Posts Tagged ‘President Obama’
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Some Incomplete Thoughts on the Dangers of “Crony Capitalism”
Posted on July 2, 2014
I am very sympathetic to the libertarian philosophy. I believe that when government tries to subvert markets, things go awry. Prohibition is a perfect example. The government tried to stamp...
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The Happy Warrior
Posted on June 19, 2014
Steve Scalise is a conservative, but as Quinn Hillyer put it in the National Review, channeling Mike Huckabee, he’s not mad about it. As the head of the Republican Study...
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The Dangers of Passive Power
Posted on June 13, 2014
Even before Richard Nixon resigned after Watergate, Congress had grown weary of the Vietnam War. Shortly after he was reelected in November of 1973, Congress passed the Case-Church Amendment by...
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It Started With Cortes
Posted on June 10, 2014
In a strange way, you can blame Hernan Cortes and his merry band of Conquistadors for the border crisis that has hit our southern border recently. El Salvador, Honduras and...
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Don’t Do Stupid Shit
Posted on June 2, 2014
According the news reports, President Obama has come up with a simple way to describe his foreign policy philosophy: Don’t do stupid shit. It’s clever, in a Clintonian “it’s the...
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