Education

Change He Can’t Believe In

• Nathan Benefield
• July 25, 2008

Steve Chapman writes how Barack Obama – the “candidate of change” – rejects school choice (as policy, though he doesn’t practice what he preaches), despite its success. Obama…

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Taxes & Economy

An Upside for the Middle Class

• Nathan Benefield
• February 29, 2008

Interesting Washington Post article on the middle class: Items once considered luxuries — dishwashers, central air conditioning, video cameras — are now common. The average size of new…

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Taxes & Economy

Reagan’s Economy

• Nathan Benefield
• January 21, 2008

Spokesman for the Clinton campaign, one-time economist, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman attempts to denounce Barack Obama for even mentioning Ronald Reagan without espousing anger and hatred towards…

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Rx For Health Care: Pain

• Nathan Benefield
• December 5, 2007

Robert Samuelson has a interesting commentary on health care costs: The politics of health care rests on a mass illusion: Most Americans think that someone else pays for…

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Leave commenting on PA Politics to me, Sandra Day O’Connor

• Nathan Benefield
• November 15, 2007

Sandra Day O’Connor disses Russ Diamond in today’s Wall Street Journal, along with calling for appointing judges and government-run campaigns: These three reforms [I’ll discuss below] will help,…

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Health Care

Health Care Reform: Diagnose, Then Prescribe

• Nathan Benefield
• September 10, 2007

Following the latest Census Bureau report that 47 million Americans are without health insurance, the talking heads and newspaper editorial boards are renewing their call for “something to…

Commentary

Who Pays for Health Insurance?

• Nathan Benefield
• September 6, 2007

Wall Street Journal column discusses how it isn’t just the uninsured who don’t benefit from the current health insurance model (and how a standard deduction for health care would…

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Fix health care by making Americans care about costs

• Nathan Benefield
• September 5, 2007

Michael Cannon in USATODAY.com on fixing the real problems in health care.

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The Strange Career of Affirmative Action

• September 1, 2007

Hillsdale College professor Paul Moreno writes in The Wall Street Journal that “This 125th Labor Day, Americans ought to consider one of organized labor’slesser-known contributions to American politics:…

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