by Thomas Sowell | Dec 7, 2015 | POLITICS
Our only real choice is between destroying ISIS over there or waiting for them to come over here and start killing Americans. As in other cases, Obama has made a choice that reflects politics and rhetoric, rather than reality.
by Thomas Sowell | Dec 7, 2015 | CULTURE
Thought-provoking books on current events or on history.
by Richard M. Ebeling | Dec 7, 2015 | Money & Banking
The real long-run goal of monetary reform should be the denationalization of money. That is, the separation of money from the state by ending of central banking, altogether. In its place would emerge private, competitive free banking – a truly market-based money and banking system.
by Dr Michael Hurd | Dec 7, 2015 | Terrorism
When you take a particular position on abortion, Planned Parenthood, taxes, socialized medicine, or anything at all – from any direction – you are not “poisoning” or “inciting” anyone. You’re simply stating your position. The emotional response and behavioral follow-up (if any) of others is their own responsibility.
by George Selgin | Dec 5, 2015 | Money & Banking
Free bankers have been fighting a war on two fronts. On one they face champions of central banking and managed money. On the other they struggle against advocates of 100-percent reserve banking. Although the second front is a lot smaller than the first, it’s far from being unimportant, in part because the battle there is being fought against people who generally favor free markets, who might have been expected to join rather than to oppose our cause.
by Dr Michael Hurd | Dec 4, 2015 | Terrorism
Does anyone actually believe that gun control laws will put an end to Islamic-inspired violence?
by C. Bradley Thompson | Dec 3, 2015 | Education
The real untold story is that some college professors want to limit intellectual diversity, deny competition in the realm of ideas, and prohibit students from learning certain ideas.
by Richard M. Ebeling | Dec 3, 2015 | POLITICS
The “freedom” about which Bernie Sanders speaks, and before him Franklin Roosevelt, in fact, involves a loss of liberty into an even greater degree of political paternalism.
by Richard M. Ebeling | Dec 2, 2015 | History
The attempt to establish a comprehensive socialist system in many parts of the world over the last one hundred years has been one of the cruelest and most brutal episodes in human history.