Brazil looks set to pivot sharply to the right Sunday with the election of a former Army captain who wants to privatize state companies in an ailing economy, liberalize gun ownership and mine the rain forest.
As the middle class disintegrates and poverty grows, more Americans than ever are becoming dependent on the government just to survive. Today, we live in a country where most workers do not earn enough to support a middle class family, and we are se
Trump has given hope to those who were drowning in hopelessness. He has convinced them that he is their political savior. He plays to their wants and fears. He tells them what they want to hear. And he does it so masterfully, so perfectly, that he ha
"Righteousness" is a seldom heard word in modern life, but the concept is still very much with us. In fact, political arguments all through the West focus on shows of righteousness.
I've had the misfortune of knowing a lot of powerful people in politics, government, business and the media. In almost all cases, they were people whose public persona had little relationship to their true nature.
As much as I avoid the bullhorns from New York and DC, I couldn't escape them this time. Evidently Donald Trump had a summit with Vladimir Putin and uttered unspeakable words.
In the face of populism and decline of Democracy, Technocrats argue that the population should not have its say because they fear their capacity for action will be frozen. ? TN Editor
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On Nov. 29, three weeks after Donald Trump's victory in the U.S. presidential election, the following chart, showing a precipitous decline in support for democracy around the world, went viral after appearing in the New York Times:
As Austrian economists Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek demonstrated, it is impossible to answer these questions with any degree of rationality. The reason for that is because under socialism, there are no prices. Without prices, it is impossible
'Am I supposed to be afraid to have different ideas?' Black, gay Army vet 'comes out' as conservative because he's sick of the left's 'outrage culture' - after Kanye West was lampooned for supporting Trump
Today, May 3, 2018, is my 66th birthday. Accordingly, it is time for my annual "Strictly Personal" column. I think it only fair that readers should have an opportunity to learn a little something about the person who writes the words they read. T
Political retribution for free speech is not a conspiracy theory. It happened. The IRS targeted people who donated to nonprofits for limited government causes.
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Identity Politics is the ideology of the liberal/progressive/left and the Democratic Party. Identity Politics teaches hatred of white people, all white people. An article last November in the student newspaper at Texas State University declared that
The iconic political panel show, "The McLaughlin Group" is set to return to the airwaves on Jan. 7, according to an announcement by Washington, D.C., ABC affiliate WJLA.
The first time when it became clear to me that I live in a dictatorship was in 2014 when reading, prior to its publication, the landmark (and still the only) scientific empirical study to address the question as to whether or not the United States fe