The Brookings Institution has released a fascinating new study that indicates a strong correlation between local newspaper closures and subsequent expansions of government spending. And the study also reveals something many in the news field are overlooking...
When it comes to the physical size of the state, the number of people it controls, and its addressability and transparency via the press…
Welcome back to school!
It’s time for Ivory Tower lefties to get more facts wrong, continue undercutting individual rights, and insult those who believe in them!
-- Which just happened at the University of Utah, a tax-subsidized school where an unidentified instructor last Monday handed out the syllabus for an unnamed class, including in it her oh-so-pleasant statement:
Concealed carry is…
It’s rarely pleasurable to enter the boxing ring of political-philosophical disputation. If the disagreements were simply philosophical, simply academic, we could all walk away knowing we just had interesting exchanges, and nothing would change. The trouble is the “political” part. It’s the polis, aka, government, and the polis automatically forces people to do things whether they like it…
Ahh, the double-standards of many politicians lurking in the backwaters of Seattle, Washington.
In May, I reported on a group of property owners who were struggling to exercise control over their own buildings, folks who wanted to check the criminal backgrounds of potential renters but were being hamstrung by Seattle commissars. In addition to the insultingly titled “Fair Chance Housing…
Given former CIA Director John Brennan’s ongoing screech-fest about losing his much-coveted “security clearance”, his geyser-like fountains of self-righteous whining about how he might sue over it, his stunningly hypocritical proclamations that Donald Trump is destroying American “institutions”, and his completely unrealistic claim that Trump is committing treason (then he’s not, then he is),…
Liberals love to label those they disagree with as "fascist", but now one of their own, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren is putting put forth an effort that ventures deep into the realm of government authoritarianism.
But, so as not to be misunderstood, let’s stress the political-economic definition before we study the latest evidence.
Fascism is the nominal – in name only – ownership of…
It appears that Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren has a persistent problem with situational ethics.
Indeed, the woman who, when it helped her gain a race-weighted spot on the Harvard faculty, claimed that she came from American Indian heritage, but acts aggrieved and put upon to prove it, seems very ready to applaud police as so-called “First Responders” when it suits her purposes. The…
Economists often bristle at the term “political economics”. Economics is one thing – it’s about how, in a world of limited resources, people voluntarily fulfill their needs through free exchange and, as a result, create more resources. Politics is something different, and always corrupts economics. The very existence of the “polis” requires money to be syphoned away from the productive market…
Many national governments have committed heinous crimes against indigenous people.
The U.S. government engaged in numerous forays of theft, arrest, relocation, and extermination against American Indians, then it broke nearly every treaty it made with those tribes. Usually, flimsy politically correct apologies come far too late to be heard by those harmed, and then it becomes ethically and…
Santa Barbara City Councilman Jesse Dominguez has officially apologized for saying what any sentient observer knew about collectivists for years: he believes that the state has to control every aspect of your life.
The apology came after Dominquez offered an arrogant remark supporting Santa Barbara’s July 17th law to ban plastic straws, including the compostable kind, in eateries and bars…
