Let the People Speak and Innovate
Politicians and bureaucrats increasingly want to legislate and regulate innovative new products and business models before they even exist. Instead, better to let society express its will before legislators try to do it.
A Picture of the Obama Economy
If a picture is worth a thousand words, so is a graph. We have compiled several graphs that convey a picture of the Obama economy, and it isn't pretty.
Puerto Rico Already Has SandersCare and It's Broke
We don’t have to wait until he is elected to see Sanders’s ideal health care system; we can look at Puerto Rico.
The Internet of (No)Thing
If Washington has its way, the “Internet of Things” won’t be much more than a sprawling, tax-collecting, expansive, government-spying operation.
Donald Trump on (Prescription) Drugs
Donald Trump, the businessman who claims to know how to close a deal, has a way to lower the price of prescription drugs: allow the government to "negotiate: (i.e., dictate) the price.
Bold Policy Reforms for the 2016 Election
Challenging times require bold reforms, but very few political candidates have proposed any. With this paper we try to fill that gap by identifying five reforms that would solve current problems, spur economic growth and return power and money to the states and the people.
Conservatives Who Defy the Rule-of-Law on Taxation
Conservative legislators should not defy rule-of-law in their greed for more tax revenue.
When Will Republican Candidates Start Identifying Proposed Spending Cuts?
Tax cuts are nice but they are not enough. The government doesn’t just take too much money, it also spends too much.
We Can Have Both Freedom and Security, but Freedom is Harder
The law enforcement function is vital to a safe and secure society, but keeping law enforcement within constitutional limits is vital to a free society. We can have both.
Civil Asset Forfeiture and the Constitution
Virtually everyone agrees with criminal asset forfeiture. But civil asset forfeiture, in which government can seize property without charging the property's owner with a crime, is widespread and troubling because it denies citizens several constitutional rights.


