My least favorite critique of liberty lovers is that we lose. They’ll find a complaint about a person or small policy point and say something like, “See, this is why nobody takes you seriously,” or, “Yeah, this is why you guys always lose.”
Let us concede the point. Continue reading I’m a “Loser”
I refuse to support a candidate who does not take peace seriously, and Tulsi is the only remaining candidate giving an anti-war message the centrality it deserves. I am proudly voting for peace today; I am proudly voting for Tulsi Gabbard. I urge anyone horrified by warfare and imperialism to do so as well. Continue reading Why I’m Proud to Vote for Tulsi
It’s not a radical boast to say that racism has been losing steam. White nationalism is rightly and frequently taken to task. Just a mere decade ago, moronic statements from these lunatics were usually accompanied by some kind of explanation as to why the quote in question was foolish. Now, they can be presented without comment and the person making the statement will possibly find … Continue reading Racism and Sexism Suffer Another Market Defeat
I always look forward to hearing commentary from Beau of the Fifth Column. One of his recent videos was especially interesting, and deals with what really lifts people out of poverty. Continue reading What Lifts People Out of Poverty?
Over the past month, I’ve used FiveThirtyEight’s Democratic Primary Forecast and the always-fun 270ToWin map generator tools to produce a timelapse of the national Democratic primary. I started this project the day of the Iowa Caucuses, and have collected data up to the results of Super Tuesday. Continue reading Timelapse of the Democratic Primary – From Iowa to Super Tuesday
This whole campaign, Bernie’s promised to rally disaffected non-voters, rev up youth turnout to the polls, and unite the labor vote – none of those things have happened in any meaningful way. Bernie’s bass is loyal to the death, but it’s not growing. Continue reading 5 Takeaways from Super Tuesday
Economics are overrated though. It would be nice if one could simply look at positive income and stock market trends in a country and definitively say “this is a good place to live”, but you can’t and anyone who says otherwise is wearing blinders. Continue reading Economics are Overrated
Other than “they should pull themselves up by their bootstraps”, a supreme belief in the power and virtue of charity is the typical conservative response when confronted with socioeconomic problems that the state is attempting to solve. Continue reading The Problem with Charity
A quick story about sports. I promise, it’s relevant. I remember talking about sports with my friends a few years ago and Tom Brady’s name came up. As with most celebrity figures, people had vitriolic feelings one way or the other about him. A few of us, myself included, had finished reading the Wells Report which made it quite clear that he had participated extensively … Continue reading Dining at the Truth Buffet
Let’s not mince words here: America, as well as every country on earth, is far closer to being socialist than capitalist. It’s not particularly close. The real question capitalists should ask themselves is how it got to be this way. And the answer does not lie with the tenacity of the socialists, but the anger from themselves. The evidence of government-run socialism’s harm to the … Continue reading It’s Time to Bring Compassion to Capitalism
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