President Barack Obama’s decision to provide military aid to the Syrian opposition is incredible. The U.S. is barely out of Iraq. It’s still bogged down in Afghanistan. Obama insists on keeping the Iran war option “on the table.” Yet suddenly we are taking sides in a civil war in Syria. The most amazing thing is […]

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Ron Paul made good sense on many issues–from George W. Bush’s foreign misadventures to the dangerous rise of the national security state. Many of his young followers, however, tended to be selective in their veneration. While they embraced his straight talk on the war on drugs (“the drug war is out of control. I fear […]

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Revelations of a classified program by the National Security Agency to collect data in the U.S. has prompted outrage as well as denunciation from the left and right. Many are under the impression that the Obama administration has been eavesdropping on phone calls and reading private emails. And comparisons to George W. Bush’s abusive, post-9/11 […]

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In late May, two British men of Nigerian descent hacked to death British soldier Lee Rigby in full view of witnesses in the Woolwich district of London. The assailants, who are awaiting trial, claimed to have avenged the killing of Muslims by British military. No reasonable person could possibly justify Rigby’s horrific death. No one. That simply […]

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The supply-side economists of the 1980s famously emphasized how government policies (especially taxes) affect incentives. They argued that taxes act as disincentives to work, saving, and investment. Conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation repeat this, like a mantra, to the present day. The argument is basically that tax policy—by discouraging desirable economic activities—misaligns private […]

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