Dissin’ Liberty
Bruce Bawer, American expat extraordinaire, posted an especially insightful post over this weekend, in which he notes that the peculiarly American assumption that all people want to be free just may be...
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The problem with introducing freedom into industrial societies — or the...
Two things happened on November 26, two entirely unrelated things, that nevertheless ended up merging into a single thought in my mind: In the modern world, fossil fuels equal liberty. If you cannot...
View ArticleCultural blindness and freedom
Was it a surprise to you that Egypt went Islamist? It wasn’t to me. Was it a surprise to you that Libya went Islamist? It wasn’t to me. Was it a surprise to you that Tunisia went Islamist? It wasn’t...
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How dare a private organization spend its money the way it wants to? Liberals...
In the past week, two decisions came out regarding the way in which private organizations spend their money. The first decision was the Obama administration’s announcement that businesses in America...
View ArticleLynch mobs and hit lists
You already know how I feel about the George Zimmerman – Trayvon Martin affair and the Obama Administration and its lap dog-media sycophants ginning up a lynching party to “get” Zimmerman and a few...
View ArticleWhat’s in a name? As Reagan understood, whether from the Left or the Right,...
Max Boot reminds conservatives that people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, at least not when it comes to crowing about the Leftist habit of embracing dictators. Over the decades,...
View ArticleDoes Arthur Brooks make the sale for free enterprise?
Do you think this is an effective video? I liked it, but I think that, to the extent it’s very conclusory, my liberal Facebook friends would disagree vehemently:
View ArticleThe Moral Paper Route
Jared Fuller won first prize in AEI’s 2012 “Make The Moral Case For Free Enterprise” video contest: If you liked what you saw, visit AEI for more. Hat tip: JKB
View ArticleThe most fervent believers in a free society are those who lived behind the...
Case in point: Here’s the biographical information Peterffy included with the video, which he plans to spend several million dollars running in swing states: Thomas Peterffy grew up in socialist...
View ArticleA Frenchman rallies our troops
For a bleak look at America’s future as the “New France” and a ray of sunshine called hope, a Frenchman comes a-blowing the clarion call to resistance against the Progressive barbarian Left. The key...
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Perfection versus liberty — lessons from Singapore
Singapore’s clean sidewalks Do you remember, back in 1994, the big uproar that ensued when an American teenager was arrested in Singapore for vandalizing property? In Singapore, the penalty for that...
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Today marks the anniversary of two wars and one battle in which brave people...
Hundreds of interesting things have happened on this day over the centuries. Three, however, deserve our attention because, if we were smart, we’d be girding our loins for war right now. In 1775,...
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My annual Passover post, updated for 2014
An antisemitic Jew I know, rather than seeing the Passover ceremony as the celebration of freedom (the world’s first and for a long time only successful slave revolt), and of justice and morality (the...
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[VIDEO] Reagan’s “A Time For Choosing” speech turns 50 on Monday
Everyone who listens to Ronald Reagan’s “A Time For Choosing” is struck by another “time” aspect: The speech is timeless. Sure, details have changed here and there (mostly the details with dollar signs...
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You’ve got problems? I’ve got solutions, at least for paper bag bans and...
I’m still grumbling about the bag bans that have spread from Mill Valley, to all of Marin and now, thanks to those Democrats in the state legislature, to the whole of California. To begin with, I...
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My annual Passover post, updated to reflect 2015’s scary realities
I first published a Passover post in March 2010, when Iran was in the news because of the Green Revolution. (By the way, Obama’s peculiar inaction then — that is, his unwillingness to side with the...
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We have just a sliver of time within which to preserve our constitutional rights
My news feed, lately, seems to be overwhelmed by two primary stories: the Left’s increasingly shrill control over public discourse and ISIS’s depredations in the Middle East. Both stories, believe it...
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The Bookworm Beat 7-25-15 — the Lazy, but interesting, edition
As you may have gathered from the number of things we did every day on our recent trip to Virginia and environs, ours was not a restful vacation. I capped off the fatigue with a cold and, since our...
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The Bookworm Beat 1/4/2016 — the “I’ve got a secret” edition and open thread
I have sitting in front of me a piece of a very juicy story that’s happening in real-time — and I can’t do anything about it right now! Two things stop me: The first is that, as I said, I currently...
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The Bookworm Beat 3/23/16 — the “catching up” edition and open thread
Bush didn’t, Obama wouldn’t, but the next president should: Call into the Oval Office the leaders of Muslim communities throughout America to say, “Because of the First Amendment, the fact that you and...
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