How come the same people who insist that government can't possibly compete with private enterprise are the first to whine that it shouldn't when it does?

It's always seemed strange to me that so many Evangelical Christians support Israel, when so many of them are also so rabidly anti-Semitic. (Martin Luther called Jewry "an incorrigible whore and an evil slut" and advocated sending Jews to forced labor camps ( Read more... )

Like the magnetic poles of our planet which reverse their polarities on million-year time scales, our nation's two dominant political parties - and there have almost always been two - have at times flip-flopped the voter ideologies they court. Perhaps best remembered is the reversal that accompanied the Civil Rights Movement, when the Democratic ( Read more... )

I've been thinking a lot lately about labor and wealth. I think America's working poor have them in about the right ratio. Perhaps we're even better off than we deserve to be. So it's not for our own sakes that we oppose the greedy machinations of the super-wealthy. It's not from us that they steal. It's not our own share that we fight to have ( Read more... )

From the Washington Post:

President Obama, if you look closely at his positions, is a moderate Republican of the early 1990s. And the Republican Party he’s facing has abandoned many of its best ideas in its effort to oppose him.
I'm glad to see the mainstream media finally addressing this. Obama has dragged the Democratic Party to the center (you ( Read more... )

This is a complete definition of all "-isms" (racism, sexism, etc ( Read more... )

In a completely free market, there is no such thing as a corporation. A corporation is a legal fiction created to protect an entrepreneur's personal property from debts incurred in their commercial endeavors. In a sense, corporations are a form of welfare; they assure that failure, whether it be from poor judgment or bad luck, will not leave the ( Read more... )

I rant about capitalism quite a bit, but I've never bothered to try to define exactly what it is I'm against. I'd like to start working on a definition for it. As always, dear reader, I welcome your input.

So far, all I've thought of is that capitalism allows for the ownership of resources that an individual or group cannot actually utilize

It's a small philosophical step from castle doctrine to getting medieval on corrupt capitalists who break the market in order to steal from it.

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