People who use slavery to trash the founders have contempt for our constitutional guarantees of liberty. Slavery is merely a convenient moral posturing tool they use in their attempt to reduce respect for our Constitution.
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How Republicans Gave Us Millennial Socialists
The single organization most responsible for paving young Americans’ way to socialism: the Republican Party.
The Plague of Political Busbybodies
The end goal of our planning paternalists is the command economy, the government-directed market, with all businesses required to follow the planner’s investment and employment directives and, presumably, be subject to some type of punishment if the imposed targets...
The Left’s Battle Against ‘Inequality’
In his book "Discrimination and Disparities," economist Thomas Sowell notes that a disproportionate percentage of first-born siblings become National Merit scholars compared to siblings born later, presumably because the first-born starts life with no sibling...
Freedom: Why Immigrants Come to America
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 poor,...
Socialist Promises Result in Human Suffering
Socialism promises a utopia that sounds good, but those promises are never realized. It most often results in massive human suffering.
Democratic Socialism and Its Antisocial Agenda
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...
Why Conservatives Won’t Defend Capitalism
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.
Trump’s ‘Infrastructure’ Plan Versus Obama’s ‘Stimulus’: What’s the Difference?
Apart from the fact that the Schumer-Trump proposal is double the Obama price tag, the answer is: very little.
The Case for Smaller Government and the Fallacy of Government Shutdowns
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...
Discrimination and Disparities II
Social justice warriors ignore many differences that have little or nothing to do with discrimination but have an enormous impact on outcomes.
Punitive Taxation of America’s Richest
There’s nothing moral, “fair” or “progressive” about a graduated (communist) tax schedule.
Lies Socialists Like To Tell About Inequality, Poverty and Capitalism
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 day." I say, so what? The poor...
‘Uncle Tom’ Is More Destructive Than the ‘N-word’
“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.
Free Market Capitalism Is Needed More Than Ever
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 defenses...
Democrats are Desperate for Votes
Democrats seek to undermine individual rights and the rule of law in order to obtain votes.
Your Fair Share of Taxes
Do we leave (wealth) in the private sector where the market decides? Or do we subject it to corrupt politicians?
Millennials for Socialism
Let’s examine the history of socialism.
Abolish the Welfare State to Solve the National Debt Crisis
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...
Police Aren’t Enough To End Crime
Most of today’s major problems encountered by black people have little or nothing to do with racial discrimination and a legacy of slavery.
Wages Under Free-Markets and Capitalism
Capitalism operates to raise wages, shorten hours, end child labor, and improve working conditions.
After The Mueller Report: Has the Trump 2020 Collusion Investigation Started Yet?
Expect the Democrats to get back to basics: calling the President racist, fascist, sexist, xenophobic, anti-Semitic, homophobic, anti-Hispanic, etc.
The Democratic Socialist Fantasy
Venezuelans who escaped their country’s socialism understand now that socialism creates poverty.
Capitalism, Diversity, Equality, and Pluralism
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,...
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