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POLITICS
Make Health Care More Affordable by Correcting Government-Created Distortions
What follows is a menu of health care, welfare, and related tax changes that would reduce spending and deficits and show that Republicans are serious about restraining federal spending, reining in welfare abuse, and improving health care affordability by removing government-created distortions.
Medical Guidance Shouldn’t Come From Washington
If there’s a silver lining, it’s that controversies like this may finally encourage clinicians, researchers, and patients to rely less on federal pronouncements and more on diverse, independent medical expertise.
The Death of Renee Good: When Ideology Overides Reason
This is not a story about a blameless victim. This is a story about ideology so divorced from reality that it sends people into dangerous confrontations apparently unprepared for obvious consequences.
Replacing “The Frigidity of Rugged Individualism with the Warmth of Collectivism” is To Replace Capitalism with Statism
Capitalism is a system of individualism that recognizes individual rights, and socialism is the system of collectivism, a doctrine that man has no right to live for his own sake, that the fruits of his labor belong to society, that he must serve society and the “collective good.”
CULTURE
Dilbert Creator Scott Adams and Intellectual Courage
It was in 2015 that the famed creator of the Dilbert cartoon first started speculating that Donald Trump had what it takes to become president. For holding this view, and then becoming ever more open about his support of Trump, Adams lost everything.
Happy New Year. Happy Life.
Your life is in your own hands.
Heritage Doesn’t Make Somebody an American
If seriously embraced, a blood and dirt conception of Americanness would destroy one of the most essential elements that make this country so successful and perhaps even its existence.
Christmas is About Enjoying Values Not Sacrificing Them
Those who feel guilt over material wealth and blame business for commercializing Christmas through ‘greedy’ profit seeking should pause and ask: “What is the standard of value by which we condemn material wealth and business?”
WORLD
Justice in Caracas
Venezuela has a chance at revival. America has removed a security threat. And autocrats everywhere just learned that no palace provides immunity from justice.
Hong Kong Convicts Freedom Fighter Jimmy Lai
The sham trial and conviction confirm Hong Kong’s tragic descent into tyranny.
Madeira: Europe’s Forgotten Miracle
More than a stunning tourist destination or the birthplace of Cristiano Ronaldo, Madeira is living proof that competitive tax policy can transform a remote, peripheral, resource-poor region into an economic success story.
Two Years of Milei: The Reform Agenda Moves Forward in Argentina
Today marks two years since Javier Milei took office as president of Argentina.
MARKETS
Business Sucess Requires Principles Over Pragmatism
One of the reasons businesspeople dismiss moral principles is that they see them as burdensome duties to benefit others by sacrificing one’s own interests.
Deposit Insurance Myths: The Glass-Steagall Act and The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
That deposit insurance wasn’t the only way to keep a banking system from collapsing was evident enough in 1933 from other countries’ experiences.
No Excuse for Fraud in Minnesota
Combine an incompatible culture with socialist leadership in our government, and fraud is the result.
Silver is re-pricing, and it ain’t over yet
As a longterm “stacker”(saver) I am not selling my silver metal or mining positions. In my estimation the upside-to-downside risk ratio is still very positive.
LAW
A Prosecutor Breaks Down the ICE Officer Shooting of Renee Good in Minnesota
Objectivist former prosecutor James Valliant assesses the shooting of Renee Good by an ICE officer in Minnesota.
The Bill of Rights at 234 Years Old
Anti-Federalists, who feared a powerful central government, demanded greater assurances.
Miami Permit Takings
Chad Trausch and his wife’s family was growing, so he decided to expand his Miami home. But when he submitted plans for a two-bedroom, two-bathroom addition, the city came back with a strange request: it wanted half his front yard.
The History of Thanksgiving: Thanks, Property Rights
This Thanksgiving, I give thanks for something our forebears gave us: property rights.
SCI-TECH
Books: A Rebel in Eden: The War Between Individualism and Environmentalism
A Rebel in Eden: The War Between Individualism and Environmentalism, by Robert Bidinotto, explains the philosophic foundations of the modern political movement, theories that, in some cases, go back centuries.
“Greenwashing” and the Anatomy of Compromise
As Ayn Rand explains in her short essay The Anatomy of Compromise, compromising rational principles never works.
Science As an Excuse
How we find ourselves again in the awkward position of having trusted the experts and discovering that this was not a good idea.
How to Unleash Small Modular Reactors
Testimony to the House Oversight Committee on “The New Atomic Age: Advancing America’s Energy Future.”