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Tea Partiers Shouldn't Date the GOP
John Samples in the Detroit News.
The Wrong Manhood Test
Christopher A. Preble and Heather Hurlburt on the defense budget in Politico.
Snow Forecast: Cloudy With a Chance of Accuracy
Patrick J. Michaels in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
South of the Border, the Cult of the Presidency
Gene Healy in the DC Examiner.
Spending Our Way to Stagnation
Daniel J. Mitchell on spending and growth in the National Post.

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"Senate Health Bill May Violate First Amendment"
by Michael F. Cannon

"‘I Keep My Core Beliefs Written on My Palm for Easy Reference.’"
by David Boaz

"NRA Shoots Itself in the Foot"
by Ilya Shapiro

February 8, 2010

Manipulating Science

Science is increasingly being manipulated by those who try to use it to justify political choices based on their ethical preferences and who are willing to suppress evidence of conflict between those preferences and the underlying reality. In a new study, author George Avery shows how this problem is clearly seen in two policy domains, health care and climate policy. "When we abandon the values and practices of science, or pervert them to support a predetermined agenda," says Avery, "we elevate 'appearances' and subordinate 'facts.'"

TARP as Congressional Failure

The story of the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) is a story of congressional failures. In a new study, Cato scholar John Samples explains how, as a result of vague goals and priorities, Congress lost control of the implementation of the law and unconstitutionally delegated its powers to the Treasury secretary. Argues Samples, "The facts of this case suggest that, in a crisis, our republican constitution has given way to unified technocratic power obscured by empty rituals of legislation and oversight."

Obama's Budget and the $1 Trillion Mistake

President Obama on Monday sent his budget to Congress, with the proposal that the government spend $3.83 trillion in fiscal 2011. Cato scholar Chris Edwards notes that the pricetag is $1.1 trillion more than the federal budget nine years ago had promised, a 41-percent forecasting error. Argues Edwards, "The lesson from all this is that an administration's promised spending beyond the first year is meaningless. ...It scares the hell out of me that federal spending down the road could be 41 percent higher than even the huge increases projected by Obama."


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