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Human Events

Who's to Blame for ObamaCare? Two Conservatives!

December 30, 2009

(I wrote the following article for Human Events, but apparently it was too controversial and was removed after about 100 e-letters of commentary, both favorable and critical. Read here’s the original op-ed, uncensured.)

By Mark Skousen
This week the Senate grinches stole Christmas. The Obama Nation is getting Obama Care.
It’s easy to blame the [...]

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Start Your Own Tax Revolt — Without Getting In Trouble

April 15, 2009

From Human Events
“A virtuous and industrious people may be cheaply governed.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
“Little else is required to carry a state to the highest level of opulence but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice.” ~ Adam Smith
Today, on April 15 Tax Day, hundreds of thousands of citizens are protesting out of control [...]

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Was the Great Depression Good for Us?

April 14, 2009

From Human Events

“Everything was all right in those years, but only if you had a job.” ~ Grandmother of Amity Shlaes in The Forgotten Man

Can the worst of times also be the best of times? When we think of the Great Depression of the 1930s, we are quick to recall the soup lines, bank closings, [...]

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Proof Is in the Dow

March 2, 2009

From Human Events
“The Obama budget is nothing less than an attempt to end the ideas of Ronald Reagan.” — New York Times
Adam Smith, the father of free-market economics, once stated, “There is much ruin in a nation.”  President Obama is out to prove it in his Newspeak program he calls “A New Era of Responsibility.”  [...]

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Obamanomics Is Making Matters Worse

February 24, 2009

From Human Events
Unfortunately, the [Keynesian] balance week is unbalanced. ~ Milton Friedman
We have outlived the short-run and are suffering from the long-run consequences of [Keynesian] policies. ~ Ludwig von Mises
Last week, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner announced another solution to the financial crisis — his new “Financial Stability Plan.” Since the announcement, Citigroup has fallen 51 [...]

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