Certificate-of-need (CON) laws result in fewer hospitals, fewer service providers, and fewer choices for consumers, then would occur in a free-market.
POLITICS
The Nationally Televised Speech President Donald J. Trump Needs To Make on Iran
Here’s the speech that President Donald Trump ought to deliver in a nationally televised address.
Missouri v. Biden: A Free Speech Victory, Sort of
The Decree is a win, but it comes nowhere near capturing the seriousness of the reality or the initial court judgment that led to the injunction. Free speech is still in danger, and the fight continues. We have taken a step in the right direction as a start.
Taken Hostage
Last year’s two-part PBS American Experience series, Taken Hostage, written, produced and directed by Robert Stone, merits renewed attention.
A Transformative President: The Meaning of The Presidency of Donald J. Trump
Greatness, in the presidential sense, means transformation—not moral perfection.
What a Rational Immigration System Actually Looks Like
Americans have a rational self-interest in admitting people who will strengthen that protection and excluding people who will undermine it.
President Donald Trump on War on Iran
Iran can never have a nuclear program. We will annihilate their every army and missile industry.
How Congress Can Fix the Debt Crisis (Before It’s Too Late)
By 2036, interest costs, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are projected to consume 100 percent of federal revenues.
DHS Administrative Warrants, ICE Immigration Arrests, and the Fourth Amendment
Can executive officials authorize themselves to enter a home? Or must they obtain a warrant from a judicial officer?
Decentralizing Public Health: Institutional Monopolies Are Fraying
It is ironic that the Trump administration, rightly, objects to the WHO’s mission creep and politicization but fails to see the same problem with the CDC in its own backyard.
The Worst Enemy of Black People According to Malcolm X
“The worst enemy that the Negro have is this white man that runs around here drooling at the mouth professing to love Negros and calling himself a liberal, and it is following these white liberals that has perpetuated problems that Negros have.” — Malcom X
How Not to Sell Free-Market Healthcare Ideas
Conceding the premise that if the government were only competent enough, it should be in charge of securing healthcare for everyone grants the moral high ground to those who want the government to take on a greater role in healthcare, making it harder to even imagine an…
The Future of Liberty
Liberty is freedom from the government, specifically, freedom from the initiation of physical force by the government
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, ICE, and Illegal Immigration
ICE agents enforcing the law aren’t the threat to American values. The threat is the accumulated mass of people who broke the law to enter, refuse to assimilate, exploit systems meant for citizens, and vote for politicians who promise more of the same.
Make Health Care More Affordable by Correcting Government-Created Distortions
What follows is a menu of health care, welfare, and related tax changes that would reduce spending and deficits and show that Republicans are serious about restraining federal spending, reining in welfare abuse, and improving health care affordability by removing govern…
Put More Drugs Over the Counter
If the president and Congress follow through on the promise to shift more prescription drugs to pharmacies’ over-the-counter sections, they will make medicines cheaper and more accessible—but, more importantly, they will return a measure of control over health care …
Still Broken: Why American Society Hasn’t Recovered from COVID
COVID presented real danger, especially to the elderly. But the response—particularly from progressive governors, health authorities, and allied institutions—inflicted damage far exceeding what the virus required.
The Meaning Behind Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” Speech
On Martin Luther King Day–and every day–we should focus on the antidote to racism and alternative to racial thinking: individualism.
Medical Guidance Shouldn’t Come From Washington
If there’s a silver lining, it’s that controversies like this may finally encourage clinicians, researchers, and patients to rely less on federal pronouncements and more on diverse, independent medical expertise.
The Death of Renee Good: When Ideology Overides Reason
This is not a story about a blameless victim. This is a story about ideology so divorced from reality that it sends people into dangerous confrontations apparently unprepared for obvious consequences.
Replacing “The Frigidity of Rugged Individualism with the Warmth of Collectivism” is To Replace Capitalism with Statism
Capitalism is a system of individualism that recognizes individual rights, and socialism is the system of collectivism, a doctrine that man has no right to live for his own sake, that the fruits of his labor belong to society, that he must serve society and the “colle…
Trump Promotes Regulatory Relief—Not Subsidies—as the Solution to Obamacare
The Congressional Budget Office found that Trump’s 2018 rule made comprehensive coverage available at premiums 60 percent below those of the cheapest Obamacare plans.
Why Nazism Was Socialism and Why Socialism Is Totalitarian
Why Nazi Germany was a socialist state, not a capitalist one, and why socialism – an economic system based on government ownership of the means of production – requires a totalitarian dictatorship.
The Iranian Resurrection
Revolutions are not born in crowds shouting slogans. They begin when fear breaks. When a single human being decides that humiliation is no longer an acceptable price for staying alive.
Trump’s 2025 National Security Strategy
Sent by the president to Congress, the NSS articulates the administration’s national security vision and how the several elements of US power will be used in pursuit of national security goals.
A Neighbor’s Journey Through January 6th
I can’t un-know what I learned in that courtroom. I can’t unsee the videos that contradicted the photographs. I can’t forget the disconnection between the evidence and the narrative.
Breaking the Government’s Grip on Medical Debate
The federal government should leave medical and scientific debates to scientists and clinicians.
Medicare Spending is the Largest Driver of the US Debt Crisis
Why We Can’t Grow Our Way Out of the Medicare-Driven Debt Crisis.
Venezuela—Indictments, Invasions, and the Constitution’s Crumbling Guardrails
Article I commits to Congress—not the president—the power to decide when the United States will initiate hostilities against foreign sovereigns.
The Inherent Contradiction of “State Capitalism”
Regardless of the evidence of “state capitalism” not working, many still consider the combination of statism and capitalism – the mixed economy – the ideal system, “the best of both worlds.”
A Cascade of Fraud Scandals in Minnesota
What do all the Minnesota programs in the news have in common? They are all mainly funded by the federal government and administered by the state.
The Meaning of New Year’s Resolutions
The solution to failed New Year’s resolutions is not to abandon the practice, but to supplement it with a broader resolution–a commitment to a goal-directed life.
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