Have Antipoverty Programs Increased Poverty?
Economists James Gwartney and Thomas McCaleb talk about four disincentive mechanisms: the higher real benefit effect, the high implicit tax effect, the skill-depreciation effect, and the moral hazard effect. Gary [...]
Mayor Hampers Fruitful School
WSJ November 17, 2018 A Mayor Seeks to Stymie His City’s Only Successful School By Tunku Varadarajan| 794 words New Bedford, Mass. Ivyanna, Moises, Jenielys, Giselly. The names on the [...]
Blame for CA Fires with Government
How Misguided Environmentalism Is To Blame For California’s Wildfires The saddest part about these fires in California is that they are self-inflicted. Californians should not allow such mismanagement to continue. [...]
Inequality Results in Equality?
Hayek: Social Justice Demands the Unequal Treatment of Individuals Hayek’s logic is correct: social justice demands treating people unequally. Jon Miltimore November 13, 2018 Social justice is one of those [...]
The Play-Date Police
WSJ November 17, 2018 D.C. regulators give new meaning to the ‘nanny state.’ By the Editorial Board | 352 words Conservatives often criticize the “nanny state,” but even we didn’t [...]
Socialism: The Opiate of the Corrupt and Ignorant
November 16, 2018 | By Charles W. Calomiris The overarching message of “The Opportunity Cost of Socialism”—a study recently released by the President’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA)—is that the advocacy of [...]
The Pension Bomb
https://youtu.be/rTX405bUrSo
Saturday Quotes
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our [...]
Will France Ever Learn?
Mr. Macron’s Lecture – and Who Americans Are By Robert B. Charles November 11, 2018 Once sitting with Ronald Reagan, he retold a story to me. It was entertaining, actually funny, [...]
America’s Republic
How the Great Experiment Came About (and How We Keep It) A brief history of America, its founding documents, and what we can do to keep the flame of liberty [...]
Inside Prager Speech Lawsuit
https://youtu.be/FZU616NHECE Behind the scene story of how and why the private sector is censoring and what it means for Americans.
Bad Medicine for Doc’s & Patients
Medicare for All: Bad for Doctors and Patients Alike October 22, 2018 | By The Association of Mature American Citizens Medicare for All has been gaining considerable traction in American left-wing [...]
Basic Constitutional Civics
Fundamentals of our US Constitution Constitution Definition: The Constitution describes how our federal republican government is to work. The Bill of Rights define citizens protections from the government. Amendments are [...]
Protection When Needed
https://youtu.be/a2gCFOtaZPo
The Present American Revolution
By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON November 13, 2018 Destroying the Constitution and seeking state-mandated equality of result The revolution of 1776 sought to turn a colony of Great Britain into a new [...]
Spending Someone Else’s Money
https://youtu.be/nBWXuptwJpg The different way's money can be spent.
Saturday Quotes–Thomas Sowell
“One of the consequences of such notions as “entitlements” is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough [...]
United Auto Workers vs. Workers
WSJ November 3, 2018 Look who used non-union contractors to save money. By The Editorial Board | 381 words A Justice Department probe of back-scratching by United Auto Workers’ leaders [...]
Interview With God
https://youtu.be/moBvLFbFdJ4 Have you ever wondered...?
Why Ignorance Prevails in Politics
Why does the snake oil offered by political candidates prevail so often electorally compared to similar nonsense where people are free to make their own decisions? Gary M. Galles November [...]
