The political left’s great claim to authenticity and honor is that what they advocate is for the benefit of the less fortunate. But how could we test that?
Thomas Sowell
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The Fact-Free Left
Millions of American civilians have also been forbidden to have guns, and are also sitting ducks — for criminals, terrorists or psychos.
Documented Irresponsibility
People who entered the United States illegally may be called “undocumented” in politically correct circles, but what is all too well documented is the utter irresponsibility of both political parties in dealing with immigration issues.
A Historic Catastrophe: Obama vs Israel
Americans today who say that the only alternative to the Obama administration’s pretense of controlling Iran’s continued movement toward nuclear bombs is war ignore the fact that Israel bombed Saddam Hussein’s nuclear facilities, and Iraq did not declare war. To do so would have risked annihilation.
Looking Back
The New York City schools were among the best in the country in those days, better than they had been for the European immigrants before me and much better than they would be for the mass influx of blacks from the South after me.
A Legacy of Cliches
Discussions of racial problems almost invariably bring out the cliche of “a legacy of slavery.”
Supreme Court Disasters
Many people are looking at the recent Supreme Court decisions about ObamaCare and same-sex marriage in terms of whether they think these are good or bad policies. That is certainly a legitimate concern, for both those who favor those policies and those who oppose...
Hillary Clinton Shares President Obama’s Flawed Vision of The World
U.S. foreign policy during Hillary Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State was to undermine our friends and cater to our enemies.
“Micro-Aggression” As An Excuse for Micro-Totalitarianism
Word games are just one of the ways of silencing politically incorrect ideas, instead of debating them.
Gun Control Laws Protect Criminals By Disarming Their Law Abiding Victims
The great bulk of the studies show that gun control laws do not in fact control guns. On net balance, they do not save lives but cost lives.
Who Lost Iraq?
What lessons might we learn from the whole experience of the Iraq war?
Paying the Price for Being Soft on Crime
Innocent men, women and children — most of them black — will pay with their lives in New York, as they have in Baltimore and elsewhere.
The Federal Reserve: Promises vs Track Record
The biggest deflation in the history of the country came after the Fed was founded, and that deflation contributed to the Great Depression of the 1930s. As for bank failures, they reached levels unheard of before there was a Federal Reserve System.
Why Politicians Like To Buy Votes With Pensions and “Improve Budgets” By Cutting Military Spending
Creating pensions that offer generous retirement benefits wins votes in the present by promising spending in the future. Promises cost nothing in the short run — and elections are held in the short run, long before the pensions are due.
Multiculturalism and the Welfare State vs. Economic Mobility
In utter disregard to facts, so-called “social scientists” do studies which conclude that America is no longer a land of opportunity, and that upward mobility is a “myth.”
Race, Politics and Lies
Non-judgmental subsidies of counterproductive lifestyles are treating people as if they were livestock, to be fed and tended by others in a welfare state — and yet expecting them to develop as human beings have developed when facing the challenges of life themselves.
Taxing Society’s “Lottery Winners” To Feed Obama’s Nihilistic Power Lust
The real question is whether the investment of wealth is likely to be done better by those who created that wealth in the first place or by politicians.
Europe’s Antitrust Assault on Google
Since people can search through other sources besides Google, it is not at all clear why Google cannot run its own operation for its own benefit, while others run their operations for their own benefit.
Chaos in the Primaries
Who will rescue us all from another Clinton versus Bush election?
The New Inquisition (Against Scientists Who Disagree With The State)
The idea that you can tell whether a scientist — or anybody else — is “objective” by who is financing that scientist’s research is nonsense.
The Iran ‘Agreement’ Charade
Barack Obama seems ready to throw Israel to the wolves, for the sake of another worthless agreement.
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