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 be...
POLITICS
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...
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, which...
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.
Critics of Privatization of Emergency Services: Where Is The Fire?
Faced with budget deficits, many municipalities are looking to privatization to solve their financial woes. But these efforts are not without their detractors. For example, when the issue of privatizing fire and emergency medical services (EMS) in Lansing, Michigan,...
Americans May Deserve ObamaCare
ObamaCare completes America’s transformation to government-run health care.
The False Premise Underlying Medicare and Social Security
Pollster and analyst Scott Rasmussen writes the following: "Along with spending on national defense and interest on the federal debt, spending on entitlement programs consumes the overwhelming majority of the federal budget. But a close look at the data shows that...
“Market Failure” and Taxis
Claims of “market failure” are founded on an arbitrary assertion of how the market should operate. And when the market fails to meet this arbitrary standard, it has “failed.”
ObamaCare Phase One: Bring On the Freebies!
Like peeling back the layers of a rotted onion, the gradual impact of ObamaCare becomes more revealing by the day. The latest? Insurance companies who spend more than 20 percent on administrative costs will be forced, under the new law, to send rebates to...
China Has Lower Shareholder Taxes Than America?
If shareholders in communist China are allowed to keep more of their earnings than shareholders in capitalist America, which nation is more communist and which more capitalist?
The Productive and The Unproductive
The only classes in a free society, if you want to call them “classes,” are the productive and the unproductive.
Santorum: The Republican Obama
If Santorum wins the Republican Party nomination, then people who want a limited government will quite literally have no place to go. They must choose between the imposition of liberal religion, or traditional religion. A “choice” between the God of Rick Santorum’s imagination, or the secular God of Barack Obama’s socialist-fascist state.
“Defenders” of Capitalism
One of the primary defenders of capitalism during the latter nineteenth century was the English philosopher John Stuart Mill. Ethically, Mill was a Utilitarian, which holds that the moral is that which benefits the greatest number. Seeing the practical benefits of...
“Bipartisanship” Means Only One Thing
Bipartisanship? I don’t think so. In Washington-speak “bipartisanship” means only one thing: When small government and deficit-cutting advocates give in to Big Government advocates.
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