The New Gods Among Us…
In ancient Egypt pharaohs were considered gods. They believed that when a pharaoh died, he would continue to lead them from the beyond, which partially explains why they had such …
The West Should Stop Being Ashamed of Its Success And Stop Committing Cultural Suicide
I used to debate one of my teachers about culture. As a fan of Rome I posited it was the greatest and most consequential civilization in human history. He queried …
How Did Cheap Airline Travel to Europe Set the US and the World on the Road to Ruin?
How Did Cheap Airline Travel to Europe Set the US and the World on the Road to Ruin? It’s not a trick question. The reality is, many progressives want to …
From Silicon Valley with Love… and Hope for Free Markets
I’ve just returned home to Atlanta from spending a week in Silicon Valley at a program called Founder Institute. Basically FI is a bootcamp for founders of mostly tech startups. …
The GOP leadership must be using Common Core math to do the calculations on Immigration… and the result is exactly what you’d expect.
Anyone who cares about prosperity has to ask themselves, just how stupid are the people running the Republican Party? One has to wonder, do they even bother to look beyond …
Ted Cruz, Thomas Sowell and Battles Worth Fighting…
In my opinion Thomas Sowell is easily the smartest man in America. From Basic Economics, to Black Rednecks and White Liberals to his definitive dissection of the most recent economic …
A Lack of Identity politics…Exactly the reason the GOP can’t seem to attract minorities and immigrants…
The GOP establishment has spent a great deal of effort over the last decade pushing for amnesty under the guise of “comprehensive immigration reform”. This is of course because they …
Why I’m a Conservative
Republicans in general, and conservatives in particular, are constantly demonized in the media as greedy, ruthless, heartless, racist sons of bitches who want children to starve, grandma to die and …
The Fiscal Cliff – Setting the stage for a Revolutionary War of Ideas… If the GOP has the stomach for the fight [Reader Post]
Two weeks ago a slight majority of Americans voted for more stuff from the government. There may have been other drivers, but that is the main one. Below is a quote whose origin is disputed, but it is particularly apropos:
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship, then a monarchy.
Will Barack Obama bring back slavery to the United States? [Reader Post]
Without a doubt November is going to bring us the single most important election in the United States since 1860. At that time too the country was on the verge …