POLITICS

A Predictable Consequence of Trump’s Pragmatism

Despite Trump’s claims to the contrary, it was easy to predict that his arbitrary tariffs would increase prices.

Laissez-Faire Mr. President

Laissez-Faire Mr. President

For nearly six years, now, you have declared your intention and desire of being my Nanny-in-Chief. Your original campaign slogan of “Hope and Change” was really a promise of “Control and Command.” Well, Mr. President, I have a request: Mind your own business.

Corporate Tax Inversion: In Praise of Avoiding Taxes

Corporate Tax Inversion: In Praise of Avoiding Taxes

This new political campaign against corporate inversion, therefore, is really an assault on a remaining freedom through which private citizens attempt to retain more of the wealth and income they have produced and earned in the market. It is a campaign to keep the American people captive behind a fiscal Berlin Wall over which there is to be no escape.

A Cease Fire in Gaza Will Reward Hamas

A Cease Fire in Gaza Will Reward Hamas

When Hamas launches an attack on Israel, they know in advance that whatever Israel does in response will be limited by calls for a cease-fire, backed by political and economic pressures from the United States.

Do Blacks Need Favors?

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?

Bordering on Madness

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.

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?

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.

A Lame Duck Country?

A Lame Duck Country?

President Obama has demonstrated, time and again, that he has no respect for the Constitution’s limitations on his power.

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