Why Are Liberals So Rude http://www.nationalreview.com/article/354713/how-liberalism-makes-it-easier-sin-dennis-prager
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From James Taranto’s Best of the Web in The Wall Street Journal, The Young and the Clueless; The trouble is that loss aversion also militates against buying insurance. Especially if you don’t make a lot of money–and many young people don’t–writing that
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My criticisms of Obama Care have been long and many. Scott Grannis at Calafia Beach Pundit has an excellent post summarizing the hubris and damage of this horrendous bill. Read The Obamacare Nightmare. Excerpts: For starters, it is inconceivable that
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“Countries arrive at the stationary state, as Adam Smith argued, when their ‘laws and institutions’ degenerate to the point that elite rent-seeking dominates the economic and political process. I have tried to suggest that this is the case in important
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By Donna LaFramboise In The Wall Street Journal Warming Up for Another Climate-Change Report Every six years, a U.N. panel issues its findings, and the media hail them as definitive. Skepticism may be in order. Excerpt: When the IPCC issues
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“Or is all that just pie in the sky? Economists are usually pessimists. They believe in the intractability of existing conditions, whether the inflation of the 1970s or the deficits of today. But here again, a glance at history is
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Michael Novak writes in The National Review, Democratic Capitalism The prospering of free societies depends on certain moral and cultural practices. Sept 24, 2013 Excerpt: As a matter of principle, however, the Chinese leadership is betting on the possibility of sustaining
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Michael Novak writes in The National Review, Democratic Capitalism The prospering of free societies depends on certain moral and cultural practices. Sept 24, 2013 Excerpt: Meanwhile, two principles help to define the meaning of “democratic capitalism.” (1) The first is a
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From The Road to Oligarchy by Daniel Greenfield in Sultan Knish Excerpts: The oligarchy safeguards established interests. It is a mafia whose goal is to control and profit from all wealth. Even when it comes to power as the result of a revolution, it
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“The concepts of legitimacy and consent are the foundation of the moralistic view of politics, which converts government from a machine for doing things into a directorate for telling us what to do. This happens on the presumption that there
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From My Budget360, Going for broke: The multiple lost decades of US household income. Is it possible to have a recovery while the standard of living collapses? Excerpts One of the problems with the mythology of the stock market is
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Harry Binswanger writes in Forbes, Give Back? Yes, It’s Time For The 99% To Give Back To The 1% Let’s begin by stripping away the collectivism. “The community” never gave anyone anything. The “community,” the “society,” the “nation” is just
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“In the end, commerce is the salvation of the poor, not charity. Successful risk takers put Americans, immigrants, and offshore workers to work, not government handouts. Increases in government expenditures that threaten risk takers with higher taxes won’t put them
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“Those today who dismiss Western democracy as ‘broken’ – and I hear their lamentations with growing frequency – are wrong to yearn for some kind of Beijing model of a one-party state in which decisions are taken by technocrats on
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“Paradoxically, as technologies get smarter, the maneuvering space for interpretation—what Oakeshott thought would bring cooks in touch with the world of practices and traditions—begins to shrink and potentially disappear entirely. New, smarter technologies make it possible to finally position, as
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On Hillary Clinton I have been compiling a list of the deceits perpetuated by Hillary. This article lists some but there are many other to add to it. They will be forthcoming.
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“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government
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“As I have suggested, it was the most-regulated institutions in the financial system that were in fact the most disaster-prone: big banks on both sides of the Atlantic, not hedge funds. It is more than a little convenient for America’s
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“Because we believe that the way to achieve optimal organizational performance is to allow individual employees to use their minds effectively, we operate with a highly decentralized organizational structure. One problem for the large banks that had regulator-driven risk-management systems
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