Whether or not you agree with my father’s views on the Federal Income Tax, or the manner by which it is collected, it’s hard to condone the way he was treated by our government.
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
Bernie Sanders: Wrong on Education and Health Care
The two areas government most involves itself in, education and health care, are the most expensive and least accountable to their customers. Might there be a connection?
Thomas Sowell’s Latest Book: Wealth Poverty and Politics
“Wealth, Poverty and Politics: An International Perspective” is a true gem in terms of exposing the demagoguery and sheer ignorance of politicians and intellectuals in their claims about wealth and poverty.
Let’s Take Back Columbus Day
Western civilization did not originate slavery, racism, warfare, or disease–but with America as its exemplar, that civilization created the antidotes.
The Massive Ignorance Behind The Guns Cause Crime Agenda
Do you want to live in a world where a violent criminal knows that all the nonviolent, noncriminals out there are disarmed?
Three Campaigns That May Save Your Life — If The Government FDA Permits It
We must no longer allow American citizens to die of government bureaucracy.
Socialist Political Rhetoric vs. Capitalist Cultural Facts
Socialist rhetoric distracts attention from questions about logic or evidence.
What’s Holding Women Back in the Workplace?
Among the many reasons for gross disparities in many fields, and at different income levels, is that human beings differ in what they want to do, quite aside from any differences in what they are capable of doing, or what others permit them to do.
Unnecessary Loss of Life
In our latest wars, many of the casualties suffered by American troops are a direct result of their having to obey rules of engagement created by politicians who have never set foot on — or even seen — a battlefield
The Cult of Victims
When you reward something, you get more of it.
Good Riddance
The impending departure of Speaker of the House John Boehner gives the House Republicans a real opportunity to accomplish something.
Government “Help” Creates More Problems Than It Solves
Government intervention in the market has raised the price and lowered the quality of education, housing and healthcare.
Donald Trump: Pro-American Psychology; Muddled Semi-Socialist Ideology
Trump is appealing for what he’s not, more than for what he is.
Socialism: Progress in Reverse
The “progressives” of our time are the people who seek to take us back in time, to the ancient creed of sacrifice and brother’s keeperism.
Why Have Elections?
Donald Trump is not the only obstacle to finding leaders of character. The ultimate danger lies in the voting public themselves.
A New Yorker Remembers the World Trade Center
As I quickly walked away, I did not want to look back at its towers, battered and bearing the scars of its evil attackers. I do not want to remember the WTC burning or falling, for that was not its essence.
Innovation vs. Regulation: Cutting Red Tape
America became the most innovative and prosperous nation in history because many Americans were adventurous, individualistic people willing to take big risks to discover things that might make life better.
Problems in Black America: A Legacy of Slavery and Discrimination, or Something Else?
One of the best-kept secrets is the fact that the poverty rate among black married couples has been in single digits since 1994.
Immigration and Assimilation: The Past and Future of the Refugee Crisis
No nation has an unlimited capacity to absorb immigrants of any sort, and especially immigrants whose cultures are not simply different, but antagonistic, to the values of the society in which they settle.
Immigration, Borders and Screening under Capitalism
A proper screening for immigrants does not include ideology, but screens for rights violating actions.
A Revealing Clue: How Trump and Bush Deal with Hecklers
The Republican establishment needs to understand why someone with all Trump’s faults could attract so many people who are sick of the approach that Jeb Bush represents.
The Iran Nuclear Deal: Peeling Back The Layers
“This thing is like an onion,” George Costanza once said on an episode of “Seinfeld.” “The more layers you peel, the more it stinks.” Just about anyone who examines the Iran nuclear deal knows how he feels. Look at the recent...
Bryce Williams: Victim of Society or Just Plain Evil?
Williams’ sickness resided in his inability and unwillingness to look at people as individuals, and instead to view everything through a collective lens.
The Racist Premises Behind ‘Black Lives Matter’
“Black Lives Matter” is about as non-racist an organization as any white supremacy group.
Immigration: The Case Against Open Borders
The idea of a completely open border with nothing but a welcome sign would represent a violation of government’s obligation to protect individuals from foreign threats.
Reverse Racism
The civil rights division of the Justice Department has turned the same blind eye to similar voter intimidation and corruption of the voting process by other people and other organizations in other cities and states — so long as those being victimized were white and the victimizers were black.
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton’s Last Hurrah
Ironically, the Republicans have a much stronger set of presidential candidates than usual to choose from this year.
“Equalizing” Incomes: What is Fair?
Big-government politicians bemoan income inequality, but would equalizing incomes make life fair?
A Debatable ‘Debate’
After more than six years of Barack Obama in the White House, have we learned nothing about the dangers of choosing a President of the United States on the basis of sound bites, with no track record to check against his rhetoric?
Immigration Is Great: A Big Win for America
It would be good if all immigrants came here legally. But America makes that difficult.
Academic Fascism in America
From the Nazis to the Stalinists, tyrants have always started out supporting free speech, and why is easy to understand. Speech is vital for the realization of their goals of command, control and confiscation. Free speech is a basic tool for indoctrination, propagandizing, proselytization. Once the leftists gain control, as they have at many universities, free speech becomes a liability and must be suppressed.
Legal and Academic Equality Nonsense
If America’s diversity worshippers see underrepresentation as probative of racial discrimination, what do they propose be done about overrepresentation?
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