When politicians “create” jobs, they take money from the private sector, the only group that creates real jobs?
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
Black People Duped by Left Wing Intelligentsia
The cultural problems that affect many black people are challenging and not pleasant to talk about, but incorrectly attributing those problems to racism and racial discrimination, a need for more political power, and a need for greater public spending condemns millions of blacks to the degradation and despair of the welfare state.
The ‘Fairness’ Fraud
Envy, resentment and hopelessness that progressives preach, and the welfare state they promote, are among the factors keeping people down.
Bill Gates is Wrong About “Giving Back”
By saying, “I must give back,” a person is essentially acknowledging, “I stole something.”
Another Galling Betrayal in Afghanistan and Iraq
We insisted on trying to create a “democracy” in the Middle East — a place with a history going back thousands of years, without a single democracy.
Why Socialism is Evil
Socialism employs evil means, confiscation and intimidation, to accomplish what are often seen as noble goals — namely, helping one’s fellow man
Obamacare for News Reporting: Will Government Censors Be Placed in America’s Newsrooms?
Individual liberty, freedom and private property — including the most precious right of free speech – are not frozen in place forever. Government will always test its limits and watch how we respond.
Offended Generation
The non-objectivity and relativism of post-modern philosophy has spawned an Offended Generation – a pathetic lot of fragile, whining imbeciles demanding a blue ribbon for existing and an Apology for being a victim of everything else that comes with it.
The Privileged People
As long as government has the power to grant favors, cronies and their lobbyists will seek those favors out.
The Great Absurdity of The Republican Party
The Republican Party is dying from an internal contradiction. On the one hand, it claims to want freedom and individual rights. On the other hand, it embraces fundamentalist religion as the basis for civilization.
Obama Subsidy Spin
Obamacare incentives could reduce the size of the labor force by more than two million workers by 2017
No Material Poverty in the U.S.
Here are a few facts about people whom the Census Bureau labels as poor.
Random Thoughts: February 2014
Random thoughts on the passing scene…
Shackling Minds and Speech: IRS Reg-134417-13
The IRS Reg-134417-13 ruling is an unconscionable attack on our right to discuss, agree or disagree about political matters.
Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly Interviews The Prince of Unaccountability (Obama)
Obama’s strength, if you wish to call it that, arises from the ideological weakness of his political opponents — and the personal weakness of his most loyal constituents.
Reputation Versus Regulation: Why Is The Government Concerned With Whom You Eat With?
Most regulation is useless. It’s the need to maintain one’s reputation that does most to keep us safe.
Re-state of the Union: What Obama Should Have Said
President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday wasn’t what I wanted to hear. This is what the president should have said.
Politics of Hate and Envy
Though sports and Hollywood personalities earn multiples of CEO salaries, you’ll never find leftists and progressives picketing and criticizing them.
The Inequality Bogeyman
Intellectuals’ obsession with income statistics — calling envy “social justice” — ignores vast differences in productivity that are far more fundamental to everyone’s well-being.
No Right to Privacy Without The Right to Property
Without the right to one’s property (including one’s wealth), any right to privacy is irrelevant and nonexistent.
Obama’s Rule by the Pen
We’re living under the blossoming dictatorship of a petulant child.
Fact-Free Liberals (Part 4 of 4)
Many leading thinkers on the left had only contempt for “the people.”
Fact-Free Liberals (Part 3 of 4)
While the fact-free liberals celebrate the “war on poverty” and other bright ideas of the 1960s, we are trying to cope with yet another “reform” that has made matters worse, ObamaCare.
Fact-Free Liberals (Part 2 of 4)
Minimum wage laws create unemployment, especially among the younger, less experienced and less skilled workers.
Fact-Free Liberals (Part 1 of 4)
Facts are not liberals’ strong suit. Rhetoric is.
OK to Feel Sorry
I am free to feel sorry for guilty or timid white people.
Christie, Hillary and Obama
If anything good comes out of this shabby episode of political vindictiveness by Governor Christie’s staffers, it showed what a skewed sense of perspective most of the media have on what kinds of issues (Traffic Jams or IRS Targeting, and Benghazi) are important.
Capitalism: The Solution to Mass Poverty
If we want to eradicate poverty and increase economic and general well-being, we need to understand first what capitalism really means, and then embrace it.
A New Year and Old Problems
ObamaCare looms large and menacing on our horizon.
Lessons Learned in a Harlem Barbershop
Without collectivism, no racism is possible.
Liberalism vs Blacks
The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals’ expansion of the welfare state.
Charity is Nice, But it Won’t End Hunger
Production is what makes all consumption, including charity, possible.
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