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New American Revolution upon us, says SenatorYesterday I said: Fortunately, perhaps, the opportunity to do this doesn't come around very often. It did again in the 1860s, you might say; maybe even again in the 1940s. There's a reasonable argument to be made that the opportunity is here again today, though you have to admit, you...
July 4, 2006 Author: Matt Barr
Hit or mythDon Boudreaux says this is the third most pernicious economic myth there is: Democratically chosen government officials generally act with the intention of promoting the public interest, and they are uniquely positioned and qualified to determine what the details of the public interest are and to know best how to...
December 22, 2005 Author: Matt Barr Schadenfreudian slipIt simply can't be the case that power corrupts is news, but the estimable Michael Kinsley is stroking his chin today ostensibly on the case of Randy "Duke" Cunningham. Sample: [W]hat's corrupt here ... is simply the ability of money to give some people more influence than others over the...
December 2, 2005 Author: Matt Barr But Barney, why do we need an EU constitution?What if you lived in some strange land where you couldn't run to court to get policies implemented you couldn't get passed democratically. You'd brainwash the schoolchildren, of course! Consider this delightful example from across the pond: Children as young as eight are being taught that the controversial European Constitution...
November 21, 2005 Author: Matt Barr Viewing Giuliani through the lens of BloombergSeptember 11 (and contrarian Reason writers) aside, Rudy Giuliani's burnishment of the Big Apple is rightly celebrated as a historic achievement borne of innovative and strong leadership. Giulani's successor as Mayor, Mike Bloomberg, won a re-election for the ages this week, beating Fernando Ferrer by 20 percent. Fiorello LaGuardia had...
November 11, 2005 Author: Matt Barr Redistricting post- post-mortemI know I just pointed you in the previous post to the only Reform Ohio post-mortem you need, but I have another one anyway. The problem shared by both the way Ohio districts are drawn now and the way Reform Ohio Now's Issue 4 proposed they be drawn is that...
November 9, 2005 Author: Matt Barr Reform Ohio -- notMichael Meckler has the only post mortem you need on the Reform Ohio Now amendments, rejected by more than 2/3 of voters yesterday. Meckler especially has insightful analysis into the defeat of Issue 4, a good idea supported by this blog the fate of which was a lot like other...
November 9, 2005 Author: Matt Barr
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