It looks like The New York Times thinks we’ve strayed too far from paying proper respects to the central tenets of Marxism. The whole ball game, as Karl Marx painted it, was nothing more than a class brawl between the rich and the poor. Or as Frederick Engels...
POLITICS
The basic and crucial political issue of our age is: capitalism versus socialism, or freedom versus statism. For decades, this issue has been silenced, suppressed, evaded, and hidden under the foggy, undefined rubber-terms of “conservatism” and “liberalism” which had lost their original meaning and could be stretched to mean all things to all men. – AYN RAND
The Anti-Life Opposition to Embryonic Stem Cell Research
It is widely known that embryonic stem cell research has the potential to revolutionize medicine and save millions of lives. Yet many Congressmen are frantically working to defeat a measure that would expand federal financing of this research. Why are they (and so...
Filibusters and Big-Time Bigotry
Maybe the non-stop denunciations of judicial nominees by Senate Democrats will seem relevant to some people but it is in fact wholly beside the point. Senators who don’t like any particular judicial nominee — or any nominee for any other federal...
The Bottomless Well: No Need To Curb Energy Consumption
There’s no public-policy topic more prone to intellectual abuse than energy. Take conservation. Refrigerators, automobiles, houses, factories
The Quest to Live Off Others
How many times have we heard advertisements from law firms that specialize in elder law urging, “If you anticipate that you may have to enter a nursing home down the road, an elder care attorney may be able to help you create a plan that will both protect much...
Newsweek: “Too good to check”
It was perhaps appropriate that Dan Rather received the prestigious Peabody award in journalism at the same time when Newsweek magazine was finally backing away from its false story about Americans flushing the Koran down the toilet at the Guantanamo prison. At least...
Black Rednecks and White Liberals
Black identity has become a hot item in the movies, on television, and in the schools and colleges. But few people are aware of how much of what passes as black identity today, including “black English,” has its roots in the history of those whites who...
The Republican Revolution is Dead
Back in 1994 when the famed Republican “Contract with America” captured control of Congress for the party, Newt Gingrich, one of its authors, noted that, “Washington is like a sponge. It absorbs waves of change, and it slows them down, and it softens...
Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat
I beg to move, That this House welcomes the formation of a Government representing the united and inflexible resolve of the nation to prosecute the war with Germany to a victorious conclusion. On Friday evening last I received His Majesty’s commission to form a...
Death Tax Returns In 2011
The clock is ticking. Unless Congress acts — who knows? — we could see a wave of suicides, patricides, matricides and rich-uncle killings in 2010. That’s the year that the federal tax on estates — also known as the “death tax,” the...
Lost: Why Anarchism Does Not Work
“Visualize… what would happen if a man missed his wallet, concluded that he had been robbed, broke into every house in the neighborhood to search it, and shot the first man who gave him a dirty look, taking the look to be a proof of guilt.” (Ayn...
How Not To Be Poor
Ministers Louis Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Washington, D.C.’s Mayor Anthony Williams and others recently met to discuss plans to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the October 1995 Million Man March. Whilst reading about the plans, I thought of an...
Rich Ideas
Recently a friend described a meeting with a nasty-tempered leftist who was from a rich family. Unfortunately, there are a lot of leftists who were born with a silver spoon in their mouth — and, instead of being grateful, are venomous against American society....
Bush and Russia
President Bush is in Russia to participate (wrongly) in Monday’s Red Square celebration of the 60th anniversary of the defeat of the Nazis. The good news is that Bush just made an anti-Soviet speech in Latvia. As the NY Times reported on Sunday, Bush “had...
The Crusade Against Walmart
The latest liberal crusade is against the Wal-Mart stores. A big headline on a long article in the New York Times asks “Can’t A Retail Behemoth Pay More?” Of course they can pay more. The New York Times could pay its own employees more. We could all...
Social Security and Forced Government Health Care
When politicians proclaim that you have a “right” to health care, they actually mean many other things. First, that they want unlimited power to force others to provide you with health care–whatever the cost. They also mean that you have no right to...
Time to Declare Our Independence From the United Nations
The United Nations is a mess. It now finds itself buried under scandals. It has Oil for Food scandals. Sex scandals. Power-abuse scandals. Smuggling scandals. Theft scandals. And unpaid traffic tickets. Rob, rape, and pillage seems to be the UN’s modus operandi....
Only in America
Let’s talk about the rich — those people who, according to former Congressman Richard Gephardt, are “winners in life’s lottery.” Or the people whom director Michael Moore preaches, in his book “Dude, Where’s my Country?”...
Draft Equals Moral Bankruptcy
Opinion surveys have indicated that a growing number of young people and their parents are wary of the Army’s recruiting pitch at a time when soldiers in Iraq are killed and wounded virtually every day. Spring is typically one of the more difficult periods of...
“The Unregulated Offense”
There’s already been a lot of chatter over GW Law school professor Jeffrey Rosen’s portrayal of the “Constitution in Exile” movement in the New York Times, but here’s what I consider to be the million dollar line: All restoration...
Death Tax Should be Killed, Not Wounded
Small-business owners, farmers, investors and entrepreneurs face a good news-bad news quandary. The good news is that the death tax will disappear in 2010. If they die that year, their families will get their assets, not the IRS. The bad news is that this pernicious...
Un-Taxing the Rich
Nick Woomer of the Minnesota Daily (the University of Minnesota student newspaper) writes: Freedom for the vast majority of us means that we should all be entitled to live at a certain level of comfort in spite of how the economy is doing: We should be guaranteed...
The Productive vs. The Unproductive
“The Greatest Century That Ever Was: 25 Miraculous Trends of the Past 100 Years” is the appropriate title of a 1999 article authored by Stephen Moore and the late Julian L. Simon and published by the Washington-based Cato Institute. Let’s highlight...
The Pope Vs. The Mind
According to the new Pope: “We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one’s own ego and one’s own desires. Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the...
American Border Secrets
What steps should Western border agencies take to defend their homelands from harm by Islamists? In the case of non-citizens, the answer is simple: Don’t let Islamists in. Exclude not just potential terrorists but also anyone who supports the totalitarian goals...
Stupid Airport Security 3
Several airport security screeners have sent me polite letters criticizing some of my comments in my last two columns, prompting this question to you: In managing our personal security, should we guard against possible or probable threats? Consider the measures and...
Elian Gonzalez: The Day America Lost its Soul
This makes me sick: Elian Gonzalez, the young Cuban castaway whose international custody battle ended in his dramatic seizure from a Miami home five years ago, addressed a crowd of thousands Friday, thanking Cubans and Americans alike for fighting for his return to...
The Social Security Crisis Gets Personal
The debate over Social Security reform so far has centered on the concern that, as the number of retirees balloons, the program won’t be able to pay its promised benefits. That certainly is a crisis that must be addressed. But let’s say, for...
Russia: Kremlin Takeover of the Russian Oil Industry?
In Russia these days, a lot of old is new again. In fact, the Russian oil and gas sector’s new paradigm can be summarized in two words: “state domination.” The free market has been abandoned. For example, last December the tax authorities bankrupted...
Finding Alternatives to the Food and Drug Administration
Since the Federal Food and Drug Act came into law in 1906, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has had a century to develop their methodology for insuring drug safety. After expanding to an annual budget of $1.5 billion and a staff of 10,000, they continue to seek...
Easy Money In California
Where can you make $2,000 a day, with no real effort? In San Mateo County, California. Before you start packing your bags to head there, you should know that the average homeowner in San Mateo County saw the value of his property increase by $2,000 a day over the past...
Don’t Place Stock In Big Labor
Some organized labor groups recently decided that the retirement security of their members was less important than their own short-term political goals. The AFL-CIO and some of its member unions declared that investment managers for their retirement funds should be...
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