Government Intrusion

The backlash from the Raleigh ban on garbage disposals has the rest of the state chuckling. But it's not funny for the residents who are ready to turn these council members out on ... Keep Reading

In this just-released study by the Heartland Institute and Competitive Enterprise Institute (pdf), the property and casualty insurance environment (think auto and home insurance) ... Keep Reading

Donald Boudreaux has this outstanding piece in today's Pittsburgh-Tribune, in which he replies to one of the left's most stale and lazy tactics - dismissing free-market advocates ... Keep Reading

More spurious labor economics from our friends at the Progressive Pulse (and Gubernatorial candidate Richard Moore apparently):Earlier this week, Democratic gubernatorial candidate ... Keep Reading

North Carolina is losing it's edge. This eye-opening state-by-state index by Art Laffer and Steven Moore illustrates convincingly the close correlation between state policy and ... Keep Reading

Great piece on why progressives have a huge hand in the government-caused mortgage crisis:Perhaps the greatest scandal of the mortgage crisis is that it is a direct result of an ... Keep Reading

Check out this video as grassroots residents in Pinewild fight (forcibe annexation [read: theft]) by their neighbors in Pinehurst. -Max Borders ... Keep Reading

Keynes's corpse has awakened. It bit somebody and now throngs of Keynesian zombies are running around Washington croaking "stimulus, STIMULUS." They should be saying ... Keep Reading

Rob Schofield over at Policy Watch offers up this painfully shallow piece on the subprime/foreclosure mess. It’s amazing at the incredible lack of depth in Schofield’s ... Keep Reading

I've written before on the importance of unintended and hidden consequences. Short-sighted bureaucrats and feel-good pundits still just don't seem to get it. This NYT piece ... Keep Reading