Evidence can be a real inconvenience. There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing
concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words
match the actual consequences of their deeds? San Francisco is a classic example of a city unexcelled in its
liberalism. But the black population of San Francisco today is less ... MOREThomas Sowell: Liberalism Vs. Blacks
Evidence can be a real inconvenience. There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing
concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words
match the actual consequences of their deeds? San Francisco is a classic example of a city unexcelled in its
liberalism. But the black population of San Francisco today is less ... MOREA. Barton Hinkle: Spending Cuts Are Mostly Fiction
Would you like to save $20,000 this year? Of course you would. Here’s how: Plan a month-long vacation to Disneyland, and budget $20,000 for the trip. Then don’t go. Presto! You just “cut” your family budget by 20 grand. This sounds absurd—because it is. Yet that is precisely
how Washington operates. A couple of weeks ago, ... MORE
Biden: White House Eying 19 Executive Actions On Guns
Obama prepares to deploy tyrannical measures. The White House has identified 19 executive actions for President Barack Obama to move unilaterally on gun control, Vice President Joe Biden told a group of House Democrats on Monday, the administration’s first definitive statements about its response to last month’s mass shooting at Sandy Hook ... MORERobert Anderson: Gun Control And Political Correctness
Gun rights are not about hunting. Silence rarely conveys knowledge, especially when it’s the result of intimidation. There are moments when it’s prudent to remain silent, but hardly when you’re in the midst of a gun ownership debate. The political class, and its anti-gun proponents, are today engaged in a massive legal assault on ... MOREGary Becker: Have We Lost The War On Drugs?
Monetary costs and human costs are too high. President Richard Nixon declared a "war on drugs" in 1971. The expectation then was that drug trafficking in the United States could be greatly reduced in a short time through federal policing—and yet the war on drugs continues to this day. The cost has been large in terms of lives, money and the ... MOREMichael Barone: Is The Entitlement Era Winding Down?
Are we on the threshold of a new period in U.S. history. It’s often good fun and sometimes revealing to divide American history into distinct periods of uniform length. In working on my forthcoming book on American migrations, internal and immigrant, it occurred to me that you could do this using the American-sounding interval of 76 years, ... MOREVeronique de Rugy: Get States Off The Federal Dole
Stop the growth of government. In the wake of Hurricane Sandy and the havoc it wrought on New
York, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) said
they would ask the federal government to cover at least 90
percent—and perhaps all—of the cleanup and recovery costs. New
Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) asked the same for the Garden State. ... MORE
Sheldon Richman: Against Government Debt
What Thomas Jefferson's favorite economist would say. The last time the debt-ceiling controversy arose, it occurred to
me that if the raising the "ceiling" is a mere formality—if in fact
the sky's the limit to government borrowing—it's no ceiling at all.
Hence, I dubbed this charade the "debt sky." Those who favor automatic increases in the "limit"—or no limit ... MORE
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