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Good Riddance
The impending departure of Speaker of the House John Boehner gives the House Republicans a real opportunity to accomplish something.
Government “Help” Creates More Problems Than It Solves
Government intervention in the market has raised the price and lowered the quality of education, housing and healthcare.
Donald Trump: Pro-American Psychology; Muddled Semi-Socialist Ideology
Trump is appealing for what he’s not, more than for what he is.
Socialism: Progress in Reverse
The “progressives” of our time are the people who seek to take us back in time, to the ancient creed of sacrifice and brother’s keeperism.
Why Have Elections?
Donald Trump is not the only obstacle to finding leaders of character. The ultimate danger lies in the voting public themselves.
A New Yorker Remembers the World Trade Center
As I quickly walked away, I did not want to look back at its towers, battered and bearing the scars of its evil attackers. I do not want to remember the WTC burning or falling, for that was not its essence.
Innovation vs. Regulation: Cutting Red Tape
America became the most innovative and prosperous nation in history because many Americans were adventurous, individualistic people willing to take big risks to discover things that might make life better.
Problems in Black America: A Legacy of Slavery and Discrimination, or Something Else?
One of the best-kept secrets is the fact that the poverty rate among black married couples has been in single digits since 1994.
Immigration and Assimilation: The Past and Future of the Refugee Crisis
No nation has an unlimited capacity to absorb immigrants of any sort, and especially immigrants whose cultures are not simply different, but antagonistic, to the values of the society in which they settle.
Immigration, Borders and Screening under Capitalism
A proper screening for immigrants does not include ideology, but screens for rights violating actions.
A Revealing Clue: How Trump and Bush Deal with Hecklers
The Republican establishment needs to understand why someone with all Trump’s faults could attract so many people who are sick of the approach that Jeb Bush represents.
The Iran Nuclear Deal: Peeling Back The Layers
"This thing is like an onion," George Costanza once said on an episode of "Seinfeld." "The more layers you peel, the more it stinks." Just about anyone who examines the Iran nuclear deal knows how he feels. Look at the recent bombshell report that revealed Iran will...
Bryce Williams: Victim of Society or Just Plain Evil?
Williams’ sickness resided in his inability and unwillingness to look at people as individuals, and instead to view everything through a collective lens.
The Racist Premises Behind ‘Black Lives Matter’
“Black Lives Matter” is about as non-racist an organization as any white supremacy group.
Immigration: The Case Against Open Borders
The idea of a completely open border with nothing but a welcome sign would represent a violation of government’s obligation to protect individuals from foreign threats.
Reverse Racism
The civil rights division of the Justice Department has turned the same blind eye to similar voter intimidation and corruption of the voting process by other people and other organizations in other cities and states — so long as those being victimized were white and the victimizers were black.
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton’s Last Hurrah
Ironically, the Republicans have a much stronger set of presidential candidates than usual to choose from this year.
“Equalizing” Incomes: What is Fair?
Big-government politicians bemoan income inequality, but would equalizing incomes make life fair?
A Debatable ‘Debate’
After more than six years of Barack Obama in the White House, have we learned nothing about the dangers of choosing a President of the United States on the basis of sound bites, with no track record to check against his rhetoric?
Immigration Is Great: A Big Win for America
It would be good if all immigrants came here legally. But America makes that difficult.
Academic Fascism in America
From the Nazis to the Stalinists, tyrants have always started out supporting free speech, and why is easy to understand. Speech is vital for the realization of their goals of command, control and confiscation. Free speech is a basic tool for indoctrination, propagandizing, proselytization. Once the leftists gain control, as they have at many universities, free speech becomes a liability and must be suppressed.
Legal and Academic Equality Nonsense
If America’s diversity worshippers see underrepresentation as probative of racial discrimination, what do they propose be done about overrepresentation?
Hillary Clinton’s Trump Card
Donald Trump has virtually no chance of becoming even the Republican Party’s candidate in 2016, much less being elected President of the United States. If Trump ran as a third-party candidate he would virtually guarantee victory for Hillary Clinton.
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