Tag Archives: Cato Institute
The Failure of Anti-Money Laundering Laws
A new video released today by the Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation (CF&P) discusses how anti-money laundering laws, which require banks to snoop on their customers, are costly and ineffective. Entitled “Making Banks Spy on Their Customers is Not Effective Crime Fighting: The Failure of Anti-Money Laundering Laws,” the mini-documentary explains that these laws [...]
Posted in Limited Government, Privacy Also tagged Anti-Money Laundering Laws, Center for Freedom and Prosperity, Dan Mitchell 2 Comments
Stimulus II: A Sequel America Can’t Afford
Once again, Dan Mitchell, for the Cato Institute has done an excellent job of exposing the failures of the 1st “stimulus” plan and the threat of another. Great job Dan and thanks for sending it on to us.
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 out [...]
Posted in Economics 101, President Obama Also tagged CEI, For Freedom's Sake, Jobs Destroyed, Obama, Stimulus Plan, The Washington Examiner Leave a comment
First The EPA Cover-up…Now Original Climate Data Destroyed
Now that the Cap and Trade battle is heating-up we find, once again, that American’s are being deprived of the facts behind the alleged science of global warming. Our friends at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) are all over this latest scandal as they were regarding the EPA’s cover-up of their findings that the EPA [...]
Posted in Enviro Politics Also tagged Competitive Enterprise Institute, EPA, Global Warming, Sam Kazman Leave a comment
I Am Finally Scared of a White House Administration
by Nat Hentoff Added to cato.org on August 20, 2009 This article appeared in RealClearPolitics.com on August 20, 2009. I was not intimidated during J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI hunt for reporters like me who criticized him. I railed against the Bush-Cheney war on the Bill of Rights without blinking. But now I am finally scared [...]
Posted in Socialized Medicine Also tagged Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, Nat Hentoff, National Health Care, Obamacare, President Obama, Rahm Emanuel, Socialized Medicine 1 Comment
What Is The Free-Market Approach To Health Care Reform?
If you are still confused as to what needs to be done to reform health care and to promote an efficient free-market system here is a link to some great resources provided by the Cato Institute. This is a pivotal issue for our time and every citizen must be equipped with the facts. Cato promotes [...]
Posted in Socialized Medicine Also tagged Free-Market Apporach to Health Care Reform, Health Care Reform 2 Comments
It Wasn’t A ‘Coup’
It is important to understand the constitutionality of what happened in Honduras with the removal of President Manuel Zelaya, their Constitutional process, how the law was upheld, and how the Obama administration is advocating a policy in direct conflict with the ‘rule-of-law.’ Juan Carlos Hidalgo, the project coordinator for Latin American, at the Cato Institute, [...]
Posted in Constitutional Government Also tagged Forbes, Hondraus, Juan Carlos Hidalgo, Latin America, President Manuel Zelaya, President Obama Leave a comment
Setting the Record Straight on Health Care Reform
The Cato Institute and it’s scholars, Michael D. Tanner and Michael F. Cannon dissect the president’s health care plan point by point in the following video. Please take the time to watch this short video which moves back and fourth between what President Obama said in the ABC New special on health care reform called [...]
Posted in Socialized Medicine Also tagged Health Care Reform, Michael D. Tanner, Michael F. Cannon, President Obama Leave a comment
