Secession Outrage
Leftists have had secessionist movements, as well.
Joe Biden: A Lesson in Liberal Inconsistency
Why should church and state be so intertwined on service to the poor, but mutually exclusive on the disservice to the unborn?
Don’t Forget About ObamaCare
The full implementation of the Affordable Care Act needs to be a major discussion in the coming months and years, especially in 2014 when every Democratic senator elected in 2008 on the coat-tails of Barack Obama may be branded as the deciding vote to corporatize — with government sanction and force — the mandatory use of seventeen hundredths of private property.
A Touch of Optimism: Senate Elections in 2014 – Updated
Losing the presidency isn’t the end of the world. In fact, if we are wise, we can use this loss to restore our country to sound principles of balanced and accountable government.
The Beginnings of American Socialism, Part III
We wonder why — when there is no metaphysical concept of unifying truth, and that despite the insistence on “objective” scientific observation — our nation has devolved morally into nothing more than relativism, our justice is determined increasingly by nothing more than pluralism, and the underlying theme of our legislation is to “do something,” even if it won’t work.
The Beginnings of American Socialism – Part II
Since government is the only thing to which all people belong, He is a patriarch who rightly decides, as a father would, who among His children may receive His bounty, and how much those children may receive. Government is not accountable to His citizens; government is gracious to His citizens, and His only responsibility is to treat His children fairly — or, in other words, by doing that which “is consistent with the greatest good of the community.”
The Beginnings of a Socialistic America, Part I
“One year before the birth of Karl Marx the roots of modern socialism were well in place: The idea that the government could regulate both the production and participation of labor; the idea that society is an authority per se, and that human nature is both an open system and a progressive venture that defies the entropic death of generational order.”
Lessons from the Market Revolution, Part II
Perhaps “progress” is only a prideful boast of every generation, and we, “who repeatedly enlarge our instrumentalities without ever improving our purpose,” are destined eternally to orbit around the selfish desires of our depraved nature.
Lessons from the Market Revolution, Part I
The irony of History once again showed that, under capitalism, the equality of inferiors is made possible by the inequalities of the superior.
The Media has Found Another “Right-Wing Racist”
In Greece, amidst their financial and political woes known throughout the world, they have found time to expel a capable athlete from the Olympic games for a comment she made on Twitter. The remark being racist was enough for the original Olympiads to exclude Voula Papachristou from participation. But the AP didn’t stop there.