Why Ted? It is desperation time for the Republican party establishment. Its extremely well financed favorite — Jeb Bush — never got anywhere with the voters in the primaries, and has already been forced out of the contest. This should at least cause some second thoughts — or perhaps first thoughts — by people who keep repeating that money buys ... MORE
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Thomas Sowell: Desperate Tactics
Why Ted? It is desperation time for the Republican party establishment. Its extremely well financed favorite — Jeb Bush — never got anywhere with the voters in the primaries, and has already been forced out of the contest. This should at least cause some second thoughts — or perhaps first thoughts — by people who keep repeating that money buys ... MOREThomas Sowell: Random Thoughts On The Passing Scene
Sparks of brilliance! The presidential election prospects for the Democrats are so bad this
year that only the Republicans can save them — as Republicans have
saved them before. Will a Supreme Court without a single Protestant justice rule that an
"under-representation" of any group is evidence of discrimination? Here is a trick question: What ... MOREOregon Legislature Repeals Laws Of Supply & Demand
It is not likely to work out well. Like the apocryphal story
of the state legislature that passed a law dictating that pi equals 3,
the Oregon state legislature has passed two laws that pretend the laws
of supply & demand don’t exist. The difference is that, in reality,
no state legislature ever did pass a law saying that pi equals 3, but
Oregon’s ... MOREWalter E Williams: The Seen And The Unseen
Why Congress should get out of the miracle business. Claude Frederic Bastiat (1801-50) — a French classical liberal theorist, political economist and member of the French National Assembly — wrote an influential essay titled "That Which Is Seen and That Which Is Not Seen." Bastiat argued that when making laws or economic decisions, ... MOREFree Speech Is Very Threatened On Campus
by Conor Friedersdorf. At a recent Intelligence Squared debate,
an audience filled an auditorium at Yale University to weigh the timely
proposition, “Free speech is threatened on campus.” The debate
concerned higher education generally, not just the host institution. And
at the event’s conclusion, having heard arguments on both sides ... MOREThomas Sowell: Last Chance for America? Part II
Last Chance for America? Part I. The worst political blunder of all time, according to scientist Freeman Dyson, was the decision of the emperor of China in 1433 to cut off his country from the outside world. In the wake of that decision, China lost its position in the forefront of human achievements and fell behind, over the centuries, to become a ... MORETom Nichols: How the P.C. Police Propelled Donald Trump
By assailing sensible conservatives as sexists, racists ... The American left created Donald Trump. When I say “the left,” I do not mean the Democratic Party—or,
solely the Democratic Party. Rather, the pestilence that is the Trump
campaign is the result of a conglomeration of political, academic,
media, and cultural elites who for decades ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Hillary Clinton's False Hopes
The indictment of the nominee. Surely, Hillary Clinton hopes for the happy conclusion to the maddening string of primaries and caucuses that have exhausted her. Surely, she hopes to be the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party this year. And surely, she hopes to be elected president. These hopes are realistic probabilities in her own ... MORETrump Ditched Free Market Ideology For Nationalism
by Matthew Yglesias. And it's working. Marco Rubio's newly aggressive posture toward Donald Trump is all about delivering low-blow insults, and reflects a popular — but incorrect — notion among Republican elites that Trump's not-very-orthodox ideology is succeeding because of the force of his personality. But Trump isn't winning because he's a buffoon. If ... MOREVictor Davis Hanson: Obama - The Lamest Duck
He has neither the power to act or inspire. President Obama is boxed in a state of paralysis—more so than typical lame-duck presidents. His
hard-left politics have insidiously eroded the Democratic Party, which
has lost both houses of Congress and the vast majority of the state
legislatures, state elected offices, and governorships. ... MOREThe Stupid Things People Do When Society Breaks Down
by Brandon Smith. A frequent mistake that many people make when considering the concept of
social or economic collapse is to imagine how people and groups will
behave tomorrow based on how people behave today. It is, though,
extremely difficult to predict human behavior in the face of terminal
chaos. What we might expect, or what ... MOREMore Defense Dollars Don't Guarantee A Better Military
by Daniel L. Davis. Everyone agrees that federal spending is out of control, yet there’s little appetite to go after bloated Pentagon budgets. Americans from the left, right, and center all too often give the military a pass because they grudgingly believe current levels of defense spending are necessary for national security. But is there such a thing as ... MORERobert Epstein: The New Mind Control
What you don't know can hurt you. The internet has spawned subtle forms of influence that can flip elections and manipulate everything we say, think and do. Over the past century, more than a few great writers have expressed concern about humanity’s future. In The Iron Heel (1908), the American writer Jack London pictured a world in which a ... MOREGovernment Subsidies Will Erode Freedom Of The Press
by Jaana Woiceshyn. Newspapers around the world are losing revenues, both subscription and advertising. As Terence Corcoran of the National Post reports,
newspaper revenues in Canada declined 35 per cent ($1 billion) from
2012 to 2014, with a significant further decrease expected also in 2015,
once all the numbers are in. Such declines, likely to ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: Hillary’s Paranoid Identity Politics
Serving scare tactics to black folks. Amid all the media analyses of the prospects of each of the candidates in both political parties, there is remarkably little discussion of the validity — or lack of validity — of the arguments these candidates are using. It is as if what matters this election year is the fate of a relative handful of people — currently seven ... MOREHans A. Von Spakovsky: The Obama Administration Wants To Make Sure Non-Citizens Vote In The Upcoming Election
Why Democrats hate voter ID. Several well-funded organizations — including the League of Women Voters and the NAACP — are fighting efforts to prevent non-citizens from voting illegally in the upcoming presidential election. And the United States Department of Justice, under the direction of Attorney General Loretta Lynch, is helping ... MOREThere's No Way In Which The War On Drugs Isn't A Failure
by Hamilton Nolan. It has been clear for many years that America’s “War on Drugs” is a failure from a moral perspective. For you hard-headed realists, it is worth remembering that it is a failure from an economic perspective, as well. The very simple version of this fact, which you may have already intuited, is: We have spent more than a trillion ... MORE
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