Big Government

I find Iraq news painful to read so I was glad for this summary of the current sit

From 1950 to 1980, Americans were indeed Losing Ground. Charles Murray’s book on social policy debunks welfare programs. The programs are the problem. It is not possible to design a wealth transfer program that will not produce net harm.

The story of the debacle at Walter Reed that the Washington Post broke has generated commentary all over the place.

As reported and summarized here, a divided three-judge panel for the United Stat

I’ve noted before how many libertarians and Objectivists simply seem unable to appreciate the virtues of our federalist system; and that this

From Caroline Baum’s excellent opinion piece:

They imagine themselves to be the class of rulers, the aristocrats, the philosopher kings, the high clerics, the landowners, and to keep that power, they gladly fuel the basest of human instincts: nationalism, jingoism, and hate.

American liberty will never be reestablished so long as elites and masses alike look to the president to perform supernatural feats and therefore tolerate his virtually unlimited exercise of power. Until we can restore limited, constitutional government in this country, God save us from great presidents.

Representative democracy in action in RobespiBlaire’s Gulag UK.

Reichsführer Perry is mad with power.