Category: philosophy
The Money Supply Is Growing Again and the Fed Wants It that Way
Month-to-month money-supply growth turned positive in March, and money growth hit a two-year high. The Fed clearly has no appetite for more monetary “tightening.”
DISRESPECT: Public Schools Got It
Public schools specialize in disrespecting both the children they ostensibly serve and their families.
The U.S. Defeat in Vietnam Changed Nothing
April 30 was the anniversary date when North Vietnamese forces forced U.S. officials to exit Vietnam, much to their chagrin. That was after some 58,000 [Read More…]
How Economic Realities Can Curb Activist Politicians
Politicians, bolstered by economic quackery such as modern monetary theory, believe they face no fiscal constraints as they impose their visions upon us. But costs are real things and economic, reality sooner or later sets in.
How Westward Expansion Strengthened the Federal Government
The naïve view of American frontier expansion generally leaves out most of the details about how the US’s central government—from the early nineteenth century onward—took a very keen interest in how the American frontier was settled, and by whom.
California and New York Are Even Shaking Down Fleeing Residents
Even though people are leaving California and New York in droves due in large part to their ruinous taxes, the state authorities are tracking these emigrants down and demanding they continue to pay state taxes. Right out of Orwell.
The Results Are In: Free Market Capitalism Improves Lives
Contrary to the drumbeat from political, media, and academic elites, capitalism improves the lives of ordinary people. Socialism receives favorable publicity but fails wherever it is implemented.
Beware of the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act
Should calling attention to war crimes be punishable by jail? You don’t have to be a libertarian to recognize that we can’t have a free society under the censorship this Act would impose.
The Hush-Money Case against Trump Is Ridiculous and Revealing
Despite the media definitions of the Trump trial as a “hush money trial,” the actual criminal charges are contrived and legally unprecedented. This is a show trial.