Contrary to popular opinion, especially among seniors, Social Security is not a retirement program. There is no fund into which people have been contributing their money. Instead, from the very beginning Social Security has been nothing more than a ...
When I was in law school, I waited tables in a restaurant in Texas for a couple of months. The tips were good, but every once in while a customer would stiff me. The customer would be nice and ...
Constitutional violations have become so commonplace in American life that when they occur, the reaction among many Americans is ho-hum.
There are two classic examples of this phenomenon: the declaration of ...
Many years ago, I was giving a lecture on the Constitution and the Bill of Rights to a class at a public high school here in Virginia. During the course of my talk, I made the following statement: “The ...
It shouldn’t surprise anyone that America’s public school systems are in perpetual crisis. That’s what socialism does. It produces crises or what the economist Ludwig von Mises called “planned chaos.”
It would be difficult to find a better model ...
One of the popular healthcare reforms advanced by conservatives is healthcare savings accounts. Conservatives maintain that this reform is the solution to the decades-long healthcare crisis. By having everyone deposit money into a healthcare savings account, much like people ...
Earlier this month, the Washington Post reported that the homicide rate in Washington, D.C., in 2019 was higher than it was in 2018. There were 166 people killed in 2019, compared to 160 in 2018. In fact, the 2019 ...
The Washington Post recently published an article about a lawsuit that American citizens have brought against Iran. The plaintiffs are Iraq veterans and families of veterans who suffered horrendous injuries or deaths while serving in the U.S. armed forces ...
Take a trip to the east coast of the United States, or the west coast, or the Canadian-U.S. border, or the U.S.-Mexico border. You will notice one important thing: There is no foreign army invading the United States.
Recently, Iran ...
The incarceration of 56-year-old Chinese citizen Huang Qi at the hands of Chinese authorities helps to remind us of how the conversion of the U.S. government to a national-security state fundamentally altered life in America in an ...
