Neither the total amount of government spending nor the likely budget deficit is threatened with meaningful reduction.
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
Appeasing The Campus “Thought Police”: UCLA Bans Book at a Free Speech Event
If today’s students are increasingly hostile to intellectual freedom, can we really expect tomorrow’s voters, lawyers, judges, politicians to uphold free speech?
The New Health Care Straw Man
We cannot afford to pass legislation again “so that you can find out what’s in it.”
The National Debt Limit Equals a Balanced Budget
A balanced budget for the government means having to prioritize what it can afford to spend, and on what – just like you and me.
Trumpcare: An Obamacare Wolf in Sheeply Republican Clothing
The effect of this law, were it actually enacted, would be the death of the health insurance industry.
America Shall Not Be Saved By the Death of Obamacare Alone
For more than a century, government involvement in American medicine has moved in a single direction: more spending, more bureaucrats, and more government power over the most intimate details of our daily lives.
Zero-Sum World of Donald Trump
President Trump views the world as hostile place in which other nations are out to better themselves by making America and the American people poorer, weaker and worse off.
Immigration: Free Will and Free Borders
How today’s widespread acceptance of determinism has made many people suspicious of immigration.
Capitalism, Marxism and Black Americans
On collectivist myths and racial prejudice
The Economic Nationalism of Donald Trump: Subordination of the Individual to the State
A dark time is threatening America with the Trumpian ideology and implementation of his vision of political and economic nationalism at the expense of individual liberty, private property rights, rule of law and constitutionally limited government.
How To Defeat Islamic Totalitarianism
To deter jihadists and would-be recruits, it’s crucial to demonstrate that their totalitarian vision is unrealizable, that their cause is doomed.
Los Angeles Police Targets Taxi Union Competitors
Deregulate the taxi industry.
Trump is No Ayn Rand Hero
The Washington Post Fails To Do Its Homework on Ayn Rand’s Philosophy: Objectivism
Where Ia America as a Nation?
The key individual in any administration, however, is the President — and that remains the key mystery in the new administration.
Why Regressive Leftists Cry Racism
Individualism is the only alternative to racism. Anyone who claims to abhor racism while still embracing the victim-soaked, collectivistic rule-by-force mentality of socialistic progressive leftism enjoys no credibility at all.
Ending Government Cronyism
Cronyism is what happens when government interferes in the economy.
“Black Lives Matter” Is Focused on the Wrong Culprit and the Wrong Solution
The group that most devalues my life is not abusive law enforcement nor white racism — though these exist and should be fought — it is black criminals.
Occidental College Responds to 9/11 Attack on Free Speech
On the 15th anniversary of the worst domestic terrorist attack in history—September 11—a college student’s memorial flag display was destroyed three times.
How Obamacare Intimidates Young Adults
Obamacare is not doing well financially, so more young adults must be coerced into paying excessive insurance premiums to subsidize older participants.
King of Debt Takes the Reins
As many people expect great changes from Trump, it is worthwhile to look at what the Reagan Revolution actually wrought.
The Election’s Bearing on Monetary Freedom
The sad reality is that the battle for monetary freedom has for some time now taken the form of a rearguard action, aimed at resisting as much as possible ever-increasing government incursions into an ever-shrinking realm of financial choice.
What Voting Is and Is Not
When you vote for people to do uncivilized things, you get uncivilized people to do those things for you.
Democrats’ Race Fixation Comes Back to Bite Them
Millions of black voters were told to vote for Obama because of his race.
Why So Many Politicians Are Crooks
Who’s best equipped to rob from one group of people for the sake of the another? Career politicians, of course.
Election 2016: The Dangers of a Trump Presidency
Donald Trump’s whole campaign has been based on the idea that he will not be accountable to anybody.
Plato: Father of the Totalitarian State
Political-Economic Ideas of The Greeks, Part 2
The Ancient Greeks and Political Freedom
Political-Economic Ideas of The Greeks, Part 1
The New Black Segregation at California State University is Still Racism
The civil rights movement started out in the 1950s and 1960s as against white-black segregation. And now, half a century later, we’re back to full-fledged white-black segregation at California state schools.
Colin Kaepernick’s Fight Against ‘Racism’
The first problem with Kaepernick’s “protest” is that the Black Lives Matter movement, launched after the death of black suspect Michael Brown of Ferguson, Missouri, is based on a lie.
Despite The Positive Aspects of Capitalism, Anti-Capitalism Still Haunts the World
Let us not forget that over the last hundred years virtually every form of collectivism has been tried – socialism, communism, fascism, Nazism, interventionism, welfare statism – and each has failed. There is only one “ism” left to fill this vacuum in the face of collectivism’s failures.
Bureaucratic Healthcare
What we need is more freedom and a lot less government.
The Entitlement State and America’s Fiscal Crisis: Capitalism vs Socialism
The enemies of capitalism indicted the society of liberty; they distorted the reality of capitalism and its brilliant triumphs in freeing man from poverty; and they imbedded in the minds of many the conception of political entitlements that serve the power ends of political paternalists and which requires the plundering of the peaceful and productive members of society.