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Michael BreedenWashington Examiner |
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...
In 1886, Friedrich Nietzsche published Beyond Good and Evil. One hundred and forty years later, the book still asks its original question: what...
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...
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,...
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...
Former President Barack Obama once infamously said, “You didn’t build that.” I beg to differ. Our forebears created it, inherited it, and...
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...
I arrived at the Pentagon in February 2003. Whenever I could, I followed the official tours, learned every corridor, and later guided colleagues and...
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;...
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...
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...