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?
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
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.
The “Crony” in Capitalism is Socialism
We already have a time-tested policy for deciding, without government interference, where resources should go. It’s called the free market.
IRS Chief Lois Lerner: A Progressive Hero?
If the purpose of government is to spread the wealth and attempt to distribute the good life to everyone equally, then Lois Lerner was doing what she had to do. By that standard, she was even a hero.
A Lame Duck Country?
President Obama has demonstrated, time and again, that he has no respect for the Constitution’s limitations on his power.
The Errors in Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century
Capital accumulation and more production, not egalitarianism and its absurd theories and programs, are the foundation of rising living standards in general and rising real wages in particular.
A Bitter After-Taste in Iraq
You cannot create instant freedom like you are making instant coffee.
The Case Against “Reparations for Slavery”
Dr. William’s explains why slavery is not the “blame whitey” issue that race hustlers make it out to be.
Immigration and Economic Growth
Immigration is not a cause of economic growth. It’s primarily a byproduct.
Amnesty Lite Is Still Amnesty
It doesn’t matter what immigration policies you believe in if you don’t control your borders.
The Prisoner Swap Deal
Thomas Sowell explains why the prisoner swap deal is a victory for Obama and a defeat for the United States of America.
Who Owns You? On the Right To Try Experimental Drugs
On the FDA banning drugs that can help people.
Piketty’s Popular Nonsense
When markets are free, poor people can move out of their income group. Income mobility, matters more than income inequality.
Income Level is Not a Social Issue
How much money someone makes is nobody else’s business, as long as they earn the money honestly, without initiating force or fraud, and are not forced to do it.
Forced Equality Destroys The Quality of Medicine
The only equality that government intrusion can actually deliver is the equality of death.
GOP Suicide Mission
Where it really counts, Republicans differ little from Democrats.
Obama is Not a Socialist; Obama is a Fascist
Obama is a fascist because he pushes for government control of the economy, while leaving ownership in private hands.
Edward Snowden: Hero or Traitor?
It may be true that revealing information about the NSA’s methods — some of which it uses legitimately — could make a terrorist’s job easier. But if revealing those methods is necessary to alert the American people to the injustice committed by the NSA, then so be it.
White Privilege
The average parent has no idea of the devious indoctrination going on in classrooms in many public schools. What follows are some of the lessons of the conference.
The Dangers of Rick Santorum’s Blue Collar Conservatism
Rick Santorum is a different kind of Obama. Were it not for his hostility to gays and abortion, Rick Santorum would be perfectly at home in the Democratic Party.
Good News
It’s fortunate entrepreneurs keep making things faster than worried, control-freak government can smother them.
Poverty and Snow Storms
Many young people in poverty today not only do not seem to know the way, but have many other people leading them off in other directions.
A Lesson on Racial Discrimination
Many people think that it takes government to eliminate racial discrimination, but economic theory predicts the opposite.
The Height of Utopianism
Height restrictions have serious economic implications that are not immediately obvious to those who do not look beyond rhetoric about “saving” this or “preserving” that.
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