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Waging War on Black Teens by Richard W. Rahn and Izzy Santa ...
CATO Daily Commentary Mar 10, 2010 11:00:00 PM

Congress believes it has the solution to America's epidemic of joblessness: a so-called jobs bill whose centerpiece is a tax credit for companies that hire one of the 15 million unemployed. Many legislators from the Congressional...

Liz Cheney, Bill Kristol Resurrect McCarthy with 'Al Qaida...
CATO Daily Commentary Mar 10, 2010 11:00:00 PM

While preparing a chapter for my next book, Is This America? (Cato Institute), on the effect of so many Americans in and out of school being unaware of their roots in the Constitution, I was startled by a replay of a March 2 video ad...

Would Obamacare End Corruption -- or Expand It? by Michael F. Cannon ...
CATO Daily Commentary Mar 10, 2010 11:00:00 PM

President Obama wants a health care bill now. And this time, he swears it will be corruption-free. Yet it's hard to imagine a more pro-corruption strategy than the president's. The first part of that strategy is for the House...

Private Military Contractors as Buzz Lightyear: To Afghanistan and Beyond...
CATO Daily Commentary Mar 10, 2010 11:00:00 PM

While the role and impact of private military and security contractors in Iraq is hardly a spent issue, increasingly, eyes and attention are turning to Afghanistan. This is hardly surprising. The Obama Administration's surge...

False Hopes by Ted Galen Carpenter
CATO Daily Commentary Mar 10, 2010 11:00:00 PM

American leaders have experienced repeated frustration in their efforts to enlist China in the campaign to impose robust economic penalties against the newest nuclear proliferators: North Korea and Iran. In the various rounds of...

Final 'Reform' Push: Twisting Arms by Michael D. Tanner ...
CATO Daily Commentary Mar 9, 2010 11:00:00 PM

President Obama's attempts to ram health- care reform through an increasingly reluctant Congress are starting to resemble a really eventful episode of "The Sopranos." Whether or not you believe former Rep. Eric Massa's bizarre...

All the President's Economists by Richard W. Rahn
CATO Daily Commentary Mar 9, 2010 11:00:00 PM

The Congressional Budget Office, in last week's update of President Obama's budget forecasts, estimated that budget deficits will average nearly $1 trillion per year for the next decade. There is no school of economics (classical,...

Leaving Afghanistan Moves Beyond Left vs. Right by Malou Innocent ...
CATO Daily Commentary Mar 9, 2010 11:00:00 PM

Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) plans to use a parliamentary maneuver to force a Wednesday House vote on the removal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan. Kucinich's resolution directs President Obama to remove troops 30 days from the day...

Victory in Iraq at Last (Not!) by Leon T. Hadar
CATO Daily Commentary Mar 8, 2010 11:00:00 PM

Many neoconservatives and the politicians and pundits who love them have abandoned the we've-turned-the-corner-in-Iraq story plot ? or the-next-six-months-will-prove-critical-in-Iraq expectation game ? a long time ago. But when it...

Is Justice Scalia Abandoning Originalism? by Josh Blackman and Ilya...
CATO Daily Commentary Mar 8, 2010 11:00:00 PM

Justice Antonin Scalia holds himself out as the patron saint of originalism, the idea that judges should interpret the Constitution according to its original public meaning. To do otherwise, he adds, is to succumb to government by...

Playing it Again and Again, and Again by Michael D. Tanner
CATO Daily Commentary Mar 4, 2010 11:00:00 PM

In case you lost count, President Obama's remarks on Wednesday were his 35th major speech on health care reform. The news: this time he really, really, really means it when he says it's time to act. At least I assume it was...

KBR: Failing Upwards by David Isenberg
CATO Daily Commentary Mar 4, 2010 11:00:00 PM

Up is down, night is day, and now, in the best tradition of George Orwell's 1984 newspeak KBR -- the company that was the subject of a recent Department of Defense Inspect General report that found that the Army broke federal...