On March 9, 2010, Reason’s Tim Cavanaugh discussed Greece’s financial problems on Fox Business’ Cavuto . Approximately 5 minutes. Scroll down for downloadable iPod and audio versions.
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Reason Writers on the Tube: Tim Cavanaugh Talks Greece’s Financial Crisis on Fox Business’ Cavuto
As soon as the Supreme Court decision came down in January ruling that the corporate spending ban violated free-speech rights, a number of leading Democrats demanded action to undo this unconscionable wrong. But as Steve Chapman explains, imposing new restrictions on speech is no way to enhance democracy.
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New at Reason: Steve Chapman on the Misguided Liberal Response to Citizens United
With the tedious details of healthcare “reform” and tickle-fighting fantasists sucking up all of the media oxygen, it takes someone like James Pethokoukis, the most informative Greek-American since Dimetrios Synodinos , to remind us that President Obama is neglecting (or purposefully ignoring) a hugely important issue: free trade . Not that Obama has a problem with trade. In his State of the Union speech to Congress last January, he stated an ambitious goal of doubling U.S exports by 2015. It is trade policy that he seems uncomfortable with
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Whatever Happened to Free Trade?
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Nancy Pelosi may be convinced that we have to pass health care reform in order to find out what’s in it, but if it passes, there’s at least one provision we can already count on: an individual mandate to buy health insurance. Polling shows that this requirement is one of the bill’s least popular features, so it’s not exactly surprising to find that states are taking action to allow individuals to bypass such requirements. More than 30 states are considering such laws, and a ban on mandatory insurance has already passed in the Virginia Senate .
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Can States Say “No Thanks” to ObamaCare’s Health Insurance Mandate?
In my mailbox yesterday, addressed to “Resident”: You probably got one too! Apparently, it’s Next-Week-Is-Census-Day Day! Once the initial “you have got to be kidding me” response subsided, I called up the folks at the Census Bureau and they were kind enough to send me their canned response to the “are you freaking kidding me?” calls and emails they have been getting all day. Excerpted below: Thank you for your email. We here at the Census Bureau certainly understand your concern, and I want to assure you we care a great deal about being good stewards of the taxpayer’s money…. Based on historical response rates, we expect roughly two thirds of households will mail back their form. The rest we will have to send an enumerator to collect the data required by the Constitution. You can imagine that follow-up is an expensive proposition. In fact, every one percent increase in the number of households who mail back the form saves the taxpayers about $85 million in expensive door-to-door follow up. That’s why we advertise and promote, to increase the mail back response rate and help save on expensive labor to follow up.
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Census Bureau Misses Chance to Create Make-Work Jobs
Now run my health care! Aren’t there a coupla wars going on? A financial crisis? Health-care debates
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Thank God The FCC is Finally Looking Into Dr. Phil’s 2006 Show About Masturbation!
“The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C.,” Nancy Pelosi declared upon become speaker of the House, “and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.” How’s that going?
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Here’s Your Earmark. On a Completely Unrelated Matter…
Four Democratic senators have come out in favor of green energy protectionism according to an AP story the New York Times : A group of Democratic senators urged the Obama administration to suspend an economic stimulus program aimed at financing renewable energy, complaining that money is going to projects that are creating jobs in foreign countries. ”We can’t jump-start our economy and pull ourselves out of this recession if we are putting Chinese workers ahead of American workers,” New York Sen.
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Senators Press For Green Energy Trade War
Slate ’s Tim Noah counts the votes for ObamaCare in the House and comes to the conclusion that, without an act of God—or at least a letter from the Pope, who could perhaps flip some pro-life Democrats—there isn’t enough support for the bill to pass. For a more cautious, but equally thorough, take on the vote count, see Daniel Nichanian at Campaign Diaries . The best response the bill’s supporters have left is to point out that a number of House Democrats who voted for the original bill have (so far) declined to confirm that they’ll vote no again
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One, Two, Three, Four, Counting the Votes For Health Reform
