When I testified before the United States Senate on December 6, 2006, I stated that the public was "vastly misinformed" on global warming...

People have many ways of spending their leisure time. Some watch sports, others pursue good books. Some collect things, while others run ...

You know all that bad revenue news you've been reading emanating from the state capitol in Oklahoma City? Well, it's only half the story....

"The political and moral necessity of economic growth ought to be a commonplace observation, yet it is too commonly forgotten by those wh...

"There's a tradition in education," former New York City school chancellor Frank Macchiarola once observed, "that if you spend a dollar a...

As I write this I am suffering from a bad cold so naturally my mind is on health care and that leads to thoughts about the recent summit....

Though most of the attention is on the current state budget crunch, let's not forget Oklahoma's other budget problem: our underfunded sta...

"The American public pays an amount of taxes that no despotic pharaoh in antiquity would have ever dreamt of imposing upon his people."--...

[Guest post by Eric M. Staib, economics major at the University of Oklahoma]As part of the effort to balance the Oklahoma state budget fo...

For decades, economists and other social scientists have researched how government policy can help promote stable and prosperous societie...

Last week, I visited with a fellow who says he will be forced out of business if a piece of legislation is passed at the state capitol. H...

"There’s a tradition in education,” former New York City school chancellor Frank Macchiarola once observed, "that if you spen...

Oklahomans will be interested in these two tables which appear in an article by Chris Edwards in the current issue of The Cato Journal ("...

Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs President Michael Carnuccio featured in OSU advertisment.

Recently, American Enterprise Institute President, Arthur C. Brooks, appeared on John Stossel’s Fox Business Show, where he stated that t...

Credit was frozen. National debt had ballooned. Foreign debt holders were seeking payment. It sounds like a description of the recent fin...

How can public policy help promote stable and prosperous societies? The answer is surprisingly old and surprisingly well-known: limited g...

This afternoon the Oklahoma Senate is debating a measure which would allow Oklahomans to "opt out" of ObamaCare. As constitutional attorn...

For decades now, economists and other social scientists have researched how government policy can help build more prosperous societies. T...

There’s a tradition in education, former New York City  school chancellor Frank Macchiarola once observed, that if you spend a...

As thousands of Oklahomans deal firsthand with unemployment, and the state government deals with a multimillion-dollar budget hole, Oklah...

About 15 years ago I discovered that the U.S. Census Bureau collects annual data on state and local government employment and compensatio...

The nationalized health care bill of March 21, 2010 was a whole year in the making, while others claim the idea had been percolating over...