Featured, Health Care — March 10, 2010 at 2:13 pm

What would our founding fathers say about the leftists current attempts to nationalize health care in this country? We don’t have to guess. This isn’t a new idea. Thomas Jefferson, probably the most wise of our founding fathers, wrote “If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as the souls who live under...

Freedom of Speech Under Attack in The Netherlands

As a one-time resident of the Netherlands, a headline like “Freedom of Speech Under Attack in The Netherlands” feels quite odd to me. The people of the Netherlands, the Dutch, are a fantastic study in human decency. In all of my travels, I have never encountered a nation of people more...

February 17th, 2010 | Freedom of Speech, Politics, Religion | Read More

The Democratic Peace

Many Americans, on both the left and the right, are questioning the value of democracy. The left opposed America’s attempts to export democracy to Afghanistan and Iraq. The right looks at the election of Barack Obama and wonders if perhaps American voters are no longer capable of making informed...

February 17th, 2010 | Politics | Read More

Europe Rises as America Falls

The situation in the United States looks bleak as the country completes the first year of what will most likely become known as The Second Great Depression. At the same time, our friends in Europe are showing encouraging signs of recovery. Over the last few years, the voters of Germany, France, and...

February 17th, 2010 | Economics, Politics | Read More

Superfreakonomics

Award winning economist Steven Levitt and bestselling author Stephen Dubner have teamed up again to create a followup to their phenomenal hit Freakonomics. In these two tomes, the authors show how seemingly irrational decisions are actually the result of misunderstood but entirely rational economic...

February 16th, 2010 | Economics | Read More

The End of Pax Americana

Pax Americana is a Latin term meaning “American Peace”. The phrase is used to describe the period of relative peace which the world has enjoyed since 1946, as a direct result of American power. In the more than sixty years since the allies won WWII, the world has experienced a time of unprecedented...

February 16th, 2010 | Featured, Military, Politics | Read More

Grant Prisoner of War Status to Terrorists

John Brennan, Barack Obama’s Deputy National Security Advisor, planted his foot squarely in his mouth recently when he stated that “Twenty percent isn’t that bad”, in reference to the percentage of individuals released from Guantanamo Bay who are later found on the battlefield. ...

February 16th, 2010 | Featured, Military, Politics | Read More

Flaying the NRA

Brian Doherty does a pretty decent job of flaying the National Rifle Association in a Reason article titled The NRA Muscles into McDonald v. Chicago. I’m an NRA Life Member and I tend to think of the NRA as a strong ally in the cause of liberty, but they have become a very unreliable ally. I am...

February 12th, 2010 | Gun Rights | Read More