“Someone who is free need not have permission from the government to buy and sell from any consenting person in the world, and he need not have permission from government to move to another region in the world.” – The Case for Free Trade and Open Immigration With immigrants flooding into the United States in record numbers comes renewed concerns that illegals are ruining our country, a far cry from our experience of days long past. While isolationists demand walls and barr

“The greatest impact of one's ability to build wealth over time is saving.” – The Next Millionaire Next Door We have all become accustomed to the modern cartoon caricature of “the evil rich”, with their outrageous mansions, their pretentious cars, and their f*** you money. But endemic today in any discussion about the rich is the problem of income inequality and the idea of a zero-sum game. That is, for one to gain, someone else must lose. With 78 percent of Americans li

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“Even if every election showed a discrepancy between the popular and electoral votes, the Electoral College would still be serving its...

“When our country is so over-centralized in governance but so divided politically, when the level of mistrust is so high when partisan rancor blocks needed reforms, the cost of secession might be smaller than the cost of remaining united.” – American Secession Presidential hopeful Nikki Haley recently bungled a question about the Civil War by failing to include slavery as a reason for its cause. While slavery was certainly an underlying concern, the war was clearly waged to

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“It is truly like living in a Kafka novel. Nothing makes sense. People touted as experts on TV repeatedly tell you things you can...

“Those who enforce America’s drug prohibition must be one of three things: evil, stupid, or insane.” – A Drug War Carol While several...

“A high IQ and low information can be a very dangerous combination, as a basis for preempting other people's decisions-especially when...

“Across the West, it is the biggest expense in anyone’s life, costing more than a house, a car, a pension, or an education: the cost of...

“Once America's evil became poetic (permanently true), the formerly oppressed could make victimization an ongoing feature of their identity- despite the fact that their actual victimization had greatly declined.” – Red, White, and Black “ Everyone is entitled to his own opinions, but not his own facts ”, is a common sentiment attributed to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, one of the last centrist Democrats in a party long usurped by its radical progressive wing. That captu

“In every Zook house and in every Zook town every Zook eats his bread with the butter side down. But we Yooks, as you know, when we...

“For what this transition boiled down to was a system of private government ownership – a private monopoly-being replaced by a system of...

“Veterans today are killing themselves at a very high rate.” – Swords into Plowshares The third debate for the GOP presidential nomination seems to confirm that both parties in America are pro-war, now that the Democrats have shown their affinity for war in Ukraine. Only newcomer, Vivek Ramaswamy, advocated against both wars in Ukraine and Israel. Like Trump in 2016, Ramaswamy is an outsider working against a deeply entrenched war machine that provides quid pro quo support

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“The self-interest of people in government leads them to behave in a way that is against the self-interest of the rest of us…I say there...

“In reality, the Palestinians have become the last victims of the Holocaust, for which they bear no responsibility whatever.” – Coming to...

“I could not believe that human beings were being burned in our time; the world would never tolerate such crimes.” - Night Following...

“Columbus and his crew were on land that no one knew about. Christopher Columbus had discovered a new world.” – Who Was Christopher...