Politics & Rights

Often the left mocks someone to the degree of his effectiveness in showing the irrationality of the left. Clint Eastwood is their latest target, indicating that his speech at the Republican Convention found its mark. No, Eastwood’s talk was not very substantive—after all, this was a movie star speaking at…

Under the pretense that so-called “super-PACs” would “drown out the voices of ordinary citizens,” President Obama “proposed the idea of a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court’s 2-year-old Citizens United decision . . . which paved the way for today’s unlimited political expenditures by political action committees.” But Obama’s…

In a hilarious (but tragic) new video, Mark Matson skewers President Obama’s line, “You didn’t build that.” (I wrote about the same line back in July.) In the video, a young student shows her parents her model of the Washington Monument, built with popsicle sticks, which accompanied her written report…

At the Republican convention, former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, and others, directly challenged President Obama’s infamous “You didn’t build that” speech. Rice was particularly eloquent: [T]he essence of America, what really unites us, is not nationality or ethnicity or religion. It is an idea. And what an idea it…

Why does Paul Ryan simultaneously advocate the individual’s right to think for himself, decide for himself, and define happiness for himself—and advocate a massive and growing entitlement state that abrogates those rights by forcibly redistributing an individual’s wealth? The answer is that Ryan advocates the morality of altruism, the notion…

At times, Paul Ryan says things that would make the Founders proud, as with the following comments from his convention speech: When I was waiting tables, washing dishes, or mowing lawns for money, I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I was on my own…

Here is how freedom-loving Americans can win back America: Support Romney-Ryan, the only viable less-statist-than-Obama ticket in the 2012 presidential election. Tell Obama as the door hits him on the way out, "We didn't fire you. Somebody else made that happen." Tell Romney as he enters the White House, "Look…

A brilliant new video from the Charles Koch Institute shows with heartbreaking clarity how government controls of the economy discourage productiveness and encourage cronyism. The video begins, “Our children used to have big dreams.” Various children say things like, “When I grow up, I want to be a doctor!” and…

Although historian Jennifer Burns gets a lot wrong about Ayn Rand, she makes some good points in a recent op-ed for the New York Times. Burns discusses Rand’s ideas in relation to those of Paul Ryan, the GOP’s vice-presidential candidate who has credited Rand for inspiring him to enter politics.…

Anti-abortion Republicans need to knock off their dogma-driven nonsense. The zealotry to outlaw abortion is morally wrong and politically suicidal. Consider the latest controversy. Todd Akin, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Missouri, had the following exchange August 19 with Charles Jaco: Jaco: Are there any circumstances in your…