by Henry Oliner | May 17, 2026 | Business, Democrats, Economics, Health Care, Inequality, Politics
Inequality clearly exists and is even pronounced compared to other periods. AOC, Bernie Sanders, Robert Reich and others from the left have challenged the legitimacy of the very existence of billionaires, though I wonder if this includes Taylor Swift, Oprah, Steven...
by Henry Oliner | Dec 11, 2020 | Democrats, Politics, Progressivism
From Bobby Jindal and Alex Costellanos at The WSJ, There’s More to Politics than Policy: Liberals have long contended that conservatives use emotional appeals to manipulate working-class voters into voting against their own economic interests. These appeals,...
by Henry Oliner | Jan 11, 2020 | Democrats, Economics
One of the most profound quotes of Milton Friedman (a competitive arena) is “A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.” A corollary in today’s Wall Street Journal...
by Henry Oliner | Mar 23, 2019 | Anti Semitism, Democrats, Jewish, Politics, Progressivism
An excellent article from American Thinker, When They Come for the Jews, They Won’t Ask Questions by Caren Besner Slowly, surely, irrevocably, methodically, step by step, the constraints are removed from the unacceptable — adjusting the population to the various...
by Henry Oliner | Oct 22, 2018 | Democrats, Politics
The Blue Wave is barely a ripple. The visceral reaction to Nancy Pelosi was a big fact in their loss of the House in 2010. Only two years before all the media relegated the Republicans to the dustbin of history. Nancy Pelosi remains as viscerally objectionable today...
by Henry Oliner | Aug 20, 2018 | Democrats, Media, Philosophy, Politics
From Kevin Williamson at National Review, ‘Uninhibited,’ You Say? In the first instance there is the case of Citizens United, a nonprofit advocacy group that was prohibited, in plain contravention of the First Amendment, from showing a film called Hillary: The...
