What Gave Us Gosnell?
The surest way for sin to prosper is for a culture to stop calling it sin. Given the rapidly decaying culture in the U.S., I could proceed in a myriad of directions following such a conclusion. However, in America the foremost example of the rotten fruit born of neglected sin ...
Resisting the Tide of Secularism
"What we're seeing today is a secular liberalism that wants to expand the prohibition of establishment to silence articulate religious voices and disenfranchise religiously motivated voters, and at the same time to narrow the scope of free exercise so that the new secular morality can reign over American society unimpeded." So ...
The Scourge
The cordlike implement known as a "whip" has existed for millenia. Whips were first designed as a means of compelling draft animals to comply with their human owners. A whip, usually made of vegetable fibers or leather, is not designed to harm the animal, but to make it easier to ...
Collusion and Corruption at the IRS
They say there are only two sure things in life: death and taxes. Try as we might, it's virtually impossible to escape the clutches of the Grim Reaper or the Tax Man. Both will get you eventually. And as anyone who has been through an IRS audit or suffered a tax ...
Are Progressive Policies Making Income Inequality Increase?
Left leaning politicians allege that conservative policies favor wealthy Americans. They cite growing income inequality, the observation that the rich are getting richer while the majority of Americans are falling behind, as a reason to enact new legislation that attempts to redistribute wealth in the name of fairness. In the ...
Crony Capitalism Protects Wrongdoers, Harms Consumers, and Disrupts Markets
Thanks to a renewed interest in the works of Ayn Rand and high-profile figures like John Stossel, Glenn Beck, and Rand Paul, libertarianism is enjoying a moment in the political sun. And just like America's two major parties, libertarians can often be blind to faulty logic and flaws within their ...
Want to Know How Washington Really Works? Just Follow the Money
"You see, boys forget what their country means by just reading The Land of the Free in history books. Then they get to be men they forget even more. Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books . . . . Men should hold it up in front ...
Making Sense of the Senseless
"An individual is not just the product of the forces around him. He has a mind, an inner world. Then having thought, a person can bring forth actions into the external world and thus influence it. People are apt to look at the outer theater of action, forgetting the actor ...
The Off-Track EPA
In his book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey declared that “... all people see the world, not as it is, but as they are.” I. F. Stone wrote, “All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.” Every time you pull in to fill ...
An Abortion Ghoul’s Chamber of Horrors
Last week, I wrote a column entitled "Brutality in the Brave New World" discussing an appalling movement within the scientific community in which researchers are exploring the "therapeutic" potential of the eggs of aborted baby girls. In a similar vein, a bioethicist writing for the Huffington Post in 2009 famously ...
Collusion and Corruption at the IRS
Ken ConnorThey say there are only two sure things in life: death and taxes. Try as we might, it's virtually impossible to escape the clutches of ...
Are Progressive Policies Making Income Inequality Increase?
J. Victor ThompsonLeft leaning politicians allege that conservative policies favor wealthy Americans. They cite growing income inequality, the observation that the rich are getting richer while the ...
Crony Capitalism Protects Wrongdoers, Harms Consumers, and Disrupts Markets
Ken ConnorThanks to a renewed interest in the works of Ayn Rand and high-profile figures like John Stossel, Glenn Beck, and Rand Paul, libertarianism is enjoying ...
Want to Know How Washington Really Works? Just Follow the Money
Ken Connor"You see, boys forget what their country means by just reading The Land of the Free in history books. Then they get to be men ...
Making Sense of the Senseless
Ken Connor"An individual is not just the product of the forces around him. He has a mind, an inner world. Then having thought, a person can ...
The Off-Track EPA
Jack BeaversIn his book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey declared that “... all people see the world, not as it is, but ...
