POLITICS

End States Who Sponsor Terrorism

Fifty years of increasing American appeasement in the Mideast have led to fifty years of increasing contempt in the Muslim world for the U.S. The climax was September 11, 2001.

Racial Quota Punishment

Racial Quota Punishment

Letting kids who are behavior problems in schools grow up to become hoodlums and then criminals is no favor to them or to the black community.

What Happened?

What Happened?

Pundits who depict Obama as a weak, lame duck president may be greatly misjudging him, as they have so often in the past.

Democracy Delusions

Democracy Delusions

When the Berlin Wall came down 25 years ago this week, people in the Soviet Bloc gained something even more valuable than a right to vote: a free market.

Turkey’s Position on ISIL Misunderstood

Turkey’s Position on ISIL Misunderstood

It is tempting for Western observers to view Turkey’s reluctance to join the fight as a mark of disloyalty to NATO and as a sign that the alliance is mostly about convenience. This view may be too simplistic.

Poverty

Poverty

Left free, the market will provide the greatest benefit to workers, employers and consumers, while allowing charity as well.

Random Thoughts September 2014

Random Thoughts September 2014

Why Republicans would bring up the subject of immigration during an election year is beyond me. Yet Speaker of the House of Representatives John Boehner seems drawn to the subject like a moth to a flame.

Who Wants War?

Who Wants War?

Some pundits are saying that President Obama has been floundering in his response to the ISIS crisis because public opinion polls show most Americans don’t want another war.

Do Statistical Disparities Mean Injustice?

Courts, bureaucrats and the intellectual elite have consistently concluded that “gross” disparities are probative of a pattern and practice of discrimination. Given all of the differences among people, such a position is pure nonsense.

Open Immigration Policy

Dr. Yaron Brook, president of the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights, calls for an open immigration policy, saying that the government’s only function should be to protect individual rights.

Hold On, Mr. President

Hold On, Mr. President

The urge to “do something” is understandable. But Government can’t get domestic policy right. Don’t assume it gets foreign policy right.

Immigration and The Welfare State

Immigration and The Welfare State

Most immigrants recognize that America is the land of opportunity. If we let enough in, perhaps their number will offset the growing number of the native born who simper that America is the land of entitlement.

Cheap Politicians

Cheap Politicians

Cheap politicians turn out to be very expensive politicians, in the way they waste money, even if they are not stealing it.

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