One of the biggest, and one of the oldest, taxes is inflation. Governments have stolen their people’s resources this way, not just for centuries, but for thousands of years.
Thomas Sowell
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Another Galling Betrayal in Afghanistan and Iraq
We insisted on trying to create a “democracy” in the Middle East — a place with a history going back thousands of years, without a single democracy.
Random Thoughts: February 2014
Random thoughts on the passing scene…
The Role of ‘Educators’ in Destroying America
As someone who used to read translations of official Communist newspapers in the days of the Soviet Union, I know that those papers’ attempts to degrade the United States did not sink quite as low as Howard Zinn’s book.
The Inequality Bogeyman
Intellectuals’ obsession with income statistics — calling envy “social justice” — ignores vast differences in productivity that are far more fundamental to everyone’s well-being.
Fact-Free Liberals (Part 4 of 4)
Many leading thinkers on the left had only contempt for “the people.”
Fact-Free Liberals (Part 3 of 4)
While the fact-free liberals celebrate the “war on poverty” and other bright ideas of the 1960s, we are trying to cope with yet another “reform” that has made matters worse, ObamaCare.
Fact-Free Liberals (Part 2 of 4)
Minimum wage laws create unemployment, especially among the younger, less experienced and less skilled workers.
Fact-Free Liberals (Part 1 of 4)
Facts are not liberals’ strong suit. Rhetoric is.
Politics Versus Education
Tthe implied threat of federal lawsuits based on racial body count among students who have been disciplined means that hoodlums in the classroom seem to have a friend in Washington.
Christie, Hillary and Obama
If anything good comes out of this shabby episode of political vindictiveness by Governor Christie’s staffers, it showed what a skewed sense of perspective most of the media have on what kinds of issues (Traffic Jams or IRS Targeting, and Benghazi) are important.
The ‘Trickle-Down’ Economics Bogeyman
It is not just in politics that the non-existent “trickle-down” theory is found.
A New Year and Old Problems
ObamaCare looms large and menacing on our horizon.
Hit Piece Journalism at The New York Times
What is really corrupting is camouflaging an editorial as a “news” story.
The Role of ‘Educators’ in Undermining Western Civilization
American schools today are undermining American society as one unworthy of defending.
Liberalism vs Blacks
The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals’ expansion of the welfare state.
What Do Low-Income English Whites and American Ghetto Blacks Have in Common?
What low-income whites in England and ghetto blacks in the United States have in common is a generations-long indoctrination in victimhood.
Random Thoughts November 2013
Random thoughts on the passing scene.
A Very Dangerous Game: The Knockout Game and Polar Bear Hunting
The main reason for many people’s surprise is that the mainstream media have usually suppressed news about the “knockout game” or about other and larger forms of similar orchestrated racial violence in dozens of cities in every region of the country.
The War Against Achievement
The last thing the political left needs, or can even afford, are self-reliant individuals.
Tea Party at the Crossroads: Part II
Trying to defund ObamaCare without the Congressional votes to do so, the Tea Party made a major tactical mistake.
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