The urge to “do something” is understandable. But Government can’t get domestic policy right. Don’t assume it gets foreign policy right.
POLITICS
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?
Patrolmen Without Borders
Even as the federal government fails to control the southern border, it sends the Border Patrol farther into the interior, where Americans complain that agents harass people who are already U.S. citizens.
Anti-Semitism and the Moral Support of Islamic States By The West
Those Westerners who criticize Israel’s response to close to 3,000 rocket attacks might tell us what Israel should do in response — just take the rockets, surrender or leave the Middle East?
Laissez-Faire Mr. President
For nearly six years, now, you have declared your intention and desire of being my Nanny-in-Chief. Your original campaign slogan of “Hope and Change” was really a promise of “Control and Command.” Well, Mr. President, I have a request: Mind your own business.
Obamacare Makes It Easier than Ever to Free‐Ride
The more Americans figure out that Obamacare has made free—riding safer than ever, the more exchange enrollments will fall, posing a serious threat to Obamacare’s future.
Corporate Money and Medical Research: Markets Do Not Taint Science
Markets do not automatically taint science. As with every other service the market provides, it is the anti-capitalist attitude that does more harm.
Corporate Tax Inversion: In Praise of Avoiding Taxes
This new political campaign against corporate inversion, therefore, is really an assault on a remaining freedom through which private citizens attempt to retain more of the wealth and income they have produced and earned in the market. It is a campaign to keep the American people captive behind a fiscal Berlin Wall over which there is to be no escape.
A Cease Fire in Gaza Will Reward Hamas
When Hamas launches an attack on Israel, they know in advance that whatever Israel does in response will be limited by calls for a cease-fire, backed by political and economic pressures from the United States.
Please Stop Helping Us
Today’s black leaders have little reservation about giving their support to union policies that harm their constituents.
Policing America
Regardless of our political leanings, we should be wary of big government in all its forms.
Do Blacks Need Favors?
Is it within the capacity of black Americans to make it in this society without the special favors variously called racial preferences, quotas, affirmative action and race-sensitive policies?
Bordering on Madness
Americans who gather to protest the high-handed way this administration has sneaked illegal immigrants into their communities can expect the race card to be played against them. The time is long overdue to stop being intimidated by such cheap — and dangerous — political tactics.
Our Unwillingness to Defend Ourselves
Americans are too focused on government handouts rather than the most basic function of government: defending us from barbarians.
Who’ll Build the Roads?
In a market, everybody wins. With government planners, it’s always “My way or the highway.”
Slave Reparations: Coming Next?
Why should present-day white Americans, who had nothing to do with slavery in the 19th Century, be forced to pay higher taxes and sacrifice their own well-being because of injustice never personally committed by them?
A Physician Faces the Clinton Health Care Plan—and Emerges a Champion of Capitalism
A Short History of Americans for Free Choice in Medicine
Businesses Should Be Free to Hire Foreign Workers
Businesses should be free to hire whoever will help them to create most value for their customers and shareholders, regardless of nationality.
Spending and Morality
Is it moral for Congress to forcibly use one person to serve the purposes of another?
A Primer on Race
“Do racial preferences work? What is the track record?”
The “National Interest” vs. Freedom of Trade
The idea of some kind of collective national interest is mistaken: having products manufactured in the United States or in Canada is not inherently in the interest of Americans or Canadians; having products manufactured wherever it can be done most efficiently—provided the markets are free—is.
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