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Spare Us More of the Arrogance of ‘Expertise’
https://www.wsj.com/articles/spare-us-more-of-the-arrogance-of-expertise-11599000757 In his classic 1980 book, “Knowledge and Decisions,” Thomas Sowell expanded on Hayek’s insight and warned about the “grave implications” of these trends. The “locus of decision making has drifted away from the individual, the family and voluntary associations of various sorts, and toward government,” he wrote. “And within government, it has moved away…
WATCH: Democratic State Rep. John DeBerry Shames Rioters, ‘What Kind Of People Have We Become?’
https://thefederalist.com/2020/08/28/watch-democrat-state-rep-john-deberry-shames-rioters-what-kind-of-people-have-we-become/ DeBerry predicted possible consequences of his words saying, “I’m sure everything I say is going to be misconstrued and misquoted and used against me in November. Fine, fine, because I stand for my father‘s legacy.” The consequences DeBerry mentions are very real this election year. In May, the Tennessee Democratic Party’s State Executive Committee voted to…
https://americanmind.org/essays/trumpism-a-look-backward-and-forward-to-november/ That Trump is still standing is an unrecognized tribute to his resilience, stamina, and willpower to fight it out to the bitter end. His critics say 2020 is not 2016. This time the polls are right on, not rigged by the sort who trafficked in absurd Russian hoaxes or were mesmerized by Michael Avenatti….
This Election Is a Choice between Freedom and Slavery, Good and Evil
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/08/this_election_is_a_choice_between_freedom_and_slavery_good_and_evil.html If it feels as though we’re surrounded, that’s because we are. For freedom-minded Americans, this is an unnerving time. But that’s exactly the way it’s always been. As inspiring as Reagan’s words are, they leave out the chilling context that Lord Acton’s provide: “At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been…
Defund the Schools Instead of the Police?
The idea is to fund parents instead. Let state legislatures decide the going rate for the education of a K-12-aged child, and then let the parents decide where that child should be educated and how that money should be spent. It’s called school choice. A radical idea? No doubt. But this is a radical idea…
Where the Civil Rights movement went wrong
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/07/where_the_civil_rights_movement_went_wrong.html Many young leaders seeking to imitate Dr. King’s career know about only the protests and marches, not comprehending that that was just a minor part of the actual movement that won civil rights. King’s immediate successors inherited only his talent for public relations and staged media events. Outright con artists like Jesse Jackson turned “civil rights”…
Should the Right Repudiate Reagan?
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/should-the-right-repudiate-reagan/ Drawing up to an altitude above Caldwell’s 30,000-foot view, we might question the centrality of his civil rights critique with the wider phenomenon of the expanding welfare state. The connection is genuine, yet we see the same identitarian and politically correct trends in Europe, which did not (with minor exceptions) have chattel slavery, still…