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A narco-state emerges in Venezuela By Roger Noriega   Contrary to statements by Venezuelan caudillo Hugo Chávez, a cancerous tumor disc...

Once rent-seeking coalitions form and consolidate in a society, it becomes extremely difficult to escape a dysfunctional equilibrium   F...

North Korea:  Freedom and grilled meat “Park told Shin that the giant country next door was called China. Its people were rapidly gettin...

The political "disease." By Arthur E. Foulkes “It’s a sickness,” said a friend of mine who until recently was an elected offi...

Sweden, the Socialist Mecca "I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare: and I dare a little more as I grow ol...

The cold shower of economic reality might then unleash Scotland’s substantial creative abilities Independence could arouse national pri...

Race and Rhetoric By  Thomas Sowell O ne of the things that turned up, during a long-overdue cleanup of my office, was an old yellowed ...

Roaring full throttle to the cliff edge   Including the unfunded liabilities of Social Security and Medicare, the United States owes 9...

Prepare to be Betrayed                       The populist right has forgotten an older form of class analysis By Anthony Gregory Las...

The Prophetic C.S. Lewis by Joseph Sobran Deep political wisdom can be found in a writer who took very little interest in politics: C.S...

Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further By Shanmuganathan "Shan" Nagasundaram In the murder mystery  The Da Vinci Code , Sil...

Keynesianism is a bubble machine Many of the developments like this one in Ordos, China, have swathes  of newly-created public space comp...

The Nightmare of the European Auto Industry By testosteronepit Europe with its relatively affluent population of 500 million has turned...

Not the Gandhi who called for seas of innocent blood, you understand, but the movie-Gandhi, the nice one. by Richard Greiner I had the ...

In today's world, just keeping quiet won't be enough   By Doug Casey I'm going to argue that the US government, in particu...

Εveryone with pitchforks is missing the wider point   By Tim Price It was just past 7:00 a.m. on the morning of Saturday, September 13...

Throwing Money at the Warfare State Mitt Romney Proposes $8 Trillion Welfare Program for Defense Contractors by WILLIAM D. HARTUNG ...

What is Obama so afraid of? By The Sovereign Man Quietly, and with little fanfare,   President Obama signed a "National Defense Re...

Maybe we can't stop it, but we should at least know where it's all going   From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs h...

How I destroyed the Real Estate Market Central Planning has crippled the real estate market to “save” their core constituency, the banks. ...