Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind... →
P. J. O'Rourke
Something that confirms all fears and many conspiracy theories about government is finding out what our elected representatives would put into law if... →
I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we... →
If it were not for government regulation of big corporations, executives at companies like Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, they could have cheated investors... →
Our earliest evidence of government, in the ruins of Babylon and Egypt, shows nothing but ziggurats and pyramids of wasted taxpayer money, the TARP... →
Libertarianism is a way of measuring how the government and other kinds of systems respect the individual. At the core of libertarianism is the idea... →
We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.
When the government runs out of lenders, it can do something that households are forbidden to do: print money.
War expands government powers. The trouble is that, when the war goes away, the government powers do not.
Even the dumber parts of our government are not run by idiots. These are ordinary people like us, doing a job. By and large, they're trying to do... →