Rebellion
Battle of Chickamauga, Tennessee in the U.S. Civil War, Sept. 18 and 19, 1863 Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Library of Congress/Kurz & Allison Price of No Compromise The image above was … Read More
Category: Political Issues
Ideas about the role of government in society, its relationship to citizens, and about how much power the government should be given.
The Fed’s Labor Market Conditions Index
U.S. measures of unemployment Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Autopilot Wow!! The Federal Reserve so distrusted the Labor Department’s unemployment statistics that it created its own?! That is … Read More
Is Western Civilization Seeking Suicide?
Ottoman depiction of the siege of Vienna by Muslim forces in 1529. Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons/”Istanbul”, Hachette, Collection “Voir” (PD-Art) It is rapidly becoming obvious to a number of people that … Read More
Europe’s Challenge: Evolve or Die
The European Parliament in Strasbourg, France Wikimedia Commons/Diliff With the three recent jihadist attacks on Brussels and Paris, Europe has been given a wake-up notice … Read More
Compromise Between the Right and the Left
Compromise: Are our arms long enough to reach across the chasm? Image Credit: CanStockPhoto/photocreo A commenter on the post Economic Questions: Is Everyone Fooling Themselves? was concerned about the ability … Read More
What Is Russia’s Game in Syria?
Sukhoi Su-24M: Russian workhorse in Syria Wikimedia Commons/Alexander Mishin, © A. Mishin If you have been paying much attention to what is going on in the Middle East, you … Read More
Democrats Want to Imprison Scientific Skeptics?
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Junior Senator from Rhode Island Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Kenneth C. Zirkel Last October, while writing about progressives’ views concerning conservatives, I noted how Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse … Read More
The Intolerance of Barack Obama and the Democrats
Obama and Trump: Two sides of the same coin? Photo Credits: Left: President Barack Obama in Nordea Concert Hall via photopin (license) Right: Flickr.com/WalkingGeek Yesterday the Wall Street … Read More
A Conservative Anti-Poverty Program
A homeless man in the East Village, New York City. A situation we need to eliminate. Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/David Shankbone In my last post, Income Inequality In the United … Read More
Income Inequality In the United States
Gini Index World Map in 2014, income inequality by country according to World Bank Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons/M Tracy Hunter One of progressives’ favorite conversations is about income inequality, particularly … Read More
Globalization, Xenophobia, and Donald Trump
Views that fuel Donald Trump’s Campaign Image Credit: Flickr.com/Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com The political reactions working in favor of Donald Trump, or for that matter, Bernie Sanders have been a long time … Read More
The Noose Tightens on Hillary Clinton
Justice awaits! Photo Credit: Flickr.com/S Baker Neither the Democratic electorate nor most of the media have shown much interest in Hillary Clinton’s legal troubles so far, but recent … Read More
Donald Trump’s Uncertain Trumpet
Trump speaking at 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Gage Skidmore Marco Rubio’s call at last night’s Republican debate to fact check the differences between Donald Trump’s … Read More
The Political Defense of US Capitalism
Storm Clouds of Socialism (c) Can Stock Photo / leedsn This essay is a continuation of my previous … Read More
Can U.S. Capitalism Be Supported Politically?
A collective life under socialism. (Of course, Bernie Sanders would say this is capitalism!) The Last Judgement, Hell By Fra Angelico (circa 1395–1455) – The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der … Read More
The Federal Reserve Is in a Bind
Janet Yellen, Chairman of the Federal Reserve System Wikimedia Commons/United States Federal Reserve Wednesday and Thursday, Janet Yellen, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, gave one of her periodic reports … Read More
Meanings of the Word Socialism
Lamartine, before the Hotel de Ville, Paris rejects the red flag of revolution and socialism on Feb. 25, 1848. By Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux , Public Domain Late yesterday, while … Read More
The Bad Examples of the ECB and BOJ
Mario Draghi, President of ECB, and Haruhiko Kuroda, Governor of BOJ Photo Credits: Wikimedia Commons/World Economic Forum and Asian Development Bank Now there are two central banks living in Alice’s … Read More
An Astonishing Thought About Taxes
photo credit: Taxes – Illustration via photopin (license) This morning I read an astonishing conjecture that something could actually be done this year about the tax burdens hobbling the American … Read More
Federal Budget Deficits to Rise Again in 2016
Budget Stops Growing! (But not for long.) Image Credit: International Liberty It was not supposed to be this way! Federal spending and budget deficits … Read More
Big Corporations Abandoning the U.S. at an Increasing Rate
Abandon Ship! Photo Credit: Flickr.com/Just Taken Pics The flow of big corporations abandoning the United States for more friendly business climates is increasing steadily. Some of the … Read More
Libya Becoming Part of the ISIS Caliphate
Libya: A nation being absorbed by the ISIS Caliphate? Map courtesy of Google/Nations Online Project The release of the movie 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi appears to have triggered … Read More
Bernie Sanders Is Probably The Democrats’ Nominee
Hillary Clinton testifying to the House Select Committee on Benghazi. Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/C-Span It is becoming increasingly apparent that whoever the Democratic Party’s nominee will be, it will not … Read More
A Movie Hillary and the Democrats Should Fear
President Obama and Secretary Clinton honor the Benghazi attack victims at the Transfer of Remains Ceremony held at Andrews Air Force Base on September 14, 2012. Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/US … Read More
What Do Young Americans Believe?
Sir Winston S. Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1940 to 1945 and 1951 to 1955 Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Library of Congress/United Nations Information Office “Socialism is the philosophy … Read More
A Legacy Obama May Not Want
U.S. aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman in the Gulf of Oman, Dec. 25, 2015 Photo Credit: U.S.Navy/Mass Communication Spec 3D Class J.M. Tolbert Last October and November the Iranians sent us … Read More
The Hard Work: Cutting Entitlements
FDR quote on Social Security Image Credit: Flickr.com/Donkey Hotey The hardest political job in cutting federal spending – … Read More
Cutting Government Expenditures
Federal government budget considerations (c) Can Stock Photo/robwilson39 I have been promising for some time now, most recently in What to Do About Keynesian Secular Stagnation, to discuss how the … Read More
How to Solve Problems in Chaotic Social Systems
The problem space: a system with chaotic boundaries Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Eequor In Central Planning for Chaotic Social Systems I discussed how social systems, particularly economic systems, are really chaotic … Read More
Central Planning for Chaotic Social Systems
Chaotic Patterns Image Credit: Flickr.com/OLD SKOOL Santa Rosa At the end of my last post concerning the problems of the … Read More