First, I want to wish a blessed Thanksgiving to all. My Berean colleague Mark Smith wrote a very good blog addressing the response of the West and Christians to refugees in light of the Paris attacks of last week.  I would like to extend the discussion to address how the West, including the United States […]

I just got back from the Southern Economic Association, where I attended many of the sessions of the Austrian economists.*  In one session, the subject was comparing Kant’s view of the process how the mind comes to know things vs. Hayek’s view.  One discussant said several times that he could “tell an evolutionary story” of […]

As I’ve related previously, Democrats seem convinced that legalized immigrants will become part of a permanent majority, and many Republicans (including especially talk-radio) seem to believe this as well. While I’m skeptical for many reasons, I have a small proposal that could take this issue off the table.  Since progressive supporters of immigration make many […]

In the midst of huge foreign policy concerns, societal breakdown on multiple dimensions, its easy to forget about our top concern a couple of years ago:  the government takeover of our health care system.  We predicted disaster, and Obamacare has never been popular with the American people.  It came at great cost to the Democratic party, […]

The Syrian refugee crisis, coupled with the ISIS attacks in Paris, have created a conundrum for political leaders across the Western hemisphere. While some evidence suggests at least one ISIS thug posed as a refugee to get to Greece, and from there traveled to Paris, the links between the refugees who need assistance, and the […]

Most of the world was horrified on Friday evening; in the U.S. it was coming home to see horrible reports of terrorists executing concert attenders one by one.  Over the weekend and continuing today, many are wrestling with how the world will respond, as well as the U.S.  Mrs. Clinton tried for some separation from […]

Berean Jeff Haymond wrote a blog yesterday which overlapped my blog, but you should read both.  His is broader.  Mine focuses on the global climate change issue. A recent Rasmussen poll indicates that 27% of Democrats surveyed favor prosecuting those who do not agree with global warming.  Here is the question from the Rasmussen Report […]

Yesterday’s headlines included Rasmusson’s poll results on how many people want the government to prosecute people who don’t believe in global warming.  The title of the article, Little Support of Punishing Global Warming Foes, belies the seriousness of the actual results.  Let’s summarize the results, (copied from the Rasmusson link): 68% of Likely U.S. Voters oppose […]

In this blog, I have but one question, regarding the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which has just been made available for one’s reading pleasure.  Here is my question.  For an agreement that is touted as a free trade compact, why do we need a 5, 500 page document (parts of which I have read)?  If we […]

The public university in America and most private universities and colleges are “dead.”  By dead I mean that by and large they no longer stand for free inquiry and reasoned discussion and debate.  They are being co-opted by various interest groups claiming offenses against them, sometimes by merely being a minority among a white majority.  […]