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Jack Curtis
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December 5, 2016
The Uber Cases: The Legal Canary in the Economic GoldmineThe latest state-level attempt to squash Uber could have far-reaching consequences, both in the U.S. and abroad.
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October 12, 2015
The 'Income Inequality' ScamThe ‘inequality’ pitchmen are using a natural economic response as an excuse to assert more government economic intervention in the name of a false ‘fairness.’
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September 8, 2015
The Government vs. UberThe unfolding Uber case once again demonstrates that good politics is too often bad economics.
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May 27, 2015
Impoverishment: America's New NormalThe defining American middle class is devolving toward poverty. There seems little doubt that the economic pattern results from government intervention.
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March 14, 2015
America's False-Front, Movie-Set EconomyIt's pretty bleak out there. And it's only getting worse.
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November 1, 2014
Common Core Seizes Control of Future Internet EducationThe consequence for private and home education will be dire. Even day care and babysitting will take a hit.
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July 12, 2014
The Political Left Is Deconstructing The Middle ClassAnd it's not just some political-science thought experiment.
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July 30, 2013
The Foolishness Of The WiseThe overwhelming difference between the market and government is that government is always under human management while the free market is unmanaged.
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June 2, 2013
Integrity in a Post-Christian AmericaMany people in the United States are too happy to default to the state as the supreme lawgiver. What other choice do they have?
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March 29, 2013
Bread and Circuses: The Last Days of the American EmpireToday's Roman Empire, using military and economic force to govern others while increasingly unable to govern itself.
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October 31, 2012
Two Americans: Lance Armstrong and Barack ObamaLance Armstrong's star has fallen; Barack Obama's awaits November 6, 2012. Both Americans have achieved greatly in their fields; one has failed greatly, while the other is poised to succeed or fail as well.
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September 15, 2012
Politicians Can't Stop World Economic EqualizationPolitical leaders prefer their voters unaware of the economic law presently reshaping the world. But we'll all feel it sooner or later.
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June 21, 2012
U.S. Civil Service: How Progressives Prostituted Their Own ChildPossibly the one good idea Progressives ever had, and look what they've done with it.
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May 7, 2012
The Big Picture: Our Curiously Failing CivilizationGovernments around the world are in various stages of financial failure, all seemingly trying to be Argentina. Look anywhere; we can't seem to govern ourselves worldwide, while people protesting are multiplying everywhere.
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October 20, 2011
Drones Matter!Drones are news when one kills people; otherwise, out of sight seems to equal out of mind. We may regret that; besides missiles, they're carrying political mischief and a transportation revolution.
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September 11, 2011
The U.S. Wealth Machine: In ReverseIt seems that not only will democratic societies reject capitalism, but they also have a predilection toward socialism.
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July 11, 2011
Our Retreat from ProsperityThe process that built the United States into the world's wealthiest country has reversed; it's tearing down what it once built.
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July 8, 2011
Obama Plays Pandora with DronesOur President points at someone that he, in his sole discretion, considers a threat and says: "Die!"
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June 21, 2011
Is Obama's Libyan Attack Legal or Not?Obama's being hassled because he's dropping bombs and bullets on Libyan targets without Congressional permission.
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June 6, 2011
A Strange Death in Strange CircumstancesMaybe Raymond Zack's last moments have something to say to us, something we need to hear and ponder.
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June 4, 2011
The End of Family Pets?Middle-class family pets are following the stay-at-home mom to the museum and if you think about it, for similar reasons.
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May 16, 2011
Government Schools: Antiques Preserved in Political AmberNo one will fix the schools; everyone who can depends on their staying as they are. A genuine fix would destroy the public education empire exactly as the industrial revolution destroyed agrarian society.
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April 9, 2011
Fannie, Freddie, Ginnie and Their PimpsThe taxpayers will be paying off this one for a very long time; maybe forever if Congress leaves Fannie, Freddie, Ginnie, the CRA, and related HUD regulations as they are.
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April 2, 2011
The World Electronic Mob Is Taking Us...Where?We're passengers on a wild ride into uncharted -- and dangerous -- territory with no one driving.
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March 7, 2011
The Powers of This PresidentNot all the powers President Obama has wielded or claimed seem clearly identifiable in the U.S. Constitution.
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February 25, 2011
The New Uncivil WarArizona didn't surprise when it diverged from its federal master's border policy but Wisconsin taking on teachers' unions is one Progressive family member turning against another.
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February 18, 2011
It's the Teachers, Stupid!Unionized teachers outnumber other government workers and run the schools in every state; why do we keep on accepting their decades of miserable results?
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February 3, 2011
Obama: A Roman God Updated?The Romans' Janus faced two directions, surveying the past and the future together; our updated god presents two faces in recognition of what he says versus what he does.
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January 1, 2011
It Sure Seems Like We're DoneThe Classical era passed in under a millennium and a half; ours has already gone longer, but Reagan's Morning in America has become Obama's Closing Time.
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November 30, 2010
War?We're looking once again at world economic weakness and fear, with another newly strengthened and militarized country resentful of the generations of subservience imposed upon it.
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November 4, 2010
'Progressive' Is a Funny Name for Poverty!With the failed Soviets in the history books and the failing EU in crisis from their statist policies, it's hard to understand the Obamacrats' blind rush into the same programs.
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September 29, 2010
The Sword Hanging over Washington, D.C.Damocles, discovering too late the threatening sword hanging above his borrowed throne, prefigures Obama, presiding under the suspended impact of unrelenting unemployment.
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September 24, 2010
Sorry, But We Deserve Our SchoolsEducation is a low priority because teaching folks to think produces independent individuals.
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September 6, 2010
The Perpetual Post OfficeThe Postal Service must be immortal; it's a government program that has outlived its usefulness.
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August 29, 2010
Hard Endings: Rome, China and the Modern WestIt's clear that Europe and North America -- the interlinked West -- are reaching an ending.
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July 24, 2010
Progressives and the Declaration of IndependenceIn her Supreme Court confirmation hearings, Elena Kagan said she is a political Progressive and was dismissive of the Declaration of Independence, relying on the Constitution for legal decisions.
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June 17, 2010
Why Blame Obama?Our President seems unable to distinguish between politics and leadership; he knew how to get the job; he is not showing that he knows how to perform it.
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June 3, 2010
ObamaCare Propaganda MailerKathleen Sibelius (Obama's Health czarina) sent me a reassuring message about Medicare under Obama's new law.
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April 5, 2010
America's Sinking Middle ClassThe U.S. middle class is sinking into government-provided economic quicksand.