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An amazing thing happened today in Baltimore, maybe the most important political development of my adulthood. The House Republican caucus invited the President to come to a discussion with them, including a Q and A session. He accepted, and he asked that CSPAN be allowed to televise it.
This is what happened.

First, it was an absolute [...]

Small businesses don’t need TARP money. They need stability. They could have used the swift and sure distribution of billions that Goldman Sachs got at the time, but by now the damage is done.
Part of the problem with targeting funds to small business is that the federal government defines small business as 500 employees or [...]

Ross Douthat thinks that real government reform is institutionally impossible.
Under Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson, liberals created a federal leviathan that taxes, regulates and redistributes across every walk of American life. In the process, though, they bound the hands of future generations of reformers. Programs became entrenched. Bureaucracies proliferated. Subsidies became “entitlements,” tax breaks became [...]