First Principles

Last week, the RGJ asked me to contribute my thoughts to Harry Reid’s retirement – here they are.  It’s amazing, though, how fast the news cycle can be.  Since I submitted my piece, two new items came to light which make my critique seem almost quaint. First is Reid’s disgusting confirmation that he was perfectly […]

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Conservatives and union activists rarely agree on things, but they do share this common mistake – they conflate public employee unions with public employees generally.  Both are very wrong to do so. That’s why, as a guy who has spent most of his adult lifetime working for the government, I have no problem calling out […]

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My latest at the RGJ is up, about the ridiculous and somewhat insulting emptiness of the Nevada Democratic Caucus’ recently published campaign flier/legislative agenda.  The thing about emptiness is that there’s only so much you can say, which makes this a shorter post. (You have to click through, though, and check out the comments.  There’s […]

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Party That Allegedly Opposes Unethical Payoffs to Political Cronies With Taxpayer Dollars Elects Unethical Tax-dollar Wasting Crony “Capitalist” to Lead Party Taken in the kindest possible light, new GOP Chair Michael McDonald’s past and current “property development” activities proves that he’s all for government-forced redistribution of wealth.  A more honest assessment would be that he’s […]

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On the one hand, you have a group of Americans spending their time and money to demand that the government give them more of other people’s money. On the other hand, you have another group spending their time and money to demand that the government give them less of other people’s money. Hmm. Something to […]

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And it’s in the books. I think McCain decisively whupped up on Obama on this one, especially on the issues.  It’s clear why Obama didn’t want to do any more of these.  The questions, though, seemed pretty pedestrian.  I wish Brokaw hadn’t filtered them first – it would have been much better had people been […]

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From Professor Richard Epstein, a libertarian prof at the University of Chicago.  (I’ve met Prof. Epstein a couple of times, but if he remembers me it will be only because I helped host a debate in which a Marxist prof at our law school called him the Beelzebub….) Anyway, I love his breakdown:

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