Randall G. Holcombe | Friday May 3, 2019 at 11:26 AM PDT
With socialism’s rising popularity, it may be time to bring back courses in Comparative Economic Systems.
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Tag: Bernie Sanders
K. Lloyd Billingsley | Monday April 29, 2019 at 3:19 PM PDT
Presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris both want to ban the right-to-work laws that some news organizations describe as “controversial.”
K. Lloyd Billingsley | Wednesday April 24, 2019 at 11:24 AM PDT
Governor Gavin Newsom wants to expand Medi-Cal, the state’s program for low-income people, to every Californian under age 26, regardless of immigration status.
Lawrence J. McQuillan | Thursday June 14, 2018 at 12:00 PM PDT
A government powerful enough to give you everything you want is powerful enough to take away everything you have.
Mary L. G. Theroux | Monday January 9, 2017 at 6:12 PM PDT
Establishment Republicans have been beating their breasts over Trump’s election no less than Hillary’s supporters, bewildered that a man so beyond the pale could have been the Republican nominee, much less President-elect. Chief among their theories is that a stronger national committee mechanism to identify and back their favored (read: establishment-representative) candidate for the...
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Mary L. G. Theroux | Friday December 16, 2016 at 7:14 PM PDT
For years, the national security establishment has been telling us, “If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.” Ergo, the feds ought to be provided complete access to all of our emails, cell calls, internet browsing records, location, private in-home conversations, banking records, credit card transactions, etc., etc., etc., held forever,...
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Lawrence J. McQuillan | Monday October 10, 2016 at 2:35 PM PDT
The November ballot in Oakland and San Francisco will feature proposals for a soda tax in each city, known as Measure HH and Proposition V, respectively, which would charge soda distributors an additional one cent per ounce of soda they sell in each city (or $2.88 per case). The tax would also apply to...
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Lawrence J. McQuillan | Thursday May 26, 2016 at 4:26 PM PDT
In 1883, William Graham Sumner wrote a series of essays for Harper’s Weekly, which paid him $50 apiece. The excerpted essay below on “The Forgotten Man” is as relevant today as in 1883—even more so. Politicians continue to pile more burdens on ordinary people in the name of this or that professed well-intentioned cause,...
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Abigail R. Hall | Thursday May 19, 2016 at 4:59 PM PDT
When I graduated from college, reality hit. I was now considered a “real adult.” In a matter of months I’d be moving out of my parents’ basement and some 700 miles away to start graduate school. I was also struck by something I knew was coming, but hadn’t quite appreciated. That “something” was my...
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Lawrence J. McQuillan | Friday March 4, 2016 at 4:03 PM PDT
Bernie Sanders is proud to be a socialist. In July 2015, he told The Nation: “Do they think I’m afraid of the word? I’m not afraid of the word.” As far back as 1989, Sanders said: “I think there has been too much of a reluctance on the part of progressives and radicals to...
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