The conservatives are narrowing the gap but the leftists still have a sizeable lead in this race to the moral bottom.
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Freedom of Immigration for Rights Respecting Individuals
We need to make a beginning toward the establishment of freedom of immigration for all rights-respecting individuals.
“All Lives Matter” Is The Correct Moral Principle That Is 100% Anti-Racist
The “Black lives matter” principle is a valid concept, but the motto could be taken to imply that other lives do not matter because it is not inclusive.
California Reparations Task Force: Fighting Injustice with Injustice
Racism is a vile ideology. But the proper way to fight racism is through education and by ostracizing racists. We should not be fighting injustice with injustice.
20 Grim Realities Unearthed by Lockdowns
Both right and left betrayed their ideals. The right abandoned its affections for limited government, free enterprise, and the rule of law. And the left turned against its traditional stand for civil liberties, equal freedoms, and free speech.
Celebrating Adam Smith on His 300th Birthday
Three hundred years ago, on June 5, 1723, one of the most important and influential thinkers in modern history, Adam Smith, was born in the small Scottish village of Kirkcaldy. There are few individuals who it can be said have left as lasting and as positive a legacy on humankind as Adam Smith.
Capitalism: Egoism For All
It is revealing that capitalists are condemned for being egoistic, but customers and employees are not, even though they all look to profit in their own way.
What Accounts for America’s Life Expectancy Gap?
Adopting socialized medicine – “universal health care” – would not remedy the well-documented gap in U.S. life expectancy.
The Goal of Socialism Is Not to Help the Poor
Socialism is based on the doctrine of altruism, the morality of self-sacrifice.
Taylor Swift, Turn Your Wrath to Government!
If musicians and concertgoers are upset by the so-called “deceptive” practices of a “monopoly” like Ticketmaster and want the government to do something, they actually may want to redirect their attention towards another entity with monopoly power that also attempts to hide fees. That entity is … the government.
If Only Someone Made the Moral Case for Capitalism
If only we had a thinker who could portray (again, in a best-selling book, later made available for free) what benevolence, respect, and happiness could be achieved when people come to live as free, moral equals, swearing by their life and love of it to “never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”
A Doctor Dissents from Statist Orthodoxy
Some doctors aren’t afraid to make the case for freedom, both in medical care and in all other aspects of our lives. One of them is Dr. Miguel Faria.
The Goal of Socialism
Socialism is a doctrine based at root not on love for the poor but on hatred for the creators, meaning anyone who makes money.
Patriot Act 2.0 on Steroids? The Restricting the Emergence of Security Threats that Risk Information and Communication Technology Act
Online Security Concerns Shouldn’t Enable a Surveillance State
The Tax Code: A Playground for the Few, A Labyrinth for the Many
The tax code’s complexity has created an environment in which tax-preparation services, lobbyists, favored industries, and politicians thrive, while taxpayers struggle to make sense of ever-changing rules and regulations.
California Gasoline Price Gouging Bill Does Not Address Root Problem
California’s gasoline prices are higher than the rest of the country because of the state’s taxes and regulations.
Capitalism and The Exploitation of Third World Countries
To then accuse capitalism of causing the poverty — while in the very act of eradicating it — is to commit both a historical error and a profound injustice.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC): No Banking System Savior Then or Now
Scaling back deposit insurance, combined with a credible policy of putting failure costs onto their rightful owners, stockholders, instead of onto taxpayers is the proper solution to preventing mass bank failures.
Rights Belong to Individuals, Not Groups
Providing rights based on group identity is the formula for tribalism, tribal warfare, and injustice.
The Biden Administration’s Unconstitutional Tax on “Unrealized Capital Gains”
The Biden Administration’s 2023 budget bill proposing a “billionaire tax,” imposing a 25-percent minimum rate on the “unrealized capital gains” of the wealthiest Americans is unconstitutional.
Why Nazism Was Socialism and Why Socialism Is Totalitarian
Nazi Germany was a socialist state, not a capitalist one and socialism, understood as an economic system based on government ownership of the means of production, positively requires a totalitarian dictatorship.
Faucism’s New Deal Origins
Faucism combines control over financial resources and information with a carefully cultivated cult of personality.
In Defense of “Junk” Fees
A government action against “junk fees” will result in the additional fees being bundled into a single, overall price, whether it’s a concert ticket, a new car, or some other item. Ironically or not, the opaqueness of blending all of those fees together makes it much easier to raise any or all of those fees over time.
Biden’s State of the Union 2023
President Biden is evading responsibility for the consequences of the anti-freedom, anti-development, anti-fossil-fuel policies he has supported.
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