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It Is Self-Evident That No Person Is By Nature The Ruler Of Other People.

November 14, 2020

In the Founders’ day, declaring the self-evident truth that all men are created equal was a rebuke to monarchs everywhere. Today, America’s founding truth is a rebuke to tyrants everywhere, and to Americans on the Left who are keen to tear down the system of governance that is the magnificent gift of the Founders.

The Left Will Not Practice Civility, Much Less Adhere To Any Moral System That Would Require It.

November 13, 2020

In the pantheon of liberal heroes, figures of incivility and violence — from Fidel Castro to Che Guevera to the Black Panthers to the leaders of Black Lives Matter — hold high rank. This reflects the morally relativistic core of liberalism, its willingness to ignore objective standards of right and wrong in the pursuit of power.

Politicians And Bureaucrats Have Created A Simmering Distrust In Our Institutions. Maybe It’s Coming To A Boil.

November 12, 2020

These lapses didn’t just happen during the 2016 presidential election; there is evidence they have been going on for years, unmitigated. Americans have watched, too, as those within our institutions, who are in a position to hold the guilty parties accountable, have failed to do so even as the evidence poured in and as the weeks, months and years have dragged on.

It’s A Better World When We Talk About People As Individuals, Not Undifferentiated Masses.

November 11, 2020

It's a better world when we're talking about people as individuals rather than undifferentiated masses. That's true of behavior on the state level, too. Even in California, about the deepest blue state in the country, voters resoundingly defeated referenda that would have allowed rent control, and unionized dialysis clinics and Uber and Lyft drivers.

The Twelve Evidentiary Fields Of Chicanery That Could End Our Faith In Democracy.

November 10, 2020

This election doesn’t pass the smell test. I participated…

Economics Is Truth And Light, Beauty And Awe, Hope And Compassion.

November 9, 2020

The economy is a system in which individuals generate knowledge, communicate it and utilize it in a complex web of interrelationships and interactions among economic actors near and far. It's important for us to appreciate the spontaneous order of the market, which arises through independent but interrelated decision-making.

The Many Ways in Which Freedom Won the Election.

November 8, 2020

We can take comfort in the realization that court packing, the Green New Deal, and other radically statist items on the Biden-Harris-Sanders agenda are, at least for now, off the table. Indeed, we should also celebrate the fact that there is now unlikely to be a repeal of Trump’s corporate tax cut. Democrats are now quite unhappy at this unexpected failure of their dreams to materialize.

Government Can’t Count Ballots. How Can It Possibly Manage a Pandemic or Our Health Care?

November 7, 2020

America’s governing bodies look incapable of managing something as simple as a vote, something Americans have managed to do efficiently for centuries without the benefit of computers, digital communication, and mass transportation.

Democracy Proves To Be The Death Of The Constitution.

November 5, 2020

Either the Constitution leashes the rulers, or the rulers leash the people. There is no middle way: there is no such thing as provisional legal inferiority to officialdom. If citizens trust rulers who blatantly violate the Constitution, they place themselves on the political chopping block.

Capitalism Eliminates Poverty, Despite These 4 Common Misperceptions.

November 4, 2020

Yes, it’s true that the rich (tend to) get richer, but the poor get richer too—especially if we look at a time span of decades or longer, and if we focus our attention on people living in countries where governments adhere to a basic respect for the rule of law and property rights.

President Donald J. Trump Invokes the Poetic Justice Warrior Society Manifesto at Mount Rushmore

November 3, 2020

The radical ideology attacking our country advances under the banner of social justice. But in truth, it would demolish both justice and society. It would transform justice into an instrument of division and vengeance, and it would turn our free and inclusive society into a place of repression, domination and exclusion. They want to silence us, but we will not be silenced.

Let’s Secede!

November 2, 2020

Thanks to relentless growth in federal power over American states and American communities, this issue is unlikely to go away. It appears that Americans are increasingly fearful that national majorities and national political institutions can be used to attack the culture, legal rights, and lifestyles of those who might find themselves as part of a national majority. Secession increasingly beckons as an option.

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