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Beto O’Rouke – Govt WILL mandate what your belief is. HE will decide what you believe in – not your Scriptures.

“Laws have to be backed up with resources and political will. And deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed.” -Hillary Clinton. Robert Francis (culture appropriator of “Beto”) O’Rourke certainly agrees.  He’s like a swinging machine gun with Progressive “bullets of infringements” as he struggles for any kind of foot hold … Read more

Husbandry of the people, by the people, for the people

I once heard Penn Jillette (of Penn and Teller) say that he had learned from experience that if you enter into a contract with someone thinking that you’ll be able to use that contract to make him do something he doesn’t want to do, you’re setting yourself up for failure.

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Looking for Loopholes

Looking for Loopholes… Politicians and Big Pharma


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Gene Fowler went to visit W. C. Fields shortly before his death. Upon arriving he found his ailing crony sitting in the garden reading the Holy Bible. What are you doing Fowler asks? “I’m looking for loopholes,” Fields responds… Looking for loopholes. Politicians on drugs One of the issues in Senate races this election cycle … Read more

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Wealth the Accumulation of the Results of Labor

Wealth is not some mystical entity which either government or birthright endows. It isn’t something that the “haves” enjoy by depriving the “have nots” of their fair share. Wealth represents the accumulation of the results of labor.

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Price Controls Are Bad…

For Socialized Drugs Just Get in Line… We all like lower prices. But how we get them does matter. Advocating for government control of prices and wages might not be such a good idea. Implementing wage and price controls is turning our economy over to the government. Socialist style price controls on medicine is bad … Read more

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Morality is a Function of Religion Not Government

Planned Parenthood (PP) recently made a withdrawal from the Title X family planning program announcement. The decision comes as a result of a regulatory change. The regulatory change requires separation of the abortion business from other health care service businesses in order to retain federal funding. The benefit Choosing abortion over taxpayer funding pretty much … Read more

Quotes

Notable Quote – George Will and Prof. Don Boudreaux

Modernity’s gift has been the ability and determination to sharply delineate private and public spheres, with the private being the zone of individual sovereignty. It is the realm of the household, the family, and the work that sustains both. This is the basis of the proposition that the Constitution of the first consciously modern nation, … Read more

The Religion of Government

Does it ever feel to you like everything not prohibited is required? The average American declares he is a free man, but is that declaration now more pretense than reality? Can we be free in a place where more and more is of, for and by the state? In a place where virtually nothing is outside … Read more

Quotes

Notable Quote – George Will

It is, however, an iron law: The more government does to influence the flow of money, the more money will be spent to influence elections. -George Will ( The Conservative Sensibility) (H/T: Cafe Hayek) I’ve been saying a similar thing for years – when the stakes of holding the levers of Power go up, more money … Read more

Think Tank: Please Don’t Help Me

BusinessNH Magazine is a pretty left-leaning publication. In its April edition, it included a piece titled Strengthening NH’s Economy. It was included in a section called THINK TANK. Let me observe there are better ideas to be found in the average truck stop restroom. After completing the article, my urge was to respond. The author … Read more

Channeling Thomas Sowell

Discipline and accountability Some years ago Thomas Sowell wrote an article about the utility of discipline and accountability. Come, let’s try to channel a bit of Thomas Sowell. Giving black students in the 1960’s inflated grades when they were admitted with low academic qualifications avoided lots of time wasting hassles for the instructor. Those hassles … Read more

Quotes

Notable Quote – Alexis De Tocqueville

It may easily be foreseen that almost all the able and ambitious members of a democratic community will labor without ceasing to extend the powers of government, because they all hope at some time or other to wield those powers. … Centralization will be the natural government.” -Alexis De Tocquivelle (“Democracy in America”) And here … Read more

Why Is Redistribution Needed?

Redistribution by government is primarily the result of interest groups using the political process to have resources transferred their way. Whether we are willing to admit it or not, this is independent of whether redistribution has an eye toward inequality reduction or not. We have reached a point where we are satisfied with justifications for … Read more

Big Tech cuts off the money supply

Part III: Will Market Competition Solve These Issues?

Who Done it? Luigi Zingales is an Italian born MIT doctorate, now Professor at the University of Chicago. He is the author of two widely reviewed books: “Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists” and “Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity”. Economic and financial journals have published his work extensively. He has … Read more

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