The U.S. national-security establishment’s death star continues operating at full-speed and on auto-pilot. According to an article in Newsweek, the Pentagon and the CIA have now killed half-a-million people since 9/11. The article didn’t say ...
One of the major differences between libertarians, on the one hand, and conservatives and progressives, on the other, is with respect to freedom and reality. When it comes to the concept of freedom, libertarians have a grip on reality. ...
The Atlantic has just published an article by Rene Chun, a contributing editor at Wired magazine, that perfectly demonstrates political obtuseness. Entitled “Why Americans Don’t Cheat on Their Taxes,” the point of the article is to explain why ...
A system of immigration controls inevitably entails the destruction of a free society. That’s because of the enforcement measures that inevitably come with immigration controls, just as thunder inevitably comes with lightning. Immigration enforcement measures always and inevitably bring ...
For socialists, the solution to poverty is easy. All that needs to be done is for government to take money from the rich and middle class through taxation and give it to the poor. Or have government ...
A group of public high-school students in Newport Beach, California, has provoked a huge controversy for arranging red cups in the shape of a swastika and doing a Nazi salute at a drinking party. Even though the party was ...
Leftists are notorious for wanting to use the force of government to confiscate money from the rich in order to equalize wealth in society. They lament large “disparities of wealth” — e.g., the fact that there are billionaires and ...
Conservatives and some liberals/progressives indignantly exclaim: “I am a capitalist, not a socialist … except for my support of:
Social Security;
Medicare;
Medicaid;
Public (i.e., government) schooling;
The Federal Reserve;
Immigration controls;
The national income tax;
The military-industrial complex;
...
One of the hallmarks of the leftist/progressive/liberal/socialist philosophy is wealth redistribution through the force of government. Leftists/progressives/liberals/socialists lament the enormous disparities of wealth and income that exist in American society. They believe, therefore, that a legitimate function of government ...
The Pentagon and the CIA and their policy of foreign interventionism are the root cause of the nuclear crisis with North Korea.
Keep in mind that we are talking about one country, Korea, which was artificially ...
