Originally posted June 19, 2013. Nial Ferguson, author of “The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die”, writes in today’s Wall Street Journal how in 1883 Alexis de Tocqueville marveled at the power of the individual in America. And notes that if Tocqueville was still with us today he would think that France conquered […]
Paleo (old ) Conservative America
The label Paleo-Conservative does not jump out at most Americans. What does Paleo-Conservative mean and why do I believe that a big percentage of Americans can relate to Paleo-Conservative thinking in direct opposition to progressive, Democrat thought or neocon-based Republican thinking? American Conservative (published by my friend John Basil Utley) contributor Rod Dreher in the […]
Distrust of Government is in America’s DNA
Originally posted on April 9, 2014. Libertarians lead the fight for your second amendment and privacy rights. Here my friend David Boaz, Cato Institute’s executive vice-president explains libertarian fundamentals including the powerful effort Rand Paul continues to make on behalf of all Americans. Libertarian ideas often cross left-right boundaries. Lots of libertarians were involved in […]
A Special Kind of Stupid
Originally posted on May 30, 2014. Here Cato Institute Senior Fellow Dan Mitchell takes a look at gun controls and mass shootings. As Florida concealed weapons permit holders and life NRA members, Debbie and I obviously come down on the side of being armed as the best defense. There is simply zero downside in being […]
Where Are You And Your Family Safe? And Where Should You Fear?
Small business owners around the country ask me one question as often as any I hear. They want to know where to relocate away from crime, away from high taxes, and away from union pressures. If violent crime is your biggest concern, you cannot flee the District of Columbia fast enough. The violent crime rate […]
Bang, You’re Dead
A real unpleasant way to start a day, wouldn’t you say? Well did you know that Americans suffer nearly 30,000 property crimes per day? Invading homes is big business. In America, a violent crime happens an astounding every 20 seconds. Makes your palms sweat, does it not? Yet, if you are like a lot of […]
165,000 Convicted Criminal Aliens Released
Originally posted July 2, 2015. Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of NRA, writing in America’s 1st Freedom, tells readers that documents obtained from the U.S Department of Homeland Security show that as of April 2014 the Obama administration had released this group, including many convicted of violent crimes such as homicide, sexual assault and kidnapping. […]
Gov. Rick Scott at the Cato Policies Initiative
UPDATE: This post was originally run on February 11, 2011. Governor Rick Scott wowed the hard to impress audience at the Cato Institute Policies Initiative at The Ritz Carlton in Naples the day before. As Scott fights for a seat in the Senate, Floridians should remember all the hard work he has done for the […]
Can Government Keep Us Safe?
Blaming the National Rifle Association for the Parkland shootings is an attempt at deflecting blame, writes Glen Reynolds in USA Today. Much like Harvey Weinstein’s promise “to give the NRA my full attention,” after Harvey was exposed as a sexual predator, Broward County Sheriff Israel is offering the same. “It didn’t work for Weinstein and […]
The “Do Something” Syndrome
Does the federal government’s “inexorable bloat” make it a clear and present danger to the American people?” That is a question for public safety as well as a question for politics in America, writes Dan Henninger in the WSJ. The number of catastrophic events attributable in no small part to federal-agency failure in recent years […]
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