yours that dense population = bigger and more intrusive government? Like John Derbyshire, I can think of ...
Re: Spreading the Wealth Around
Mark, not to get too deep into the politics of immigration, but I think it’s fair to say that the harsh anti-immigration message from many Republicans helpd to scare away ...
Re: Three Men and a Baby
I am all for freedom of conscience, Kathryn. That’s why I don’t want to force men (or women) to get married or force churches to recognize gay marriages. Nor do ...