Obama and the Middle East Should Learn a Lesson From America’s Founding Fathers
POLITICS
Margaret Thatcher: In Her Own Words
When Margaret Thatcher first became Prime Minister of Great Britain in 1979, some claimed it was a man’s job. Thatcher ultimately proved herself more up to the job than any man or woman of her time—or today’s time either, for that matter.
‘Proportional’ Response
Should we be surprised that the Iraqi government has increasingly come to pay more attention to what Iran wants than to what Washington wants?
Black Unemployment
In some cities, unemployment for black working-age males is more than 50 percent. Let’s look at this, but first let’s look at some history.
“Tax Expenditures”: Not Taxing Is Allegedly Spending
To reduce government spending means to reduce the money the government pays out, not to reduce the money it has chosen not to take in. The first is a reduction in government spending; the second is an increase in taxes. Confusing the two is of benefit only to con men who worship an omnipotent state.
Capital Gains Taxes
How are capital gains different from ordinary income?
Corporate Welfare is Immoral
In its recently released budget the Canadian (Conservative!) government announced $6.4 billion of new corporate welfare spending. The aerospace sector will receive $1.2 billion of it over the next five years, Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario...
Gay Marriage Exposes the Hypocrisy of Both “Right” and “Left”
When it comes to gay marriage, the leftists are right—for the wrong reasons, as usual. And the conservatives are just plain wrong—as usual. Let’s try applying reason and rationality to this issue, just once. May we, please? The purpose of a proper government is to...
‘Me Too’ Republicans
Polls and focus groups are not a substitute for thought.
Intellectuals and Race (Part 4 of 4)
Among the many irrational ideas about racial and ethnic groups that have polarized societies over the centuries and around the world, few have been more irrational and counterproductive than the current dogmas of multiculturalism. Intellectuals who imagine that they...
A Real Term Limit
If we want term limits to achieve their goals, we have to make the limit one term, with a long interval prescribed before the same person can hold any government office again. In short, we need to make political careers virtually impossible.
Intellectuals and Race (Part 3 of 4)
The theory of genetic determinism which dominated the early 20th century led to many harmful consequences, ranging from racial segregation and discrimination up to and including the Holocaust. The currently prevailing theory is that malice of one sort or another explains group differences in outcomes.
Intellectuals and Race (Part 2 of 4)
History has many dramatic examples of the rise and fall of peoples and nations, for a wide range of known and unknown reasons. What history does not have is what is so often assumed as a norm today, equality of group achievements at a given point in time.
Intellectuals and Race (Part 1 of 4)
On the notion that there is something unusual about different races being unequally represented in various institutions, careers or at different income or achievement levels.
Thomas Sowell’s “Intellectuals and Race”
Black people waged a successful civil rights struggle against gross discrimination. It’s white and black “liberals,” intellectuals, academics and race hustlers who have created our greatest hurdle.
A Real Term Limit
Those who oppose term limits express fears of having government run by amateurs, rather than by people with long experience in politics. But this country was created by people who were not career politicians, but who put aside their own private careers to serve in office during a critical time.
What About the Poor?
A common question, when discussing capitalism, is: What about the poor? In other words, won’t the poor be helpless and hopeless in a capitalist society? The premise underlying such questions is altruism. According to altruism, we have a moral duty to serve others....
It’s Never Too Soon to Repeal ObamaCare
Both sides ignore that ObamaCare is integral to an unmistakable progression in American health care; the law takes us from partial to total government-controlled medicine.
Rand Paul’s Brief Flicker of Liberty Shows the Power of Principle
If Rand Paul can cause Obama to wilt so quickly, just imagine what a consistent and unyielding stand on principle might do.
The Hydra of Government Medicine
Yet the relationship between doctors and patients is increasingly under attack by a relentless government. A hydra-headed monster of multiple agencies at all levels is poisoning the practice of medicine. While Obamacare diverts our attention, another head rears toward our medical care.
America Can’t Afford the Affordable Care Act
The new health care law, the “Affordable Care Act,” is actually making it less affordable for employers to provide coverage to employees. Under the Affordable Care Act, large employers must provide health coverage to all full-time workers and their dependents or face...
Lobbying and Political Power
Lobbyists are not a creation of the free market, but of a mixed economy–an economy with a mixture of freedoms and controls. When government has the power to arbitrarily dictate the actions of individuals, individuals will seek legislation that is favorable to them.
Thank The 1%
Instead of taxing the 1% more, we should thank them.
Obama’s State of the Union Speech: Deception, Cliche, and Danger
Obama is the new Baghdad Bob.
ObamaCare for Education
Expanding the underperforming K–12 system “down” a year earlier to include publicly funded preschool naturally benefits the education unions. But what about the kids?
Dictatorship? Not a Problem
According to The Wall Street Journal, Secretary of Defense nominee Chuck Hagel, during his hearings, had to backtrack on an especially embarrassing assertion that Iran’s rulers are “legitimate” and “elected.” Hagel would never have said...
Myths, Fallacies, and the History of Capitalism
I know that I should not be surprised that most people have little knowledge regarding the history of capitalism. Our schools certainly don’t teach it, and everybody “knows” that capitalism leads to all sorts of evils, such as abuse of employees by employers,...
Prophets and Losses: Part II
People on both sides of tax issues often speak of such things as a “$300 billion tax increase” or a “$500 billion tax decrease.” That is fine if they are looking back at something that has already happened. But it can be sheer nonsense if they...
Omniscience and Defending Capitalism
If you have ever attempted to explain capitalism, you have likely been confronted with a demand that you be omniscient. The demand is seldom, if ever, expressed that explicitly. Instead, it often takes the form of a question: how would some service, such as roads, be...
The Founders and the “General Welfare”
The Constitution limits the powers of the Federal government. However, even a perfect document cannot stand up to philosophical evasion and corruption. Without the proper moral base, the principles of the Constitution could not be defended, much less kept alive. To...
Obamacare: I Told You So (The First of Many)
I’d call it the law of unintended consequences, but actually such things are intended.
Whose Welfare Does The Indian Child Welfare Act Actually Serve?
Anyone who would ruin a helpless child’s life, in order to assert their own legal prerogatives, or to protect the tribe’s turf, raises very serious questions about what kind of parent they are.
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