How Communism Survived Thanks to Capitalist Technology
June 27, 2018 – Philip Vander Elst …… The Soviet economy was such a mess that regular infusions of new technology and capital from the West were necessary to avoid total economic meltdown.
Secession Is Going Mainstream
June 26, 2018 – Ryan McMaken …… Even The Washington Post admits that secession movements are a key component in promoting peace and ending conflicts.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.