When you take a particular position on abortion, Planned Parenthood, taxes, socialized medicine, or anything at all – from any direction – you are not “poisoning” or “inciting” anyone. You’re simply stating your position. The emotional response and behavioral follow-up (if any) of others is their own responsibility.
Does anyone actually believe that gun control laws will put an end to Islamic-inspired violence?
The “freedom” about which Bernie Sanders speaks, and before him Franklin Roosevelt, in fact, involves a loss of liberty into an even greater degree of political paternalism.
Europe provides a valuable lesson for Americans — on what not to do.
The gold standard was hardly perfect, and gold bugs themselves sometimes make silly claims about their favorite former monetary standard. But these things don’t excuse the errors many economists commit in their eagerness to find fault with that “barbarous relic.”
It is amazing how many different ways the same thing can be said, creating totally different impressions.
Random thoughts on the passing scene…
Understanding the Jihadists.
There was a painful irony when France’s immediate response to the terrorist attacks in Paris was to close the borders. If they had closed the borders decades ago, they might have avoided this attack.
“Thoughts and prayers won’t stop the next attack. This war against civilization must be fought or lost.”
Unless or until you start to rethink your stance, you have no business expressing compassion towards the victims of people in attacks whose perpetrators – knowingly or not – you aid and support via your positions.
The media attacks Dr. Carson because he is a black figure that is a threat to the left’s vision and the Democrats’ voting base.
Spoiled party kids may have stupid ideas, but they can’t impose them on the rest of us. Politicians can, and do. It’s an important distinction to remember.
Since liberal Democrats only challenge legal procedures to promote ballot-box integrity, the conclusion one reaches is that they are for vote fraud prevalent in many Democrat-controlled cities.
If Republicans really opposed socialism in principle, they’d be willing to take on or at least question the sacred cow of Medicare.
Blacks in positions of political power has not lived up to its billing.
Campaign finance rules — and the political incumbents and prosecutor-bullies who manipulate them — are a major threat to our freedom.
Fear is a friend of the state. When people are frightened, they willingly give money and power to politicians and bureaucrats.
Something clicked for me as I stared out my hotel window at a train station and seeing other public mass transportation moving on the street.
Hillary Clinton told a mixed audience, “I mean, if we’re honest, for a lot of well-meaning, open-minded white people, the sight of a young black man in a hoodie still evokes a twinge of fear.”
Now that Hillary Clinton’s e-mails have finally been recovered and revealed, after three years of stalling and stonewalling, they showed explicitly that she knew from the outset that the attack that killed Ambassador Stevens and others was not a result of some video but was a coordinated terrorist operation.
If only capitalism were given a chance, just imagine how much more it could do.
I don’t want a woman president or a male president. I want the best one available.
Obama’s sneering and condescending superiority is propped up only by your refusal to ever consider the question: where does wealth come from?
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