By Roger Pilon
E.J. Dionne was in high dudgeon at the Washington Post this morning over Citizens United, the Supreme Court’s January 2010 campaign finance decision that ever since has driven the Left into fits of apoplexy. Taking his cue from Obama’s infamous State-of-the-Union condemnation of the Court shortly after the decision came down, plus the class warfare [...]
E.J. Dionne on Campaign Finance as Class Warfare is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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By John Samples
Those who advocate for more restrictions on campaign finance generally practice a populist politics. They fulminate against the influence of money, demonize donors, and ascribe all the nation’s problems to Citizens United. Once you have read an example such reformist rhetoric, you have read all of them. (But if you must read more, here’s E.J. [...]
As It Turns Out, Money Is Speech is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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By Ilya Shapiro
One of our oldest laws, the Alien Tort Statute (1789), grants federal courts jurisdiction over lawsuits brought by aliens for actions “in violation of the law of nations.” Courts have differed in their method of interpreting this “law of nations” — an old way of saying “international law” – and thus in their decisions on what [...]
The ‘Law of Nations’ Is What It Was in 1789 is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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By Tim Lynch
Today, Cato is releasing a new study, Tough Targets: When Criminals Face Armed Resistance from Citizens, by Clayton Cramer and David Burnett. The paper makes use of a news report-gathering project to explore in more detail how Americans use guns in self-defense. The paper makes many excellent points, but I’ll mention just three here. First, the [...]
New Cato Study: Tough Targets is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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By Juan Carlos Hidalgo
Panama is in turmoil due to the efforts of President Ricardo Martinelli to resurrect a defunct specialized court within the Supreme Court that would allow him to pack that body and possibly pave the way for his reelection. First, some context: The nine-Justice Panamanian Supreme Court is divided in four specialized courts dealing with specific [...]
A Brewing Institutional Crisis in Panama is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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By Jim Harper
News that incautious comments on “tweeter” got British tourists excluded from the United States had Twitter alight yesterday. (Paperwork given to one of the two, on display in this news …
‘Destroy America’ = Suspicion Fail is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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By Walter Olson
Pietro Ichino, a professor of labor law at the University of Milan and a senator in the Italian legislature, is known as the author of several “neoliberal” books and studies …
Labor Law Professors Defy Death Threats in Italy is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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By Daniel J. Mitchell
Leftists want higher tax rates and they want greater tax compliance. But they have a hard time understanding that those goals are inconsistent.
Simply stated, people respond to incentives. When tax …
New Academic Study Confirms Previous IMF Analysis, Shows that Lower Tax Rates Are the Best Way to Reduce Tax Evasion is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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By Ilya Shapiro
If the First Amendment means anything, then school officials cannot prohibit students from handing out gifts with Christmas messages due to the religious content of those messages. Nonetheless, the Fifth Circuit …
The First Amendment Protects Students’ Rights to Speak on Religious Subjects is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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By Neal McCluskey
Today is the mid-point of National School Choice Week, and we’re once again rockin’ to the oldies of prognostication. This time we’re going all the way back to the Mann. That’s Horace Mann, the “Father of the Common School” himself. It is Mann who, among many things, is probably most responsible for introducing one of the deepest underlying sentiments supporting government schooling: [...]
No Common Schools, No Peace? is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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