POLITICS

How Not to Sell Free-Market Healthcare Ideas

Conceding the premise that if the government were only competent enough, it should be in charge of securing healthcare for everyone grants the moral high ground to those who want the government to take on a greater role in healthcare, making it harder to even imagine an alternative.

Random Thoughts September 2014

Random Thoughts September 2014

Why Republicans would bring up the subject of immigration during an election year is beyond me. Yet Speaker of the House of Representatives John Boehner seems drawn to the subject like a moth to a flame.

Who Wants War?

Who Wants War?

Some pundits are saying that President Obama has been floundering in his response to the ISIS crisis because public opinion polls show most Americans don’t want another war.

Do Statistical Disparities Mean Injustice?

Courts, bureaucrats and the intellectual elite have consistently concluded that “gross” disparities are probative of a pattern and practice of discrimination. Given all of the differences among people, such a position is pure nonsense.

Open Immigration Policy

Dr. Yaron Brook, president of the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights, calls for an open immigration policy, saying that the government’s only function should be to protect individual rights.

Hold On, Mr. President

Hold On, Mr. President

The urge to “do something” is understandable. But Government can’t get domestic policy right. Don’t assume it gets foreign policy right.

Immigration and The Welfare State

Immigration and The Welfare State

Most immigrants recognize that America is the land of opportunity. If we let enough in, perhaps their number will offset the growing number of the native born who simper that America is the land of entitlement.

Cheap Politicians

Cheap Politicians

Cheap politicians turn out to be very expensive politicians, in the way they waste money, even if they are not stealing it.

Get Ready for Denials on Illegal Immigration

Get Ready for Denials on Illegal Immigration

If there is a terrorist attack through our southern border, will Americans allow President Obama, congressional Democrats, the news media and progressives and liberals to deny that their weak border security policy was responsible?

Patrolmen Without Borders

Patrolmen Without Borders

Even as the federal government fails to control the southern border, it sends the Border Patrol farther into the interior, where Americans complain that agents harass people who are already U.S. citizens.

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.

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