Articles
-
Good Government
It's Our Liberty, Stupid
A few years back, Justice Antonin Scalia said of a bad U.S. Supreme Court majority opinion: "Most bad precedents come as a wolf dressed in sheep's clothing. This one comes as a wolf."Patrick B. McGuigan | March 3, 2009
-
Good Government
The Seen and the Unseen
Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man. This is no accident. The inherent difficulties of the subject would be great enough in any case, but they are multiplied a thousandfold by a factor that is insignificant in, say, physics, mathematics, or medicine-the special pleading of selfish interests.Henry Hazlitt | March 3, 2009
-
Good Government
Crowding Out Oklahoma's Private Sector
Government gets its money by either taxing the private sector or borrowing from the private sector. In extreme cases, the government can print its own money.J. Scott Moody & Wendy Warcholik, Ph.D. | March 3, 2009
-
Good Government
A tale of two management teams
Should the unsuccessful regulate the successful?Bruce N. Shortt | March 1, 2009
-
Good Government
Ensuring That Only Citizens Vote
We may never know how many non-citizens voted illegally on November 4.Hans A. von Spakovsky | January 23, 2009
-
Good Government
Job Losses in Every Sector -- Well, Almost Every Sector
One wonders how much longer taxpayers -- especially those who find themselves newly unemployed -- will put up with bloated government employment levels in Oklahoma.Brandon Dutcher | January 12, 2009
-
Good Government
Why I Am a Liberal
Words mean something. As human beings we stand alone in our use of language as our primary method of communication. We have confidence in our words and we resist any attempt to co-opt, twist, or manipulate their meaning.Everett Piper | January 11, 2009
-
Good Government
Don't Bail Out the States
State governments from New York to California are begging Washington to bail them out of a combined $48 billion budget shortfall estimated for 2009.Brian M. Riedl | January 6, 2009
-
Good Government
Bailout Fallout
Thomas Paine was wrong about many things, but right when he said the American Revolution was a time that tried men’s souls. Today we face times to try the souls of even the best and strongest women and men.Patrick B. McGuigan | November 4, 2008
-
Good Government
Government, Not Markets, Caused Financial Meltdown
Make no mistake: the government, not the free market, created this fiasco. The solution, therefore, is not more government, but the end of all regulations and business privileges.Sheldon Richman | November 4, 2008