"There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
Ideas about the role of government in society, its relationship to citizens, and about how much power the government should be given.
Russian TU-95 bomber intercepted over North Sea/Atlantic Ocean, 29 October 2014 Photo Credit: NATO/RAF The Obama administration has made the world more dangerous for the West by more than just … Read More
Iranian and P5+1 Negotiators for Iran Nuclear Deal Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/US State Dept. At times it seems as if the Obama administration would just as soon wall the rest … Read More
Russian T-90A Main Battle Tank Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Vitaly V. Kuzman Russian forces are arriving rapidly around the airport the Russians are building just south of the Syrian city of Latakia. Rapidly … Read More
Donald Trump: “You’re Fired!” Photo Credit: Flickr/WalkingGeek Democrats are having a field day, chortling at Donald Trump’s candidacy for the Republican nomination. The Huffington Post and Policy.Mic thought … Read More
Republicans in Maryland are excited! Ever since their candidate for Governor in the 2014 election, Larry Hogan, won with 51.6% of the popular vote, they see a very real chance … Read More
ISIS soldiers Photo Credit: shiitenews.org Just two days ago I published the post Russia Inside Syria, concerning how Russia appeared to be preparing for … Read More
Now we learn Russia is building an airbase in Latakia, Syria. Also see here. The United States may be attempting to withdraw from the world, but Russia is expanding to … Read More
With Russia, China, and Iran possibly forming an axis to oppose the United States, and with two of them possessing nuclear weapons and ICBMs, and the third seeking them, it … Read More
I believe it would be a good thing if I were to go through the major points of my Global Warming posts to show how it all fits together. Otherwise, it … Read More
In the last post on tax policy I suggested six attributes the ideal federal or state income tax regime should have. I reproduce them below. Taxes should not favor some … Read More
Grand Tetons at Jackson Hole, Wyoming Photo Credit: Freeimage.com/Jack Sanders A lot of vital news for the economy came out of two gatherings at Jackson Hole, Wyoming last weekend. … Read More
Is China a threat to the United States? In two recent posts, The Growing Threat of Russia and The Purposes of Iran, we have noted how China is in a … Read More
Al Qaeda and ISIS are not the only islamic jihadist organizations to worry about; there is Iran as well. The Washington Times has cited a release from the Iranian Fars … Read More
Taxes are nothing but destructive to all parts of society with the exception of government and its employees. Unless you are obscenely rich or abjectly poor, you probably have your … Read More
The most fundamental ideological division between progressives and conservatives concerns their beliefs on the proper functions of government. What roles do we think should be given to government and what … Read More
Budget Stops Growing! Image Credit: International Liberty A tip of the hat to Dan Mitchell, who blogs on the website International Liberty! The motto for … Read More
Vladimir Putin has an itch. An itch for empire. We know the President of Russia considers the breakup of the Soviet Union as the major geopolitical disaster of the 20th century. … Read More
Almost nothing divides the political Left from the Right more than their mutually exclusive views of wealth. Listen to President Obama, Senator Elizabeth Warren, Hillary Clinton, or Senator Bernie Sanders … Read More
Left to their own devices, the Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee will more often than not adopt a policy of “easy money”. Rather than adopting a monetary policy that … Read More
We may be approaching in economics what Thomas Kuhn in his seminal book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (reference [S2]), called a paradigm shift. Kuhn laid out scientific history in … Read More
Last week for two straight days, China reminded us of how much we have shrunk as an economic power when they devalued their currency. The U.S. stock market promptly tanked. … Read More
I have just found a wonderful place on the internet at Quora.com for carrying on dialogues on serious subjects. Readers of this website will recall that inspiring such conversations was … Read More
One of the biggest sources of problems government imposes on individuals, businesses and the economy is taxes. It has truly been said that “the power to tax is the power … Read More
Have you been keeping track of our favorite canary-in-the-coal-mine for the economy? I refer to the current state of the stock market, of course. The last time we looked at … Read More
Did you know that the fraction of the atmosphere that is CO2 is 0.0004 by volume? By the atmosphere I really mean the troposphere, which is the layer of atmosphere … Read More
Antarctic Ice Extent 9/21/2005 Surely, someone should go to jail for the lies and fraud perpetrated in the name of global warming! What has been said by the supporters of … Read More
How arrogant people are who think they understand enough about a nation’s economy that they can control it! This thought came to me while thinking about the implicit assumptions progressives make. … Read More
Astoundingly, Donald Trump is currently at the head of the Republican pack. He does present some attractive (albeit vague) positions for conservatives, but his past political affiliations and flip-flops in … Read More
The lady in the photo above, like most others in the conference I am attending, has a sunny, upbeat personality that takes anything that life offers in stride. The conference … Read More
Many progressives seem to yearn for a police state. Although I can not believe that all progressives desire a fascist state, even a small fraction of authoritarian-leaning Leftists is very, … Read More
