The Green Movement is destroying the forest — and people’s homes
Western pine beetle infestation of a forest in Colorado leaves nearly every other tree reduced to dry tinder ready to spark a conflagration that incinerates the forest. When the forest burns peoples’...
View ArticleExplaining the virtue of free-market capitalism in one sentence
I’m big on reducing complex ideas into a single sentence. I know that should not be possible without leaving out so much that it will just be incomprehensible. But sometimes it can be done and when it...
View ArticleExtreme environmentalism is the modern face of communism
Rush Limbaugh has said repeatedly that the environmentalist movement, as it is currently practiced, is the modern front of communism. You might think that is a bold statement, even an unsupported...
View ArticleBerlin Wall Anniversary Today
Today is the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989. The 96-mile long Wall was erected in 1961 to prevent East Germans from escaping the repressive regime. If you’d like...
View ArticleSome Bishops understand economics better than the Pope
In a previous post, Pope Francis, get thee some knowledge or shut up, I said Pope Francis should stop commenting on things of which he apparently has no knowledge. Some might have thought the title of...
View ArticlePoint counterpoint on criticism of Pope Francis
Don’t Pick Political Fights With Pope Francis, by Rachel Lu Pope Francis is Fair Game For Criticism, From Left or Right, by D.C. McAllister I stand with D.C. McAllister, See, Pope Francis: get thee...
View ArticleThe Best Things in Life Are Free
Essential Hayek by Donald Boudreaux This free Kindle download is a treasure not to be missed by anyone interested in the subject, which ought to be everyone. Millennials have been accused of wanting...
View ArticleHow many people are killed by Islamic Terror in a year?
A lot of people will be astonished to know the number of people killed worldwide by Islamic terror each year. A website, TheReligionofPeace.com, keeps track of those numbers by the week, month and year...
View ArticleWhy are so many college students enamored with communism and socialism?
In a previous post I reprinted with permission a terrific piece by James Davenport lamenting that most of his young college students lack an understanding of the basic principles of capitalism. It’s...
View ArticleIn praise of Capitalism as the engine of freedom and equality
Karl Marx Tomb, Highgate Cemetery, London, “Workers of All Lands Unite” I believe, always have believed, that capitalism is the absolute best way to organize a country and its economic system. The...
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