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
Delusions of Progressives and Other Dirigistes
“For now we see through a glass darkly . . .”, Holy Bible, King James Version, 1 Corinthians 13:12 Flickr.com / David Singleton As history has shown us over and … Read More
Human Values and the Dictates of Reality
Are you ready for your soul to be weighed? Morguefile.com / Southernfried This is not an an essay on how human values and ethics are irreconcilable with Reality. At least … Read More
How Flexible Are Progressive Minds?
The Thinker by Auguste Rodin. This is what we must all do if we are to survive as a free nation! Wikimedia Commons / Andrew Horne The reactions by … Read More
Progressives Doubling Down
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) campaigning for Hillary Clinton, October 2016. Warren is one of the leading forces in the Democratic Party. Wikimedia Commons / Tim Pierce Elizabeth Warren, one of … Read More
Progressives’ Hypocrisy Is Showing
Anti-Trump riot in Portland, Oregon following President-elect Trump’s election Screenshot from a CNN broadcast To this very day, progressives are not just demonstrating to protest Donald Trump’s election, but rioting and … Read More
The Analysis of Reality
A supernova about to blow: Wolf-Rayet star WR 124, 15,000 light years from Earth Wikimedia Commons / NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Following last Tuesday’s elections, the recriminations and accusations are … Read More
Turning of the Tide of Dirigisme?
Karl Marx (5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883): Is his time finally finished? Wikimedia Commons / John Jabez Edwin Mayall The administration of President Barack Obama may have marked the high-water mark … Read More
President Trump Faces a Divided People
Donald Trump giving his victory speech early this morning YouTube / RT.com Donald J. Trump’s victory yesterday to become the President-elect of the United States is a fitting surprise for … Read More
Reality Is Wagging Its Finger At Us!
Reality to us: Oh, No, No! Don’t Go There! (c) Can Stock Photo / ngaga35 Usually when we do not recognize some aspect of the nature of Reality, Reality reminds … Read More
Political Corruption Not Limited to Hillary Clinton
At the eye of the storm. FBI Director James Comey at July 7, 2016 House Oversight Committee hearing. Screen shot of Fox News broadcast Like a boulder rolling downhill, the … Read More
The Ruins of Obama’s Catastrophic Foreign Policy
President Obama meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss Syria and ISIS, September 29, 2015 Wikimedia Commons/Kremlin.ru No American president in my lifetime has had a foreign policy that … Read More
Can This Election Season Get Any More Amazing?
Oh, No! Not Again! Screen shot from a Fox News broadcast Are we living in the real world, or are we living in some fictional world straight from the imagination of … Read More
How a Bursting Stock Market Bubble Will Hurt Everyone
OOPS! A Bear! (c) Can Stock Photo Approximately eight years ago, progressives were screaming that capitalists had with their avaricious, dishonest and selfish behavior thrown us into another Great Depression. … Read More
Clinton and Trump on Foreign Policy
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton take the stage at the third and final Presidential debate. The differences between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton on foreign policy appear to be more … Read More
The Threat of the U.S. Stock Market Bubble
The New York Stock Exchange Wikimedia Commons The last time we were hit with a devastating recession, the Great Recession of 2007-2009, it was caused by the bursting of a … Read More
Does Trump Have a Chance?
Screen shot from last night’s final Presidential Debate As aired by C-SPAN Donald J. Trump is certainly not an articulate man, a weakness that is especially troubling for an aspirant … Read More
Perspectives on Unemployment
Percent of men, ages 25 to 54, who are not working and not looking for work versus year. New York Times/Bureau of Labor Statistics When a founding and respected member … Read More
Why Isn’t the US Economy Booming?
A wartime factory worker in 1940s Fort Worth, Texas Wikimedia Commons/Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division On opening up my online edition of the Wall Street Journal this morning, … Read More