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POLITICS
On Tax Day Thank the Rich and Support Lifting the Tax Yoke off Them
Opponents of tax cuts do not want justice. They want redistribution of wealth
No Good Reason to Revoke Birthright Citizenship
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” – Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution
Fifty Achievements In Fifty Days
I’ve chronicled 50 changes that the Trump administration has made that have made life dramatically better in record time.
The Perils of ‘Free’ Information
The decades-long erosion of IP rights can be traced back to Google’s acquisition of YouTube in 2006.
MARKETS
How Can Profits Be Moral?
Many people have a dim view of profits; they see them as the result of immoral exploitation by business for selfish gain.
A Ten Point Analysis of The Trump-Bessent Plan to Reduce the U.S. National Debt
Objectivist Jim Brown opines on DOGE, deregulation, drill baby drill, tariffs, lower taxes, Immigration, a lower dollar exchange rate, lower interest rates, restructuring US Debt, & monetizing US assets, possibly through a sovereign wealth fund.
The Moral Case Against Tariffs – and for Free Trade
According to Rand, then, tariffs are destructive because they are a form of physical coercion by the government. They violate the citizens’ freedom to choose with whom to trade and on what terms and thus limit their ability to pursue their lives.
Do Reciprocal Tariffs Double-Down on Protectionism, or Promote Free Trade?
Economically, unilateral free trade remains beneficial even in the face of foreign tariffs.
CULTURE
How Richard Nixon Wrecked Free Trade
With the capacity to print forever, the US could fund its empire, fund its welfare state, fund its gigantic budget, fund its military, and all without bothering with actually doing much of anything beyond sitting behind screens.
Big Government Doesn’t Want You to Think about “What Is Not Seen”
In Build, Baby, Build, a graphic novel, Caplan uses Bastiat as a character in the present day to show us “what we’re missing”—what is not seen—when it comes to housing deregulation. I
Christians Fleeing Persecution Blocked from US Entry by Trump White House
On his first day as president, Trump signed an executive order to suspend the United States Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP), barring potentially thousands of Christian refugees from entering the United States.
NPR Should Not Be Subsidized by Taxpayers
It would not matter whether NPR was liberally biased or conservatively biased. The bottom line is that if politicians (bureaucrats) control the funding of the news, then the news likely will be politicized.
LAW
End All Taxpayer Funding of CPB, NPR, PBS
Nowhere in the Constitution does it say Congress should fund a national media.
What If the Federal Government Begins Defying Court Orders?
Would a determined executive ever fall back in the end on the core power asymmetry between the two branches—it has guns, and the judges don’t?
Who Controls the Administrative State?
Not a day goes by when the New York Times does not manufacture some maudlin defense of the put-upon minions of the tax-funded managerial class. In this worldview, the agencies are always right, whereas any elected or appointed person seeking to rein them in or terminate them is attacking the “public interest.”
The First Amendment and The Case of Anti-Israel Green Card Holder Mahmoud Khalil
If the government is able to prove that his actions went beyond First Amendment protected speech, the courts may well resolve the issue in favor of the government.
SCI-TECH
The Earth and Civilization Have Been Saved By Fossil Fuels
In his 2022 book Fossil Future, Alex Epstein of the Center for Industrial Progress argues that fossil fuels are one of the greatest benefits to human civilization ever and that no viable substitutes exist, at least for now.
Alex Epstein’s Energy Freedom Plan
112 specific actions the new admin can take to unleash American energy
The Energy Freedom Plan: 25 Policy Changes to Unleash American Energy
It may seem impossible, but 4 years from now America can have Record oil and gas production Cheap, plentiful, reliable electricity High environmental quality" Low climate danger A nuclear renaissance For well over a year I’ve been working on an Energy Freedom Plan...
Unleashing American Energy: America’s Silver Bullet
It’s said that in politics there’s no silver bullet that’ll make everything better. But we do have 1 silver bullet in the chamber: the opportunity to unleash American energy, which Donald Trump has rightly vowed to do.
WORLD
Compulsory Globalism
How did the practice of freedom as it extends over national juridical lines come to be so widely loathed and disparaged?
Destroy the Octopus
Dealing with Iran’s Proxy War Against the U.S.
Putin’s Deception and Ours
Blaming others, such as the U.S. (e.g., CIA, etc) is a standard rationalization for the failure of dictatorships such as Cuba and Venezuela and for the unlimited power it gives the rulers.
Black History Month: Why Don’t They Teach About the Arab-Muslim Slave Trade in Africa?
Black history is American history. It ought not be “relegated” to a month, and slavery ought not be relegated to only the European slave trade.