No Fat Kids!
No offense, but the next time I hear Michelle Obama lecture me about feeding kids locally farmed kumquats, I'll be forced to pile my family into an SUV and hit the Burger King drive-through just to...
View Article"The Trouble With Tolls" Gets It Completely Wrong
I submitted this letter to the Washington Times a week ago, but since it has not run there, I figured I'd post it here:Your editorial “The trouble with tolls” completely misses the point: the toll road...
View ArticleEstimating Massive Public Pension Deficits in California and Across the Nation
State and local public pension systems across the country are struggling with mounting obligations as a result of overly generous retirement benefits, unrealistic actuarial assumptions, and the...
View ArticleSane Thinking on Interest Rates
Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank president Thomas Hoenig made his strongest statement yet today on the way the Federal Open Market Committee is handling interest rates. Hoenig, who has a vote in the...
View ArticleNuclear Fantasies and Realities
President Obama released a new policy on the use of nuclear weapons the other day. From some of the reactions, I expected that on every government building, the Stars and Stripes would be replaced with...
View ArticleWhat Am I?
I used to be a Kennedy-style "liberal." Then I wised up. Now I'm a libertarian.But what does that mean?When I asked people on the street, half had no clue.We know that conservatives want government to...
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Injustice System
Since joining the Fox News Channel as a legal analyst in 1998, former New Jersey Superior Court Judge Andrew P. Napolitano has emerged as one of America’s most prominent champions of limited...
View ArticleThe Democratic Way of Prohibition
The most illuminating ride-along I’ve ever gone on was a three-hour bus tour of South Los Angeles with City Councilman Bernard Parks, who represents the area that before two deadly riots was known as...
View ArticleCutting Prison Costs in California
Jon Coupal, president of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, and I have a column in the Orange County Register and LA Daily News on how much prison costs contribute to the California budget...
View ArticleGet Government Out of the Airport Security Screening Business
My new op-ed for the Washington Times' "Cut or Be Cut" series explains why it is time to get the TSA out of the passenger and baggage screening business:Following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11,...
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