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Amity Shlaes explains that “lousy lawmakers, not low taxes, created fiscal woes.” [2] (HT James McClure)
Boston Globe conservative-libertarian columnist Jeff Jacoby supports birthright citizenship in America [3]. Here’s his ringing conclusion:
The immigration debates may churn, but about this much the Constitution is unequivocal: Anyone born in America is an American. Our nation has been enriched — not “overrun” — because of birthright citizenship. The 19th-century nativists who feared otherwise were wrong. Their intellectual heirs today are, too.
I hope that Alan Greenspan follows John Stossel’s advice [4].
Maxing-out the race card [5]. (HT Lyle Albaugh and Mike Munger)
Greg Mankiw – citing research by Casey Mulligan – offers a challenge to “extreme Keynesians [6].”
Here’s EconLog’s David Henderson writing on Dean Baker [7].