On the road to the French presidential elections, Marine Le Pen's presidential campaign is oddly similar to that of Donald Trump: confrontation with the media, nativism, and accusations of xenophobia. To avoid creating sympathy for the far-right candidate by throwing labels at her, let's give substantive reasons to oppose her. Here are six reasons to … Continue reading 6 Non-Racism Reasons to Reject Marine Le Pen
Most people only know about silencers from what they see in the movies—a stealthy gun accessory that helps criminals more easily kill by suppressing the sound of the gunshot. But silencers, some say, is a misleading way to describe these firearm accessories. Why? Because they don’t actually silence the sound of a gunshot. In a … Continue reading VIDEO: How Gun ‘Silencers’ Became a Health Issue
KYIV, Ukraine—The Kremlin’s strategy of military aggression in Ukraine and Eastern Europe has backfired, spurring former Soviet and Warsaw Pact countries to become a de facto anti-Moscow military bloc, while NATO rearms and reinforces its eastern flank. Altogether, Eastern Europe has become the most rapidly militarizing region on earth, which is not to Moscow’s advantage. … Continue reading Why Russian Military Aggression Has Backfired on Moscow
The annual Conservative Political Action Conference ended Saturday with the usual release of its Straw Poll results. The Straw Poll is a self-selecting survey of CPAC attendees. Comparing those numbers to scientific national polling blows several holes in the mainstream media's coverage of the event. One some measures, CPAC attendees' opinions are virtually identical to … Continue reading CPAC Straw Poll results blow holes in mainstream media claims
Guest post from Americans for a Better Economy - America's most effective grassroots opponent of liberal environmentalists These 16 Senate Republicans have NOT co-sponsored Rand Paul's REINS Act. That’s a problem. The REINS Act is a simple, but Swamp Draining reform. It takes away the power of unelected bureaucrats to make up and enforce their own … Continue reading Which of these 16 Republicans will stab you in the back?
Forget everything government officials, many media outlets, and “activist scientists” have warned about the damaging effects of carbon dioxide, because in reality there’s no cause for alarm, a group called the CO2 Coalition urges. Scientists, engineers, and policy analysts who are part of the nonprofit organization turned out in force Friday at the Conservative Political … Continue reading Group Defends Carbon Dioxide as ‘Elixir of Life’ in Climate Change Debate
Congress has written some laudable policies into the Pet and Women Safety Act of 2017 (H.R.909) that are designed to protect domestic violence victims from “trauma caused by acts of violence or threats of violence against their pets.” There is one provision of the bill, however, that takes a familiar step too far: It … Continue reading This Bill Drags the Federal Government Into Pet Disputes
Few American presidential elections have drawn as much international interest and concern as the one in 2016. Certainly, who is elected and sits in the White House in Washington, D. C. matters to many people everywhere since America remains a political, economic and military colossus influencing major and minor events around the globe. To Donald … Continue reading Protectionism Makes Great Countries Poor Again
Today, many Americans aspire to be independent of foreign goods. Not only do they choose to “buy American,” they want to ensure that everyone is compelled to do the same. A thought experiment can help us decipher the wisdom of this. Let’s suppose that umbrella imports are banned in the United States; that is, Americans … Continue reading What Imports Mean for Your Slice of the American Pie
Chief White House strategist Steve Bannon's "Dismantle The Administrative State" speech to CPAC was a great prosecution of D.C.'s unaccountable regulatory regime. But it bears no resemblance to Donald Trump's actual Big Government agenda. Trump's agenda of centralized command of the economy, through trade restrictions and expanded social spending, requires the administrative state to be … Continue reading What Bannon’s CPAC speech got wrong
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