Who benefits most from the death tax? The Cato Institute’s Dan Mitchell cites two obvious answers: Politicians presumably benefit since they get more money to spend. There are some statists who are motivated by envy and resentment. These are the folks who make class-warfare arguments about death tax being necessary to prevent “the rich” from […]
Why Republicans Must Kill the Trans-Pacific Partnership
In fact all American voters must demand that their elected representatives in Washington turn thumbs down on what Pat Buchanan calls the “largest trade deal in history.” Mr. Buchanan highlights that pressure for “fast track” on TPP is coming from two sources: The editorial pages of papers like The Wall Street Journal and The Washington […]
War Dogs Show Their Teeth
Here nationalreview.com headlines: “Meet Jeb Bush’s National Security Advisor.” The advisor in question happens to be John Noonan. NR notes that Noonan has been a contributor to The Weekly Standard (the mouth piece for the neocon faction): Noonan’s hire is earning praise from the hawkish wing of the GOP and assuaging some early concerns among […]
VIDEO: Remembering Lowell George and Little Feat
Little Feat. Lowell on lead vocals and slide guitar, Bill Payne on B3, Sam Clayton on “shakers & growls,” Paul Barrere on rhythm guitar, and Ritchie Hayward on drums.
The Salvation of America’s Economy
Originally posted July 12, 2011. Courtesy of The New York Times and Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman. Paul Krugman is well read as a featured op-ed columnist for the New York Times. In a July 3 piece headed Corporate Cash Con, Krugman concluded, “What our economy needs is direct job creation by the government.” I wish […]
A Non-Refundable One-Way Ticket to War
The Cato Institute’s Justin Logan writes that Doves and Hawks have trapped each other in the mass politics of the (Iran deal) issue. There is a good chance that blowing up the talks would buy the United States a non-refundable one-way ticket to another major war in the Middle East. Logan writes: The brutal fact […]
A U.S.-Russia War?
Pat Buchanan writes, “This jolting question is raised by Graham Allison and Dimitri Simes in the cover article of the National Interest.” The authors believe “the odds are shortening on a military collision between the world’s largest nuclear powers.” Pat writes, “Russia hard-liners are confident that should it come to war in Ukraine, Russia would […]
War with Iran Inevitable?
Cato Institute senior fellow Ted Galen Carpenter writes, “If the congressional hawks and their allies in the foreign policy community and the conservative news media have their way, than war with Iran would be inevitable. But as such beaters of war drums contend, this is not a cause for worry, as the resulting conflict would […]
Iran a Nuclear Power?
Former CIA bin Laden Unit chief Michael Scheuer writes, “It is extremely likely that Iran will — as its genuine national interests clearly demand — string out the negotiations with Obama, Kerry and their fellow ahistorical European colleagues until it can surprise the world by testing a nuclear device. In speaking about U.S.-Cuba relations this […]
America Is Not a Democracy
Originally posted June 18, 2013. America Is Not a Democracy. The Word Democracy Does Not Appear in the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence. The Founders Gave Us a Federal Republic. Walter Williams writes, “Nothing in our Constitution suggests that government is a grantor of rights. Instead government is a protector of rights…. It’s Congress […]
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