…publican President, especially a Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich or other pseudo-free market Republican, of which there are many. I’d venture a guess it wouldn’t pass under President Rick Santorum either, although this man will not likely ever be President. The second problem: It’s true that Big Government welfare socialists want to hook Americans, but more Americans than not appear to want to be hooked. There’s no widespread recognition of the fact th… Continue reading →

…unless we have an actual political revolution. The entitlement and transfer-of-wealth state that we created was always morally wrong, and now it’s self-evidently unsound. Wrong principles got us into this mess; and only right principles can get us out of it. Actually, it’s probably too late to “get out” of anything. The consequences are there for us all to see, and more are coming regardless of the outcome of any one budget debate or election. Pri… Continue reading →

…control over the economy) way too high, even before the recession hit? Boom-and-bust is not the natural order of things. They only happen in an economy that is managed and looted on a regular basis by the federal government. We need a major party in Washington DC who articulates, and stands for, the principle of limited government — not merely a pale imitation of what the liberal socialists have put together over the last century or so. Don’t get… Continue reading →

…ise the price of gas will also believe that someone else — say, the walking-on-water Barack Obama — can single-handedly lower the cost of gas, or at least contain it. Why hasn’t that happened? It can’t be because cap and trade didn’t pass. Cap and trade would only reduce the production of fuels (all fuels), which will cause the cost of gas to go still higher. I’m waiting to hear the same people who blamed the rising cost of gas on Bush to now blam… Continue reading →

…t when it comes to high prices. Why? Probably because those who constantly complain about profit and the free market realize that government intervention in education is precisely what causes tuition inflation in the first place. And because such haters of capitalism wish to see government intervention in higher education increase, not decrease, they don’t care to call attention to this fact. The fact is: Supply and demand are laws of nature; spec… Continue reading →

…the power of government, and it’s why he seeks to implement that law, step-by-step, through the EPA whether Congress authorizes it or not. “Until this pipeline is constructed, the U.S. will continue to import millions of barrels of conflict oil from the Middle East and Venezuela and other foreign countries,” TransCanada said in a statement, saying it is “disappointed” by the administration’s call. “Thousands of jobs continue to hang in the balanc… Continue reading →