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.
Intellectual Dishonesty
On Obama and his fawning academics.
Why Are U.S. Schools Mediocre? Ask the Kids
If you want schools to do better, get the government the hell out of schooling. But that’s only a start. Next, put the task of reason and intelligence into education itself — with the central and overriding goal of education being a well-trained mind.
Liberty & Property
The distinctive principle of Western social philosophy is individualism.
Bernie Sanders’ Socialism In One Lesson
People have a moral right to keep what they earn, and distribute or not distribute it as they see fit.
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.
Net Neutrality Is Turning the Internet into a Government Utility
The great crime of government regulation is that it suffocates and prevents good and great things from happening, things that we’ll never know about — because they never get a chance to happen.
Are Hedge Funds Worth More Than Kindergartens?
“The top 25 hedge fund managers made more than all the kindergarten teachers in the country,” declared President Obama in a discussion of poverty at Georgetown University. Calling them “society’s lottery winners,” he proposed to hike their taxes....Obama’s Confusions Over Iran
Obama appears to believe that there’s no difference between a racist and totalitarian government like Iran wielding a nuclear weapon and a largely rights-respecting government like Israel (or the United States) having nuclear weapons.
