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America is out of money, out of forever wars, and done apologizing

America is out of money, out of forever wars, and done apologizing

In 1776, a congress of colonials declared they had had enough of kings and priests claiming divine right over their lives. Rights come from the...

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Mars will need cowboys, not committees

Mars will need cowboys, not committees

In 1886, Friedrich Nietzsche published Beyond Good and Evil. One hundred and forty years later, the book still asks its original question: what...

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Socialists fail math: Everyone can’t ride for free — so no one should

Socialists fail math: Everyone can’t ride for free — so no one should

Immanuel Kant’s categorical imperative demands that we act only on principles that could hold as universal law. Apply that test to free-riding, and...

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Government should run like Chick-fil-a, not a court summons

Government should run like Chick-fil-a, not a court summons

In a free society, the waitress at the DMV does not face apathy and lethargy from her public servant. She is the sovereign. The clerk is her employee,...

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They rigged the maps to force you to pay for their ‘-isms’

They rigged the maps to force you to pay for their ‘-isms’

An “-ism” is simply what your mind is willing to put time and effort behind. In America, you may choose yours so long as it does not extinguish...

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Obama’s biggest lie: ‘You didn’t build that’

Former President Barack Obama once infamously said, “You didn’t build that.” I beg to differ. Our forebears created it, inherited it, and...

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The media act like cheerleaders with press credentials — they’re supposed to be instant replay

The press is supposed to be instant replay, not the cheerleading squad. In American politics, the people are the NFL audience. We invest our money in...

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There are no socialists in power — only personal capitalists

I arrived at the Pentagon in February 2003. Whenever I could, I followed the official tours, learned every corridor, and later guided colleagues and...

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They didn’t stop Trump. They just broke America

In Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Mark Antony stands over the murdered leader’s body and repeats with cold irony: “For Brutus is an honorable man;...

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When ‘free healthcare’ can’t fix your joint, it offers you euthanasia

The clueless market universal healthcare as a right: free at the point of use, available to all. In reality, when price is removed and budgets...

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Your ‘right’ to free stuff requires a gun to someone else’s head

Matter and energy do not obey political declarations. Someone must cut the timber, raise the walls, grow the grain, and haul the water. If a person is...

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America’s behavioral sink and the rise of broken families

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