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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
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?
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.
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