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Economic Freedom Generates Entrepreneurial Dynamism And Economic Growth. But Calls For Economic Security Are Socialistic.

October 26, 2019

The most important thing to understand about these policy prescriptions is that one’s economic security or general well-being has absolutely nothing to do with one’s “freedom,” and it never has. A government benefactor, in the form of a redistributive government politburo, is not some great advancement of individual “freedom.”

This 75-Year-Old Book – Celebrating Individualism And Warning Against Expanding Government Power – Is As Important Now As It Ever Was.

October 25, 2019

Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom defended the individual—the only ultimate locus of choice, responsibility and morality—as the appropriate focus of efforts toward human improvement, at a time when failing to keep that focus threatened the entire world. That is a lesson we need to remember now as well.

Technology Never Stops Improving The Delivery Of Better and Better Customer Experience, So High Tech Competition Never Rests.

October 24, 2019

Yet when a company adopts a new technology, it can’t set it and forget it. Staying ahead requires new features and constant upgrades. Hopper described a “technology treadmill” and said “companies will either master and re-master the technology or die.”

The Modern Poetic Justice Warrior Who Proved Hydrocarbon Oxidation Cleans Humanity’s Environment – Alex Epstein

October 23, 2019

The use of fossil fuels in our modern era coincides with a massive increase in life expectancy and population, cleaner water and air, and increasing oil, natural gas, and food production. The dirty environment of food bacteria, poisonous plants, and rodent infestation have largely been solved. This frees time to be more productive and enjoy recreation, family, education, travel and the arts.

American Patriotism Is About The Moral Values Of Life, Liberty And The Pursuit Of Happiness – And Well Worth Fighting For.

October 22, 2019

American history has vindicated the Founders’ faith that all human beings share the same basic desire for “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” This universalism makes it a challenge to draw the circle of mutual loyalty among citizens in the way that most nations do. Americans are loyal to the morality and values of the Declaration Of Independence, not to common ancestors or geography.

Capitalism Plus Technology Results In The Production Of More With Less – Including Less Pollution And Fewer Greenhouse Gases.

October 21, 2019

The innovation they came up with was Dematerialization. McAfee defines this term to mean the phenomenon of consuming more and more while taking less and less from the planet. The intense competitive improvement mechanism of capitalism caused more and more companies to seize the opportunity.

The Democrats’ Wealth Tax – Outright Theft Disguised As Taxation – Violates The Fifth Amendment Of The Constitution.

October 20, 2019

Fortunately for the American people, the Bill of Rights protects property, and as long as we have federal courts left that follow the Constitution as written, a far left president will be prevented from engaging in such outright theft disguised as taxation.

Another Problem For The Alarmists: Americans Are Using Less Electricity.

October 19, 2019

Between 1950 and 2010, average residential electricity consumption increased 10-fold. But after that, in a shift that captured the attention of economists, government agencies and others who monitor the energy market, consumption began to decline.

Accountable Capitalism: Corporations Must Do What Elizabeth Warren Tells Them To Do.

October 18, 2019

What will this legally imposed veneer of corporate morality look like? It’s clear from Warren’s campaign materials that it will involve a new and large bureaucracy, but the rules to be enforced are less clear. In short, accountable capitalism means government mandating that corporations do what Elizabeth Warren wants them to do.

The Left’s Identity-Politics Tribalism Denies The Role Of Reason And Reality, Seeing White Supremacy At The Heart Of Everything.

October 17, 2019

The Harvard racial-preferences lawsuit and the Kavanaugh nomination battle had nothing to do with “white supremacy,” even though the Left pitched them that way. The Left’s increasingly desperate approach to political debate may energize its base, but unmoors it from reality. Sooner or later, that unreality could be its downfall.

The Modern Poetic Justice Warrior On A Quest For The Soul Of America’s Universities – Heather Mac Donald.

October 16, 2019

The fallacies of the diversity movement that permeate all of college life is stunning, and the fees they charge for this crime are obscene. College should be a glorious opportunity for learning and inspiriation. In fact, we live in the most open and tolerant society for self-creation the world has ever known. Yet, the academic obsession with identity is ironic, since its deconstruction roots lie in a philosophy that denied the very existence of the self.

Government Attempts To Prevent The Future By Stopping Innovation By Force. It Won’t Work.

October 15, 2019

The forces of enterprise and innovation are infinitely more powerful than governments. Governments have only edicts and guns to enforce them. Ideas, on the other hand, take flight because they enter into the human imagination, spread like wildfire, and construct the narrative of history itself.

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