Publications

Hillary Clinton wants to throw $350 billion at higher education to buy votes, er, make college more affordable. But we have pumped billions of dollars in federal money to higher education and it has only gotten more expensive.

James Madison, and George Mason before him, were clear in the language in the Fourth Amendment, that the people and anything they own must be protected from unreasonable and warrantless government searches and seizures. So why aren't we?

You may not own a Tesla, but your taxes are helping pay for one. Now it appears the company is going further, shifting from just benefiting from the government to using the power of government to make it harder for its competitors to compete.

To achieve real economic growth, tax reform must be a tax cut.

The Americans with Disabilities Act seems to have been a big success at increasing the disabled's access to workplaces, buildings and transportation. So why has the number of Americans receiving disability income grown so dramatically since the ADA passed? 

Given government's inability to protect sensitive personal information, public policy should move toward putting less, rather than more, taxpayer information in the hands of government.

Hillary Clinton and the Chinese government both want to force investors to hold stocks longer.  The Chinese are using coercion and the secret police; Hillary only wants to use the tax system—at least for now. 

The new normal for the technology industry interacting with Washington, DC seems to be to argue for niche pieces of the broad ecosystem which has left the industry open to being easily attacked, even by wholly false stories, by those who oppose a free market.

President Obama spoke at the White House Conference on Aging, but what's really getting old is having to "truth-check" all of his claims.

This a tale of a country so immersed in fiscal responsibility and anti-growth economic policies that it has threatened the global financial system—and I am not talking only about Greece.