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Housing Crisis? Look to Canada for Answers by Jim Powell
CATO Daily Commentary Sep 2, 2010 11:00:00 PM

President Barack Obama has tried to prop up the housing market by helping people stay in their homes, even though they're still overwhelmed with mortgage debt. This is the latest in a long series of government interventions intended...

Online Privacy (Part 3) by Jim Harper
CATO Daily Commentary Sep 1, 2010 11:00:00 PM

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 This article is Jim Harper's closing remarks in a larger debate on The Economist's website. Marc Rotenberg has been wise ? in terms of debating tactics ? to speak only in generalities about the...

Bad Climate Bill Belongs in Limbo by Patrick J. Michaels
CATO Daily Commentary Sep 1, 2010 11:00:00 PM

Will a lame duck Congress pass cap-and-trade? Judging from recent news, it might try. But, more likely, all the sound and fury will end up signifying its usual nothing. And it leaves the preferred option, where Congress punts the...

The Iraq Mission Shifts to the Iraqis by Christopher Preble ...
CATO Daily Commentary Aug 31, 2010 11:00:00 PM

In his prime-time address last night, President Obama wisely avoided many of the pitfalls that tripped up his predecessor. He did not declare victory under a "mission accomplished" banner or claim that a fully-flowered democracy had...

Welcome to the Party by Michael D. Tanner
CATO Daily Commentary Aug 31, 2010 11:00:00 PM

At first glance, it seemed a silly headline even by the standards of MSNBC: "Can the GOP Survive a Tea Party Takeover?" Of course, the story was yet another in the narrative that has been eagerly embraced by both the mainstream...

Wrong about Human Rights by Roger Pilon
CATO Daily Commentary Aug 31, 2010 11:00:00 PM

When we think of human-rights problems, most of us imagine arbitrary arrests, political repression, religious persecution, torture, show trials, censorship, and the like. In America, we don't often have those kinds of problems. Even...

Obama's Mideast Policy: An Unpromising Drive towards a...
CATO Daily Commentary Aug 31, 2010 11:00:00 PM

President Barack Obama is continuing to reorient U.S. foreign policy in general, and in the Middle East in particular, along the lines of the internationalist/neo-realist approach pursued in the pre-9/11 years of Presidents George H....

Vulture or Watchdog? by Richard W. Rahn
CATO Daily Commentary Aug 30, 2010 11:00:00 PM

Have you noticed that many in the political class are absolutely shameless in trying to protect themselves and their colleagues from legitimate inquiry into their activities? For instance, Congress has passed a number of...

Was It a "Church Picnic" or a Freedom Rally? by Gene Healy ...
CATO Daily Commentary Aug 30, 2010 11:00:00 PM

In the run-up to Glenn Beck's religious-themed rally at the Lincoln Memorial Saturday, Rep. John Fleming, R.-La., issued a stark warning about the voters' choice in November. Either we "remain a Christian nation," he told a GOP...

If VAT Is Rx for Deficits and Debt, Why Are VAT Users on the Brink? by...
CATO Daily Commentary Aug 30, 2010 11:00:00 PM

Drums are beating in Washington for a value-added tax in addition to the "stimulus" taxes, health care taxes, energy taxes and other taxes President Obama has imposed and wants to impose on hard-pressed taxpayers. Supposedly a...

Online Privacy (Part 2) by Jim Harper
CATO Daily Commentary Aug 29, 2010 11:00:00 PM

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 This article is Jim Harper's rebuttal in a larger debate on The Economist's website. If privacy protection is the goal, we might want governments to do quite a bit less, not more. Marc Rotenberg's...

The Pentagon's Worried View of China by Ted Galen Carpenter ...
CATO Daily Commentary Aug 29, 2010 11:00:00 PM

Despite occasional conciliatory language, the overall tone of the Pentagon's just-released annual report to the US Congress regarding China's military power seems more worried and confrontational than its predecessors, with the...