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.
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
Why “Progressive” Is Anything But
Hope and change? Not until we start to define “progress” differently.
“Hope and Change” Go Splat
Two years ago, Obama should have been rebuked but instead was reelected. Last night, he finally got the rebuke he deserved.
Voter Fraud and Voter I.D.
The Real Fraud is The Racial Hysteria and Cynicism Promoted By The Democrats to The Detriment of Blacks
Tax Avoidance, Productiveness, and Employee Cheating
Cheating means breaking a rule or law; legal tax avoidance merely exploits “regulatory loopholes” without breaking the law and is part of a legitimate profit maximization strategy.
FDA Horror Stories: How the FDA Denies Drugs to the Terminally Ill
The FDA has vigorously defended its power to deny drugs to the terminally ill, and it has been successful.
Incumbents Always Win
Incumbents have all sorts of built-in advantages.
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.
Officially Killing Americans Courtesy of the FDA
When the FDA calls a news conference to announce approval of a drug, somebody should ask the official how many Americans died from the drug’s not being approved the previous year.
Local or National Elections?
What is the overriding national issue that makes this year’s Congressional elections so crucial?
Poverty
Left free, the market will provide the greatest benefit to workers, employers and consumers, while allowing charity as well.
Ebola and Obama
The safety of the American people takes second place to the goal of helping people overseas.
Will the West Defend Itself?
Does the U.S. have the power to defeat the ISIL/al-Qaida threat and stop Iran’s nuclear ambitions — yes or no?
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.
Two Anti-Choice Parties
Democrats and Republicans constantly increase limits on individual choice.
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.
Immigration Is American
What happens when the immigrant does that, goes to the U.S. embassy and says, I’d like to work in America legally?
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
The urge to “do something” is understandable. But Government can’t get domestic policy right. Don’t assume it gets foreign policy right.
Favors and Loot for Sale by Congress
The greater the congressional power to give handouts and grant favors and make special privileges the greater the value of being able to influence congressional decision-making
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 turn out to be very expensive politicians, in the way they waste money, even if they are not stealing it.
Success or Failure? Obama The Master Illusionist
If you assume that Barack Obama is trying to protect the safety and interests of the United States and its allies, then clearly he has been a monumental failure.
Veteran’s Health Care: Harbinger for the Rest of Us?
How will Americans escape as Obamacare reduces all care to the response standards of the VA system?
Green Markets
Property rights encourage good stewardship.
Irresponsible Choices: Choosing a “Woman” President Because She is a Woman
With many people now acting as if it is time for “a woman” to become president, apparently they have learned absolutely nothing from the disastrous results of the irresponsible self-indulgence of choosing a President of the United States on the basis of demographic characteristics, instead of individual qualifications.
Banning Airbnb and Uber Violates The Rights of Sellers and Buyers
By preventing technology-enabled new markets for accommodations and ride sharing from operating, the government is violating the companies’ and their customers’ right to liberty and property.
Dealing with Riots: Facts vs. Visions
Do you prefer that fewer people get killed or that kinder and gentler rhetoric and tactics be used?
Blacks Must Confront Reality About Racial Discrimination
If it is assumed that problems that have a devastating impact on black well-being are a result of racial discrimination and a “legacy of slavery” when they are not, resources spent pursuing a civil rights strategy will yield disappointing results.
Immigration for Republicans
Keith Weiner examines the monstrous injustice of anti-immigration policy and the arguments used to justify it.
Get Ready for Denials on Illegal Immigration
If there is a terrorist attack through our southern border, will Americans allow President Obama, congressional Democrats, the news media and progressives and liberals to deny that their weak border security policy was responsible?