Join us this week for a special edition of our show from Washington, D.C. in front of a spirited crowd of 1,000 college students at the annual Students for Liberty Conference... continue reading »

In my syndicated column this week, I write about the family budget I featured in my last show:

Add eight zeros to that, and you get the federal government's budget. That's unsustainable.

Yet:... continue reading »

President Obama says his new budget will put the country on a more sustainable fiscal path, but his path adds $1.3 trillion dollars to our already massive debt.

What would happen if you planned your family's budget the way the politicians plan theirs? I showed people this chart:

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Obama's new budget is 1,470 pages long. On page 1,318, Obama announces he will end funding for the DC "Opportunity Scholarship" program, which gives poor kids the option of going to a private school instead of being stuck in the government monopoly. [HT: Fox News' Ed Henry]... continue reading »

This week, Obama released his new budget. He talked about the "tough choices" he was making to reduce the deficit. In his State of Union speech, he claimed that he had already agreed to "$2 trillion in cuts and savings."

But Obama misleads. From my syndicated column this week:... continue reading »

Will we soon have riots like those in Greece?

This graph shows that we're on track to reach Greek levels of debt in about ten years.

Most reporting on the Greek riots miss the big point:

The Greek "austerity" reforms aren't nearly enough... continue reading »

I love this new video from Reason!... continue reading »

The New York Times is at it again. An article today reports that the education achievement gap between the rich and the poor continues to grow.

The writer bemoans that:

"the income divide has received far less attention from policy makers and government officials than gaps in student accomplishment by race."

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My government spends trillions of our tax dollars and has the legal right to use violent force against us. I want to trust them. But can I? This week, we try to answer that question with the help of our guests.

Political pollster and word analyst Frank Luntz says politicians consistently mislead us, but rarely get caught due to the careful choice of phrases... continue reading »

There is a new sense that governments can make people happy by giving them stuff. This is a mistake that I address in my column this week.

In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson called the pursuit of happiness an unalienable right. This was a radical idea. For most of history, most people didn't think much about pursuing happiness. They were too busy just trying to survive... continue reading »