1147 Articles tagged with: Politics

• The Ideas That Promote Terrorism

  Editor’s note: The following remarks were delivered by David Kelley, founder of The Atlas Society, on  May 14, 2005, at the March against Terror, sponsored by the Free Muslims Coalition. They are republished now in the face of the advances a… Read Article

• How to Counter Socialists about Social Security

  Five years ago at the hospital, the joy of holding my newborn daughters in my arms was momentarily disrupted when I was asked to free up a hand to fill out the forms for their Social Security cards. This memory came flooding back when I encountered … Read Article

• Interpreting the Constitution Contextually

  Editor's Note: Today media reported the news of the death of Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Scalia was found dead in his room at the Cibolo Creek Ranch in west Texas where he had been vacationing. This historic turn of event… Read Article

• Universal Equality and Nationalism in the European Refugee Crisis

  The European migration crisis has exposed the profound contradictions in the European Union. Faced with unprecedented numbers of illegal immigrants, the Europeans have responded by lurching from declaring open arms to erecting internal walls to ke… Read Article

• GOP 2015 Second Debate Rundown

  The second GOP presidential debates (held September 16, 2015) were grueling affairs: four candidates for nearly two hours and eleven others nattering on for over three hours more.

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• Talk to Rand Paul, online

  He's been called a radical, an extremist, a Libertarian, a Republican, a Democrat, a Conservative, and a Liberal.

  So what does the Senator have to say about it? We'll find out when Doctor Paul visits us in Galt's Gulch Online next week to … Read Article

• The Forms and Limits of Presidential Power

  The United States Constitution vests “[t]he executive Power” in the President. What does this mean? What does it authorize the President to do? Can a President unilaterally take the country to war? Choose not to enforce laws? Bail out the auto… Read Article

• Donald Trump: A Know-Nothing for the 21st Century

  Donald Trump has jumped into the race for the 2016 Republican Presidential nomination with a splash. His current front-runner status reveals the ugliest side of the Republican coalition: the die-hard faction of nativists and collectivists. He's a … Read Article

• The Source of Economic Growth

  No school of economic thought is consistent with Objectivism, which is why Ayn Rand, in the very first sentences of Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, said “This book is not a treatise on economics. It is a collection of essays on the moral aspects… Read Article

• Democrats Stand for Socialism

  Does the Democratic Party stand for socialism?

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• GOP Undercard Debate: Fiorina vs. Santorum

  If the winner of the kiddie-table GOP debate were rewarded a seat at the adult table, Carly Fiorina would be feasting on hot turkey with all the trimmings.

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• China is Getting Rich and It's Wonderful

  If you read about China in the American press, you may read of bad air, or over-building, or ill-treatment of activists, or the Spratly Islands.

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• Bernie Sanders, Socialism, and the GOP

  It’s more than ironic that as socialist economies, led by Greece, collapse, Democrats in America are infatuated by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, the presidential candidate who caucuses with the Democrats but is an avowed socialist. The starry eye… Read Article

• What America Will We Give to the Future?

  Will future generations look back on our current July 4th festivities and lament that we didn’t grasp that the republic was gone?

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• Eggs, Global Warming, and Science

  The arguments for man-made global warming remind me of the argument that eating eggs causes heart disease. 

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• What Carly Fiorina Brings to the GOP Agenda

   Carly Fiorina is the latest longshot to join the Republican presidential primary field.  But whatever her prospects may be, she brings two important issues to the campaign that ought to be at the top the GOP agenda.

  First, if you unders… Read Article

• Baltimore riots as Criminal Culture Writ Large

  The rioting in Baltimore represents criminal culture writ large. It is what happens every day on a smaller scale in poor minority communities: theft, vandalism, and violence.

  The flames in Baltimore hideously illuminate the fact that the c… Read Article

• Obama disproves his own assumptions about Iran

   Barack Obama is pushing for a nuclear weapons agreement with Iran because he believes “the more people interact with open societies, the more they will want to be part of an open society,” according to former NATO ambassador Ivo Daalder (quo… Read Article

• Secular Sharia Law in Indiana

  Americans cannot tell the difference between ethics and politics.

  The Indiana religious freedom law—now being amended, it appears—has exposed the American version of sharia: Americans want to require people to be moral.   Indiana's fre… Read Article

• Politico Writer Plays Race Card by Calling Millennials Racist

  In a Politico article Sean McElwee of Demos argues that, in the words of his title, “ Millennials Are More Racist Than You Think .”  In fact, the Pew study he cites shows the contrary and reflects on his own race-tainted ideology.  

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