Politicians leave reality to others. What matters in politics is what you can get the voters to believe, whether it bears any resemblance to reality or not...
As we approach the debt ceiling sometime in August, with no agreement seemingly in reach, there is wild talk in Washington to the effect that the debt ceiling violates Section Four of the Fourteenth Amendment. The theory is bunk...
What’s the best way forward for American economic policy? On Independence Day it’s natural to look to the country’s founding principles—political freedom and economic freedom—for an answer...
...[S]ubstitution on the part of patients between family practitioners and specialists who can offer similar services, and arbitrage among medical students in deciding which fields to enter, prevents the development of particularly large “shortage” of general practice physicians...
Seeing as it’s a time when we remember 13 colonies with the courage to go it alone, let’s ponder the notion of 13 California counties who may soon wage their own battle for independence...
The Texas legislature, after the U.S. Attorney John E. Murphy threatened that the TSA would ban all flights out of Texas if the measure passed, got cold feet about a measure to rein in TSA officials' sexual assaults on airplane passengers...
[Illegal immigration] is the most self-censored topic in America today, where we construct artificial worlds of rhetoric that in no way resemble reality...
The first of three courts of appeals decisions on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) was announced last week...
The appointment of Brig. General Mark Martins as chief prosecutor of the military commissions...is a step of enormous importance in establishing legitimacy for a commissions process that has floundered almost since the date of its inception...
