A Guide to Liberty
Cato's Letters: A Guide for Maintaining the Principles of Liberty "Good governors do not consider their people their prey." Gary M. Galles November 17, 2018 One of the most serious [...]
Hypocrisy of the Academic Left
https://youtu.be/KEmPLWzc4N8 Safe spaces, triggers, only one side of an argument allowed, are all ruining academia for our young men and women, besides stepping on their First Amendment rights. They are [...]
The Poor Results of Minimum Wage
Why A Higher Minimum Wage Comes Back To Bite Everyone Eventually Minimum wage supporters tend to observe the direct and immediate consequences of their idea, but they do not bother [...]
A Founder Comments on Changing the Constitution
A Founder Gives Us a Lesson on the Constitution’s Amendment Process By Prof Rob Natelson April 19, 2017 Among the best tools for interpreting the Constitution are public explanations by [...]
Raising Social Security Payroll Taxes
Why No One Is Even Talking about Raising Payroll Taxes to Fund Social Security Every dollar that goes into Social Security is a dollar that can’t go into something that [...]
Capitalism vs. Greed
https://youtu.be/RWsx1X8PV_A It isn't greed that people have in going about their daily pursuits, it is their own self interests that drives them. Capitalism is not about greed but rather ideas [...]
Why Central Bankers Missed the Crisis
WSJ November 17, 2018 The lesson of 2008, a top economist says, is that monetary maestros don’t pay enough attention to financial markets. Are they making the same mistake again? [...]
5 Reasons to Worry About Soaring Federal Debt
Compared to the size of the economy, today’s federal debt is, by far, the highest in our peacetime history. Chris Edwards October 21, 2018 The US Treasury reports that the federal budget deficit was [...]
Saturday Quotes — Alexis de Tocqueville
"The Revolution... was the result of a mature and reflecting preference for freedom, and not of a vague or ill-defined craving for independence." Alexis de Tocqueville "The Federal Constitution... disavowed [...]
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.
