Government transit in the US is going from bad to worse. Systems are breaking down and law-abiding riders face dangers of assault, robbery, and murder. The current “solution”? Spend even more money on these systems.
The Lane Kiffin saga has dominated sports headlines this past week, highlighting the sea changes that have come over college sports—an especially college football—in the past decade. Much of this change is being driven by the easy money regime of the Federal Reserve.
Trump’s position on this reminds us of Madeleine Albright’s famous complaint: “What’s the point of having this superb military that you’re always talking about if we can’t use it?”
Liberty is not a luxury good. It is necessary for civilization to thrive and the end of liberty will also be the end of civilization. Karl Popper understood that as well as anyone who has lived.
Many of the same Democratic lawmakers now condemning the shooting of survivors of the alleged drug boat strike had no problem when presidents they liked greenlit even worse strikes. But that doesn’t excuse Trump’s awful escalation in the Caribbean.
By making paper money legal tender, the government shut the door on sound money. Repealing legal tender laws is the first step back to liberty.
Modern progressive political narratives depend heavily upon the misuse of words, changing their meaning in hopes that people will forget what they originally meant. Politics corrupts our very language itself.
The story of how the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock abandoned the common labor system and embraced private ownership is well known. While at first it affected a small community, William Bradford’s decision in favor of private enterprise would have a wide ranging effect.
Although classical liberalism was imperfect, especially with its emphasis upon “limited” government, nonetheless, it provided at least a glimpse of a free society. We also should continue the heroes of classical liberalism.
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