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Category Archives: Policy
Trump Strikes Again
We are back from Bordeaux and guess who is in the news? Bad ideas never die. They just bide their time. The latest version of this truism is brought to us, naturally enough, by a Presidential contender. This time around … Continue reading
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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
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
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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Tagged Bill of Rights, classic Liberalism, control, Fascism, liberty, Mussolini, Nancy Pelosi, policy, politics, Progressive
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