People who were in favor of Trumps boarder wall are now are starting to reconsider the consequences of the policy. Eminent domain a seizes the soil hard-working Texans have tilled, farmed, or simply invested in, as if they actually "didn't build that" in the first...
So Iran oil tankers get bombed by the Saudis. Funny how that happens to slide into your Friday morning news cycle there. Almost like it was intentional or something. Now Trump is sending 3000 troops to help the Saudis fight off Iranian threats. What threat if they...
In 1921, the black dominated Greenwood community in Tulsa, Oklahoma was one of the wealthiest in the city. The presence of nice hotels, jewelry shops, and so forth earned it the nickname: "Black Wall Street". By the end of the year, members of the city's white...
The Second Amendment isn't about guns, it's accidentally all about freedom. I have an ex from Texas. I remember her stories of the good old days. She was 15, riding a motorbike splitting lanes, in the shoulder, whatever. Cops didn't care. I mean, she had no...
I. Introduction: The Graveyard of Empires In discussions of Afghanistan in today’s world, the assertion that the country is a “graveyard of empires” is often made. While the statement is correctly accepted as a caution against overconfident intervention by foreign...
While progressives claim to want to eliminate discrimination, some of their favored policies make discrimination more likely to occur. Take the case of rent control. Earlier this year Oregon became the first state to pass statewide rent-control legislation. The goal...
Socialism has reappeared again as an alternative to capitalism in the United States. In a few words, socialism is a political ideology and an economic system in which the state determines the price of labor, retains the means of productions, confiscate private...
Lately I have been listening to and reading different takes on the question of how we define what we mean when we say "left-wing" or "right-wing". Tom Woods has concluded that while he once thought of these definitions as referring to a spectrum, he now believes that...
