“Cato Institute” on The Daily Caller

All Republicans running for president say they want to cut federal spending. (more)

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith’s anti-piracy bill, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), caused significant waves on its maiden voyage into congressional waters. New criticisms of the legislative proposal, however, make the Justice Department walk the plank. (more)

The Heritage Foundation’s Marion Smith released a study Friday that aims to concretely illustrate — for the first time — the disconnect between policymakers who would cut defense spending and America’s Founding Fathers. (more)

Seems like CBS is having a change of heart since Saturday’s debate. (more)

Amid plummeting approval numbers and “Occupy” protesters’ growing outcry against onerous student debt, President Obama has announced a plan to circumvent Congress and modify the federal student loan program unilaterally. (more)

Check out this new Cato Institute video explaining how government stimulus spending doesn’t create jobs, and may even be counterproductive. (more)

As lawmakers work to cut $2 trillion in federal spending, a new video from the Cato Institute puts that number in perspective. (more)

Speaking at the Cato Institute Wednesday on the subject of reducing the size of government, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty called for a freeze of public employee salaries and benefits until they were on the same level as the private sector. (more)

A damning report released this month showing that nearly half of all adults in Detroit, Michigan are functionally illiterate has pundits and officials playing the blame game. (more)

President Barack Obama’s deputies say he wants to tackle the budget deficit by raising taxes on wealthy people and oil companies, but there’s not much evidence that increased taxation can significantly reduce the annual flood of red-ink, now amounting to roughly $1,500 billion, or 40 percent of federal spending. (more)

Is the Davis-Bacon Act–the federal law that inflates the cost of government construction and keeps unions in business by requiring payment of “prevailing wages”–unconstitutional? Newsalert posts this still-relevant 1993 Cato Institute argument. … If the case turns on the discriminatory or racist “intent” of those who first passed the law, Davis-Bacon is in trouble.  I’ve never been comfortable with using legislators’ ”intent” as the test of constitutionality–as opposed to what a law is and does–but I’m not the Supreme Court. … (more)

Mitch Daniels is cheap. (more)

Walter Olson is the author of “Schools for Misrule: Legal Academia and an Overlawyered America,” just released last week. (more)

Some men find religion in prison. Brian Aitken found liberty. (more)

The United States Postal Service has fallen on tough times, struggling to find both revenue and relevance in the digital age. President Obama’s 2012 budget, released Monday, attempts to help it accomplish the first of those, providing it with a total of $4 billion of “temporary financial relief” this year. (more)

Despite the many calls for civility, bipartisanship and a go-along-to-get-along spirit, is a cantankerous, divided, partisan Congress the cure for what ails us? (more)

The Obama administration is eying a secretive tax deal critics charge is an indirect bailout for Puerto Rico to the tune of billions of taxpayer dollars. (more)

On Tuesday, President Obama signed one of the most expansive food regulation bills in living memory, giving the Food and Drug Administration sweeping regulation powers over food production and distribution. (more)

With The Daily Caller approaching its first birthday (the site was launched on January 11, 2010), I thought it would be appropriate to recount the 20 most interesting Daily Caller op-eds of 2010 (according to me). Collectively, these op-eds garnered hundreds of thousands of page views and over ten thousand Facebook recommendations (though, due to a Facebook glitch, the Facebook recommendations for most Daily Caller articles that were published before December 10th have disappeared. You’ll have to trust me on this one.) The articles are listed in no particular order. (more)

Increased warm temperatures indicate global warming. Severe winter storms also help prove global warming, according to a recent op-ed in the New York Times. So is there any weather pattern that would disprove or call into question the existence of global warming? (more)