Politics & Rights

Discusses the necessary conditions of a civilized society—or, the moral nuts and bolts of freedom and capitalism.

Considers the Ground Zero mosque, the spread of Islam in America, and how Americans and Westerners in general should deal with such efforts.

The question of how to reconcile the right to immigrate to America with an objective screening process has arisen in several forums lately, so I’d like to address it here. Because I answered this question in a reply to a letter to the editor in the Summer 2009 issue of…

"Social Security is the most successful social program in the history of the world," says Harry Reid, the Democratic senator of Nevada. Investors Business Daily replies: Successful? A program that socks future generations with trillions in higher taxes and lower standards of living? A program that's already running in the…

In a previous blog post I showed how the Securities and Exchange Commission has wielded power, assaulted businesses, and ignored fraud. Now it appears that the SEC colluded with the Obama administration to assault Goldman Sachs, boost the administration’s chances of passing the financial “reform” bill, and line the coffers…

Here's a great interview with Steve Simpson in which he argues that Americans need to recognize freedom of speech not as a permission to be granted when it suits social purposes, but as a right to be protected at all times. (The interview is in the first hour of the…

In a recent article in Investor’s Business Daily, Thomas Sowell explains why Obama’s economic policies are bad for the economy: The current issue of Bloomberg Businessweek has a feature article about businesses that are just holding on to huge sums of money. They say, for example, that the pharmaceutical company…

Considers the essentials of the recent “peace activist” effort to breach Israel’s blockade of Gaza, the pathetic nature of Israel and America’s responses to the assault, and the principles that should have governed their responses.

Steve Simpson answers a letter about the Citizens United Supreme Court decision.

Here is the final batch of drawings of Mohammed, in defense of the requirements of human life and civilized society. In honor of “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day,” we have placed all of the drawings together on a single dedicated page, which can be found here. I wish to thank those…