Libertarianism the wave of the future?
The Left likes to believe – as Obama and Harry Reid often iterate – that it is “on the side of history”. Is history then stuck with those stale and failed ideas of a Marxian stamp propagated by the...
View ArticleThe principles of politics
This quotation from the Dear Leader has just caught our eye: “Consistency is the hobgoblin of narrow minds.” Obama expressed this opinion yesterday – April 11, 2015. Now under our recent post An...
View ArticleSpeaking of free speech
We learn from Scott Johnson at PowerLine: On April 15 the William F. Buckley, Jr. Program at Yale inaugurated its annual Disinvitation Dinner. … Keynote speaker was George Will … took up the subject of...
View ArticleCriminal offense
In the video below, Pat Condell, our fellow atheist, speaks eloquently about the many ways in which Islam is offensive. The leader of Britain’s Labour Party, Ed Miliband, says he will ban and punish...
View ArticleLaughing at Muhammad
In the video below, Geert Wilders addresses a gathering at an exhibition of Muhammad cartoons in Garland, Texas. A rousing speech. “Moderation in the face of evil is evil itself,” he rightly declares....
View ArticleThe Islam-coddling Left blames the victim of Islamic terrorism
First Pamela Geller was attacked by terrorists for holding a free speech event. Then she was attacked by the media for the same reason. Ezra Levant of TheRebel.media looks at the media’s twisted...
View ArticleHayek the Great and the invisible hand
Today is the 116th anniversary of the birth of F. A. Hayek. (Friedrich August von Hayek.) He is one of the greatest defenders of liberty in the history of the enlightened West. His work as an...
View ArticleLiberty
Rick Roderick expounds John Stuart Mill: Further to stress the supreme importance of liberty and reason, here is our summary of excellent points made in an article by Jeffrey Tayler, a contributing...
View ArticleCivil liberties versus national security
The Washington Post reports: Senators left Capitol Hill early Saturday morning without taking action to extend or replace a controversial surveillance program set to expire at month’s end, paralyzed by...
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The cables of civilization
Brooklyn Bridge, a cable-stayed suspension bridge, completed in 1883, spans the East River in New York. It was the brainchild of John A. Roebling Here is an article by Michelle Malkin, titled Who...
View ArticleKilling free speech in the name of tolerance
Watch out for the harm the well-meaning do! Sam Westrop writes at Gatestone: Former Prime Minister Tony Blair has accepted an invitation to become chairman of the European Council on Tolerance and...
View ArticleWhy only heterosexual marriage is rightly the state’s concern
Justice Scalia, in his dissent from the Supreme Curt’s ruling that makes same-sex marriage legal throughout the United States (see our post immediately below, Who rules America?), so despised what five...
View Article56 signatories
Fifty-six men signed the Declaration of Independence. It cost many of them everything they had. They paid it willingly.
View ArticleSocialists are wrong
Hear, Oh Greece! And Bernie Sanders fans! And Pope Francis! Margaret the Great on the virtue of inequality and the vice of egalitarian thinking:
View ArticleSocialism must always fail
Yet another socialist state – Greece – finds itself insolvent. When will they ever learn? Quotations from Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis, by Ludwig von Mises – Wherever Europeans or...
View ArticleLock Islam out
One rare brave voice raised for freedom in Europe is that of Geert Wilders. Over and over again he breaks the law of his country and the European Union by speaking for freedom against the encroaching...
View ArticleThe origin and decay of American liberty
The United States of America was – uniquely among nations – established on the idea of liberty. Liberty is not, however, as The Declaration of Independence declares it to be, an “unalienable Right”...
View ArticleTell them
* Why was Obama, the Islam-loving communist, twice voted into the presidency of the capitalist, Islam-attacked, United States? Why do most Americans “think” that Obama is doing a good job – though...
View ArticleSave America!
In this time of painful stress and deep dread leading up to the most important US presidential election ever, the great actor Jon Voight speaks eloquently to us and for us. (We politely overlook his...
View ArticleNow at last, a proletarian revolution
And it is for individual freedom, not communism! Karl Marx was wrong. When at last the working class rises, it is not for socialism, internationalism and equality: it is for capitalism, the...
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