Political-Economic Ideas of The Greeks, Part 2
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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.
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are Cut from the Same Political Cloth
The fact is both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump represent variations on the same political theme: the interventionist-welfare state, only applied in different ways as they pander to different coalitions of special interest and ideological groups among the American electorate.
Donald Trump the Corrupt Creation of America’s Bankrupt Politics
The Democrats and the Republicans, the progressives on the “left” and the go-along to get-along conservatives on the “right, are the ones who made Donald Trump.
Muhammad Ali and the Military Draft
“If the state may force a man to risk death or hideous maiming and crippling, in a war declared at the state’s discretion, for a cause he may neither approve of nor even understand, if his consent is not required to send him into unspeakable martyrdom—then, in principle, all rights are negated in that state, and its government is not man’s protector any longer. What else is there left to protect?”
The Hubris of the Political Power-Lusting “Leaders”
The friends of freedom must remind their fellow citizens that the only fundamental political question in any election is whether or not those running for political office unswervingly declare their allegiance to the philosophy of individual rights to life, liberty and property and its accompanying social system of free market capitalism?
Economic Fallacies Surrounding The Issue of Immigration
There are many economic fallacies that surround the issue of freer or open immigration into the United States, and few of them can stand up to serious critical examination.
Immigration and End of the American Melting Pot
America was once a “melting pot” of a diversity peoples that over several generations become something different from their ancestors’ national origins: they became Americans.
Tax Avoidance is Moral
Those who think that government collecting taxes from those who are productive to give them to those who are not is just, do so because they have accepted the morality of altruism and egalitarianism and believe that statism is the ideal social system.
Capitalism 101: “Progressives” are Enemies of Freedom
Through all the progressive’s rhetoric about “democracy” and “equality” and “social justice” and “diversity,” theirs is a political philosophy and public policy ideology of elitism, hubris, and authoritarianism.
Bill Clinton Exposes The Hypocrisy Of “Black Lives Matter” Protestors
Black people die far more often at the hands of other black people than at the hands of white people.
Welfare State Fascism: Obama’s “Middle Way” Between Capitalism and Socialism
The danger from the seemingly reasonable pragmatism that President Obama proposes as the norm and ideal for a middle or “third way” between capitalism and socialism is that is constantly moves society away from the competitive market economy and individual liberty and more and more in the direction of greater and more government planning and control over facets and corners of our lives.
Acts of War in Europe: Brussels Takes Another Hit From Radical Islam
Islamic radicals are the ones who seek to take us back to another dark ages.
The Fate of Capitalism and The 2017 Presidential Elections
The road from political, economic and social individualism to collectivist identity and privilege through group competition for political power is what has brought us to our current political crisis as captured in this year’s presidential campaign.
“National Purposes” versus Individual Rights
What binds the people of a truly free society together are a vision and an overriding value on the right of the individual to his life, liberty and honestly acquired property.
A Response To Robert Reich’s Open Letter to the Republican Establishment
If you want to get rid of the Republican Establishment, Mr. Reich, you’ve got to outlaw what Ayn Rand called the aristocracy of pull. How? Bring on economic freedom.
Real capitalism, not socialism, will wash the cronies away.
The Founding Fathers and Democracy
Democracy is a form of collectivism.
America’s National Debt Bomb Caused by the Welfare State
The Federal debt has now crossed the $19 trillion mark. When George W. Bush entered the White House in 2001, Uncle Sam’s debt stood at $5 trillion. When President Bush left office in January of 2009, it had increased to $10 trillion. Now into seven years of Barack Obama’s presidency, the Federal debt has almost doubled again.
What Is the “Fair Share” of Taxes?
According to estimates by the Tax Policy Center, slightly over 45 percent of American households have no federal income tax liability.
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