Whenever conventional career politicians such as Joe Biden declare, "It's a compromise," and claim that's a good thing -- hold onto your wallets and purses. In this compromise, Barack Obama got the most important thing he wanted:Extension of the debt limit into 2013,...
POLITICS
Giving Back?
From President Bush’s 1000 points of light to President Obama’s biblical argument “aren’t we our brother’s keeper?” for government charity programs it appears everyone agrees that charity is good for our country and may even...
Great Again: Revitalizing America
This intriguing question and its implications for US economic policy are tackled in the groundbreaking book Great Again, by Henry R. Nothhaft with David Kline. They answer the above query with a series of questions: Could a twenty-year-old college dropout,...
Why It's a Good Time to be a Liberal
Obama’s moves to the right in the budget negotiations are creating dissension within the Democratic Party, according to The New York Times. Republicans have changed the terms of the debate over the size and role of the federal government, and the president has...
What To Do With Our Entitlement Programs?
America’s financial situation is precarious. Over the past 8 years our national debt has doubled to $14.5 trillion and our total unfunded liabilities now exceed an astonishing $114 trillion. That’s $1,115,000 per federal income tax payer. Even the most unrepentant...
Environmental Doomsday Theories
A fundamental difference between religion and science is that a scientific theory is testable, while a religion is not. Religion ignores facts and believes in faith. All environmental doomsday theories are religions, not science. This is true no...
Cut, Cap & Balance the Budget
In his July 17 newsletter Steve Pearce, a New Mexico Congressman, mentioned his participation in the Congressional Baseball Game for Charity. He wrote: "On Thursday, I played in the Congressional Baseball Game for Charity, an annual tradition reaching back to 1909. We...
First-to-File: Is it Constitutional?
The following letter from a number of Law Professors deals with the Constitutionality of a First-to-File system as contemplated by the America Invents Act (H.R. 1249 and S. 23) June 17, 2011 By Email Speaker John Boehner Office of the Speaker H-232 U.S. Capitol...
Blueberry Economics
SEA ISLE, N.J. — I should be worrying about how the politicians are killing the nation financially, but that's on the back burner today because the 25th annual Red, White and Blueberry Festival is right up the road and they're estimating that 10,000 of us will...
America's Politics Hits Bottom
According to nearly everyone, the downgrading in American credit is the fault of the Tea Party Republicans. "If they weren't so partisan and ideological," the conventional "wisdom" spouted by academia and the media goes, "then we wouldn't be in this mess." Oh, really?...
Shooting the Tea Party Messengers
There are essentially two parties in Congress today. One is the liberal-socialist Democrat-Republican party. These consist of all Democrats plus most of the Senate Republicans, leaving aside the Tea Party Republican Senators elected in 2010. The second party consists...
Mayo Clinic's Invention Theft Strategy
Mayo clinic’s management is pursuing a business strategy of efficient infringement – more commonly known as theft of other people’s inventions. This immoral course of action is exemplified by Mayo’s involvement in two frivolous patent...
The Coming Collectivization of American Health Care
The Obama administration regards this collectivization of medical providers as a desirable outcome, not merely some “unintended consequence.”
Living the Life of an Ayn Rand Hero
An excerpt from the Introduction to "I am John Galt" by Donald L. Luskin and Andrew Greta. ?Ayn Rand’s heroes are larger-than-life projections of her ideals. They lead lives of virtue based on consistent personal convictions with a coherent philosophical system...
Bachmann Quotes
??Liberal humorist Daniel Kurtzman considers the following 10 quotes by Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann to be "stupid." Let's see how stupid they really are. 1. "I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out under...
Old School Republicans Won't Cut It
Obama reportedly shoved back from the negotiating table and told Republicans, who won't agree to his tax and spending increases, that he's "taking this to the American people." But the American people want a balanced budget. They don't want reduced spending; but they...
Washington's Unlimited Credit Card Limit
Most people talk about raising the debt limit as if it's the self-evidently responsible thing to do. Obama and the Democrats, in particular, keep emphasizing that America must "honor its obligation." This would be like a long-term heroin addict lecturing his suppliers...
New Jersey as Auschwitz?
SEA ISLE, N.J. --- Public-sector employees here now are regularly referring to Gov. Chris Christie as "Adolf Christie." Things got especially ugly when Christie signed legislation that requires each of the state's 500,000 teachers, police and other public workers to...
Freedom, Profit and Prosperity
A reader sent me 5 photographs of people in Arizona in front of the capitol building. Many American flags had been placed on the ground. Graffiti of some sort was scribbled on some of the flags. Men, women and children were shown striding across the flags, stomping on...
Politicians Call for Sacrifice to Solve the Mess They Created
Jeff Bingaman is one of New Mexico's Senators. On July 07, 2011 he sent a newsletter to his constituents. It is a very long newsletter, filled with many questionable statements, premised on the usual Leftists' view of man as a sacrificial goat. I'm posting here only...
The Establishment Clause
In 1802, Thomas Jefferson sent a letter to the Danbury Baptist Association in response to a query from that body. In the following Library of Congress transcript, Jefferson's spelling and punctuation have been retained as well as the bracketed material which...
In Obama's Era of Malaise, It CAN Happen Here
There are a few decent politicians in Washington D.C. -- a few, but not many. The standard of decency refers to politicians who care about the Constitution and individual rights, rather than a career in personal power. One of these is Senator Jim DeMint of South...
Let's Spread the Wealth Around — to Drug Addicts
Saying that it is “unfair for taxpayers to continue to foot the bill for welfare recipients who participate in illicit drug activity,” Florida Governor Rick Scott has signed into law a controversial drug screening law for those applying for welfare,...
Independence Day: Independence From What?
Reasonable people want and seek freedom from tyranny, coercion and slavery. They also seek freedom from the petty tyranny of a nanny state government. Unhealthy, unreasonable people say they seek freedom, as well. But they seek freedom from something different. They...
Subscribe for free.
Read by students, professors, and citizens, Capitalism Magazine provides over 9,000 free to read articles and essays from pro-reason, individual rights perspective.
No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.