Vermont senator Bernie Sanders is nipping at Hillary Clinton's two-inch heels in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination based largely upon his higher-education plan. With student debt now outpacing credit-card debt, the socialist senator wants to make four-year public colleges and ...
God bless the South. As a Pennsylvania-born descendant of loyalists, I can"t say that enough. From resisting tariffs to the Civil War to desegregation, the South has been a thorn in the side of the federal government for almost two centuries. I don"t, of course, condone slavery or Jim ...
It's a shame how tragedy ignites the public's attention span. But "If it bleeds, it leads" works for a reason, so we might as well accept it. The terrible and unfortunate murder of 32-year-old Californian Kate Steinle by illegal immigrant Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez has brought the issue ...
In the wake of Open Borders Day, Ryan Cooper of The Week laments that for all the talk of inclusiveness and tolerance, rich white folk won"t let the hoi polloi into their neighborhoods. Apparently, this trend is especially prevalent in the nation's capital, which is ostensibly home to ...
"What is taxation but theft on a gigantic, unchecked, scale?" Murray Rothbard's question doesn"t have an answer. The coercive taking of money is theft. No exceptions. Mental masturbation on the "social contract" or necessities of public action don"t eliminate that fact. The ...
The recent outbreak of measles has predictably sparked a national debate. California, which is the center of the story, reports just over a hundred cases. The second-most reported cases are in Arizona, with seven children who have the disease. New York and Utah each have up to three infected ...
Let this be a lesson for anyone trying to find something remotely redeeming in politics. President Obama's recent State of the Union address began like many speeches: with an anecdotal story. In recounting the hardships of mother Rebekah Erler, Obama gave the nation a narrative of how government ...
As if the country weren"t full of enough petulant, overgrown children. President Obama's new proposal to offer "free" community college for two years to anyone "willing to work for it" is more of the same trite welfare nonsense that further belittles an already feeble nation. ...
What do you call a socialist who tries to make money selling books? The answer isn"t just Noam Chomsky; it's every socialist who walks the earth. The soothsayers of post-scarcity love to criticize the profit motive while trying to make a living by putting words on pages. Like Marx suckling off ...
When then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid saw fit to ram the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (now affectionately known as ObamaCare) through Congress, the country engaged in a substantive debate over the duty and role of government. Did I say ...
