The Danger of a Government with Unlimited Power

The fundamental thrust of governments such as that of President Obama is to abrogate the rights of private property, aiming at the holy grail of their secular religion: redistribution of income and wealth to reduce everyone to an equally low state of economic equality.

The 17th Amendment Revisited

The Senate was intended to be the bulwark against unwise political actions that infringed upon the rights and powers reserved to the states and to the people by the 9th and 10th Amendments of the Bill of Rights.

Housing Slumps Despite Obama's Stimulus Spending

Stimulus spending distorts economic activity by channeling funds to favored interest groups at the expense of others, smothering the economic processes necessary to clear the decks for sound new growth.

No-Fathers Day

Why is it so important for liberal-progressives to reduce or eliminate loyalty to the family unit?

Pelosi As God's Emissary

Liberal-progressives will, in the main, find nothing in the Social Gospel with which to disagree.

Fiduciary Responsibility and Judgment vs. Caveat Emptor

Right or wrong, the charges against Goldman Sachs highlight divergent standards of banking.

Ignorance On the Left

Nazism is one of several varieties of socialism, the ideological faith of liberal-progressives.

Once Again: What Is Socialism?

The commonly used definition is wrong.

What the Fed's Mission Ought To Be

Congress should revise its directives to the Fed and abandon liberal-progressives' faith that ivory-tower intellectuals are capable of managing the entire economy.

Dictatorship of the Proletariat?

Despite polls showing widespread opposition to Obamacare, the Democrats insist on enacting this legislation — in the name of the working class. 

Moscow Show Trials Redux

Obama's shameful campaign to criminalize officials in the Bush administration is reminiscent of Stalin's purges of his opponents in 1936-38.

Green Jobs Stupidity

No matter how one fudges the numbers or rationalizes about environmental benefits, green jobs require enormous government subsidies.

Worth Reconsidering

One tepid clap for President Obama's reconsideration to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammad in New York City.

Not Just In Germany

Germany has criminalized home schooling, demanding that parents place their children in state schools. California is moving in the same direction.

The Obama Road to Serfdom

Loading us with amounts of debt that can never be repaid guarantees our servitude to the Washington elite.

Government As Narcotics Dealer

Just as the Fed's creation of fiat money made possible the dot.com bubble and burst, as well as the current over-expansion of home-building and over-investment in subprime mortgages and collateralized debt obligations, so too did it create the conditions for the 1929 stock market crash.

Why Place Your Bet on the Horse that Always Loses?

For at least two decades, proposals by the Social Security Administration and Congress to cut Medicare costs have come to naught.

Bitten By Profligacy

The dollar edges closer to becoming a third-world currency.

Obamacare: Quintessential Socialism

The overriding characteristic of President Obama's healthcare proposal is forced equality of consumption.

Obamacare: Quintessential Socialism

Healthcare "reform" is all about the raw power to decide who gets what treatment, while cramming everyone into identical little boxes in order to eliminate any efforts in the direction of individuality.

Government Action Causes Unemployment

When the "stimulus" bill was enacted, the unemployment level was approximately half the present 9.4%. 

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and the Debasement of American Education

The politically-correct, identity-politics education, of which Professor Gates is a champion, has destroyed the historical purpose of education, leaving us an ignorant and divided people.

Social Engineering and Price Controls

All government intervention in the economy distorts decision making, with bad and unanticipated results.

Destructive Social Justice

There is more than a bit of nastiness in this liberal-progressive urge to smash what others have built and to drag people down to their level.

Gore Tips His Hand

Nothing gets liberals more excited than the prospect of global government.



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