January 7, 2009 10:32AM # Who’s Blogging --- SHARE - Examining the state of gun rights in the District of Columbia since the *[Heller case](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_v._Heller)*, UCLA law professor Adam Winkler quotes Cato Chairman Robert A. Levy on the [American Constitution Society blog.](http://www.acsblog.org/constitutional-interpretation-and-change-the-new-second-amendment-a-bark-worse-than-its-right.html) - Cato Senior Fellow Daniel J. Mitchell [weighs in](http://blog.thehill.com/2009/01/06/the-big-question-jan-6-obamas-tax-cuts/) on Obama’s tax policy on *The Hill’s* Congress blog: > President-Elect Obama reportedly will include $300 billion of tax relief in his so-called stimulus scheme. This supposedly will give fiscal conservatives a reason to vote for the proposal, but lawmakers who favor limited government should look before they leap – especially if they actually want to improve economic growth. - [Fr33A​gents​.com](http://fr33agents.com/shut-em-down/), a blog devoted to following the liberty movement, embeds Cato’s new video, *[Downsizing the Federal Government](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBZgyaA9Ryw&eurl=http://fr33agents.com/shut-em-down/&feature=player_embedded).* Tom Pearson writes: > As federal and state governments scramble to shore up the tanking economy by doing more of what got us to this point in the first place: [meddling and spending](../2008/12/30/government-stimulation-shouldnt-the-economy-be-booming/), it will be interesting to see which government programs/​expenditures, if any, get cut. No doubt budget conversations this year will be drastically different than last year’s, as expenditures and “services” deemed indispensable and essential last year suddenly don’t seem as necessary. - Writing about the efficiency of private enterprise over public projects, Wayne Crews links to Cato’s recent study, *[Markets vs. Monopolies in Education: A Global Review of the Evidence](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9634),* on “[Dysfunction Network](http://hyperfamily.blogspot.com/2009/01/school-choice-evidence-from-around.html).” - Charles R. Anderson comments on Daniel J. Mitchell’s post, *[Obama Wants 600,000 More Bureaucrats](../2009/01/05/obama-wants-600000-more-bureaucrats/)* on his blog, “[Objectivist Individualist](http://objectivistindividualist.blogspot.com/2009/01/obama-wants-600000-more-bureaucrats.html)” ##### Related Tags [General](https://www.cato.org/general) [![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).