Can Americans See Only the Yin and Not the Yang?
The Yin and Yang of our ideological realities (c) Can Stock Photo / arkela Light and Dark. Good and Evil. What you are For and What you are Against. Yang and … Read More
Month: December 2016
The Federal Government’s Projected Bankruptcy
Which Way Can We go! (c) Can Stock Photo / svanhorn There is no doubt about it! Unless the federal government drastically reduces mandatory entitlement expenditures in the near future, … Read More
The Progressives’ War On the Separation of Powers
Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu, 18 January 1689-10 February 1755 Wikimedia Commons / Currently at the Palace of Versailles In my last two posts, I … Read More
The Dodd-Frank Act: A Giant Stride Along the Road To Serfdom
Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) and Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) Wikimedia Commons / United States Congress, Wikimedia Commons / United States Congress In my last post, I wrote of how federal … Read More
How a Democracy Evolves Into Fascism
The Robert F. Kennedy Building in 2006, the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Justice. DOJ’s Operation Choke Point is an important case study in how democracies can evolve toward … Read More
Dirigisme No Longer Works. What Replaces It?
Line of shoppers in front of a Polish shop in the 1980s. A common sight in Warsaw pact countries ruled by communism. Wikimedia Commons Actually, dirigisme as a way of … Read More
Trump’s Antidote to the Progressive Infection
The first three progressive presidents: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson Photo Credits: Wikimedia Commons / Pach Brothers , Wikimedia Commons / George Grantham Bain , and Wikimedia Commons / Harris … Read More
Get Ready For the Real Revolution!
President-Elect Donald Trump conversing with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office, November 10, 2016 Wikimedia Commons / Pete Souza The shell-shocked mass media and progressive pundits still are having … Read More
Obama Has Not Produced An Economic Recovery
Plot of annual Real U.S. GDP per capita growth in percent averaged over ten year periods The Gallup Organization Despite all the parroting by much of the media, Obama has … Read More
Global Warming Teaches Humility
The Hadcrut4 global land and ocean temperature anomaly for 1997 to the present. The Hadcrut4 data set is maintained by the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia. … Read More
European Dirigisme Continues to Unravel
Italy’s Beppe Grillo, head of the Italian Five-Star Movement in 2012 Wikimedia Commons / Niccolò Caranti Last Sunday’s Italian constitutional referendum marks yet another step in the slow unraveling of … Read More
The Progressives’ Sisyphean Labors
Sisyphus and his rock Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons / Titian(1490-1576), Prado Museum Sisyphus is a figure from out of ancient Greek mythology, the founder and king of the city Ephyra, … Read More
A Nervous Face-off Against Chinese Imperialism
Naval vessel of the the People’s Liberation Army Navy. Center for Security Policy In the United States over the past eight years, China has found its perfect enemy, more concerned … Read More
Iran Stretches Its Offensive Cyber Muscles
The flags of bitter enemies: Iran left, Saudi Arabia right Wikimedia Commons Sometime in the middle of this last November, someone, almost certainly the Islamic Republic of Iran, conducted destructive … Read More