character in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz
Terresa Monroe-Hamilton writes for BizPac Review about bad news for Americans’ pocketbooks in 2023. In another Lucy and Charlie Brown football scenario, the Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act that they claimed…
Oren Cass, writing in National Affairs, articulates some of the difficulties in basing policy on evidence, and includes examples from the Oregon health insurance experiment, the stimulus effect on unemployment, and…
This news comes on the heels of the controversial unemployment miracle report of last week. Gee, it’s almost as if giving the impression (and the headlines to follow; see, e.g.,…
Story per The Wall Street Journal: U.S. payrolls increased by a seasonally adjusted 96,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department said Friday. The politically important unemployment rate, obtained by a…
A typical article today: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Job growth braked sharply in May and the unemployment rate rose for the first time since June, putting pressure on the Federal Reserve…
America’s plunge into a Dark Ages of economic superstition happened at the end of the Bush administration, was impelled by the incessant chanting of media shamans, and capped with a…
That’s what Jacob Sullum calls Obama’s budget in this column. Each year, Obama says that the federal government is going to “cut the deficit.” Each year, the gusher of spending…
In his Freeman column today, Sheldon Richman argues that it won’t. Remember the famous “Peanuts” cartoons where Lucy tells Charlie Brown that this time — unlike all the times in…
As Charlie Brown would say, “Rats!” Chicago Tribune blogger John Kass gives us some bad news: As you must know by now, the great President Obama Chia Pet scandal is…
Well, Mitch, Black already effectively admitted that he took chiropractor cash when he pleaded guilty (no Alford!) last week to the federal charges. So in reality last week he had…
More from Charlie Brown, via AP: His attorney, Ken Bell, couldn’t explain when asked why Black accepted the money. “It’s a great question. I don’t know,” Bell said after the…
I noticed that too, Paul. My conclusion is that Black cannot say that he did turn around and hand the money out to other pols even if he did as…