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Mandating Disaster

ObamaCare has nothing going for it anymore. With unemployment touching double digits, its economic timing is bad; with polls showing tanking support in every group outside of the narrow sliver of die-hard liberal reformers, its political timing ...

From SHIKHA DALMIA, Reason,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Congressional Budget Office,  Nancy Pelosi

Globalization With a Human Face

Free trade is never more necessary—or vulnerable—than in times of economic distress. The current global downturn is no exception. Protectionist barriers have shot up all over the world, including the United States. Earlier this year, Congress ...

From SHIKHA DALMIA, Reason,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  U.S. Republican Party,  Barack Obama,  Paul Krugman,  U.S. Democratic Party

That Darn Mandate

ObamaCare has nothing going for it anymore. With unemployment touching double digits, its economic timing is bad; with polls showing tanking support in every group outside of the narrow sliver of die-hard liberal reformers, its political timing is bad; ...

From SHIKHA DALMIA, Forbes,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Congressional Budget Office,  Nancy Pelosi

Dave Bing's Last-Second Shot

On November 3, voters in Detroit trudged to the polls and re-elected 65-year-old Mayor Dave Bing, giving him five new city council members to accomplish a mission impossible: bring Michigan's biggest city back from near death. There's no clear ...

From SHIKHA DALMIA, Reason,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Detroit News,  Dave Bing,  Kwame Kilpatrick,  Mackinac Center for Public Policy,  Wall Street Journal

What's Wrong With Ayn Rand?

Love her or hate her, you can't deny that Ayn Rand, the 20th century's most bellicose/eloquent (select adjective based on political persuasion) defender of laissez-faire capitalism, is experiencing a revival. Sales of her 50-year-old magnum opus, ...

From SHIKHA DALMIA, Reason,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ayn Rand,  John Galt,  Reason Magazine,  Alan Greenspan,  Friedrich Hayek

Obama, Race, and Health Care

After an exceedingly disappointing 10 months in office pursuing a hyper-partisan agenda, President Barack Obama reminded me last week of why, for a brief moment during his campaign eons ago last year, he actually won my heart. He seemed then to be a ...

From SHIKHA DALMIA, Reason,  25 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  White House,  Congressional Budget Office,  U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Senate

Health, Race And Obama

After an exceedingly disappointing 10 months in office pursuing a hyper-partisan agenda, President Barack Obama reminded me last week of why, for a brief moment during his campaign eons ago last year, he actually won my heart. He seemed then to be a ...

From SHIKHA DALMIA, Forbes,  21 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  White House,  Congressional Budget Office,  U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Senate

Obama's Health Care Plan: Put Up and Shut Up

For several months now, the American people—as if exhorted by the ghost of William F. Buckley (no particular hero of mine)—have been standing athwart the Democratic agenda of socialized medicine, yelling, "Stop!" But President Barack Obama showed them ...

From SHIKHA DALMIA, Reason,  14 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Hillary Rodham Clinton,  Max Baucus,  U.S. Congress,  U.S. Republican Party

About That Detroit Renaissance

Having lived in or near Detroit for almost 21 years, I am used to the buzz that erupts periodically about its renaissance being nigh. But the one that is currently making the rounds is truly fantastical. I arrived in Detroit (after a short stint in ...

From SHIKHA DALMIA, Reason,  11 Sep 2009

Related Topics: New York Times Company,  Kwame Kilpatrick,  Major League Baseball

The Evil-Mongering of the American Medical Association

In his war against terrorism, President George W. Bush declared a simple, binary formula to judge the world: "Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists." Now, Obama and the Democratic leadership have borrowed the same formula to draw the ...

From SHIKHA DALMIA, Reason,  27 Aug 2009

Related Topics: American Medical Association,  Barack Obama,  George W. Bush,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Congress

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