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Rose Wilder Lane Blesses The Thanksgiving Season With The Ultimate Purpose For Celebration – Freedom.

November 20, 2019

In one century, human energy has created an entirely dynamic world, constantly changing under the drive of terrific, incalculable energy. What explains this? What explains the effectiveness of any kind of energy ? Nothing but the existence of conditions which permit that energy to operate naturally. Only the protection of men's rights can keep their natural freedom operating on this earth.

The Antifederalists Predicted The Results Of The Constitution With Eerie Accuracy.

November 19, 2019

This group defended states’ rights—the very essence of federalism—against the Federalists, who would have been more accurately described as Nationalists. Nonetheless, what they predicted would be the results of the Constitution turned out to be true in most every respect.

Donald Trump Versus The Deep State Versus The Rest Of Us.

November 18, 2019

In the mind of this mid-level bureaucrat, American foreign policy is set not by elected officials in Washington DC, but by the bureaucrats themselves.

The Deep State Started In 1883, And Has Become Progressively More Dangerous Every Year Since Then.

November 17, 2019

The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act (1883) created a salaried class of government employees. Three flaws in the design of the reforms would set the stage for the next phase of evolution in the American Deep State.

Don’t Try To Change The World. A Better Strategy Is To Go Home And Hug Your Kids.

November 16, 2019

The only way is through a deeper appreciation and love for family, church, community, and nationality. For too long, these centers of civic life that strengthen the individual and diminish the state have been neglected.

The Real Reason Nobody Takes Environmental Activists Seriously.

November 15, 2019

What bothers the opponents of environmental activism is not the environmentally conscious goals or even facts presented, but the activists’ blatant hypocrisy and aura of sanctimonious religiosity.

A Bleak Future? Young Americans Should Be Worrying About Entitlement Liabilities Rather Than Climate Change.

November 14, 2019

For Social Security and Medicare to stay as they are, the payroll tax rate may have to rise to 25 percent of wages over the next decade. And a payroll tax rate of 40 percent is not unlikely by the middle of the twenty-first century.

The Poetic Justice Warrior Who Eternalized the Great Terror Behind the Berlin Wall – Anna Akhmatova

November 13, 2019

For many people in the United States, the fall of the Berlin Wall was a ho-hum events. For America's intelligentsia and their ignorati, Reagan was still a doofus B movie actor and socialism was the dominant philosophy of America's national media and universities. Josef Stalin's Great Terror was not taught in schools, and neither was Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution.

Eastern Europe Sees Liberal Orthodoxy As Just As Tyrannical As Communist Orthodoxy, Charts Its Own Path.

November 12, 2019

The definition of liberalism changed within the West itself, expanding to include values such as ethnic diversity and LGBT rights after politicians embraced what he calls left-liberal democracy. Liberalism no longer solves the people's problems.

Climate Activist Mayor Gets On The Wrong Side Of The City’s Own Workers.

November 11, 2019

“When you hurt the advancement of a region and their ability to feed their family and have a better life, that’s when it becomes an issue for us,” said Darrin Kelly, the city firefighter who heads the Allegheny County Labor Council.

Africa’s Socialism Is Keeping It Poor.

November 10, 2019

What Africans have failed to grasp about capitalism and the free market is that, it is not a system intrinsic to Western culture. It is a system intrinsic to human nature regardless of race, ethnicity, or the local culture.

Urban Democrats Are Driving Jobs And Prosperity Out Of American Cities.

November 9, 2019

The primary losers in this formula are middle-class workers. Between the loss of jobs and revenue, these states and cities press even harder on millions of middle-income taxpayers to make up the difference.

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