Rep. Ron Paul (“The truth about my student loan plan”) is upset that headlines have portrayed his budget plan “as immediately getting rid [...]

I had the opportunity to hear Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Greg Conko talk about the “precautionary principle” today. The precautionary principle was enshrined by the Rio Declaration on Development and Environment in 1992: “Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as [...]

Associated Press’s Sebastian Abbot criticized Pakistan’s Punjab province Wednesday for rejecting U.S. foreign aid, writing that “an [...]

Re: “Charles Darwin the Economist,” LA Times: Opinion, October 18 Robert Frank argues that “Darwin’s understanding of competition makes clear there can be no presumption it promotes the common good” since it often “provokes wasteful, mutually offsetting arms races.” Frank confuses the goals of evolutionary competition with those of market competition. Market [...]

Now that the Senate has rejected Obama’s American Jobs Act, it’s worth reflecting on what they passed up. A major proposal was an “infrustructure bank.” Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Wayne Crews has commented on this proposal over at Forbes.com:

I stopped by our bank Friday to get something notorized, and, damn, they were all out of [...]