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Posted at 12:02am on Jan. 3, 2008 Ah, The New Year

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

A time for renewal. For resolutions. For a renaissance in thinking. And this new year, let us renew our resolve to bring about a renaissance for small-government principles by remembering that government planning is a sociological exercise in self-sabotage.

Read on . . .

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Posted at 12:19pm on Dec. 6, 2007 A Big, Hairy Huckabee Question

Has Huckabee Lost His Conservative Card?

By Hunter Baker

I tend to like Mike Huckabee. I admit that I appreciate him mostly because he's a pro-lifer who doesn't sound like an idiot when talking about his faith.

There are lots of knocks on Huckabee. The big one is that he's not an economic conservative and that his record in Arkansas proves that. Here's my question:

Did Mike Huckabee do anything in Arkansas other than make some marginal tax increases in order to fund a state government that is still probably much-underfunded per capita relative to other states? Are we suggesting there is never a time a conservative, free-market politician would do such a thing?

Let's deal with only that question. I'd love to hear what you have to say.

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Posted at 2:13am on Nov. 2, 2007 Cato Quick Links

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

The good folks at the Cato Institute's blog oftentimes put up so many good posts that I have trouble deciding which one to link to. Today, they put up two extremely good posts for your perusal. Jerry Taylor is kind and learned enough to reinforce a point I have so many times sought to make (like in this article) when he demonstrates anew that "price gouging" should not exactly rank high on our list of worries. Meanwhile, Stephen Slivinski shows us that there are small but significant ways for us to enforce the ethos of small government. Maybe we ought to give his suggested plan a shot.

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