Trump is not the problem; the system that created Trump is the problem
As 2016 Super Tuesday results filed in, a sinking feeling could be felt across the country. Political pundits and lay voters alike realized that Donald J. Trump had a good…
The conundrum of rights–natural rights vs. civil rights and the disintegration of order
If the recent debate over RFRA laws and same-sex marriage teaches us anything, it is not that there are a bunch of bigots out there or that there are people…
Democracy no more
(PolicyMic) A new scientific study from Princeton researchers Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page has finally put some science behind the recently popular argument that the United States isn’t a…
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- Closed System
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- Culture Divide
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- Frontier Thesis
- Interdependency
- Localism
- Motivation
- National Debt
- Political Theory
- Polycentrism
- Poverty
- Self-Government
- Self-Reliance
- Self-Rule
- Self-Sufficiency
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- Systems Theory
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- Wealth
Venice independence
(Mises.org) With an 89 percent majority, the voters of Venice have elected to leave Italy. In practice, what this really means is that the Venetians plan to no longer send…
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- Free Market
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- Keynesianism
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- Localism
- Marxism
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- Sociology
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- Tea Party
- Wealth
- Welfare Statism
Not a 1% problem; not a 99% problem; it’s an American problem
Chicago black grassroots activists respond to SOTU. And it’s not favorable.
- Austrian School
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- Budget Deficit
- Bureaucracy
- Capitalism
- Closed System
- Competition
- Complexity
- Consumerism
- Culture Divide
- Current Events
- Debt Ceiling
- Economic Policy
- Economic Theory
- Federal Budget
- Free Market
- Frontier Thesis
- Health Care
- Influences
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- Political Theory
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- Poverty
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- Taxes
- Tea Party
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- Tyranny
- Wealth
- Welfare Statism
- Zero-sum
George Will, increasingly intelligent
“I’ve lived in Washington now for 44 years, and that’s a lot of folly to witness up close,” says Washington Post columnist George Will. “Whatever confidence and optimism I felt…
Hobby Lobby standing in the way of Obamacare
(LifeNews.com)Â The Obama administration today filed papers taking the Christian craft store Hobby Lobby to the Supreme Court to make it comply with the HHS mandate that compels religious companies to…
The growing incentive to give up U.S. citizenship
(Bloomberg) Americans renouncing U.S. citizenship surged sixfold in the second quarter from a year earlier as the government prepares to introduce tougher asset-disclosure rules. Expatriates giving up their nationality at…
The decline and fall of Detroit
(National Review) By the time Detroit declared bankruptcy, Americans were so inured to the throbbing dirge of Motown’s Greatest Hits — 40 percent of its streetlamps don’t work; 210 of…
- Austrian School
- Autarchy
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- Closed System
- Competition
- Consumerism
- Currency
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- Debt Ceiling
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- Free Market
- Inflation
- Interdependency
- Keynesianism
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- Motivation
- National Debt
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- Political Theory
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- Wealth
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- Zero-sum
Murray Rothbard on the founding of the Federal Reserve 100 years ago
A speech by Murray N. Rothbard. Presented at the Mises Institute’s 1984 “Seminar on Money and Government,” in Houston, Texas.
Stock market near all time high…so is money supply
(Freakonomics) U.S. stock markets* are flirting with all-time highs (it may happen today) but I am hearing and reading very little about it. Why is that? I can think of…
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- Free Market
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- Interdependency
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- Motivation
- National Debt
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- Political Theory
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- Public Choice Theory
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- Welfare Statism
An argument against political correctness and fiscal irresponsibility
(Illinois Review) At Thursday morning’s National Prayer Breakfast, Dr. Benjamin Carson, a celebrated pediatric neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital, gave a 25-minute long keynote address that directly refuted the key…
The nauseating irony of the fiscal cliff pay raise
(Weekly Standard) President Barack Obama issued an executive order to end the pay freeze on federal employees, in effect giving some federal workers a raise. One federal worker now to…
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- Autarchy
- Budget Deficit
- Bureaucracy
- Capitalism
- Closed System
- Competition
- Complexity
- Culture Divide
- Currency
- Current Events
- Debt Ceiling
- Economic Policy
- Economic Theory
- Federal Budget
- Free Land
- Free Market
- Frontier Thesis
- Inflation
- Inspiration
- Interdependency
- Keynesianism
- Legal Theory
- Marxism
- Motivation
- National Debt
- Perpetuity
- Political Theory
- Polycentrism
- Rational Choice Theory
- Self-Government
- Self-Reliance
- Self-Rule
- Self-Sufficiency
- Sociology
- Solutions
- Systems Theory
- Taxes
- Trade
- Wealth
- Welfare Statism
- Zero-sum
When in the Course of human events…
In the wake of the latest election, several states have petitioned the White House to peacefully secede from the United States. Sometimes, that is all that seems to be left…
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- Capitalism
- Closed System
- Competition
- Culture Divide
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- Free Market
- Frontier Thesis
- Health Care
- Inflation
- Interdependency
- Keynesianism
- Legal Theory
- Marxism
- Motivation
- National Debt
- Perpetuity
- Political Theory
- Psychology
- Public Choice Theory
- Rational Choice Theory
- Self-Government
- Self-Reliance
- Self-Rule
- Self-Sufficiency
- Sociology
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- Taxes
- Welfare Statism
Reflections on the election
In response to the election, many on the political Right have expressed dismay on the fate of liberty and the chances for a return to Constitution-based governance. Hopes for real…
- 2007-08 Crisis
- Autarchy
- Bureaucracy
- Capitalism
- Closed System
- Competition
- Complexity
- Culture Divide
- Currency
- Current Events
- Debt Ceiling
- Economic Policy
- Economic Theory
- Federal Budget
- Free Market
- Inflation
- Interdependency
- Keynesianism
- Legal Theory
- Marxism
- Motivation
- National Debt
- Perpetuity
- Political Theory
- Public Choice Theory
- Solutions
- Systems Theory
- Taxes
- Trade
- Wealth
- Welfare Statism
Fixing the system by working within it
Debate This! is a co-production of Rebellious Truths and The Comeback America Initiative (http://www.keepingamericagreat.org), featuring footage from The Can Kicks Back (http://www.thecankicksback.org). In this video, the youth of America speak…
Freedom free fall
(Cato) Global economic freedom bounced back slightly in this year’s report. After falling for two consecutive years following a long trend of increases, the average score rose from 6.79 in…
- 2007-08 Crisis
- Austrian School
- Autarchy
- Budget Deficit
- Bureaucracy
- Capitalism
- Closed System
- Competition
- Complexity
- Culture Divide
- Currency
- Current Events
- Debt Ceiling
- Federal Budget
- Free Market
- Inspiration
- Interdependency
- Motivation
- National Debt
- Political Theory
- Polycentrism
- Self-Government
- Self-Rule
- Solutions
- Systems Theory
- Taxes
- Trade
- Wealth
- Welfare Statism
American exceptionalism pronounced at Republican National Convention
Transcript: When the Supreme Court upheld Obamacare, the first words out of my mouth were: I still think it is unconstitutional! The leftwing blogs were merciless. Even my wife said…
HHS cometh
(AP) The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold most of President Barack Obama’s health care law will come home to roost for most taxpayers in about 2 1/2 years, when they’ll…