In a 2007 interview from Freddie Mac’s website floating around the Web right now, Gingrich says: Certainly there is a lot of debate today about the housing GSEs [Government Supported Enterprises…
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Thanks to George Leef for this generous review of Back on the Road to Serfdom , a book I edited and which appeared in January of this year. Lots of great essays in here that you’ll be glad…
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This is an argument we hear a lot: in the 1950s the top marginal income tax rate was 91 percent, and the U.S. economy hummed along just fine. (Let’s set…
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At 9pm ET at PatriotPolls.com . The GOP debate will still be going on, so I can do live commentary while also taking your questions. See you there!

Gene Healy at the Washington Examiner gives the grim details . But there’s more than what Gene digs up. Here’s what a Gingrich supporter is implicitly saying: (1) It’s all right that…
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In the debate tonight, an exasperated Herman Cain insisted he was the only one on the stage who had presented a bold economic plan. In my dream, Ron Paul steps…
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Say Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett .  A sample: But the report—arguably the most anticipated document of its kind since the NPT was first advanced in 1968—does not in any way demonstrate that Iran is…
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Poor Bruce Bartlett.  He’s spent his career trying to be loved, and it just ain’t happening. First he was a Ron Paulian. Then he realized his career would be better…
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Ron Paul has been booed a few times in the Republican debates, primarily for saying things every expert knows and the whole world considers Americans slightly deranged for trying not…
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When Ron Paul suggested in a Republican debate that the charitable efforts of a free people were the answer to those who needed medical care and were genuinely unable to…
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