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American relations with North Korea
Those of you who listened to the recent Carolina Journal Radio interview with North Korean refugee Cherie Yang might find some interest in Doug Bandow‘s latest column for the Washington…
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One of the hidden costs of the federal leviathan
Good economists, as Bastiat wrote, consider the unseen, long-run costs of government actions, not just the seen and immediate ones. In this Freeman piece, Doug Bandow puts his finger on…
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Has the libertarian moment arrived?
In this Freeman piece today, Doug Bandow says that, despite the manifest disasters and waste brought about by big government, the libertarian moment has not arrived. His argument is that…
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The federal deficit is falling, so relax…..
Obama and his minions are crowing about the fact that the federal budget deficit has come down from over a trillion in each of the last four years to merely…
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The impending chocolate crisis
Oh, oh — a new crisis is looming. Chocolate prices are rapidly increasing, which obviously calls for government action. Doug Bandow makes the (tongue in cheek) case for a Chocolate…
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Proving Again The U.S. Postal Service Business Model Should Be Scrapped
If you still use snail mail like I do, get ready for another U.S. Postal Service rate hike — up to 49 cents to mail a first class letter. The…
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“One of Obama’s greatest failures….”
So many things come to mind after reading that phrase, but what Doug Bandow is writing about is his policy towards Egypt. But it isn’t Obama acting unilaterally in this…
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Just what we need — another foreign policy hawk
Susan Rice is one of those humanitarian hawks who wants the US to get involved in conflicts around the globe to help or protect innocent civilians and “the good guys”…
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We shouldn’t get involved in Syria
So argues Doug Bandow in this Cato@Liberty post. Notice that it’s pretty much the same bunch of people who are okay with blanket government surveillance who think that the US…
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Apparently benevolent but completely wrong
That is how JLF friend Doug Bandow describes the minimum wage in this Freeman article. I would add this point: the minimum wage encourages the pernicious belief that worker raises…
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Who Really Serves the Public?
Doug Bandow has a sharp piece today on The Freeman’s site. He discusses the tendency for politicians to congratulate themselves (in particular, California’s Pete Stark) for their “public service” but…
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Many workers get tired of union representation
One of the many obvious reasons for concluding that the so-called Employee Free Choice Act is not about free choice but is rather an effort to help unions dragoon more…