America! The word has meant hope, opportunity and freedom for tens of millions of people over the last two and half centuries. For a good part of those 250 years, the words on the Stature of Liberty in New York harbor have rang true: “Give me your tired, your...
Socialism promises a utopia that sounds good, but those promises are never realized. It most often results in massive human suffering.
Those who have seen the 1982 Steven Spielberg movie Poltergeist may remember the scene when the little girl touches the snowy screen of her family’s television and says, “They’re here,” meaning the evil ghostly forces bringing death and destruction. Well, they are...
Conservatives won’t defend capitalism because they won’t defend its morality, rational egoism, and won’t defend that morality because they’re wedded to religion and its ethic of altruism.
Apart from the fact that the Schumer-Trump proposal is double the Obama price tag, the answer is: very little.
Another partial federal government “shutdown” began on December 22, 2018. The impression from the media and other commentaries easily suggested that the political and economic sky was about to fall. Various government departments were closed and some government...
Social justice warriors ignore many differences that have little or nothing to do with discrimination but have an enormous impact on outcomes.
There’s nothing moral, “fair” or “progressive” about a graduated (communist) tax schedule.
Socialists like Bernie Sanders tell us that “the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer.” That’s a lie. Yes, rich people got absurdly rich. Last year, says Oxfam, “the wealth of the world’s billionaires increased (by) $2.5 billion a...
“Uncle Tom,” on the other hand is designed to label that person as a traitor, a sellout, as a black person who colludes with white racists to undermine the success of black people.
The famous New York Yankees baseball player and manager Yogi Berra is credited with the saying “It’s déjà vu all over again.” He is also credited with claiming, “I really didn’t say everything I said.” Never were both of these truer than in our era of reborn...
Democrats seek to undermine individual rights and the rule of law in order to obtain votes.
Do we leave (wealth) in the private sector where the market decides? Or do we subject it to corrupt politicians?
Let’s examine the history of socialism.
Why is it so difficult to win the case for freedom in modern American society? A variety of possible answers come to mind. The collectivists are more effective in appealing to people’s emotions. The interventionist-welfare-statist argument is easier to make than it is...
Most of today’s major problems encountered by black people have little or nothing to do with racial discrimination and a legacy of slavery.
Capitalism operates to raise wages, shorten hours, end child labor, and improve working conditions.
Expect the Democrats to get back to basics: calling the President racist, fascist, sexist, xenophobic, anti-Semitic, homophobic, anti-Hispanic, etc.
Venezuelans who escaped their country’s socialism understand now that socialism creates poverty.
Freedom and the free society are once again under direct attack by those who espouse far-greater degrees of government control over people’s lives. Wrapping themselves in the cloak of progressivism, “social justice,” and liberation from oppression and discrimination,...
Another election cycle has begun, even though it is less than a half a year since the November 2018 congressional elections. Donald Trump seems unlikely to face a serious challenger for his re-nomination as the Republican candidate for president (unless explosive...
Far more important than a debate about the relative practicality, efficiency, or productiveness of capitalism and socialism is a debate about their relative moral merits.
Jewish bigotry from black liberals — and Omar is black — has long been an unspoken problem among Democrats.
The only people who benefit from class warfare are politicians and the elite; they get our money and control our lives.
What we live under is a heavily regulated, managed and controlled interventionist-welfare state that operates not by free-market competition but political cronyism.
The philosophy of individualism is the foundation of a free society; it is the basis of a community of men that does not require or demand the sacrifice or enslavement of some for the one-sided benefits of others.
Collectivist elements spur violations of individual rights, such as taxes, highly progressive income taxation in particular, and other wealth “redistribution” schemes that discourage entrepreneurship, innovation, and wealth creation in general
Democrats opposed the 13th Amendment, which freed the slaves, the 14th Amendment, which conferred citizenship on them, and the 15th Amendment, which gave them the right to vote.
Indeed, democracy and freedom are frequently heralded as being synonyms. An important question, however, is, What do these concepts mean, and are they in fact synonymous?
Since summer 2014, America has been convulsed with a protest movement known as Black Lives Matter, which claims that police officers are among the greatest threats—if not the greatest threat—to young black males. Heather Mac Donald challenges that narrative,...
Racial hoaxes have been a major part of the leftist agenda going back decades.
Consumers pay more and almost every food business suffers because a few big sugar companies have the political clout to get themselves a sweet deal.
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