Liberal Democracy versus Democratic Socialism versus Social Democracy by Richard M. Ebeling May 1, 2020 The presidential primary campaign of Bernie Sanders for the Democratic Party nomination and the election of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Congress from New York have once again raised the issue of the desirability for and the possibility of a system of “democratic socialism.” For many of their critics and opponents the operative word is “socialism” in their vision of a new ...
Democrats, Republicans, and the Constitution by Laurence M. Vance May 1, 2020 In July 2017, after President Donald Trump had been in office for less than six months, Congressmen Al Green (D-Calif.) and Brad Sherman (D-Tex.) introduced in the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives an article of impeachment (H. Res. 438) against the president for “High Crimes and Misdemeanors.” Said Green, “I am introducing Articles of Impeachment to begin a long ...
The Tortured Legacy of the Mexican-American War, Part 2 by Danny Sjursen May 1, 2020 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 The Constitution was, and is, emphatic on one matter, at least: only Congress possesses the power to declare war. In the 1840s, an era of legislative preeminence, even the high-risk Tyler blanched, aware that the agreement exceeded his authority. ...
Donald J. Trump: Patient Zero of Lockdown Nation’s Covid Hysteria, Part 1 by David Stockman April 30, 2020 According to the CDC’s long established mortality models, 687,000 Americans were supposed to die during the 12 weeks between February 1 and April 18. But only 666,000 actually complied. So the Grim Reaper was deprived of his seasonally adjusted mortality quota, even as 21,000 families were spared, at least temporarily, of the loss and grief which accompanies the passing of ...
American Exceptionalism Scars Both Victim and Victimizer by Danny Sjursen April 29, 2020 Manicheanism means murder. Amidst the present pandemic, America’s irrationally dyadic global typecasting, and consequent capacity for cruelty, are on unusually flagrant display. Consider this the macabre gift of COVID-catalyzed reality exposure. From Uncle Sam’s escalation of proxy war with - and threats to bomb - Iran, to the maintenance and tightening ...
Herbert Spencer on Equal Liberty and the Free Society by Richard M. Ebeling April 27, 2020 Social, political and economic crises, including those connected with a viral pandemic, absorb so much of our attention that it is easy to miss or forget anniversaries marking when famous figures may have been born or had earlier passed away. In this case, April 27th marks the 200th birthday of British classical liberal and advocate of laissez-faire, Herbert Spencer, ...
The U.S. Government’s Secret History of Grisly Experiments by John W. Whitehead April 24, 2020 “They were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don't recognize them for what they are until it's too late.” — Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children I have never known any government to put the best interests of its people first, and this COVID-19 pandemic is no exception. Now this isn’t intended ...
Conspiracies, Corona, and the Hounds of Adam Smith by John McGinnis April 23, 2020 Thomas Jefferson famously wrote, "The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground." I think Rahm Emanuel’s corollary (“You never let a serious crisis go to waste.”) is that difficult circumstances make the best opportunities for government expansion. These will probably bear out as we witness the short-term and long-term responses to the ...
The Jackboots Of The Virus Patrol by David Stockman April 20, 2020 Say what? It seems that the mainstream politicians and commentariat have gone so far off the deep-end on the Covid-19 that it takes a pair of socialists from south of the border to clear the air. That’s right. We are referring to Mr .Lopez-Gatell, Mexico’s minister of health and pedigreed PhD epidemiologist from John-Hopkins and his boss, President Obrador, a true ...
Economic Impossibilities by Laurence M. Vance April 17, 2020 Just as certain things are impossible in mathematics, accounting, chemistry, and physics, so also in economics. Adding two even numbers together can never result in an odd number. Assets cannot but equal liabilities plus equities. Oil and water do not mix. Atmospheric pressure does not increase with an increase in height. When the price of a good rises, the amount ...
Will there Be Tyranny in the Post-Coronavirus World? by Richard M. Ebeling April 16, 2020 The coronavirus crisis will be considered one of the most important global events of the early decades of the 21st century. Like a pebble that is dropped in a pond of water from which a series of waves are sent out across its surface, the virus has created waves of hundreds of thousands of human victims in countries all ...
Republicans Are Now Good For Exactly …….. Nothing! by David Stockman April 13, 2020 Nancy Pelosi, Chuckles Schumer and the rest of the Dem wrecking crew surely have the Trumpified GOP by the short hairs. The latter are clueless about the real imperative, which is to halt the senseless shutdown of the US economy ASAP. So like deer caught in the headlights of public fear, outrage and hurt by the Covid Quarantines, they have ...