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Paul Krugman wants us to spend as if our lives depended on it.

Representative Darrell Issa is right to be concerned about the fate of the Post Office, but his response is far too typical of politicians across the country. He advocates for more bureaucracy, more government micro-management, as if the problems inherent in government-run monopolies are not enough government. Mail service will not be improved by a … Continued

Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson can call President Obama’s definition of war “nonsense” all he wants, but the Libyan non-War isn’t an Obama novelty. Rather, the definition of war has been silently eroding for many years, and both parties have been complicit. In fact, if you look only at the official record, America hasn’t been at … Continued

The myth that “Republicans want less government” is just not true. Both parties want as much government as they can get away with. The recent bipartisan effort to cut nothing and pretend as if it cut almost everything proves the point. Boehner’s “largest cuts in history” actually increased spending, but it didn’t surprise independent voters … Continued

Nothing about our immoral adventure in Afghanistan is based on the premise that, as Diana West asserts, “the Western way is the ‘universal’ way.” No foreign power, no brilliant bureaucrats created the Western way. Hundreds of years of local experiments with liberty created civil society. The Magna Carta wasn’t written by any Secretary of State—it … Continued

State socialism (i.e., collectivizing the means of production and abandoning property rights) has resulted in starvation and cannibalism with a terrifyingly level of frequency. I compiled just a few examples: North Korea (1997): “We started seeing cannibalism. When one is very hungry, one can go crazy. One woman in my town killed her 7-month-old baby, and ate … Continued

Among all the President’s preposterous claims in his defense-of-spending speech, perhaps the most laughable was his claim to be a “rugged individualist.” The statement invokes a real rugged individualist, Henry David Thoreau, who said, “Government never furthered any enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way. It does not keep … Continued

In 2008, Barack Obama did something no black man had ever done—get elected president of the United States. Now black men ask Obama to do something no president has ever done—reform our country’s drug laws. President Obama, however, has abandoned his roots.His recent raids on medical marijuana facilities in California shows his complete contempt for … Continued