All Posts Tagged With: "Republicans"
Saving the Warfare-Welfare State
The problem in Washington isn’t excessive partisanship but excessive unity.
15Apr2011 | Sheldon Richman | 27 comments | ContinuedThe Charade
Writing in Forbes recently, Dinesh D’Souza presents the bizarre idea that Barack Obama’s presidency can be best understood by realizing that “Incredibly, the U.S. is being ruled according to the dreams of a Luo tribesman of the 1950s [that is, Obama’s late estranged Kenyan father]. This philandering, inebriated African socialist, who raged against the world [...]
22Dec2010 | Sheldon Richman | 10 comments | ContinuedBudget Mice
If the opposition wing of the uniparty managed to cut all discretionary spending – which of course it does not promise to do — the deficit would still be a whopping $747 billion.
5Nov2010 | Sheldon Richman | 16 comments | ContinuedHow Did We Get Here?
The late Alabama governor George Wallace once said, “There’s not a dime’s worth of difference between Republicans and Democrats.” Both Republicans and Democrats agree on taking our money. Where they differ is what to spend it on. A Democrat like Senator Edward Kennedy agrees to take our earnings and give them to cities and poor [...]
6Jul2010 | Walter E. Williams | 0 comments | ContinuedObamanomics: How Barack Obama Is Bankrupting You and Enriching His Wall Street Friends, Corporate Lobbyists, and Union Bosses
In his previous book, The Big Ripoff (reviewed in the June 2007 Freeman), author Timothy Carney launched an attack on two of America’s preeminent political myths—that the Democrats are “the party of the little guy” and the Republicans are “the party of free enterprise.” Both notions are useful to candidates in the endless quest for [...]
20May2010 | George C. Leef | 1 comment | ContinuedHealth Care and the GOP
My American Conservative article critiquing the congressional Republican response to efforts to nationalize health insurance is now online here.
24Feb2010 | Sheldon Richman | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Politics of Freedom
Thomas Paine said that freedom had been hunted and harassed around the world and that only America offered it a home. Today, it seems to many Americans that freedom is on the run here, too. War and taxes, the nanny state and the Patriot Act, unsustainable entitlements—all threaten the liberty we enjoy as Americans. But [...]
1May2008 | David Boaz | 8 comments | ContinuedLee’s Legion of Lessons
The state is a harsh taskmaster with a taste for eating its own. A man may devote much of his life to its violence only to find himself on the receiving end one day. The Bible warns that “all those who take up the sword perish by the sword.” Yet distressing numbers of folks try [...]
1Sep2007 | Becky Akers | 1 comment | ContinuedLeviathan on the Right: How Big-Government Conservatism Brought Down the Republican Revolution
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1Mar2007 | FEE Admin | 1 comment | ContinuedDecency Requires a Minimum-Wage Law?
The libertarian cliché that “at least the Republicans are right on economic policies” suffered another setback on the August 11, 2003, Los Angeles Times op-ed page, where Republican Douglas MacKinnon argues that anyone who cares about the poor should be ashamed of the failure of the Senate to raise the minimum wage. His essay is [...]
1Mar2004 | Aeon J. Skoble | 0 comments | ContinuedFarm Frolics
Democrats love capitalism,” charged U.S. Senator Phil Gramm of Texas during last year’s debate over tax cuts, “but they hate capitalists.”1 It is fair to say that Gramm’s analysis is on target—if only he would admit the corresponding truth in his criticism: that Republicans love capitalists but hate capitalism—particularly when it comes to their farming [...]
1May2002 | Scott McPherson | 0 comments | ContinuedCapital Letters
To Vote or Not to Vote To the Editor: As a long-time supporter of FEE I was very disappointed in the partisan viewpoint expressed by Sheldon Richman in his Perspective in November 2000. He seemed to sum up his interpretation of the Cato Institute study with the advice to either not vote Republican or not [...]
1Mar2001 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedTrade and the Rise of Freedom
Thomas DiLorenzo is professor of economics at Loyola College in Maryland. This is adapted from a paper presented at the Ludwig von Mises Institute’s conference on “’The History of Liberty” at Auburn University, January 29, 2000. It is no exaggeration to say that trade is the keystone of modern civilization. As Murray Rothbard wrote, “The [...]
1Jun2000 | Thomas J. DiLorenzo | 2 comments | ContinuedCongressional Lost Opportunities
Doug Bandow, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books, including Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World. Although Republicans retain the control of Congress that they won in 1994, they have done little good with their power. President Bill [...]
1May1999 | Doug Bandow | 2 comments | ContinuedThe Art of Plunder
When the Washington Post recently honored Sidney Yates, 89, on the occasion of his retirement, the headline emphasized that he “Made His Mark on the Arts.” Is Sidney Yates a composer? Musician? Painter? Poet? Writer? None of the above. He was a congressman. Don’t laugh. In Washington, you can make your mark on the arts [...]
1Jan1999 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedIs Anyone Still for Limited Government?
Doug Bandow, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books, including Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World. The collapse of the supposed Republican Revolution has demonstrated the truth of George Wallace’s taunt three long decades ago: there ain’t a [...]
1Sep1998 | Doug Bandow | 2 comments | ContinuedNotes from FEE: Repeal, Repeal, Repeal
Even if the course of the Federal Juggernaut does not change significantly in the coming months, we are pleased to see a change of drivers. The reins of power when held for long periods of time breed inefficiency, arrogance, corruption, and many other vices. To change the drivers is to recondition the monster and make [...]
1Jan1995 | Hans F. Sennholz | 0 comments | Continued-
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