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Campus Media Response: Don’t Return to 1970s Economic Anemia

Lamenting BP’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Mark Costigan of the University of Oregon’s Daily Herald calls for…

Campus Media Response: Are American Workers Threatened by Immigrant Workers?

In a recent column for the Harvard Crimson commenting on the dubious legislation in Arizona that would make it easier…

Life, Liberty, and…Health Care?

Countless voices are claiming medical care is a right. Is it? Throughout the health care debate, Republicans and Democrats have…

The Republican Party’s Identity Crisis

In the aftermath of the substantial Democratic victory in last November’s election, Republicans nationwide are reported to be doing a…

What Laissez-Faire?

In response to the economic crisis now spilling over into the European markets, French President Nicolas Sarkozy called for an…

Blank-and-Effect: The Economics of Pragmatism

In the latest of a series of new government interventions into the economy, President Bush announced a new plan to…

Mixed Economy, Decisively Bad Results

The Wall Street Journal recently ran an excellent editorial examining the bad business and corruption that arises "when you combine…

“Buy American” is UN-American

According to a recent poll, 80% of Americans think it their patriotic duty to give preference to American-made products. But…