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The Myth of Income Inequality

If we only taxed the rich... A constant liberal talking point is that the top one percent of American have exploited the rest of the country to acquire their wealth. It’s simply not true. These claims...

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The ObamaCare Decision

Much has been written about tomorrow’s historic United States Supreme Court decision on the constitutionality of ObamaCare. The biggest surprise is the left’s attitude toward the court. If they don’t...

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The Myth of the Southern Strategy

The sinister “Southern Strategy” is liberal dogma. I like to tell liberals all the time it’s a fantasy. They flip out! “But the South votes for the GOP! It must be racism!” It’s all so shallow. Why...

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Liberals: Stuck on Stupid, Detroit Edition

War-torn third-world country? No, Detroit, and likely the rest of America’s cities in the future if we keep riding the Obama Banana Republic Expressway. If Detroit was a person, it would have an...

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Calvin Coolidge: The Last American Idealist

Amity Shlaes’ new book Coolidge is essential reading for those who want to understand how the Progressive movement  moved the  nation toward the tax-and-spend policies that are commonplace today....

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It’s High Time to Curtail Taxation

My least favorite reason for legalizing marijuana is the taxation argument, which was one of the primary arguments used by proponents of the ballot initiative that legalized marijuana in Colorado*....

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Classic Affirmative Action Debate

I stumbled on this video of an old episode of Firing Line featuring a fantastic debate about Affirmative Action. William F. Buckley served more as a moderator between economists Thomas Sowell and...

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Economic Lessons Never Learned

So is average intelligence about economics. My biggest pet peeve in politics used to be anthropogenic global warming (AKA Climate Change, AKA, Global Warmonger), but after 15 years of unchanged...

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Misplaced Faith in Bureaucracy

Why do people have blind faith in bureaucracy? Large bureaucracies are never efficient and as the state gets bigger the abuses get worse. That doesn’t stop progressives from giving up on their faith...

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The Family Breakdown

Part of the my difficulty in taking politics seriously anymore is that people do not want to engage in real debate. The number one economic issue in the United States is the rise of single-parent...

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