If You Liked Obamacare, You’ll Love Goodwin Liu

By: catoinstitute (Diary)  |  May 19th at 12:19 PM  | 

Later today the Senate is set for a “cloture” vote — the vote to end debate, for which you need 60 votes — on the nomination of Berkeley law professor Goodwin Liu to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.  I’m not going to weigh in here on the issue of whether judicial nominees ought to be filibustered in general — or if the Republicans ought to be the first to foreswear the tactic even without a guarantee that Democrats would do likewise in the future — but if ever there were an “extraordinary circumstance” fitting into the Gang of 14 agreement that broke the judicial logjam under President Bush, this is it.

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NEW CATO VIDEO: Putting the House GOP’s $61 Billion Spending Cuts in Perspective

By: catoinstitute (Diary)  |  March 7th at 01:38 PM  | 

$61 billion sounds like a big spending cut, but we should put that number in perspective. In a short new video, based on a Cato@Liberty blog post by Cato budget analyst Tad DeHaven, producer and host of the Cato Daily Podcast (iTunes) Caleb Brown walks us through what a drop in the bucket this amount really is: Please consider sharing this video with your readers, colleagues, students, | Read More »

Has Obama Lost the Confidence of Black Citizens on Education Reform?

By: catoinstitute (Diary)  |  September 21st at 02:27 PM  | 

By Adam Schaeffer Polls consistently indicate that President Obama has lost proportionally more ground on job approval with white and Hispanic than with black Americans. But data from question-experiments within the yearly Education Next/Harvard poll suggest the opposite in regard to Obama’s influence on education policy opinions. Obama’s policy influence with black respondents has dropped significantly more than it has with respondents overall; Obama’s position | Read More »

Obama’s Plan to Raise Tax Rates

By: catoinstitute (Diary)  |  September 16th at 12:08 AM  | 

By Chris Edwards President Obama wants to raise the top two individual income tax rates for 2011. The top rates will rise from 33% to 36% and from 35% to 39.6%, unless the president and Congress agree to extend the current rate structure. Before taking action on this issue, policymakers should consider the following facts and data. (All information is cited in my related congressional | Read More »