The Cost of Progressivist Worship | Jim Powell | Cato Institute: Commentary

The Cost of Progressivist Worship | Jim Powell | Cato Institute: Commentary: "Why is it that one government report after another 'unexpectedly' bears more bad news about jobs? Last week, according to Bloomberg, 'The number of unemployment claims unexpectedly shot up.' Before that, Reuters reported, 'Employers unexpectedly cut jobs.' This 'unexpectedly' bit has been going on for quite a while, suggesting that journalists continue to be surprised that President Obama's progressive agenda has failed to revive private-sector job creation. One might as well say, 'Monday unexpectedly will come next week.'"

What Obama Could Learn from Paterson | Nat Hentoff | Cato Institute: Commentary

What Obama Could Learn from Paterson | Nat Hentoff | Cato Institute: Commentary: "'In a democracy,' Governor Paterson said, 'there are times when safety and liberty find themselves in conflict. From the Alien and Sedition Acts [opposition to which gave Thomas Jefferson the presidency] to the Patriot Act, we have experienced moments where liberty took a back seat.'"

The Deficit Is a Symptom, Spending Is the Disease | Michael D. Tanner | Cato Institute: Commentary

The Deficit Is a Symptom, Spending Is the Disease | Michael D. Tanner | Cato Institute: Commentary: "the real issue is not how you pay for government spending — debt or taxes — but the spending itself. In other words: Don't just look at the deficit, look at why we have a deficit. And the reason we have a deficit is pretty simple: Government spends too much."

Campaign For Liberty — Liberty and Prosperity

Campaign For Liberty — Liberty and Prosperity: "This November's choice between capitalism and socialism is not about whether you are rich or poor right now; it is about which of those two you wish to be tomorrow.

The inescapable lesson of economic history is that free market economies make everyone unequally richer, while state-controlled economies make everyone equally poorer. Which do you prefer - rich or equal? Free people overwhelmingly choose rich, which is why socialism can only be imposed by force or fraud."

"You and the Chairman of the Federal Reserve understand that people will not risk their life savings and work like a dog to bequeath their rewards to the IRS."

"Confiscating earnings from high earners does not make the poor richer anymore than cutting the heads off of tall people makes short people taller. All it does is increase government power and control over rich and poor alike, which is what the upcoming tax debate is really all about."

Can Obama Order Executions of Citizens Abroad? | Gene Healy | Cato Institute: Commentary

Can Obama Order Executions of Citizens Abroad? | Gene Healy | Cato Institute: Commentary: "It's the much-maligned Glenn Beck who called this one correctly. On a recent show, the excitable Tea Party guru had 'no problem' with killing American terrorist suspects on the battlefield: 'But away from the battlefield? ... Call me a little nostalgic for the Constitution.'"

"But as Kevin Williamson writes at NRO, it's not so much 'what this administration might do with such power, but what an administration 50 years down the road might do with it.' In a seemingly endless war, the powers we cede now could be available to future presidents in perpetuity."