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It Can Happen Here

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Reason Magazine - By Arnold Kling, David Henderson, Maurice McTigue - Oct. 19 (Opinion) - In an era of frightful budgets and frightened politicians, cutting government may seem like a flatly impossible task. But a look around the world—and at our own recent economic history—turns up a few inspirational examples of knife work that not only trimmed back budget deficits but created the conditions for unprecedented prosperity.

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Ted Kennedy and the Death (Hopefully) of an Era

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Reason Magazine - By Nick Gillespie - Aug. 26 (Opinion) - There's a certain irony that Ted Kennedy has died just as President Barack Obama, who seems to very much grok the senator's mind-set, is pushing health care reform, the issue Kennedy called "the cause of my life." Virtually all Americans understand that if any sort of legislation actually gets passed, it will make their lives slightly more hellish when it comes to cost, bureaucracy, and quality of care.

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There's No Such Thing as Free Health Care: The costly truth about Canada's health care system

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Reason Magazine - By John Stossel - Jul. 06 (Opinion) - President Obama says government will make health care cheaper and better. But there's no free lunch.

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The Beginning of the End of Private Health Insurance

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Reason Magazine - By Ronald Bailey - Jun. 10 (Opinion) - Sadly, we are already well on our way to a wholly government-run health insurance system. After fall, about 47 percent of all health care expenses today are paid for by federal, state, and local governments, e.g., Medicare, Medicaid, and State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Establishing a public insurance scheme would dramatically increase the percentage of health care that is paid for by the federal government.

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Why libertarians—and everyone who believes in limited government—should worry about Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee

Thu, 28 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Reason Magazine - By Damon W. Root - May. 28 (Opinion) - President Barack Obama's announcement that he wants federal appeals court Judge Sonia Sotomayor to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter comes as something less than a shock.

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Barack Obama & the DC School Voucher Program

Tue, 05 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Reason Magazine - By Nick Gillespie - May. 05 (Special Report) - Mercedes Campbell is one of the 1,700 students in the Washington, D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, a school-voucher program authorized by Congress in 2004. The program gives students up to $7,500 to attend whatever school their parents choose. For kids like Mercedes, who now attends Georgetown Visitation Prep, the DC voucher program is a way out of one of the worst school districts in the country.

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First in War, First in Peace, and Saddled With a Costly, Underperforming Taxpayer-Funded Stadium

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Reason Magazine - By Nick Gillespie - Apr. 14 (Opinion) - More to the point, the Nationals were brought to the District of Columbia amid overhyped claims that bringing baseball back to the nation's capital, especially in a fancy new stadium that would have to be paid for by taxpayers, would jazz up the local economy like Marion Barry on crack (give the former and future mayor his due: For a while, he was against taxpayers footing the bill for the stadium). Where would the more than $600 million come from? It didn't really matter, did it, because the thing would be a license to print money, right?

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Obama's Double-Talk

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Reason Magazine - By Matt Welch - Apr. 06 (Opinion) - While the president talks sobriety, his policies take America on an economic bender.

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The Myth of Democratic Defense Cuts: Obama's defense spending is higher than Bush's

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Reason Magazine - By Steve Chapman - Mar. 31 (Opinion) - One of the problems with liberals, as conservatives know, is that no matter how much money they are given to spend, it's never enough. The social and economic problems they lament are impossible to eradicate entirely, so more spending is always in order. After all, it is bound to do some good. Spending less? Never an option.

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The Two Faces of Barack Obama: A president contradicts himself all night long

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Reason Magazine - By Matt Welch - Feb. 27 (Opinion) - Obama aims to be the president of all Americans, a position that appears to be sincere. But I wonder whether in the process he might also want to consider appointing himself chief executive of his own head. All night long, with equally sonorous vigor, he served up confident assertions, only to state moments later, with equal conviction, their near opposite.

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The Campaign Turns Nasty

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Reason Magazine - By Cathy Young - Oct. 23 (Opinion) - At a moment when America faces hard choices and perhaps hard times, the presidential election campaign has largely degenerated into a vicious squabble whose poisonous effects are likely to be felt for years to come.

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Why the Republicans Must Lose

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Reason Magazine - By Radley Balko - Oct. 22 (Opinion) - While I'm not thrilled at the prospect of an Obama administration (especially with a friendly Congress), the Republicans still need to get their clocks cleaned in two weeks, for a couple of reasons. First, they had their shot at holding power, and they failed. They've failed in staying true to their principles of limited government and free markets. They've failed in preventing elected leaders of their party from becoming corrupted by the trappings of power, and they've failed to hold those leaders accountable after the fact. Congressional Republicans failed to rein in the Bush administration's naked bid to vastly expand the power of the presidency (a failure they're going to come to regret should Obama take office in January). They failed to apply due scrutiny and skepticism to the administration's claims before undertaking Congress' most solemn task—sending the nation to war. I could go on.

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How to fix America's health insurance crisis

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Reason Magazine - By Nick Gillespie - Oct. 09 (Opinion) - While Barack Obama and John McCain argue about who’s got the best health care plan, each ignores the simplest solution

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Palin's Small-Town Snobbery: Why it's time to bury the myth of rural virtue

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Reason Magazine - By Steve Chapman - Oct. 02 (Opinion) - The myth of rural virtue and urban vice is an old one in this country, and it persists no matter what the changes in the landscape. And whatever questions Palin may face in her debate with Biden, her paeans to small-town virtue aren't likely to be among them.

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McCain's Cheap Dates

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Reason Magazine - By Matt Welch - Apr. 03 (Opinion) - John McCain has two fundamental and conflicting challenges in the national election: 1) Rally disaffected Republicans to his side, particularly libertarians, social cons, war-skeptics, immigration restrictionists, and those who he has personally pissed off over the years; and 2) maintain his attractiveness to independents, moderate Democrats, and loyalists to whichever of the two Dem candidates gets croaked in the primaries.

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The Amateurs' Hour - Is the Internet destroying our culture ...

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 06:25:10 -0800

Reason Magazine - By David Harsanyi - Dec. 29 (Review) - Keen refuses to confess that there's even a smattering of intellectually and culturally worthy user-driven content online. If you do find something decent in the "digital forest of mediocrity," he attributes it to the infinite monkey theorem: Even simians, if permitted to indiscriminately hit a keyboard for an infinite amount of time, will one day bang out Beowulf or Don Quixote. (Silly me, I was under the impression that monkeys had hatched the idea for VH1's Scott Baio Is 45...and Single.) Apparently, these monkeys are discharging so much free content into the cyber-strata that they threaten to bury culturally significant work, dilute good craftsmanship, and cost me, a journalist and "cultural gatekeeper," my job. So I guess I'd better take Keen's thesis seriously.

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Fair and Balanced Radio?

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 07:19:50 -0700

Reason Magazine - By Radley Balkso - Jul. 12 (Opinion) - Now that they have ensured their own job security, have gotten to vote on their own pay raises (regardless of performance) and have stacked the deck against anyone who dares to challenge them, these politicians now want to pass laws exempting them from criticism, as well. They're not only entitled a permanent grip on elected office, they should get to rule without ever having their feelings hurt, too. So no mean attack ads just before an election. If talk radio says hurtful things about you, pass a law ensuring that a friendlier personality comes in the next hour to say nice things about you.

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Fox News Conspiracy Theories

Fri, 18 May 2007 08:30:01 -0700

Reason Magazine - By David Weigel - May. 18 (Opinion) - Andrew Sullivan, whose defense of Ron Paul this week put H&R's to shame, catches Fox News accusing the candidate of "9/11 Truthism": ... Paul never said that or anything like it at the debate. What's Malkin's evidence?

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The Convenient Truth

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 08:09:28 -0700

Reason Magazine - By Jonathan Rauch - Mar. 23 (News Analysis) - In October, British Prime Minister Tony Blair called for "radical international measures" to curtail greenhouse-gas emissions, and fast. "We can't wait the five years it took to negotiate Kyoto," he said. Apparently, 2012 is too late. In hopes of taking stronger steps, however, many U.S. environmentalists want to defer any legislation until President Bush is out of office. Apparently 2007 and 2008 are too early. That gives us precisely three years -- 2009, 2010, and 2011 -- to save the planet. All right, that was a cheap shot. I couldn't help myself. Something about the global-warming debate encourages overheated rhetoric. To listen to Blair, former Vice President Gore, and many other political figures and environmental activists, you would conclude that global warming is an onrushing cataclysm and that prevention requires all of us to take radical steps right away.

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