The Crisis is Not Debt Default, But Too Much Government Spending
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Delusions of Conservatives for Paid Family Leave
One of the remaining, big European welfare-state entitlements is being developed in Congress — by Republicans.
A Government Shutdown is Not Really a Shutdown
Would it really matter if most, or even all, of federal employees who are sent home stayed home permanently?
A Breath of Healthcare Freedom For The New Year
On the elimination of the individual insurance mandate of ObamaCare
GOP Tax Reform Entrenches the Welfare State
This tax reform appears to have been designed primarily to help secure future funding for a large, and growing, welfare state. Is this really what most Republicans in Congress wanted?
The Presidential Legacies of Donald Trump and Barrack Obama
Barack Obama’s paternalism or Donald Trump’s nationalism?
A Pro-Capitalist Political Agenda
What a real advocate of Capitalism might say if he was offering himself for political office.
Scaremongering “Journalism” at The New York Times
Sadly, many think dumb things because most every day the Times runs deceitful, biased stories and headlines that mislead. Opinion columns have license to do that, but these days, Times’ smears extend to “news” stories.
The Palestinian Movement is Hostile to Individual Freedom
Let’s recognize that the Palestinian movement is deeply hostile to individual freedom, and treat it accordingly.
Racism in Business
Collectivists believe that individuals have value and identity only as members of a group, whether a tribe, a member of a political movement, a race. Therefore, collectivists hold, we should judge people as members of a group, not as individual human beings based on their own character or conduct.
Roy Moore Is Not Fit For Political Office
Insinuating that he thinks gays deserve to die and stating clearly and explicitly that he aims to enact a religious government disqualify Moore from political office.
What Capitalism Is and What Capitalism Is Not (Part 2 of 2)
The free enterprise, or capitalist, system has done more to improve the material condition of humanity than any other economic arrangement of human cooperation in all of recorded history.
What Capitalism Is and What Capitalism Is Not (Part 1 of 2)
“Capitalism is an economic system based on the principle of every individual’s right to his own life, his own liberty and his own honestly acquired property. This private property includes his own mind and body, and the physical products that his mental and physical efforts have produced.”
Reclaiming “Liberalism” From The Anti-Capitalist “Progressive” Left
Historically “liberalism” originally meant, and continues to mean for some, individual freedom, private property, free enterprise and impartial rule of law under constitutionally limited government.
The Mystique of State Power
Governments and ideological movements, Rougier explained, wrap themselves in “mystiques” that serve as the rationales for claims to an ethical and legal right to rule.
Only Capitalism Can End The Racism of “Identity Politics”
The change from social attitudes and political systems of collectivism to that of ones more “individualistic” began in “the West,” in Europe and then North America.
The “White Privilege” Scam: A Formula for Injustice
The concept of white privilege is an invitation to the violation of the rights of whites to the same extent that the rights of blacks have been violated.
The Enemy Within
The enemy within is a person who accepts a particular political philosophy. It is “within” because it’s a false premise embedded in his mind and held either consciously or subconsciously. This false premise motivates his every thought and action. It is basic to his...
Immigration is a Moral Issue
In the name of individual rights, we should dismantle the entire bureaucracy of immigration restrictions
America Does Not Need Socialism, But More Laissez-Faire Capitalism
The program for a socialist America shows the intellectual bankruptcy of those on “the left.”
Trump and The GOP Support The Socialist Principles Underlying Obamacare
ObamaCare is succeeding, because its goal is a single-pay state monopoly in medicine; the failure it’s causing in America’s health insurance market is simply a means to that end.
Why Republicans Failed to Repeal Obamacare
Republican Senators have clearly demonstrated that, without the correct principles, there is no basis for health care policy.
The Anti-Capitalist Attack on Freedom of Thought, Speech, and Association
The assertion and repetition of “white privilege,” “the one percent,” “social justice,” “racist,” “gay-basher,” “LGBT-hater,” “gender insensitivity,” etc., have had numbing effects on private and public discourse.
Freedom and the Fear of Self-Responsibility
“Socialism, or the reliance on the state for help, stands in antagonism to self-help, or the activity of the individual.”
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