This politicization of personal choice is the essence of statism. In “The Roots of War,” Ayn Rand explained statism’s results: “The degree of statism in a country’s political system, is the degree to which it breaks up the country into rival gangs and sets men against one another.”
Former president Donald Trump is pitching himself to voters as the antidote to the Biden administration’s inflationary policies. That will require ditching the interventionism his running mate has previously championed.
Russia and other tyrannies can take hostages whenever they choose to and use them as bargaining chips.
O&G mergers are good for America because they increase domestic production, which makes oil cheaper and increases our national security. Government should get out of the way immediately.
Virtually all discussion of health care policy today avoids explicit reference to underlying principles.
Declining reimbursement rates, on top of losses in purchasing power, result in reduced access to care, as some physicians have limited the number of Medicare patients they accept or have stopped accepting new Medicare patients altogether.
The idea that any one candidate is a threat to democracy is ridiculous, and anyone making such claims was never taught about our Constitution and the checks and balances within our three co-equal branches of government.
If Trump’s goal is simply to eliminate the federal income tax, then he should advocate for doing that and only that.
There is nothing in the Constitution about a vast army of bureaucrats who rule behind the scenes that is in no way reachable or manageable by elected representatives.
Mr. Trump isn’t the only victim of this ill-advised gag order. It violates your First Amendment rights and mine as well.
To reduce the administrative state, Congress would need to unwind or revise many of the interventionist statutes it has passed over the decades.
Biden’s protectionism is overwhelmingly and above all about expanding and cementing his political support by creating rents for special-interest groups.
Like Black Lives Matter, the Democratic Party enjoyed an exemption from the lockdown measures.
The goal of all of it was to keep natural immunity from ruining the chance for the mRNA shots to save the day.
To understand these negative views and pessimistic attitudes, we have to first ask, what do these young people think “capitalism” means?
Both Biden and his predecessor, President Barack Obama, promised that they had Israel’s back, but it now appears that they are painting a target on its back at a time of its greatest vulnerability.
Most of those who today support and admire Hamas will not cross the line from advocacy to terrorism, but some likely will.
The most equitable and just sharing of the burden of America’s military is assured by its all-volunteer nature, and that conscription would be inequitable and unjust.
When government asserts control over your health care, it creates opportunities for low‐quality providers to lobby for subsidies and regulations that protect them from competition from high‐quality producers.
The Democrats are following through on the dictates of altruism. The Republicans are balking at what altruism demands without challenging the basic premise.
Seemingly out of nowhere, people who the public had largely ignored, the public health bureaucrats, all united to tell the executives in charge – mayors, governors, and the president – that the only way to deal with a respiratory virus was to scrap freedom and the Bill of Rights.
Why should Canadians embrace private health care as a moral alternative to medicare, as citizens of most other countries do?
Both actually stem from the same root: racism.
Going against the grain and daring to stand up for truth in a time of totalitarianism is exceedingly dangerous.
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