Freedom Politics: Nelson to Vote to Advance Senate Health Bill
- Orange Grove: Sacrifice not the way to save us
- Rededication to wealth creation would better revive economy.
- In most eras of human history the vast majority of people were dirt poor, died early, lived rather unhappy lives and carried forth mainly because of promises that they'd get into heaven after their bum ride. It is doubtful that without this... Full story
- The Orange Grove: Why did North Korea release the two journalists?
- The entire episode may not be what it seems on the surface
- I have questions about the release of two of Al Gore's employees by the North Koreans and about the three persons still in custody in Iran. First, what were these ladies doing so near to North Korea that they could be captured? Was this... Full story
- The Orange Grove: Paying for your health care right
- Backing Obamacare requires rejecting private property rights
- Anyone who grasps the political big picture must have figured out that President Barack Obama and his team of so called liberal – but really, social – democrats are collectivists of the first order. For them society is a large beehive or... Full story
- Firefighter case pivotal for Sotomayor
- Judge’s support for invalidating a promotional exam that only white candidates passed raises questions about her fairness.
- During the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing about whether Judge Sonia Sotomayor should be nominated to the U. S. Supreme Court, a nomination which if approved by the committee's majority would then go to the full Senate for a vote (that the Judge... Full story
- Declarations of independence: Positive vs. negative rights
- People have the right to be individuals and associate with whom they choose, but not to the coerced support of others
- After so many years of Americans aspiring to live up to the principles of the Declaration of Independence, with much success, critics of America have changed their tune. It used to be that this country failed to be true to those principles but as... Full story
- Orange Grove: Difference between legislation, law
- True laws are designed to protect our rights, not order us about.
- Classical liberals and libertarians, especially those who admire the works of the famous legal theorists and economist F.A. Hayek, are fond of pointing out that a free society requires the rule of law. Others, critical of this p olitical... Full story
- Classical case for limited government
- Plato’s ‘Republic,’ properly interpreted, stresses individual reason.
- It began with Socrates and his pupil Plato, who, in that world-famous dialogue, "Republic," set out to discuss human excellence. In the process, Socrates used an analogy, the perfect or ideal society. It was easier to study than the individual human... Full story
- Acknowledging bias isn't acting biased
- Reaction to Sotomayor's gender/ethnicity comments is overwrought.
- Just after President Barack Obama nominated her to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter, statements came to light that seemed to call into question Judge Sonia Sotomayor's loyalty to judicial impartiality. As reported all over the... Full story
- Pragmatism is a capricious guide
- President Obama’s lack of principle makes political u-turns easy
- President Obama has made it clear on several occasions that he is no ideologue but a pragmatist; therefore, it could be useful to consider what these terms mean. What makes someone an ideologue or a pragmatist? Ideologues approach problem-solving... Full story
- The Obama couple: American royalty
- As a European emigrant, I'm puzzled why Americans gush so much over royalty.
- With my regular exercise going full force, mostly so as to manage my pretty awful sciatica, I get to watch the news for about an hour each day while on my treadmill. During the half our or 45 minutes, I pick and choose from a variety of news... Full story
- Putting our troubles in perspective
- Returning to the land I fled in 1953 makes the current economic woes seem less terrible.
- Budapest, Hungary As one who tasted both a bit of Nazism and communism, today's economic fiasco strikes me as relatively mild as human disasters go. For starters, many in America remember the Great Depression and the Second World War, both of which... Full story
- Economic equality the wrong goal
- Such a focus requires wealth redistribution, which always leads to abuses.
- In the fields of political philosophy, theory and economy much debate occurs about just what is most important for a human community - that is, what, as a community guided by a legal system, should the citizenry be aiming for. The issue comes up, of... Full story
- If you wondered what fascism looks like
- Orange Grove: Obama's growing interference with the economy fits the bill
- Fascism is a political system in which a country is led by a charismatic leader who has full power to order things about because he (or she) is assumed taken to know best. Obviously, this is a mythical sort of regime, with most of its essential... Full story
- When you have right to be wrong
- In a recent demonstration outside the Earl Warren Building in San Francisco someone was waving a sign that read: "A moral wrong can't be a civil right." Well, in fact it can! A simple case in point is when someone writes something that is immoral or... Full story
- Orange Grove: Executive pay: promise is a promise
- Most executives draw pretty reasonable salaries, from maybe $250,000 per year to several millions, plus bonuses, depending on how the company is doing or how important the executive's contributions is expected to be. This isn't unlike how baseball... Full story
- Orange Grove: How the U.S. lost its lead over the world
- How can you blame something that hasn't existed for a century?
- The following letter to the editor appeared this week in the Register: "GREENSPAN'S GOOFS "It's nice to see that former Fed chief Alan Greenspan is finally taking the blame for starting the worldwide economic collapse. Former President Ronald... Full story
- Orange Grove: Separating marriage from entitlement
- Gays shouldn't need permission to marry, but there's more to it
- Democracy has this about it: Most people don't much like being subjected to a vote when it comes to their basic beliefs and conduct. If Big Oil really owes us huge bucks, it shouldn't be a matter of a vote whether it will pay up. And whether gay... Full story
- Orange Grove: Quick, and wrong, to fault free markets
- How can you blame something that hasn't existed for a century?
- The following letter to the editor appeared this week in the Register: "GREENSPAN'S GOOFS "It's nice to see that former Fed chief Alan Greenspan is finally taking the blame for starting the worldwide economic collapse. Former President Ronald... Full story
- Orange Grove: Europeans see Obama as an antidote to racism
- It's like Susan Neiman and I traveled on two different continents the past couple of weeks. In her July 27 op-ed column in The New York Times, Neiman says "it's hard for me to find a European, aside from two Harvard-educated friends in Paris, who... Full story
- Orange Grove: The Rights of the Rich
- No, the rich have no special rights, none at all. But since so many people insist on trying to violate the human rights they do have, it is worthwhile mentioning that no one has any moral authority to violate, abrogate or restrict the rights of the... Full story
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