Interventionism

A passport — a sign and seal of despotism — is where the security theater begins.

This is a gigantic intellectual concession. If some regulations are too costly, what about the billion-plus other regulations?

Jobs in and of themselves do not guarantee well-being. Suppose that the employment is to dig huge holes and fill them up again?

As Irene ravaged other parts of the eastern seaboard, causing millions to be without power, the eatery of last resort, Waffle House, kept its doors open in many locations, using generators and serving a limited menu designed specifically for emergency situations.

Antitrust action like this is wrong on moral, theoretical, and practical grounds.

What should you give up in order to make your payments? Food, education, transportation, funds to live on in old age?

Unemployment, stagnant growth, and financial market convulsions can all be traced to a single decision.

The expansion of the public sector since 9/11 to promote the mushrooming welfare and warfare states has left very little capital for small business, where 70 percent of job creation occurs. The result: the US economy has had virtually zero private-sector job growth since 4Q 2001.