It makes no economic sense for an employer to pay $20 an hour for a job that is only worth $10 an hour.
POLITICS
Jim Crow, Racism, and the Free Market
It is often claimed that capitalism leads to all sorts of ills, such as racism and cartels (or monopolies). As with most attacks on capitalism, these claims attempt to blame capitalism for the consequences of government intervention into the economy. The Jim Crow laws...
Asking the Government for Permission to Live
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has gone to court to prevent the Colorado-based firm Regenerative Sciences from using stem cells developed in one part of your body (bone marrow) to repair damage in other parts of your body, such as joints. The FDA objects to...
Gays and Lesbians Should Not Fall for Barack’s Stand on Gay Marriage
Obama, who was previously on record against gay marriage, is now suddenly for it. He obviously fears a close election.
Stephen King’s Stand For Class Warfare
Unlike Stephen King, who seems to admit he’s a socialist, most Obama supporters will not admit to their socialism.
According to the FDA: Americans are Idiots
As an adult, have you ever been forced to eat or drink anything against your will? Have you ever been coerced into eating a bacon cheeseburger and a mountain of fries? Have you ever been compelled to drink one more beer than you should? What you put into your mouth...
If You Love Life, You Want to Be Free
If you truly have self-respect and self-esteem, you cannot imagine a life without freedom. Big Government just gets in the way.
Government without Taxation
In a capitalist society, the initiation of force is banned from the interactions between individuals. In a capitalist society, there is no regulation of businesses–no FTC, FDA, SEC, OSHA, or EPA. In a capitalist society, all funding for government is provided...
Facts About Health Care Your President Never Told You
The best advice for survival in post ObamaCare America? Stay healthy.
Obama, the Nothing Man
President Obama, who arrived today in Kabul, Afghanistan, just finished addressing the nation tonight in a televised speech – addressing a camera, not U.S. troops – telling the public the opposite of the truth: that the United States is pulling out of Afghanistan. In...
Does the Occupy Wall Street Movement Have a Valid Moral Claim?
With the recent publication of the Occupy Handbook, and the warm spring weather reviving the Occupy protesters from their winter hiatus, it is a good time to ask whether the Occupy [Wall Street] movement has a valid moral claim. What is the Occupy movement’s claim?...
America Got Its “Cool” President–So What Now?
In an anti-ideological age, you get nothing but double talk from politicians.
Thank You for Sharing, Jon Lovitz
It seems like Hollywood is filled with a bunch of nitwitted, anti-intellectual, group-think liberal socialists. These entertainers have more money than anyone — and good for them — but instead of being in favor of money-making, they’re furiously...
Collectivist Arizona Immigration Law is Anti-Capitalist
Now that the Arizona immigration-control law is at the Supreme Court, it’s time to analyze that law. There are two levels: the philosophic level and the level of Constitutional law. Fortunately, they both point to the same conclusion. The philosophical issue is...
Remembering the 1992 Los Angeles Riots
Seeing Reginald Denny being assaulted and mutilated for the color of his skin on live television provided an unforgettable lesson in the politics of race-baiting: that jumping to conclusions may impair government from protecting the public and instead incur looting and killing. L.A.’s riots are a harsh reminder that replacing facts with feelings – which was done by city leaders, the president and a pack of journalists – is a matter of life and death.
Obama’s Class Envy via Bad Numbers
With economic “fairness” the central theme of his re-election campaign, President Obama recently pitched his “Buffett Rule” tax hike to a student audience at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. Aimed at those who earn the bulk of their...
The Freedom to Choose
You have a moral right to choose what will bring you satisfaction, joy, and happiness, as long as you respect the mutual rights of others.
A Beggar Society is Not a Great Society
In a work of historical fiction, one of the characters wrote to another about the leaders of the Communist-socialist revolution in Russia. “Their leaders were committed to peace; they had promised peace and plenty to their peasant followers, and it would likely...
GSA and The Decline and Fall of the American Empire
Politicians love to talk about fairness. What is fair about robbing from some to redistribute to others?
Freedom versus Regulation
If a survey were taken, what would receive the lowest scores for quality, price, and value: The post office The state of our roads The quality of public education The price of gasoline Energy bills Wall Street Congress Chances are good that all of these would receive...
Trayvon Martin and Ambulance-Chasing Opportunism
Shelby Steele is a senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution who is critical of the civil rights movement, and of leftism in general. In The Wall Street Journal, he recently wrote that there are two tragedies as a result of the Trayvon Martin slaying....
Could Have Been Obama’s Son
Have you heard of Trayvon Martin? Of course you have. He’s the young man who was killed by a neighborhood watch member. Martin was reportedly unarmed and the neighborhood watch person, George Zimmerman, claims he was acting in self-defense. There is some evidence to...
Media Unreliabilty in George Zimmerman-Trayvon Martin case
Last week, NBC News became truthful, at least partially, when it issued an apology about altering a taped 911 conversation between George Zimmerman and a police dispatcher in the high-profile Trayvon Martin story, a case being linked to racism and profiling. What...
CON Job: State “Certificate of Necessity” Laws Protect Firms, not Consumers
CON laws are explicitly designed to restrict competition and boost the prices that established companies can charge.
Big Bullies: Obamaism and Liberalism
President Barack Obama is a “bully” for trying to shove his healthcare reform law down Americans’ throats and for trying to intimidate the Supreme Court into upholding the law, says staunch conservative Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C. Obama, with his inexperience, wants to...
The Tea Party and Individual Rights
If the Tea Party wants to have a long-term impact on American politics, it must embrace and defend individual rights.
“We Are Giving You a Boatload of Money”
Obama caused quite a stir recently when he implied that the Supreme Court really has no business striking down a law it considers unconstitutional. Obviously, he has nothing to fear from Elena Kagan.
ObamaCare “Helps” Some at the Expense of Everyone
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi actually said this recently, in praise of ObamaCare: “You want to be a photographer or a writer or a musician, whatever — an artist, you want to be self-employed, if you want to start a business, you want to change jobs, you no...
Jackson, Sharpton, Oprah and Trayvon Martin
To people like Jackson, Sharpton and Oprah, the young man’s death is not so much a crime as an opportunity. It’s an opportunity for them to once again shine, if only for a few moments, in the adoring media spotlight.
The “Psychopathology” of Conservatism
Not a Liberal? The APA Says You’re Crazy
Keeping Spirits Up in the Depressing Era of Obama
Dear Dr. Hurd: I’m writing in response to your Daily Dose of Reason column, “America in Reverse.” I have to say that reading that article is painful for me because I had to move back in with my mother after losing my job. I’ve been working odd jobs ever since,...
Conservatives Are Killing Freedom
What happened to the tax-cutting party of Reagan? It’s tempting to say that conservatism has lost its way. But conservatism never knew where it was going in the first place.
Subscribe for free.
Latest pro-Capitalism goodness sent weekly to your email box.
No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.