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Posted by Julian Sanchez on March 9, 2010
By Julian Sanchez
Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) has just fired off a letter to Barack Obama urging him to finally appoint some members to the long-vacant Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, echoing a similar recent request from a coalition of civil liberties groups.
I don’t think anyone should make excuses for Obama’s appalling about-face on Patriot Act reform, [...]
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Tags: Law and Civil Liberties, patrick leahy, Patriot Act, privacy and civil liberties oversight board, white house | 
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Posted by John Samples on March 9, 2010
By John Samples
The Center for Competitive Politics has just published a new poll measuring public views about the recent Citizens United decision. The poll provides a lot of interesting information.
About one in five said they were aware of the decision. Fully 60 percent of respondents said they were not aware of the case, and it is fair [...]
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Tags: Government and Politics, Law and Civil Liberties | No Comments »
Posted by John Samples on March 9, 2010
By John Samples
The Center for Competitive Politics has just published a new poll measuring public views about the recent Citizens United decision. The poll provides a lot of interesting information.
About one in five said they were aware of the decision. Fully 60 percent of respondents said they were not aware of the case, and it is fair [...]
Categories: Congress, Politics |
Tags: campaign finance regulation, citizens united, Government and Politics, Law and Civil Liberties, legislation, public opinion | No Comments »
Posted by Tad DeHaven on March 4, 2010
By Tad DeHaven
U.S. News & World Report’s columnist Paul Bedard reports that Transportation secretary Ray LaHood told him that it’s fun playing Santa Claus to states and cities around the nation.
So let’s take a look at some recent examples of DOT gift-giving with federal taxpayers’ money:
DOT’s Federal Highway Administration helped restore an old brewery in Petosi, Wisconsin [...]
Categories: Congress, Politics, Tax and Budget Policy |
Tags: brewery, California, funding, New York, questionable, Ray LaHood, spending, state governments, stimulus, taxpayer money, taxpayers, transportation | No Comments »
Posted by Chris Edwards on March 3, 2010
By Chris Edwards
1. Additional federal spending transfers resources from the more productive private sector to the less productive public sector of the economy. The bulk of federal spending goes toward subsidies and benefit payments, which generally do not enhance economic productivity. With lower productivity, average American incomes will fall.
2. As federal spending rises, it creates pressure to [...]
Categories: Congress, Economy, Politics, Tax and Budget Policy |
Tags: Bankrupt, bankruptcy, business, competition, Constitution, constitutional, cost overruns, democracy, downsizing government, environment, farm subsidies, federal aid, federal budget, federal government, federal spending, federalism, financial crises, fraud, Government, Government and Politics | No Comments »
Posted by Chris Edwards on March 3, 2010
By Chris Edwards
1. Additional federal spending transfers resources from the more productive private sector to the less productive public sector of the economy. The bulk of federal spending goes toward subsidies and benefit payments, which generally do not enhance economic productivity. With lower productivity, average American incomes will fall.
2. As federal spending rises, it creates pressure to [...]
Categories: Congress, Economy, Politics, Tax and Budget Policy |
Tags: Bankrupt, bankruptcy, business, competition, Constitution, constitutional, cost overruns, democracy, downsizing government, environment, farm subsidies, federal aid, federal budget, federal government, federal spending, federalism, financial crises, fraud, Government, Government and Politics, government failure, income, innovation, james madison, market, petition, politicians, private sector, productivity, state government, state governments, tax, tax avoidance, Taxes, the economy, war, welfare | No Comments »
Posted by Michael F. Cannon on March 3, 2010
By Michael F. Cannon
In a letter to congressional leaders, President Obama wrote of his openness to including Republican proposals in his health care legislation.
Dropping a few Republican ideas into a government takeover of health care is like sterilizing the needle before a lethal injection: a nice thought, but the ultimate outcome is the same.
Two of the four [...]
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Tags: Cato Publications, consumer, General, government spending, government takeover, Health, health care arena, health care legislation, health savings, health savings account, health savings accounts, Health, Welfare & Entitlements, healthcare, legislation, medicaid, medical malpractice, Medicare, obama, President Obama, republican proposals, spending | No Comments »
Posted by Julian Sanchez on February 25, 2010
By Julian Sanchez
It looks as though we’ll be getting a straight one-year reauthorization of the expiring provisions of the Patriot Act, without even the minimal added safeguards for privacy and civil liberties that had been proposed in the Senate’s watered down bill. This is disappointing, but was also eminently predictable: Between health care and the economy, it [...]
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Tags: civil liberties, Foreign Policy and National Security, General, Government and Politics, information, Law and Civil Liberties, Patriot Act, privacy, reauthorization, surveillance, Telecom, Internet & Information Policy, telecommunications | No Comments »
