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Leftist Humor at the Los Angeles Times

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Leave it to an American leftist to bring some humor to our nation amidst all the chaos and turmoil, in the form of an op-ed that appeared in yesterday’s Los Angeles Times. The author is a Times columnist named Nicholas Goldberg. Mind you, Goldberg didn’t intend to be humorous. He was deadly serious. It’s just that to a libertarian, his piece comes across as extremely funny. Goldberg’s theme is that American Democrats and ”liberals” (or progressives, whichever term one prefers) are not socialists, as Republicans and conservatives love to assert. Oh sure, he says, it’s true that “there are social democratic policies the U.S. has embraced for many decades and which are widely popular” but that doesn’t make the proponents of such programs socialists. Goldberg specifically refers to “the progressive income tax, Medicare and Social Security” as examples. So, what’s a socialist, according to Goldberg? He says “real socialists want to ...

Freedom versus Paternalism in the Coming Decade

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We are not only standing at the beginning of a new year in 2021, but at the entrance of the third decade of the 21st century. With a fifth of this latest century now behind us, what have we learned so far? I, personally, fear that the answer to that is little that is right and true, as I understand it as a classical liberal and a supporter of a free market order of things, given all that has happened over the last 20 years. Let us recall some aspects of our world two decades ago in 2000. First, for much of the 1990s, in spite of the scandals surrounding the Bill Clinton Administration – “I did not have sex with that woman” – many were fairly optimistic about the future in America. The Soviet Union had disappeared from the face of the global political map at the end of 1991, China was, seemingly, moving in the direction of greater ...

Conservative Principles

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Back at the beginning of the coronavirus crisis in the United States in March of this year, two Democratic representatives (Tim Ryan of Ohio and Ro Khanna of California) proposed that the federal government give at least $1,000 to every American making less than $65,000 a year. Three Democratic senators (Michael F. Bennet of Colorado, Cory Booker of New Jersey, and Sherrod Brown of Ohio) proposed that the federal government send $2,000 to every American adult and child plus a $1,500 check in the summer and a $1,000 check in the fall, as long as the “public health emergency” continued. Not to be outdone by Democrats in a presidential election year, Republicans put forth their own stimulus-check plans. Republican senator Mitt Romney of Utah called for every American adult to “immediately” receive a $1,000 check from the federal government until other government aid could arrive. Another Republican, Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, proposed that the federal government provide families experiencing ...