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Patrick Basham
Opinion and Commentary
"Can the UK Avert a Smoking Irish Failure?," by Patrick Basham and John Luik, politics.co.uk, October 29, 2009
"NYC: The City That Never Smokes," by Patrick Basham and John Luik, Spiked (Online), October 26, 2009
"An Absence of Tobacco Evidence," politics.co.uk, September 11, 2009
"Afghanistan's Democratic Debacle," Cato.org, August 20, 2009
"Displaying The Truth About Policymaking," Spiked (Online), August 13, 2009
"Obesity Police's Shaky Science," by Patrick Basham and John Luik, Baltimore Sun, July 29, 2009
"Banning Alcohol Ads Won't Cure Alcoholism," by Patrick Basham and John Luik, Spiked (Online), July 21, 2009
"Turning Fat People into Social Outcasts," by Patrick Basham and John Luik, Spiked (Online), June 30, 2009
"Smoke Gets in the Government's Eyes," by Patrick Basham and John Luik, Spiked (Online), June 23, 2009
"Keep FDA Away from Tobacco," Orange County Register, June 3, 2009
"Displaying Their Ignorance on Smoking," by Patrick Basham and John Luik, Spiked (Online), April 29, 2009
"Four Fat Myths about Obesity and Cancer," by Patrick Basham and John Luik, Spiked (Online), February 26, 2009
"Stephen Harper: One of U.S.," Ottawa Citizen, October 13, 2008
"Political Perils of Overregulation," Washington Times, September 22, 2008
"Mac's Late Rally with His Money Message," New York Post, September 20, 2008
"Should People in Democratic Glass Houses Throw Stones?," Pravda, August 21, 2008
"Up in Smoke," Balitmore Sun (Online), July 28, 2008
"Why Muslims Still Hate Us," Tampa Tribune, July 28, 2008
"Fat Risks? Sumo, Some Less," by John Luik and Patrick Basham, Washington Times, July 11, 2008
"Phantom Plastic Peril," by Patrick Basham and John Luik, American Spectator (Online), April 23, 2008
"Share Power in Haste and You'll Repent at Leisure," AllAfrica.com, March 31, 2008
"How Should Kenya Confront the Past?," African Press International, March 21, 2008
"Free-Market Course," National Review (Online), March 10, 2008
"Do the Math," National Review (Online), January 10, 2008
"Contestable Conclusions," by Patrick Basham and John Luik, National Review (Online), November 26, 2007
"Put Out This Tobacco Bill," The New York Times, August 3, 2007
"Live Earth's Inconvenient Truths," Washington Times, July 11, 2007
"French President Sarkozy, the American?," SFGate.com, April 26, 2007
"Ottawa's Backward Anti-Americanism," Washington Times, December 30, 2005
"Gift from Canada?," Washington Times, December 2, 2005
"Bloomberg Had the Right Idea," National Review (Online), November 9, 2005
"Reenergizing Democracy," Cato.org, November 8, 2005
"In Scandalous Times, Bush Could Learn from Clinton," Fox News (Online), November 4, 2005
"Thatcher Again?," by Patrick Basham and Marian L. Tupy, National Review (Online), September 16, 2005
"A Government Spread Too Thin," The Baltimore Sun, September 9, 2005
"Democracy Demands Ousting the Incumbent Class," Fox News (Online), August 4, 2005
"Blair in a Pickle," American Spectator (Online), July 29, 2005
"London Falling," American Spectator (Online), July 8, 2005
"Dems Roll Back Campaign 'Reform'," New York Post, June 8, 2005
"Don't Tighten Travel Rules," USA Today, May 1, 2005
"The Pope, the President, and the Changing Catholic Voter," Cato.org, April 15, 2005
"A Long View of Short Careers: The Case for Voluntary Term Limits," Reason (Online), March 15, 2005
"Guarding the Democratic Henhouse," Cato.org, January 13, 2005
"Secession is a Hollywood Fantasy," by Patrick Basham and Niels Veldhuis, Cato.org, November 29, 2004
"Once Again, Incumbents Are the Big Winners," by John Samples and Patrick Basham, Fox News (Online), November 21, 2004
"How Did Freedom Fare on Election Day?," Cato.org, November 9, 2004
"Bigger Government Leads to Bigger Campaign Spending," Cato.org, November 1, 2004
"Spending is Not a Problem," USA Today, October 27, 2004
"Bring Back the Gov's Idea - Term Limits," Daily News, October 5, 2004
"Upcoming Iraqi Election Foretells Stillborn Democracy," Cato.org, September 30, 2004
"Iraqi Democracy Stumbles at Starting Gate," Cato.org, August 11, 2004
"A Sovereign Iraq: Now, the Hard Part," Cato.org, June 30, 2004
"Bush Hasn't Learned His Democratic Lesson," by Patrick Basham and Christopher Preble, Cato.org, June 18, 2004
"Ronald Reagan's Cross-Border Legacy," Cato.org, June 11, 2004
"Do Electoral Systems Affect Government Size?," Cato.org, June 9, 2004
"Big Government and Billion Dollar Campaigns," Cato.org, May 24, 2004
"Term Limits: Still Alive and Kickin'," Cato.org, May 22, 2004
"No Quick Democracy in Iraq," Cato.org, May 5, 2004
"Maryland Should Beware False Promise of Taxpayer Funding," by Patrick Basham and Martin Zelder, The Baltimore Sun, March 9, 2004
"A Mistaken President," Cato.org, February 2, 2004
"A Captive Saddam Won't Set Iraq Free," Cato.org, January 14, 2004
"Rolling Democratic Dice in Iraq," Insight, December 22, 2003
"A Very Republican Disaster," by John Samples and Patrick Basham, National Review (Online), December 11, 2003
"Campaign Reform: It's Anything But," New York Post, December 11, 2003
"Democracy in Iraq, Acts I and II," Cato.org, December 8, 2003
"The Trouble With Democracy in the Middle East," by Patrick Basham and Christopher Preble, Cato.org, November 30, 2003
"Move On! The Benefits of Instant Transition," Cato.org, October 23, 2003
"Ontario Conservatives Provide Electoral Lesson," Cato.org, October 14, 2003
"The Silver Lining in California's Recall Cloud," Cato.org, September 18, 2003
"In Case of Emergency, Blame Term Limits," Cato.org, September 15, 2003
"Gambling with History: Bringing Democracy to the Middle East," Cato.org, August 26, 2003
"Constitutional divide between U.S. and EU," by Marian L. Tupy and Patrick Basham, Washington Times, June 26, 2003
"US-EU: The Constitutional Divide," by Marian L. Tupy and Patrick Basham, Washington Times, June 25, 2003
"Squaring the Democratic Circle: Constitutional Options for Post-War Iraq," Cato.org, May 5, 2003
"Flying Blind on the Path to a Democratic Iraq," Cato.org, May 4, 2003
"Can Iraq Be Democratic?," Cato.org, April 25, 2003
"A Democratic Iraq? Don't Hold Your Breath," Cato.org, March 31, 2003
"The Financial Limits on Political Competition," Cato.org, March 28, 2003
"Europe's New Constitution: Philadelphia It Is Not," by Patrick Basham and Marian L. Tupy, Scripps Howard, March 4, 2003
"Tax Hikes Are Still Ballot Losers," by Patrick Basham and Chris Edwards, Cato.org, February 11, 2003
"Political Arrogance Without Limit," Cato.org, January 22, 2003
"Two Welcome Victories for Political Speech," Cato.org, January 5, 2003
"Political Ads: Why Limit a Good Thing?," by Patrick Basham and John Samples, Cato.org, December 5, 2002
"This Is Reform?," Cato.org, November 28, 2002
"How Did Freedom Fare on the Ballot?," Cato.org, November 25, 2002
"Is the Third Way at a Dead End?," Cato.org, November 5, 2002
"Meet the New Loopholes," by John Samples and Patrick Basham, The New York Times, November 5, 2002
"Maine's 'Clean' Elections Are Not More Competitive," by Patrick Basham and Martin Zelder, Cato.org, October 17, 2002
"The American Psyche One Year Later," by John Samples and Patrick Basham, Australian Financial Review, September 11, 2002
"Campaign Spending Limits Put Cap on Democracy," Cato.org, August 17, 2002
"Self-Limiters Practice What They Preach," Cato.org, August 4, 2002
"Merit Pay for Pols," National Review (Online), July 29, 2002
"Senators Move to Repeal Committee Term Limits," Fox News (Online), June 17, 2002
"Destroying Political Competition," National Post, June 13, 2002
"This Is Reform? Understanding the New Campaign Reality," Cato.org, March 22, 2002
"The Illiberal Reality of European-Style Campaign Reform," Fox News (Online), March 7, 2002
"California Dreamin'? The Campaign to End Term Limits," Cato.org, March 5, 2002
"Defining Democracy Down," Cato.org, February 9, 2002
"Campaign Finance Folly," by Patrick Basham and John Samples, Cato.org, January 12, 2002
"In Praise of the $69 Million Mayoral Campaign," Cato.org, December 29, 2001
"New Faces, Familiar Campaigns," Cato.org, November 8, 2001
"Let the Clock Run Out on Rudy," Cato.org, September 29, 2001
"New Yorkers Will Renew Their Freedom on September 25," Cato.org, September 24, 2001
"Term Limits Lessons for Campaign Reform," Cato.org, August 31, 2001
"D.C. City Council Rejects Voters and Freedom," by Patrick Basham and John Samples, Cato.org, July 1, 2001
"Campaign Finance Fantasyland," Cato.org, June 9, 2001
""Hard Money" Reform Protects Incumbents," Cato.org, April 4, 2001
"A Big-Bucks Push for 'Reform'," New York Post, March 26, 2001
"A Canadian Import We Don't Want," Scripps Howard, December 14, 2000
"Give The Voters What They Wanted: Smaller Government," New York Post, December 12, 2000
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