Obama Downgraded, Tea Party Vindicated
by Peter Ferrara President Obama achieved the historic downgrading of America’s credit rating the old-fashioned way. He earned it. He came into office with federal spending already near an historic...
View ArticleCouretas: Protect the Poor, Not Poverty Programs
by John Couretas One of the disturbing aspects of the liberal/progressive faith campaign known as the Circle of Protection is that its organizers have such little regard – indeed are blind to — the...
View ArticleCan Warren Buffett Do Simple Arithmetic?
Notice the striking similarities in misrepresenting the facts and seeming to lack basic math skills when making pronouncements on taxes and embracing a liberal/progressive agenda? by Verum Serum – As...
View ArticleTaxi Cab Conservatism
by Michael Bayewitch – I was just recently in Washington D.C. and had an amazing conversation with a taxi driver on the way to the airport. After pointing out some of the many historical sites on the...
View ArticleSteve Jobs and American Exceptionalism
by Ed Feulner – Steve Jobs, who died yesterday at the too-young age of 56, was a living refutation of all that liberals constantly tell us about our country — that we’re falling behind others and live...
View ArticleThe Austerity Myth: Federal Spending Up 5% This Year
by John Merline – When Republicans took control of the House in January, they pledged to make deep cuts in federal spending, and in April they succeeded in passing a bill advertised as cutting $38...
View ArticleJobs and Deficits: The Moral Equation
by Rev. Robert A. Sirico – The Genesis account of creation tells us that from the beginning, humanity was created to work. God puts Adam in the garden to “work and watch over it.” The Scripture...
View ArticleWho Will Save New York? Herman Cain?
by Richard F. Miniter – I’ve just had my fourth grown son move his employment or business from New York State to Virginia. A fifth had already moved to Colorado. A daughter and three grandchildren are...
View ArticlePovertyCure – From Aid to Enterprise
PovertyCure is an international network of organizations and individuals seeking to ground our common battle against global poverty in a proper understanding of the human person and society, and to...
View ArticleWhat the Pilgrims Can Teach Us about Economic Freedom
Economic Freedom – The Pilgrims struggling to survive at Plymouth Plantation learned the importance of private property first-hand in 1623 when Governor Bradford adopted a free-enterprise system after...
View ArticleCraving Another Great Depression
by Ralph R. Reiland – Pushing his agenda for higher taxes on “the rich,” President Obama kicked off his December 6 speech in Kansas by saying his Kansas grandparents “shared the optimism of a nation...
View ArticleObama: Our Marxist Wizard of Oz
by Peter Ferrara – His mother was an unabashed hippie from 1960s central casting. His father was an openly avowed Communist from Kenya. While his father wasn’t around much, his devoutly progressive...
View ArticleMorality and the Economy, No Separating the Two
by Chuck Colson – The next election should be all about the economy, right? Wrong in spades! During the seemingly endless build-up to the Iowa caucuses, there was one consistent refrain repeated over...
View ArticleObama’s Bogus Jobs Data, 1.2 Million Less Jobs
The Washington Times – The White House hyped the news Friday that January payrolls had risen by 243,000. The hitch is the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) also dropped 1.2 million from the calculated...
View ArticleAmerican Exceptionalism Under Assault
by Emil W. Henry, Jr. – The Obama presidency has turned the American Social Contract on its head. In this election cycle, one noticeable phenomenon is how the Republican presidential candidates are...
View ArticleCatholic Social Doctrine and the Market Economy: Free Persons and Free Markets
by Andrew M. Greenwell, Esq. The free market must operate within certain moral, institutional, and legal norms, or else it becomes something other than a free market. The free market is not an...
View ArticleThe Economic Paradox No One Wants to Talk About
by Arnold Ahlert – There is an economic paradox that few people understand, much less wish to acknowledge, because to do so would reveal the level of societal deterioration that has caused it. In...
View ArticleWhat the Bible Teaches About Capitalism
by Rabbi Aryeh Spero – Who would have expected that in a Republican primary campaign the single biggest complaint among candidates would be that the front-runner has taken capitalism too far? As if his...
View ArticleKeynesianism and the Collectivist Dream
by William Sullivan – It’s campaign season, and as usual, Democrats are employing their class struggle rhetoric to position a redistributive government agenda as the only way Americans can be saved...
View ArticleWelfare State: Immoral and Irredeemable
by Walter E. Williams – Benjamin Franklin, statesman and signer of our Declaration of Independence, said: “Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they...
View ArticleEarning Happiness — The Moral Promise of Free Enterprise
The words “happiness” and “free enterprise” don’t usually appear in the same sentence. Arthur Brooks, President of the American Enterprise Institute, explains that the two are intimately and profoundly...
View ArticleChallenging Liberals on Economic Immobility
by Samuel Gregg – When it comes to applying liberté, égalité, fraternité to the economy, modern liberals have always been pretty much fixated on the second member of this trinity. It’s a core concern...
View ArticleThe Rich Don’t Make Us Poor
by Charles Kaupke – We’ve been hearing a lot lately about the need for the wealthy to “pay their fair share” so that the federal government can pay down its debts and continue to fund programs to...
View ArticleMarriage: The Greatest Weapon Against Child Poverty
by Ken McIntyre – The collapse of marriage, along with a dramatic rise in births to single women, is the most important cause of childhood poverty—but government policy doesn’t reflect that reality,...
View ArticleFallacy Of Redistribution Has Grave Economic Impact
by Thomas Sowell – The recently discovered tape on which Barack Obama said back in 1998 that he believes in redistribution is not really news. He said the same thing to Joe the Plumber four years ago....
View ArticleOn Consecrating the Entire Economic Order
by Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon – St. Luke’s account of Zacchaeus in the sycamore tree (19:1-10) is a story rich in spiritual reflection; preachers and Bible-readers, coming from a variety of backgrounds,...
View ArticleAmerica is Going John Galt
by James McAlister – Many of us are numb today. Numb with the implications of what happened last night. Numb with dread. Endless days and countless lines of print will be expended in the post mortem of...
View ArticleSacrifice and Self-Interest
by Jordan Ballor – One of the complaints often rendered against the market economy is that it encourages selfish behavior. This picture of the marketplace is that of a kind of war of all against all,...
View ArticleWhen Work Is Punished: Tragedy of America’s Welfare State
by Tyler Durden – A single mom in America today is better off earning gross income of $29,000 with $57,327 in net income & benefits [welfare], than earning gross income of $69,000 with net income...
View ArticleUnited States in Severe Decline Thanks to Obama
by Deroy Murdock – The Land of the Free is governed by an out-of-control egomaniac, neither bolstered by managerial competence nor hindered by the legislature’s institutional prerogatives. In the Home...
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