Walter Williams on the difference between democracy/majority rule and freedom under a rule of law. based on human rights
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
The Price of Obama’s Exploitation of Race
As with so many other issues, Obama’s biggest victims are never the ones he claims to help.
What Has Hillary Clinton Ever Accomplished?
Hillary Clinton became an iconic figure by feeding the media and the left the kind of rhetoric they love.
The Gender Card: Why Hillary Clinton Isn’t Really “In Trouble”
Hillary Clinton will count on a majority of people overlooking her longer standing reputation for duplicity, hypocrisy and imperial arrogance because of the fact she is a woman.
Why Obama Stumbles on Syria
The lack of a principled, moral approach to foreign policy is why Obama has America stumbling around the world actually threatening America’s interests rather than our enemies.
Americans Should Support Freedom and Individual Rights Rather than Democrats or Republicans
Ignorance or evasion of the meaning and nature of rights is why both the mainstream political parties seek to violate individual rights, just at different times and in slightly different forms.
Is Chicago The Next Detroit?
Chicago voters face a painful choice: waste or corruption. Day by day, the political class milks taxpayers dry.
Two Warnings: Churchill and Netanyahu
Winston Churchill understood that military deterrence was what preserved peace.
Selma and Voting Rights Triumph
How important political power is to the ordinary black person?
Books: Inside the Criminal Mind
Criminals are criminals because of the way they think.
The Shadow of Selma
Barack Obama belongs on the side of Selma’s oppressor, not on the side of Selma’s oppressed.
Hillary Clinton and The “Gender Card”
Hillary Clinton will count on a majority of people overlooking her longer standing reputation for duplicity, hypocrisy and imperial arrogance because of the fact she is a woman.
Inequality of Results: The Defining Issue of Our Time?
President Obama calls inequality “the defining issue of our time.”
The ‘Disparate Impact’ Racket
Blacks are far more statistically “over-represented” among basketball stars in the NBA than among people stopped by police in Ferguson.
On The “Pay Gap” Between Men and Women
The “gender gap” is not nearly as big as the honesty gap.
Tyranny: An Essential Feature of Socialism
The power to seize control of industry, tax and redistribute the income of producers, control prices, inflate the money supply and stifle dissent by controlling the media, thwarting the ability to assemble or preventing the ability to flee the borders necessitates the threat of violence.
The State Department’s Refugee Program Shouldn’t be a Terrorist-Funding Welfare Scam
Why is the federal government bringing people into the country, luring them into dependency, and subsidizing terrorism?
The Giuliani Backpedal and What It Says About Republicans
Either Republicans are the moral, spineless cowards most of them appear to be. Or they never had any principles to back away from, in the first place. Neither explanation inspires.
Giuliani Versus Obama
Barack Obama’s campaign promise to “fundamentally change the United States of America” hardly suggests love.
Earth to Patricia Arquette: Individual Achievement Trumps Gender
Arquette is trying to confuse two different issues here. One is equality under the law and the other is equality of outcome. She’s lumping the two together and acting as if they’re the same. But they’re not.
Shame: How America’s Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country
Liberals believe that black people’s fate is determined by the beneficence of white people and government programs.
No Gatekeepers: Wikipedia is an Encyclopedia without Central Planners
The crowd possesses “local knowledge” that experts can’t begin to replicate.
Glib ‘Happy Talk’
When Alfred E. Neuman said “What me worry?” on the cover of Mad magazine, it was funny. But this message was not nearly as funny coming from President Barack Obama and his National Security Advisor, Susan Rice.
Obama’s Crusade To Give Militant Islam A Free Pass
“The medieval Christian threat is under control, Mr. President. Please deal with the radical Islamic threat today.”
Measles, Vaccines and Autism
The claim that the vaccine for measles causes autism has been discredited by evidence.
Obama Versus America
The biggest advantage that the children of low-income immigrants have over the children of native-born, low-income families is that low-income immigrants have not been saturated for generations with the rhetoric of victimhood and hopelessness, spread by people like Obama, Holder and their counterparts overseas.
Inequality Is Not The Problem, Lack Of Freedom Is
Freedom is the only means to increase human well-being.
Defense Against Demagogues
This year’s congressional efforts to reduce corporate income tax will create great opportunities for demagogues.
Obama Stomps His Foot Over Netanyahu
Israel is not an enemy. This shouldn’t even be a squabble in the first place.
Restate of the Union: What Obama Should Have Said in His State of The Union Address
What Obama Should Have Said in His State of The Union Address
Will the West Defend Itself?
Leftists and progressives believe that the U.S. should become more like Europe. They praise Europe’s massive welfare state, socialized medicine and stifling economic regulation and accept its unwillingness to defend itself against barbarism.
Early Presidential Prospects
Everyone knows what the Democrats stand for, but even some Republicans in Congress seem to have only a hazy idea of what principles Republicans stand for.
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