Category Archives: President Obama

Will Transparency Disappear?

By now, Americans are beginning to get the news about how unreliable or shall I say made up, the statistics are regarding the “stimulus jobs” really are. My post yesterday, “Even Obama’s Make-Believe Jobs Are Not Real,” gratus, Dan Mitchell of the Cato Institute and The Washington Examiner, which provided an interactive map pointing [...]

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American’s Should Be Angry About Explosion in “Czars”

No More Czars Please
American’s Should Be Angry About Explosion in “Czars”
By Lawrence W. Reed
Published: 19 June 2009
Since taking office, President Barack Obama has made creating “czars” a top priority. He has created a Car Czar, a Cybersecurity Czar and a Compensation Czar, just to name a few. Some counts put the total at 15 [...]

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Rhetoric and Reality and President Obama

Just a quick introductory note to the piece by Peter Boettke, you must keep reading, past the first two points, to get the the meat of Boettke’s brilliant insights to Obama’s rhetoric and reality. If you stop before then you might think Boettke is making an apologetic for Presient Obama. He is not.
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The ‘Forgotten People’ are Already Doing Something for Economic Recovery

By Dr. Steven Horwitz
We, at the For Freedom’s Sake blog, strive to bring clear arguments, written in plain English, into the marketplace of ideas in an effort to educate those who are willing to invest their time to understand what is going on in the world around them. We have found Dr. Steven Horwitz [...]

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Some Basic Economics of Public Policy

Dr. Peter Boettke, University Professor of Economics at George Mason University writes,
“…The US has made a lot of bad policy choices that violate the teachings of basic economics and common-sense for over half a century.  We have not yet destroyed the US economy through these choices, but we are potentially on that path. The most [...]

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President Obama and Constitutional Government - Part 1

Edwin Meese III, the 75th Attorney General of the United States, writes in an essay entitled, “The Meaning of the Constitution,” that “Part of the reason for the Constitution’s enduring strength is that it is the complement of the Declaration of Independence.  The Declaration provided the philosophical basis for a government that exercises legitimate power [...]

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