John Stossel's ABC special "Freeloaders" which aired last week showed just how far we've come to being a nation of parasites. It featured people (thieves) who'd go to a restaurant, eat half their meal, and then place an insect in the remaining food in order to get the...
POLITICS
The basic and crucial political issue of our age is: capitalism versus socialism, or freedom versus statism. For decades, this issue has been silenced, suppressed, evaded, and hidden under the foggy, undefined rubber-terms of “conservatism” and “liberalism” which had lost their original meaning and could be stretched to mean all things to all men. – AYN RAND
Cosmic Justice
Dr. Thomas Sowell, Hoover Institution's distinguished senior fellow, delivered a lecture in New Zealand last year titled "The Quest for Cosmic Justice." He discussed how often we observe tragic differences in the lives of people. Some live in luxury; others live in...
Duped Americans
For nearly four decades, the education establishment has delivered one failure and set of excuses after another. Education for blacks is nothing less than a catastrophe and education for white kids is nothing to write home about. People can and do make mistakes and...
Iraq: The Wrong War
President Clinton's air strike against Iraq is more than geographically misguided. Clinton is fighting the wrong country for the wrong reasons. Because he "doesn't want to take sides," Clinton has launched missiles and flown patrols well away from the battle area,...
Social Security Rescue Plans Mean Government Ownership of Business
The only really proper reform is the gradual abolition of the whole system, accompanied by the restoration of conditions in which people can rely on the future buying power of their savings.
Virginia’s Father’s Wisdom
Soon I'll write to Virginia's Governor George Allen demanding that he keeps the faith with his predecessors who, in 1788, ratified the Constitution and brought Virginia into the Union. Let's do some thinking out loud about this letter just to make sure my reasoning is...
Praise for America’s Unsung Heroes
How about a mini-Williams autobiography? From exceedingly humble beginnings, I am now in the top one percent of income-earners. How did that come about? Did someone see me walking around North Philadelphia and say, "Williams, I'm going to make you well off."? That...
Attacking the Heart of Medicine
One vital fact was omitted in the news accounts about the success of Boris Yeltsin's recent heart surgery: the failure of socialized medicine. And this fact underscores the question of whether America's health-care policies are courting a similar failure. Competent...
Cherishing Property Rights
Making our value premises explicit and clear can help untangle contentious public policy issues, or at least let us know where people stand. Let's state my personal value premise. I cherish private property rights. "Okay," you say, "but what are private property...
Hating Bad Government
At the time of the Oklahoma City bombing, Bill Clinton chastised those Americans who loved their country but hated their government. That's a morally blind statement at best. After all would Clinton have said that to Germans who loved their country but hated the Nazi...
What to Do about Terrorism
Imagine the following situation: A roving homicidal maniac runs amok in your neighborhood, spraying bullets in all directions, killing your wife and wounding you. Frantically, you call the police. "This is terrible," they say. "We will take drastic new steps to...
Civility Toward Government
Retiring Senator William Cohen (R. Maine) was interviewed by Washington, D.C.'s WAMU-radio's talk show host Diane Rehm. He talked about the changing political climate both in Congress and the nation. Cohen lamented how American traditional skepticism toward Congress...
Elite Costs
It's amazing how we listen to people who've been dead wrong time after time. In 1975, the Environmental Fund took out full-page ads warning, "The World as we know it will likely be ruined by the year 2000 . . . World food production cannot keep pace with the galloping...
Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Milton Friedman on AFCM’s Goals
Let that sum be tax-exempt to the employee if deposited in a so called medisave account.
Individual Liberty and Civil Society
We continue to trade away the modem ideal of individual liberty for the ancient ideal of collective tyranny.
Modern Feminism’s War on Objectivity
Modern feminism’s new message–a message demeaning to all rational, conscientious women — is that the female gender needs to be granted the unearned.
George Fitzhugh and Socialism as a System of Slavery: Race and the Market Process
Why is it that an apologist for slavery like George Fitzhugh and a descendant of slaves like Jesse Jackson both abhor the market economy?
Freedom’s Greatest Challenge: President Bush Continues Socialism at Home
Having forcefully hailed the demise of socialism abroad, the President’s message was that America’s greatness would be assured by more, or at least continued, socialism at home.
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