Timothy P. Carney is a senior political columnist at the Washington Examiner and a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He is also the author of "The Big Ripoff" (Wiley, 2006) and "Obamanomics" (Regnery, 2009).
AirBnB is a service that allows you to rent out a spare room in your apartment or home. In other words, it’s a startup competitor to established hotels. So, naturally, the hotel industry has supported the government in cracking down on AirBnB. And industry has won.
A State department official in Hong Kong explained in January 2009 that his diplomatic post “played a key role in reversing Hong Kong (HK) regulators’ intention to announce a mandatory scheme” for labeling of which foods are genetically modified.
The cable, intercepted by Wikileaks, went...
The TV show “Nashville” did well enough in its first season to get renewed by ABC. Now producers are trying to get their subsidies renewed. The Tennessean reports.
Remember when President Obama said passing Obamacare constituted “standing up to the special interests”? Well, that wasn’t really true. Now that states are considering implementing the bill, the industries are fiercely fighting to save the law.
Michael Cannon of Cato tells the story in...
You may have heard that the European Union is effectively banning olive-oil cruets and dipping bowls at restaurants.
This is a delightful emblem of the absurd technocratic regulatory meddling mindset that pervades the EU.
But look closer and it shows you something else about the nature of...
Benghazi. The IRS targeting the Tea Party. Feds snooping on the Associated Press. These dizzying controversies around the Obama administration all carry the same lesson:
Watch what you say.
On Benghazi, set aside for a moment the dust-ups over State Department officials changing talking...
If you ask a liberal policy writer or a mainstream straight-news reporter, there’s a decent chance you’ll hear that free enterprise is a pro-big-business economic policy.
College kids at George Washington University are learning the opposite lesson, at least in the realm of food trucks:...
WellPoint is the world’s largest health insurance company, as the parent company, in effect, to 20 statewide Blue Cross/Blue Shield companies. This analyst finds WellPoint to be in an “extremely strong competitive position in a huge market with attractive growth prospects …”
The two...
If you run in libertarian and conservative circles, you constantly hear the complaint that business doesn’t do enough to defend free enterprise.
One reason: The biggest businesses are mostly public corporations run by managers rather than entrepreneurs, and which are already in bed with...
Federal officials used the power of the state to intimidate and harass critics of President Obama and the federal government. When the higher levels of the Internal Revenue Service learned that one office was inappropriately targeting Tea Party groups, these officials nevertheless denied it --...
The beleaguered Eisenhower Memorial Commission holds its next public gathering later this month, and before its members duck-walk into the hearing room, huddled in a hoplite phalanx against a...
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