POLITICS

Profit-Driven Healthcare Hasn’t Failed Patients, But Regulation-Driven Healthcare Has

Government intervention and regulation in the market, determines how profits are made in US healthcare, turning the profit-motive against patients. 

A Philosopher Reflects on the Giffords Shooting

The shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, though a terrible tragedy, is not of historic significance. More significant is the efforts of the Left to blame this on the Right, particularly the Tea Party movement. The absurdity of these attempts is obvious, and...

The Hypocrisy Underlying Obama's Speech

For most people, a tragedy is a time to reflect. For a politician, especially one who has been given uncritical positive regard for all of his short career — including his unearned rise to the Presidency of the United States — Barack Obama has used a...

Tucson and the Tea Party

Throughout social media, the left is really blowing the dog whistle on the Tea Party movement, from blaming opportunist Sarah Palin , whose Tea Party credentials are dubious, to status updates, comments, and this San Francisco Chronicle editorial posted by the...

Iran Gets One Step Closer to the Bomb

Doing nothing is no different than doing something; you’re just allowing someone else to pursue an end. What the United States is inevitably going to endure are the consequences of inaction. According to FoxNews.com, Dr. Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of the Atomic...

Sam Harris Versus the Self-Made Man

Sam Harris recently published an article in The Huffington Post entitled "A New Year's Resolution for the Rich" in it, he says: "…devotees of self-reliance rail against those who would receive entitlements of various sorts — health...

What Obama Fears Most

The thing about liberal socialists, or anybody who’s wrong, is that they hate dissension. Dissension reminds them that there are such things as reason, facts and logic. Case in point: Barack Obama. He recently stated, “What we can’t do is refight the...

Economics Doesn

Q: In your article, “Economics Doesn’t Explain the Housing Market Collapse,” I think you are being a little naive in thinking the housing collapse was caused by a sense of entitlement. This was calculated economic warfare against the middle class, an...

?Repeal and Replace…Republicans

?Repeal and Replace…Republicans

I’ll be honest. I don’t place much hope in the new Congress. But here’s what I’m looking for and what makes me potentially hopeful for the future: The replacement of milquetoast Republicans with ones who actually stand for something different...

Stop Feeding Us Political Junk, Michelle Obama

First Lady Michelle Obama is encouraging Americans to feed their children a diet with fewer sweets to help combat obesity. On her reality show, “Sarah Palin’s Alaska,” Palin, while she put together the ingredients for s’mores, said, “This...

Chronic Appeasement Produces Aggressors

While temporarily buried under the Christmas cheer and holiday mood, Reuters recently published a story concerning the growing turmoil on the Korean peninsula. On top of threats to wage a “sacred war” against the South, Pyongyang hints at the possibility...

Jobs: ?Don't Give Up

Q: A lot of my friends and I are nearing retirement or seeking new horizons.  When we talk about new careers or jobs, we all come to the same conclusion: “I’m not qualified for the jobs I’m interested in, and I’m not interested in the jobs...

The Anti-American START

Advocates of the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) want America to reduce its nuclear capabilities in exchange for Russia ‘s word that it will do likewise. Does this make sense? Russia, throughout its history, has been an authoritarian...

Why State Licensed Unions are Legalized Thugs

Fox News reported: “As New York City finishes cleaning up the mess of the recent debilitating blizzard, it also faces allegations that union workers entrusted with cleaning up the mess of snow decided to stage a slowdown as the blizzard hit. The plan was to...

Paul Krugman: Zombie of the New Deal Era

Here we go again. This week, Paul Krugman, the 2008 Nobel Prize winner in economics and the go-to guy for progressives who need a morale boost, launched another misguided attack on Austrian School economists. From his New York Times soapbox, he referred to the...

ObamaCare is America’s Fault

ObamaCare is America’s Fault

ObamaCare could never have passed — and would never have been proposed — were it not for the evasiveness of voters combined with the evasiveness of politicians.

Net Neutrality: Obamacare for the Internet

Net Neutrality: Obamacare for the Internet

In case you haven’t heard, Obama’s FCC has passed new rules requiring private companies who provide Internet services to submit to control under the government. What will government’s rules be? Those are yet to be determined. But the government alone...

George W Bush: Enemy of Capitalism, Friend of Statism

Do not let the Bush tax cuts fool you, it was an anomaly in an administration filled with big government statist policies. Regulations, redistribution of wealth, the Obama presidency, and a whole host of collectivist policies are what Pres. Bush’s real economic legacy is all about.

The Political Assassination of a Prescription Drug

The Political Assassination of a Prescription Drug

Politics often supersedes medical science as the determining factor behind the Food and Drug Administration’s granting or denying of approval of prescription drugs. This is the result of a long-term trend that has come sharply into focus with the FDA’s...

Even President Ronald Reagan Couldn't Fix This Mess

The U.S. Senate is considering ending, or at least reducing the strength of, the filibuster. The filibuster allows the minority in the Senate to prevent the majority from passing a bad bill, through delay or other tactics. Who wants to get rid of the filibuster?...

Gays in the Military: Right Policy, Wrong Reasons

Are gays openly serving in the military a good thing, or a bad thing, for the military? It depends on who you ask. Some military officials are quoted as saying it will make no difference. Others are quoted as saying the opposite. Some polls of military members says it...

The Error of "Group Think"

What is “group think”? It’s the opposite of individuality. Individuality resides in the independent use of your mind. “Independent” means objective, which means you independently use a rational method of thinking about people, situations...

ObamaCare Hits an Iceberg

ObamaCare Hits an Iceberg

Federal Judge Henry E. Hudson ruled Monday in favor of Virginia’s claim that the requirement for people to purchase health care exceeds the power of Congress under the Constitution’s Commerce Clause or under the General Welfare Clause. “It is not the...

Constitutional Health Care

Constitutional Health Care

The writers of the U.S. Constitution were very much aware of the need to set firm and specific limits on the powers of government. Hundreds of years of the British Monarchy, and study of the failures of republican forms of government as far back as ancient Greece and...

The Tea Party vs. The Conservatives

The Tea Party vs. The Conservatives

Many people argue that the Troubled Asset Relief Program (known as TARP) is an example of government intervention in the economy being necessary. If government hadn’t intervened, the argument goes, the economy wouldn’t have stabilized and our severe...

No Compromise

?Today former President Bill Clinton held an impromptu press conference in order to support the tax-cut deal that Obama reached with some Republicans. The mainstream media is already speculating that the circumstances of the conference, the demeanor of Obama and...

The Only "Fair" Trade is Free Trade

In a recent defense of what he calls “fair trade,” Barack Obama stated that one major purpose of trade agreements is to ensure that American products are made at home — not bought from other countries. No such thing is true. The purpose of any trade...

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