Amit Ghate
Time for Emergency Freedom
Economic trouble should always lead to liberty: we have 70 years of failure taking the opposite tack.
Entitlement Programs: A Plan to End Them
Untangling ourselves from entitlements will restore our solvency and our spirit.
Values and the Defense of Freedom
Is faith necessary for defending natural rights, or is reason sufficient?
Risk and Regulation
If we’re to truly effect fundamental and long-lasting change, we must identify, examine and challenge the basic premises responsible for the regulatory state.
Ideas and the State
Under freedom, good ideas, by virtue of conforming to reality, can succeed and support themselves. Conversely, bad ideas, when left alone, tend to wither and fail.
Socialism’s Second-Guessers
From Government Motors to ObamaCare, wherever and whenever property is socialized, destructive meddling, second-guessing, and other disasters ensue. There’s but one solution to this disastrous trend.
The Nonsensical Notion of ‘Unearned Income’
The "labor theory of value" used to justify taxing capital gains fails to take into account that investment income is the product of exacting thought and effort.
Czar Wars: Can the Rebels Fight Back?
There is something troubling about Americans’ newfound willingness to accept and submit to czarist authority.
(And don't miss Glenn Reynolds' look at "Obama's House of Czars" at PJTV.)
Force and Violence: How the Left Blurs Terms
The left’s modus operandi is to denounce the open use of “violence,” while promoting and condoning every other form of force.
We Need a Return to Principled Government
Government should be limited to the protection of individual rights. Everything else was — and is — beyond its scope.
Misconstruing the Cause of Waste
Obama has it exactly backwards: government regulation causes waste; individualism births efficiency.
Questioning the Value of Regulation
The regulatory approach is focused on the person who needs a warning sign to ensure that he doesn't spill hot coffee on himself.
Ayn Rand as Prophet?
The moniker is a touch ironic, given that the woman was the world's deadliest opponent of mysticism.
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| NEWS FROM THE PROFESSIONAL CAREER CIVIL SERVICE: IRS Worker Used Federal Plastic For Amazon Buys: Government credit card paid for years-long shopping spree. “Entrusted with a government credit card, an Internal Revenue Service worker allegedly used the plastic for a years-long Amazon.com shopping spree that netted her hundreds of items, including a chocolate fondue fountain; Bollywood movies; Pampers; Harlequin romance novels; Omaha Steaks; Apple Bottoms skinny jeans; mango body wash; and a Ginsu knife set. Yetunde Oseni, 37, was named this month in a U.S. District Court felony complaint charging her with embezzling government funds. Oseni has worked since 2000 as a secretary in an IRS office in Lanham, Maryland.” ... |