In my last article we dealt with the misconception that reducing the deficit meant reducing the debt. While our current administration brags about reducing the deficit they have doubled the national debt. Reducing the deficit mean reducing the amount you were going to spend above your income, but it can still be more than your […]Read More
What on earth are negative rights? I had not heard the phrase until a little while ago. It was used by a radio talk show host to describe the rights claimed by those who do not produce and do not have anything to show for it, yet claim the right to equal outcomes with those […]Read More
Some years ago I walked into the home of a friend who had a religious program playing on TV. He made a comment about the program and then caught a subtle reaction from me, that I intended to keep hidden. He responded, “Why don’t you like him?” I answered that I did not even know […]Read More
Nevada’s Primary: A Study in Absurdities
So here’s the story just before the Nevada primary… Burney is expecting to win and to win big. He has staked out a fine Mexican restaurant in Sparks to hold his socialist celebration. Hillary? She is far too cool to celebrate in Sparks, so I suppose she will be somewhere in Las Vegas with her […]Read More
Burney Sanders vs. Jean Jacques Rousseau
Poor old Burney Sanders never met Jean Jacques Rousseau. I can tell by his incomplete philosophy of inequality. Even if he had met Rousseau back in the early to mid-1700’s and had not been persuaded by his arguments, Burney would have had to construct some complete logic in defense of his position, which he obviously […]Read More
Born 210 Years Ago, Tocqueville Predicted the Tyranny of the
By Arthur Milikh We often boast about having attained some unimaginable redefinition of ourselves and our nation. How odd, then, that someone born 210 years ago today could understand us with more clarity and depth than we understand ourselves. Back in 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville accurately foresaw both much of what ails us and our […]Read More
By Norm Robins I have just finished reading an honest, provocative, and thoroughly enjoyable book on the housing meltdown and the financial meltdown it caused. The book was notable for its expertise, its candor, and its truthful conclusions. It was a difficult read, and it contained 50% too many words, but it was worth it. […]Read More
You Didn’t Build That – and other Obama-isms!
He’s at it again! I had caught the notion early on in his speeches, and it all led up to his grand statement, “You did not build that!” It created quite a stir and reaction, so I thought possibly he would back off of it. But alas, now he comes back with “winning life’s lottery” […]Read More
David Boaz | May 08, 2015 Today is the 116th anniversary of the birth of F. A. Hayek, one of the greatest scholars of the 20th century. Back in 2010, as the tea party movement was on the verge of delivering an electoral rebuke to President Obama’s big-government policies, the New York Times derided the […]Read More
By Stephen Moore Here’s some advice to the White House: it might be time for President Obama to cancel the rest of his economic “mission accomplished” tour and help figure out how to get the U.S. growing again. The Department of Commerce delivered the miserable news Wednesday morning that economic growth nearly ground to a […]Read More