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“No Excuses” Is A Good Way To Go Through Life.

December 8, 2020

That’s why liberals promote excuses for any black failure and disavow any excuse for white failure. If you can control a group’s expectations, you can control their level of success. A generation of black people have had their expectations diminished by Critical Race Theory.

The Scientific Method of Inductive Reasoning Proves the Moral Foundation of Individualism

December 7, 2020

More complex ideas of morality and law are put together from simple ones by the faculty of reason, that is, the mental functions of repetition, comparison, combination and abstraction. The goal of such knowledge was to guide man in determining what he ought to do as a rational and voluntary agent for the attainment of any end, especially happiness.

The Entrepreneurship Formula To Returning The U.S. Economy To Its Before-Covid Glory.

December 6, 2020

A strong economy is a simple formula: Greater entrepreneurship, which is created by pro-entrepreneurship public policies, which is created by electing pro-entrepreneurship politicians. Make no mistake: The success of the U.S. over the next few years depends on how well it follows this formula for success.

Intervention Results In More Taxes, More Bureaucrats, More Rules, And More Intervention. And We All Become Worse Off.

December 5, 2020

The results threaten popular support for free markets because people see poverty and chaos and conclude (incorrectly) that it is an inevitable result of a blinkered “just leave it to the market” ideology even though the problems started when the government expressly decided not to just leave prices to the market.

America Is The Last Remaining Capitalist Country, Sinking In The West. Gradually At First, Then All At Once.

December 4, 2020

America was conceived in liberty, and an individualistic capitalism…

Entrepreneur Zones: Teaching People To Fish In America’s Abundantly Stocked Economic River.

December 3, 2020

Dr. Martin Luther King’s March on Washington in 1963 was actually called the March On Washington For Jobs And Freedom. It was economic activism, as well as political and social activism. Economic activism – teaching more people how to fish in America’s rapidly flowing and abundantly stocked economic river - can be more productive on more fronts than protest, social justice campaigning or welfare legislation.

The Institutions Of Entrepreneurship:An Economist Uncovers A New Market Trend: The Rise of the DIY Consumer-Entrepreneur.

December 2, 2020

In the long-run, small businesses decrease their market presence, allowing more consumers to become more productive in satisfying their own wants and those of others, which creates a robust (C2C) marketplace. The immediate effect will be to show that consumers are creative and can be entrepreneurial.

Economics Enables Us To See That Racism Exists Only When Free Enterprise Is Taken Away.

December 1, 2020

If the Davonte Bryants of the world are to be safeguarded, we must embrace private property rights, free enterprise, capitalism. That is their last best hope. This system has done more for the African-American community than any other, Imperfect as is the US economic system, the GDP of all black citizens together would rank 12th in the world, if they constituted a separate country.

America’s Founders Gave Individuals Everywhere Their Priceless Possession – Moral Sanction

November 30, 2020

The principle that freedom is indivisible reflects the fact that humans are an integration of mind and body, spirit and matter, consciousness and existence. It implies humans must choose to exercise their reason – unique to them – to grasp reality, live ethically, and flourish. - Richard Salsman

We Are Deemed By Our Betters To Be Too Stupid, Too Fat, And Too Unhealthy To Make Our Own Decisions.

November 29, 2020

Experts concede they cannot achieve intelligent risk assessment of the population. And that’s the whole point. That needs to be left to individuals. Central planning does not work for all the reasons that F.A. Hayek explained: the necessary knowledge to make intelligent decisions is decentralized and not available in useful forms for elite overseers or anyone else.

Miscounting, Mis-Classification, Mis-Reporting. The COVID-19 Narrative Is Entirely Based On Accounting Errors.

November 28, 2020

If the COVID-19 death toll was not misleading at all, what we should have observed is an increased number of heart attacks and increased COVID-19 numbers. But a decreased number of heart attacks and all the other death causes doesn’t give us a choice but to point to some misclassification.

Do You Think There Are More Conspiracy Theories Today Than There Used To Be? That’s So WEIRD.

November 27, 2020

Are these conspiracy theories actually true? Some of them? All of them? None of them? I suspect that a unit within the federal government has looked into this question—perhaps the NSA. And I imagine that by now they’ve been able to ascertain the answer to this question.But they aren’t telling us.

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Raushan Gross: Socialism Cannot Work, Not Even in an AI-Driven Economy

The Right to Repair: Shouldn’t Americans Have the Right to Fix Their Own Stuff?