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Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby argues against government subsidies to journalists and the news media [2]. (My two cents: anyone who believes that a government-subsidized press would not be a politically beholdened press – a press leashed like a lap dog to its paymaster’s fist – is hopelessly out of touch with reality.)
I join Paul Jacob in celebrating and applauding the great work done by the Institute for Justice [5].
Like James Pethokoukis, I don’t want Obama to be pro-business [8].
Over at EconLog, Arnold Kling carefully examines the austerity of 1945-1947 [9].