The Real Debate in Healthcare: Bush and Kerry versus Free Market Medicine
To many it appears the Bush and Kerry healthcare plans are as different as an antibiotic and a placebo. However, in fundamental terms, both are prescribing the same “cure” to our healthcare system that has been offered for decades: greater doses of...The United States of America Should Withdraw From the United Nations
There was a time when, if you wrote or spoke out against the United Nations, you would be dismissed as some “right-wing nutcase” who saw conspiracies or was some kind of “isolationist” who didn’t understand the need for an international...The Safety Zealots
Nowhere is the tyranny of visions more absolute than with issues involving safety. Attempts to talk about costs, trade-offs or diminishing returns are only likely to provoke safety zealots to respond with something like, “If it saves just one human life, it is...The Busybody Commissions of California
Some people think of California as a place where many kooky ideas originate. It is that but there is more to it than that. California has long had more than its fair share of busybodies with a vision of the world in which it is necessary for them to force other people...The Ten Commandments vs. America
Can a nation of freedom, individualism and the pursuit of happiness be based on the Ten Commandments?
The Tyranny of Visions
At long last there is some reconsideration of the child molestation hysteria that has sent innocent people to jail for long terms behind bars, often with zero evidence and with testimony from children who have been heavily pressured or manipulated by...Blame America
The War on Terror involves more than military or intelligence, it involves winning the ideological struggle. Not there, but here. I once wrote about the way an elementary school teacher in Afghanistan discusses political science and history. The teacher holds up a...Reducing Poverty by Reducing Government
Economic freedom, not government interference, is the means of overcoming poverty.
