September 29, 2021

The US will not default in October

Politicians are making the claim that if the United States Congress does not increase the debt ceiling next month, the United States will default on its credit payments.  This is not true.  It will not happen unless the people in ...

August 10, 2021

Three socialist policies in the United States

Years ago, socialism was described as government control of the factors of production — land, labor, and capital.  Communism was government ownership, rather than simply control, of the means of production.  This contrasted ...

May 22, 2019

The Democrats' Alien Voting Strategy

In a book from the 1950s entitled And Not a Shot is Fired: How Parliament Can Play a Revolutionary Part in the Transition to Socialism, Jan Kozak, a Czech Communist, explains how Czechoslovakia was transformed from a free country into a communist dic...

January 28, 2019

Is opposition to a border wall immoral?

CNN has a poll saying more Americans are opposed to a border wall than approve it.  How many American citizens answer that question with actual data and information on the effectiveness of border walls, and how many answer it with...

September 7, 2016

How to help Muslim refugees

The Obama administration is intent on bringing in as many Muslim immigrants classified as refugees as it can before the election.  Is the United States the best place to settle those refugees? First, what countries would be closest to the Mus...

August 16, 2016

The real question about minimum wage laws

The minimum wage is an issue this campaign season, but there is a different approach I have not heard mentioned.  What if we could simultaneously try 50 different approaches and determine which approach is the most effective? The federal mini...

July 26, 2016

It's not just illegal immigration that's the problem. It's immigration in general.

A lot of big government and big business supporters say we have to take in more immigrants for various reasons including the economic benefits they bring.  Let's look at immigration and jobs for the last few years and see what the numbers lo...