Showing posts with label socialism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label socialism. Show all posts

John Stossel: Lots Of Democrats Want Socialism

The unintended consequences of socialists.      Nearly 10,000 people turned out to hear Bernie Sanders in Wisconsin. Why? Apparently, many Democrats want socialism. Sanders is the Vermont senator who is running for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. Sanders calls himself a "democratic socialist," not to be confused with New     ... MORE

Dynamism and Durability Are Great Features Of Capitalism

by Ira Stoll.  A lesson in basic economics courtesy of an old Toyota. The odometer on my 1999 Toyota Camry hit 100,000 earlier this week. It triggered a small family celebration and some reflection on what might be learned from the achievement. One takeaway is that newer isn’t always better. You don’t have to be an adherent of Judaism (older    ... MORE

Tyranny: An Essential Feature of Socialism

by Doug Reich.   I recently heard a television pundit lament the likely outcome of his own prediction that the liberally biased media, after a temporary fit of outrage over the egregious scandals engulfing the Obama administration, will return to its sycophantic posture just in time for the next election cycle. While I agree with this prediction, the more  ... MORE

Obama Thanks Big Government Republican Governors Like John Kasich For Caving To Obamacare Medicaid Expansion

by Charlie Spiering.   Stampede of the RINOs. Speaking to governors at the White House, President Obama pointedly praised Republican governors that caved to his Obamacare plan of expanding Medicaid. “I want to thank all the governors, Democrats and Republicans, supporters and some opponents of the ACA who have expanded Medicaid to millions   ... MORE

Pedro Gonzales: How To Teach Kids About Socialism

Reality therapy for the young.  It used to be that if you wanted to teach kids about capitalism, you’d tell them to open a lemonade stand. By producing a product, marketing it, and selling it, they would get a small taste of what it is like to run a business. But now telling your kids to open a lemonade stand is the best way of teaching them about      ... MORE

VIDEO: More Guns, Less Murders


The USA has, by far, the highest per capita gun ownership in the world.

Lessons For Winning Liberty In A World Of Statism

by Richard Ebeling. Friends of freedom often become despondent when it seems that every day brings another growth and intrusion of government over people’s lives. But there is no reason to be disheartened, because there are lessons for winning liberty – from the opponents of freedom. Let’s take the case of socialism. On March 14, 1883, a German philosopher living in exile in London passed away.   ... MORE

Poll: Americans Realize That Government Is The Problem!

The lesson of hope and change has been learned.  Confirming the 2014 election zeitgeist, a new Gallup poll finds that Americans are fed up with ever-encroaching, corrupt and incompetent government, as represented by ObamaCare and other federal policies. For the first time since Gallup has conducted polling, people say that the "biggest  ... MORE

Bernie Sanders's 12-Point Socialist Plan for America

by Pedro Gonzales.  Every committed revolutionary needs a plan. Karl Marx had one, and so did Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong.  Add to that group socialist senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont, who is considering running for president (as a Democrat) and has already announced a 12-point plan at the Huffington Post.  He writes: As Vermont's   ... MORE

Gruber Lets Obama's Socialist Cat Out Of The Bag

by Ken Blackwell & Bob Morrison.     Not since the Kermit Gosnell murder trial has the mainstream press labored so diligently to ignore a hot story.  Rush Limbaugh delights in calling them “the drive-by media,” but in the case of Kermit Gosnell’s trial for the negligent death of a poor young woman and for killing many infants born alive, the liberal  ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - The Wasted War On Poverty

The War On Poverty: 50 Years Of Failure

by Robert Rector.   This year marks the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson’s launch of the War on Poverty. In January 1964, Johnson declared “unconditional war on poverty in America.” Since then, the taxpayers have spent $22 trillion on Johnson’s war. Adjusted for inflation, that’s three times the cost of all military wars since the     ... MORE

130 Environmental Groups Call For An End To Capitalism

by Michael Bastach.     No longer hiding from their socialist agenda. Environmentalists have declared that global warming can’t be stopped without ending the “hegemonic capitalist system,” saying that cap-and-trade systems and conservation efforts are “false solutions.” “The structural causes of climate change are linked to the current   ... MORE