It’s a nonstarter. And it isn’t an America-first approach.
Category Archives: International and national
Local kerfuffle proves Citizens United right
Who is the press these days? A kerfuffle over the origins and funding of Arizona Mirror illustrates the soundness of the Citizens United decision not making First Amendment rights contingent on the answer.
Rather than the Heroes Act, dust off this idea
The focus should be on income support and security. And old idea of Milton Friedman’s would provide a good foundation.
Where have all the liberal civil libertarians gone?
What happened in the Michael Flynn case should bother civil libertarians of all ideological variations, irrespective of what they think about Flynn or Trump.
There shouldn’t be specific COVID-19 liability rules
A general discussion and debate about tort reform would be useful. But creating new COVID-19 liability rules on the fly isn’t warranted.
The big risks in Sinema’s COVID-19 approach
Sinema’s approach can be caricatured as: Shut everything down. Put everyone on the federal dole.
Trump’s revealing Twitter-mugging of Sweden
Trump likes the way the states have managed the COVID-19 outbreak, except when he doesn’t.
Massive government deficit, monetary expansion and credit allocation
This things won’t keep the economy afloat. But they will impede the natural course of a recovery, if the economy is ever reopened.
COVID-19 credit-grabbing and blame-shifting in Congress
Members of Congress, including those from Arizona, want to be perceived as doing something about the coronavirus pandemic, but calibrated so as to evade responsibility for outcomes.
Reopening the economy in stages won’t work
The economy will continue to struggle until our approach to managing the public health risk from COVID-19 fundamentally changes.