Policy

It Is All So Obvious!

A ten-point list of reforms that seemed self-evident to me at the time: bring the military home rather than nation-build; legalize most drugs (the 'war' on them echoes Prohibition); adopt a flat or national sales tax; fix Social Security, which by its structure depends on new entrants to pay earlier ones; stop subsidizing non-work; reform prisons; ensure every child is taught a trade or prepared for college; provide universal catastrophic coverage while emphasizing personal responsibility; recognize that government consumes rather than produces; and accept that you cannot legislate morality so long as one person doesn't infringe on another.

(These are my views as I framed them in 2009, presented as written.)

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The Mike Wallace Interview with Ayn Rand

One of the seminal events in my life was reading Atlas Shrugged. To my mind, Objectivism is the only rational modus operandi for the human race. What is interesting in this 1959 interview is how little Mike Wallace understood — or chose not to understand — of what Ayn Rand was actually

The End of the Great American Experiment

Hard to believe how close we are to the end of life as we know it. I knew that madness had made inroads during the global-warming debate, but I never imagined how deep the intellectual rot had progressed. The emergency is real

US Government COVID-19 Response Plan

How does this craziness get created? Why is no one standing up to the Politburo's five-year plan? How did this happen so quickly — and why don't I stand up? The response-plan document

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The Mike Wallace Interview with Ayn Rand

The End of the Great American Experiment

US Government COVID-19 Response Plan