The problem with our big, expansive federal government which denies individual rights every day is that it ultimately leads to disputes of this kind.
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
The Constitution or Good Ideas?
Should we be ruled by what are seen as good ideas or by what’s permissible by the U.S. Constitution?
American Dreaming
Government mostly hinders us, and then brags that it is waiting to take charge when we fail.
The High Cost of Liberalism: Part III
“Poverty” is in the eye of the statisticians — more specifically, the government statisticians who define what constitutes “poverty,” and who are unlikely to define it in ways that might jeopardize the massive welfare state that they are part of.
The High Cost of Liberalism: Part II
Nations that disarm increasing the chances of being attacked by nations that do not disarm.
The High Cost of Liberalism: Part I
Much as many liberals like to put guilt trips on other people, they seldom seek out, much less acknowledge and take responsibility for, the bad consequences of their own actions.
Equality in Discipline
Seeing as the Obama administration is concerned about punishment disproportionality, should black convicts be released so that only 13 percent of incarcerated murderers are black?
Statistical Frauds: War on Women
The “war on women” political slogan is in fact a war against common sense.
Taxing By Inflation
If you put $1,000 in your piggy bank in 1960 and took it out to spend in 2000, you would discover that your money had, over time, lost 80 percent of its value.
A Halo for Left Wing “Special Interests”
Those unfamiliar with political rhetoric may not know that “special interests” mean people who support your opponents.
Taxing Your Life Away
“What the tax code is doing is trying to choose our values for us,” complains Yaron Brook from the Ayn Rand Institute.
Individualism: The Only Basis of Freedom in Medicine
Individualism must be the basis for the freedom to practice our values–religious or otherwise.
Bono vs. Bill Gates: A Capitalist or a Statist Route to End Poverty?
The fundamental elements of capitalism—the recognition of individual rights to life, liberty, property, and pursuit of happiness and private ownership of property—are a crucial requirement of wealth creation.
Aversion to Capitalism
Business schools do not do a good job of educating their students about capitalism.
Sex and Race Equality
Should we insist upon equal treatment of people by race and sex or tolerate differences in treatment?
Gambling and Government
Gambling is often a symptom rather than a cause.
How Foreign Is Our Policy?: Part II
Critics have seen Obama’s repeated sacrifices of American national interests as deliberate.
How Foreign Is Our Policy?
Most of Barack Obama’s foreign policy decisions since becoming president are consistent with this mindset. He has acted repeatedly as a citizen of the world, even though he was elected to be President of the United States.
Genetically Modified Foods: A Tremendous Human Achievement
Genetically modified foods are a tremendous human achievement and value.
Bullies Rule
Twenty-two million government workers delay the Keystone XL oil pipeline, raid poker games, force us to put ethanol in cars, prohibit drugs and medical devices that might make our lives better, take about half our money, and jail more citizens than even China and Russia do.
Objections Against Capitalism: The Perils of “Too Much” Freedom
The argument for limiting our freedom—and for objecting capitalism, a system of freedom—is based on a dismal view of human beings.
Republicans and Blacks
Republicans have failed to explain why the minimum wage laws that Democrats support are counterproductive for blacks.
Bizarre Arguments and Behavior
Some statements and arguments are so asinine that you’d have to be an academic or a leftist to take them seriously.
Debt and Taxes
If cutting and taxing are off the table, we can expect borrowing and printing.
Spring Clean Government
For every new regulation bureaucrats pass, they must repeal five old ones.
Ukraine: A Painful Argument for a Foreign Policy of Self-Interest
Vladimir Putin’s actions are detestable and the result of American weakness–intellectual weakness.
A Tiger of a Book: The Triple Package
“The Triple Package” is a book that tells us much that we all need to know about America — especially if we want to keep the welfare state ideology from destroying the American Dream.
War on Women
It’s fine if dance and art groups are mostly women, but if athletic teams are too male, lawsuits follow.
Putin Parties Like It’s 1959
The best thing America could do for the Ukraine, or any other victim of totalitarian repression, is to make the world safe for freedom, private property and individual rights.
Obamacare Ruins More Than Health Care
Obamacare will harm us on a broader scale, as the underlying nature of the health law’s provisions, and the tactics used to implement them, affect all areas of public and business policy.
Racist “Group Think” at Rutgers
“How dare you be black and anti-Obama!”
Tax ‘Credits’ for People Who Don’t Pay Taxes?
Obama plays a similar trick with IRAs.
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