BERLIN — Secretary of State John Kerry offered a defense of freedom of speech, religion and thought in the United States on Tuesday, telling German students that in America "you have a right to be stupid if you want to be." "As a country, as a society, we live and breathe the idea of religious freedom and religious tolerance, whatever the...
Modern stimulus packages have nothing on the Second World War. In just five years, the US economy went from Old Yeller’s flyblown corpse to Super Dog on steroids. Debt was low, growth was sustainable and huge swathes of the population were leaping out of poverty. At the same time, employment levels were shooting up fast enough to give a...
I think most people know I have a minority view on this subject (among 'extremist' forums, as I'm sure Liberals would call it) -- being more open to both 'Statism' (Nationalism) and 'Socialism' than average apparently. Why Jews like Ludwig von Mises, or Ayn Rand, or Murray Rothbard have such an appeal among alleged racists and conservatives is...
