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Steve Chapman: Rand Paul got to 'no'

Steve Chapman

Published: Sat, Mar 9, 2013

A famous book on negotiation is called "Getting to Yes." Sometimes, though, the better achievement is arriving at "no." That's what Eric Holder and Rand Paul did the other day. It came in a letter from the attorney general to the Republican senator from Kentucky, which said: "It has come to my...

Steve Chapman: 'Moderate Muslim' is not an oxymoron

Steve Chapman

Updated: Wed, Mar 6, 2013

Lars Hedegaard is a Danish journalist who has made his name denouncing Islam, which he describes as "a totalitarian system of thought" whose adherents "rape their own children." Last month, someone showed up at his door with a gun and fired a shot that missed him. It's just what you would...

Boehner plans to permit and fund Obama's attack on religious freedom

Steve Chapman

Published: Tue, Mar 5, 2013

When the Obama administration finalized its regulation requiring health care plans to provide cost-free coverage for sterilizations, contraceptives and abortion-inducing drugs, House Speaker John Boehner -- as this column noted last year -- was one of those who correctly argued that the...

America is becoming the land of the freedom to gamble

Steve Chapman

Published: Fri, Mar 1, 2013

America is a much freer place than it was a few decades ago, and one way you can tell is that changes once considered unthinkable now occur almost unnoticed. A case in point came when New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie signed a bill to legalize online gambling. Atlantic City casinos, which now...

Steve Chapman: The right way to combat gun violence

Steve Chapman

Updated: Sat, Feb 23, 2013

Public policy is a lot like math: No matter what the problem, the wrong answers are far more numerous than the right ones. This is particularly true on the subject of mass shootings and other firearms violence, which have stimulated a new fervor for barking up the wrong tree. Many liberals...

Steve Chapman: Obama ignores reality with his minimum wage proposal

Steve Chapman

Updated: Wed, Feb 20, 2013

President Barack Obama and Democrats in Congress want to raise the minimum wage to improve the lot of the working poor. But they've got the wrong idea. The problem is not that these workers earn so little; it's that the things they buy cost so much. I propose instead to outlaw high prices. No...