The Rising Tide

Austan Goolsbee: “Gary Johnson . . . the Libertarian Party candidate . . . you should be looking into him” on CNBC Squawk Box

May 6 — Austan Goolsbee, economist, University of Chicago Professor and former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, declared “if Trump becomes the president we’re in for doom . . . Gary Johnson . . . you should be for Gary Johnson . . . I’m just waiting for you to get a Gary […]

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Guns and Surveillance; Lessons from France

Liberals and conservatives both resort to big government solutions when they are beset by the “We Must Do Something NOW” syndrome ………………………………………………………………………………. I watched a John Stossel program recently and it focused my attention on the big government ways of liberals and conservatives.  This similarity shows up vividly when they become subject to the “We

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Wannabe-Whiggist Socialism: The Main Forms That It Takes Today, And Why They’re Just So Conceptually Half-Baked

Through the course of this year (or to be more exact, since around sometime this past spring), there has been quite an apparent rise in public support for a far-left doctrine known as “social democracy”—or as the demagogue that many of these social democrats in our country today are rallying behind incorrectly calls it, “democratic

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