Time-tested Argument Against National Health Insurance
In this video, Dr. Palmisano relates a story from early on in his medical career, testifying before congress in 1976...
Thoughts On Today’s Supreme Court Decision
This morning, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a., ObamaCare.) In a twist, rather...
Previewing Day Three Of Health Care Reform Oral Arguments
We have reached the last day of oral arguments for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), a.k.a., Obamacare....
Previewing Day One Of Health Care Reform Oral Arguments
Beginning on Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA,)...
Pop-Tartocracy
As labor unions shrink, new and exciting ways of promoting union membership are springing up all over. In April, I...
He Gets the Games Washington Plays
Yesterday’s Washington Post had a fascinating article about the only-in-Washington logic behind a recent agreement to keep the federal government...
Income Taxes Decrease Economic Growth, Prosperity
With the 2010 Census complete, Congress will soon reapportion seats in the House of Representatives, and it appears that Missouri...
Helping the Poor by Denying Them Access to Money
In yet another case of good intentions gone bad, the bill Congress passed last year to reform the credit card...
Some Observations on Prop C
Yesterday’s primary election featured a statewide vote on Proposition C, otherwise known as the Health Care Freedom Act. The bill...
Truth in Advertising
As many fans of the Show-Me Institute will already know, I have spent a lot of time during the past...
A Time to Sue
It is no secret that I believe Congress has no constitutional authority to mandate that citizens purchase a product they...
This Just In: Health Care Legislation Passed by Congress Has Unintended Consequences
On Friday, U.S. Reps. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) sent a letter to AT&T and several other companies...
Maybe When Service Drops to One Day a Week, We Can Eliminate Its Monopoly Protection?
The U.S. Postal Service doesn’t want to deliver mail on Saturday anymore. Facing a large budget gap, the USPS is...
Senate Passes Health Care Reform Bill on Christmas Eve
The Senate has finally passed a health care reform bill, after months of heated debate. The $871 billion plan, according...
Individual Health Insurance Mandate Would Violate Constitutional Liberties
Among the elements of the health bill currently being considered by Congress is a requirement that every adult would...
Health Care Reform and Constitutional Limits
Among the elements of the health bill being considered by Congress is a requirement that every adult would either have...
Fed’s Independence Vital for a Stable Economy
CBS’s moneywatch.com site recently released an article by Mark Thoma on the independence of the Federal Reserve, and those very...
McCaskill Targets Earmarks, Again
Combest has a number of links to articles today about Sen. Claire McCaskill’s repeated targeting of the earmark process in...
PAYGO Would Only Provide Appearance of Fiscal Responsibility
Sen. Claire McCaskill is cosponsoring a bill, “PAYGO,” that would limit congressional spending to the amount of yearly revenue brought...
Virtue and Government-Compelled Charity
Recently, several of my colleagues from Vanderbilt Divinity School sat in on President Barack Obama’s conference call, in which he...
