Free speech according to the US Constitution: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” The Progressive left…
Just as falling leaves presage the autumnal season, wealthy progressives falling for progressive Democrats are the bellwether of the quadrennial election season. Microsolutions founder and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban [an earlier version of this post identified Cuban as the Dell founder, he was not – that was Michael Dell- ed]. joins Warren Buffet in hearting…
“The proper role of government is exactly what John Stuart Mill said in the middle of the 19th century in ‘On Liberty’…The proper role of government is to prevent other people from harming an individual. Government, he said, never has any right to interfere with an individual for that individual’s own good.” ~ Milton Friedman…
“There is, indeed, as he says elsewhere, “an increasing tendency among modern men to imagine themselves ethical because they have delegated their vices to larger and larger groups.” To act on behalf of a group seems to free people of many of the moral restraints which control their behavior as individuals within the group.” ~…
“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.” ~ Adam Smith, Economist Extraordinaire I simply can’t shake the feeling that someday the absurdity and irrationality of our culture has to end. I have been told I am “anti-science” – mostly because I rarely take anything at face value, even when that…
Today I wrote that the the progressive “revolution” is a coward’s revolution – that it came in on little cat’s feet and late after sundown. It was as unseeable as a ghost and as quiet as a lover’s whisper. Many people asked reasonable questions – how did we get here without noticing? How did so…
Revolution has come to America. The average citizen would be excused for not noticing – but it has come. It didn’t come with force of arms, explosions, civil war or an invasion (at least not in the sense of a D-Day style clash of Allied bodies against the Nazi wall on the shores of France).…
