And see Rich Lowry" take on "The Whiniest President Ever" http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/262118/whi...

The Hayek Group is the political action arm of the Reno Hayek Symposium whose mission is to support conservative solutions to current issues and to promote their intelligent champions. The Hayek Group will do both but emphasize the second part of that statement, that is, promoting their intelligent champions. It will be broader in scope but start away from Washington DC, as Tip O’Neill said so well, “all politics is local!”

Thank you for your comments Professor Parker,

I apologize for the ad hominem arguments, but I bristle at liberal academia's Keynesian multiplier arguments for greater or sustained spending by government when cuts to that out of control spending should be advocated. Hopefully Governor Sandoval will stick by his guns. See: http://www.nevadanewsbureau.com/2011/01/12/sandov...

The problem is that progressive government goes way beyond the bounds of governing. "Essential public goods" would better be provided by the private sector. Once government gets into a "good" beyond traditional governing, the standard of the "good" is lowered, and private competition is crowded out. Simply put extorted capital, taxes, is misallocated capital. Education is the perfect example of a "good" that has suffered with public control. Private education typically excels in comparison.

As far as the Nevada budget is concerned, I recommend an NPRI piece on TASC: http://www.npri.org/publications/about-that-tasc-....

My take on government is that it has grown too big and created too much dependency. That size and dependency are financially unsustainable and are just starting to be dealt with. Smaller and more local is the key: See my "subsidiarity" post: http://renohayek.com/2010/12/subsidiarity/

Again thanks for the comment. tjm

Also see Rich Lowry's post, "Rule of Sebelius," http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/255980/rul...

How long will we tolerate unelected bureaucrats regulating us in matters of life and death? Why are we stuck with a one-size-fits-all form of insurance? And why is health care a right anyway? It certainly isn't under any traditional concept of the term "right." Finally, if Obamacare is so good, why are the unions applying for and being granted exemptions from the mandates? tjm

Here's the Obamacare prime issue as far as constitutional interpretation is concerned, Yuval Levin's Weekly Standard post "Overruling Obamacare:" http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/overruling... tjm

And see this report on the NYT Warning: Blue State Armageddon On The Way: http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2010/1... tjm

And see Vincent Carroll's article in the Denver Post, "Tide ebbing for ethanol?' http://www.denverpost.com/carroll/ci_16763841 tjm

Thank you Jamal. I have changed the word "Jap" which is what the enemy was called in WWII, to "Japanese oppressors." Oh, and Jamal, if you resent so much about America, which probably gave you a lot, you do have options. That's what great about this country. Cheers, tjm

And see Dennis Prager's "How Do California and the Titanic Differ?" article, http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/11...

But then Meredith Whitney reports, "State Bailouts? They'ver Already Begun" http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304.... Seems the federal drug pushers are at it again, helping the bankrupt states increase their leverage. And the taxpayers are paying for it! What's new. tjm

And see Dennis Prager's "How Do California and the Titanic Differ?" article, http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/11...
The difference: "The passengers on the Titanic didn't vote to hit the iceberg!"
"To return to our Titanic metaphor, the great difference between that ill-fated ship's crew and California's crew (its voters and the California Democratic Party) is that the Titanic's crew did everything possible to avoid hitting the iceberg; California's crew did everything possible to hit it. Perhaps they believe global warming will melt it before they get there." tjm