Attorney General Chris Koster Should Join the Multistate Health Care Lawsuit in Florida
When they passed Proposition C last August, Missourians demonstrated their overwhelming opposition to the federal health care reform law. They...
Well, That’s One Way to Increase Health Care Costs
On Tuesday, Gov. Jay Nixon announced his first priority for the coming legislative session: Requiring prescriptions for medicines that contain...
SMI Author Quoted in New York Times Regarding Latest Stimulus Proposals
In doing some research for a post about the latest stimulus proposals, I came across this quote in the New...
U.S. PIRG Publication Misrepresents Substance of Show-Me Institute Article
While looking for some academic papers on Google Scholar, I took a moment, as an afterthought, to see whether the...
Medicaid: The Program that Keeps on Taking
Medicaid is one of the largest expenses in Missouri’s budget. In fiscal year 2008, Medicaid spending in Missouri totaled more...
Next on the Agenda: 100% of the Carriage Wheel Market!
Last week, MissouriNet reported on the president’s speech in Kansas City, in which he talked about clean energy: President [Barack]...
Farm Subsidies Are Not an Energy Policy
The big news in Missouri today is President Barack Obama’s visit to an ethanol plant in Macon, so I thought...
The Possibilites and Limitations of Educational Alternatives
Last week, I wrote that we needed many more options in education than the traditional public school. In his latest...
What Does the Patient Protection Act Do to the Average Missourian Today?
As we are all aware, President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on March 23 (P.L.111-148)....
You Have Three Years to Understand the New Health Care Act
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was signed into law by President Barack Obama last week, but that won’t...
The Standards Dilemma
National education standards pose a problem for states that have high standards already. If they replace their state standards with...
Against the Proposed Toyota Ban
As the latest egregious example of economic illiteracy to come out of Washington, Sen. Mike Johanns (R-Neb.) has proposed banning...
The Mismeasure of Stimulus
An article in the St. Joe News highlights the accomplishments of federal stimulus dollars in Northwest Missouri: Missouri’s 6th Congressional...
Pork for Me but not for Thee
There is already much gnashing of teeth among Missouri’s political class over President Barack Obama’s decision to exclude the Boeing...
Feds Allocate $8 Million to High-Speed Rail; Missouri Gets a 0.39% Cut
Yesterday, the Obama administration pledged $8 billion in federal stimulus funds to develop a high-speed rail system in the United...
How Did We Get Into This Health Care Mess?
Many people would like the relationships in health care to follow a straightforward economic pattern. They imagine that the doctor-patient...
Education or Indoctrination?
[In the interest of transparency, please allow me to post this note to indicate my change of perspective. I agree...
In Which the Author’s Secret Agenda Is Made Plain
As our regular readers will remember, on Nov. 18, the Show-Me Institute published a study that discusses recent research on...
No False Modesty on Government Websites
Financialstability.gov no longer says “Coming Soon.” Now it reads like any other campaign website: America is back from the brink...
“Say It Ain’t So, Claire, Say It Ain’t So”
The headline of this Missourinet post really got me riled up, but the body of the report calmed me down...
