Category Archives: Policy

The State of Play

Question: What are the serious challenges the United States currently faces? Hint: The answer does not include specifying pronouns. The answers should be more than obvious. (1) America faces perhaps the most important foreign policy challenges it has ever faced. … Continue reading

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Free Speech

A bipartisan group of 74 Congressman urged Harvard, MIT and UPenn to dismiss their respective presidents a few days after their Congressional testimony on campus antisemitism. Representatives  Elise Stefanik (R., NY) and Jared Moskowitz (D., Fla) actually co-authored a letter … Continue reading

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Progressive Good Crime

Coinciding with the Biden Administration’s push for higher taxes on wealthy individuals and a greatly expanded IRS, ProPublica published documents that purport to show private tax information of several high profile billionaires including Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Michael Bloomberg and … Continue reading

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Ben Sasse for President

We are once again faced with the question of whether it is worth voting in the Presidential race and if so, for whom. Before considering any particular candidate, let’s have a look at the question of why vote at all.  … Continue reading

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Can Trump Win the 2020 Race?

To win, he has to pull an inside straight. With time running out, it’s not likely. But it is possible.  The Biden campaign strategy has always been to focus the race on Trump’s personality and avoid policy. In this he … Continue reading

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Biden Inc

We are being treated to a new level of liberal hysteria, and that is truly impressive when you consider it has being boiling hot ever since the darkest day in American history, November 8, 2016. The proximate cause for the … Continue reading

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Reason TV on Judge Amy Coney Barrett

As the leftist hysteria continues to mount on Donald Trump’s nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, it may be a good idea to take a look a the libertarian perspective. Here below is a short video … Continue reading

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California’s Wildfires

Despite the apocalyptic rhetoric of environmental alarmists, the destructiveness of the raging wildfires in the Pacific Northwest are primarily the result bad policy–not climate change. See the short video below on the subject. JFB

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Progressive Fascism

“Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State.” Benito Mussolini “State intervention in economic production arises only when private initiative is lacking or insufficient, or when the political interests of the State are involved. This intervention … Continue reading

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The Season is Upon Us

When January of 2021 comes rolling around it is virtually inevitable that a supremely ambitious, self-serving, vicious and ignorant partisan hack will take the Presidential oath of office. The only question is whether the hack will be named Donald Trump … Continue reading

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