Slouching into slavery
What the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protestors don’t realize (yet) is that they have been suckered into becoming the agents of their own enslavement. Orwell had it so right in defining the Left because...
View Article“Keynes” and other back-pats
Here’s a Robert Samuelson article, “bye bye Keynes” that should give us all pause: the arguments he uses to write Keynes’ obituary are arguments that we all posited in our own excoriation of Keynes in...
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Wendell Romney
Does history repeat itself? I fervently hope not. Ok, I have grudgingly thrown my support behind Mitt Romney. It’s not that I am excited about Romney as a candidate, but I am genuinely excited about...
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How dare a private organization spend its money the way it wants to? Liberals...
In the past week, two decisions came out regarding the way in which private organizations spend their money. The first decision was the Obama administration’s announcement that businesses in America...
View ArticleLynch mobs and hit lists
You already know how I feel about the George Zimmerman – Trayvon Martin affair and the Obama Administration and its lap dog-media sycophants ginning up a lynching party to “get” Zimmerman and a few...
View ArticleObama’s supporters do too believe in free enterprise *UPDATED*
Obama has been going after traditional American capitalism with a vengeance. He’s graduated far beyond his Joe the Plumber kerfuffle, and his vague murmurings about the fact that it’s possible for...
View ArticleDoes Arthur Brooks make the sale for free enterprise?
Do you think this is an effective video? I liked it, but I think that, to the extent it’s very conclusory, my liberal Facebook friends would disagree vehemently:
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Pictorial commentary on Obama’s “they didn’t do it themselves” speech
A friend sent me a couple of great posters celebrating the message behind Obama’s speech. Which speech? This speech: There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me — because they...
View ArticleAndrew Klavan examines “crony capitalism,” which isn’t capitalism at all
This may be Klavan’s most brilliant effort yet:
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Found it on Facebook — Socialism versus Capitalism
In an earlier post, I ranted about the nasty vapidity that characterizes the “posters” my liberal friends put up on Facebook whenever an election draws near. I also mentioned that my conservative...
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Bees are capitalists, while mice are Marxists
My son begged for mice and then, when he got them, discovered that he didn’t really like them. I’ve always had a fondness for pet rodents (having gone the mouse, hamster, and guinea pig root when I...
View ArticleNailing the heart of Benghazi
I wrote a lovely post, right here, last night. Cheerfully hit the “publish” button and went to bed — only to wake up this morning to discover that the post not only didn’t get published, it vanished...
View ArticleGetting nickeled and dimed to death in Europe
One of the things that’s striking about traveling in continental Europe is the way you have to pay up front for things that we, in the United States, take for granted should be free. The most notable...
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Guns don’t kill people — but government will kill business
It’s worth reading this article, about the Obama government’s attack on Bucky Balls and their owner, in conjunction with this letter to the editor (especially in conjunction with the last sentence:
View ArticleCrowd-sourcing question: Why is the stock market still going up?
I understand that the Dow Jones average consists of a very cherried-up bunch of stocks. Nevertheless, it usually is at least somewhat tied to what’s going on in the real world. That doesn’t seem to...
View ArticleThe problem with monopolies
My poor mother is struggling with a monop0ly in her care facility. She and the gal who does hair there are at odds. Two things before I go any further: First, when it comes to her looks, my mother is...
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McDonald’s french fries wars; or, just because they’re old Asian men doesn’t...
There was an interesting story in today’s New York Times (yes, I know that sounds like an oxymoron, but still. . . .) about a war between a McDonald’s and some elderly Asian men. The men want to treat...
View Article[VIDEO] Do the rich pay their fair share of taxes?
Another excellent Prager University video, this time about America’s tax code, which is fair if you believe (a) in income redistribution and (b) that one can still have good government if almost half...
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Will American capitalism be a victim of the rise of fascism-lite and the...
It’s no secret that certain words degrade with time as the objects associated with them lose status. Something my sister said to me made me realize that we’re at that point with the phrase “free market...
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Thieving monkeys and government corruption
One of my friends posted a very cute video on Facebook. If you can’t get the video to work, what you would see if you watched it is some clever monkeys in a Japanese tourist area. Rather than stealing...
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