It’s the Spending, Stupid!
June 25, 2018 – Craig Eyermann …… It is immoral to burden our children with future taxes to pay for the government ‘benefits’ we demand today. Continue reading →
Are Europeans Re-thinking Gun Control?
June 22, 2018 – Scott McPherson …… Europeans are beginning to understand two basic truths: (1) Armed, law abiding citizens are a deterrent to crime. (2) When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns. Continue reading →
Why the President Said “No”
June 20, 2018 – Grover Cleveland …… I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan, as proposed by this bill, to indulge a benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public funds for that purpose. Continue reading →
Purpose-Driven Learning Is the Only Kind that Lasts
June 19, 2018 – Kerry McDonald …… As Plato warned, “Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.” Continue reading →
The Best Answer to Trump’s Tariffs: Free Trade
June 18, 2018 – Richard Ebeling …… By not lowering your own trade restricting policies until your trading partners do so at the same time and to the same degree, only harms the citizens of your own country. The best policy is to simply lower your own existing import tariffs regardless of what any of your nation’s trading partners may or may not do. Continue reading →
Trump Got Played in Singapore, But That’s a Good Thing
June 14, 2018 – Jacob Hornberger …… However, there is no reasonable possibility that the Pentagon and the CIA will permit Trump to bring the troops home because it would remove Korea as a flash point that helps justify their ever-increasing budgets. Continue reading →
You Don’t (Always) Have a Right to Speak Spanish
June 12, 2018 – Ryan McMaken …… As with the right to free speech in general, expressing one’s property rights depends partly on whose property one is standing. Continue reading →
Colleges: Anti-Diversity and Pro-Exclusion
June 9, 2018 – Walter Williams …… Many professors spend class time indoctrinating students with their views. For faculty members who are Democrats [and most of them are], those views can be described as leftist, socialist or communist. Continue reading →
Yes, Carbon and Other Taxes Make Gas Ridiculously Expensive
June 6, 2018 – Robert Murphy …… The residents of Vancouver, B.C. are experiencing record high gas prices. Americans can “enjoy” that experience too if they go along with carbon taxes and other proposed gas-tax hikes. Continue reading →
Gains from Automation Create Path to Greater Prosperity
June 4, 2018 – Ryan Khurana …… Transitioning to a world in which different skills are valued might be difficult, but in the long run, everybody benefits. Continue reading →