POLITICS

Throughout the 19th century, a primary means for the provision of what today we call the “social safety nets” was by the private sector outside of government.

Keep government out of labor markets, so long as people stick to their contracts and refrain from violence.

Let’s examine these killers’ motives and means so we can reduce the possibility of more such shootings and reduce their lethality. But blaming Trump is lazy, dishonest and bigoted.

It was French king Louis XIV who declared, “L’etat c’est moi” (“I am the state”), indicating his insistence that he possessed absolute power over his subjects. This attitude is shared by Donald Trump, president of the United States.

Most reporters don’t like free markets, and politicians rarely talk about change they don’t control.

The Trump sanctioned agreement to suspend the debt ceiling and push annual deficits even further above the trillion dollar mark may only succeed in destroying the Republican Party as we know it.

American “nationalism,” if we are to call it this, is neither identity-politics socialism nor this newly proclaimed “conservative” national socialism. It was, and should be, an allegiance to individual liberty and unlimited economic freedom of trade and association for all things peaceful.

“[T]he political system is most conducive to the public good in which the rightful liberty of the individual is least abridged.”

How a political push to justify increased taxation has afflicted the entire economic inequality debate.

Keep in mind what “progressive” means in this political context: an increase in the size, scope, and cost of government in American society.

Instead of assuming that we’re in the midst of a surging inequality crisis, we should first settle more fundamental issues affecting the accuracy of our measurements over the past century.

The freebies approach to political campaigning and policymaking brazenly panders to mooching and, by expanding the size, scope, and power of government, also institutionalizes looting. As politicians today assert, so loudly and sanctimoniously, that things like food,...

America will do best if we remember that the Declaration of Independence talks about “limited” government and reminds us that every individual has inalienable rights.

The Declaration of Independence, proclaimed by members of the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, is the founding document of the American experiment in free government. What is too often forgotten is that what the Founding Fathers argued against in the Declaration was the heavy and intrusive hand of big government.