The Constitution and Real Federal Regulatory Reform

The American Thinker has published as a blog item my review of President Obama’s so-called regulatory review (You call this regulatory reform?).  Under the direction of Professor Cass Sunstein, President Obama’s former University of Chicago law school colleague, all federal regulatory bodies were to eliminate regulations which were unduly burdensome to small businesses.  Private sector critics . . . → Read More: The Constitution and Real Federal Regulatory Reform

Bernie Sanders and the Progressive Case for a More Jeffersonian Government

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders’ nine-hour rant on the Senate floor against maintaining the current tax rates for upper income Americans attracted considerable notice.  The essence of his argument was that more successful individuals and small businesses should be taxed more because of government favoritism toward major corporate interests in the Bush/Obama bailouts.  Of course, under a true free market such . . . → Read More: Bernie Sanders and the Progressive Case for a More Jeffersonian Government

To Space and Beyond — a Tale of Public vs. Private Economies

Today SpaceX, one of the private companies trying to get into the space launch business, had its first successfull suborbital test flight. The flight was part of its competition for a $1.6B contract from NASA for 12 flights to the international space station. While I recognize that strict economic libertarians and constitutional originalists question . . . → Read More: To Space and Beyond — a Tale of Public vs. Private Economies