Clear Thinking

The comical befuddlement of the "Occupy Wall Street" protesters

George Will nails it, sort of: "Liberalism preaches confident social engineering by the regulatory state. Conservatism urges government humility in the face of society’s creative complexity." Replace "Conservatism" with "Libertarianism" and Will's statement would be far truer.

Robert Brice: "...China's emissions jumped by 123% over the past decade and now exceed those of the U.S. by more than two billion tons per year. ...over the past decade, U.S. carbon dioxide emissions—about 6.1 billion tons per year—could have gone to zero and yet global emissions still would have gone up." So it seems that for many radical enviro-nuts, driving America back into the Stone Age is pretty much the goal.

Dissecting the mostly silly demands of an "Occupy Wall Street" protester

On the utter cluelssness of the purely emotional "progressive" mindset

Fran Tarkenton tells it like it is in public education -- and it ain't pretty.

No clear thinker could be surprised that gun violence decreases when the number of law-abiding gun owners increases.

An argument for the only truly worthwhile GOP presidential contender

Economist Ralph Reiland exposes the falseness of Barack Obama's claim that "Middle-class families... pay higher taxes than millionaires and billionaires."

A commonsense position on illegal immigration that many conservatives will no doubt find insufficiently ideological.

Perhaps the most effect Don Boudreaux article ever: "[Barack Obama] knows no more about the economic matters upon which he pronounces than does a soap-opera actor portraying a physician know about cardiology or obstetrics."

Dan Mitchell's excellent challenges to people who want to hinder free trade

Don Boudreaux debunking Pat Buchanan's riduculous positions on immigration and trade

Economist Steven Horwitz debunks Warren Buffett's tax-the-rich nonsense. Point for point, the outspoken billionaire is dead wrong.

Not all government is bad. Not all private-sector "watchdogs" are good. Trevor Butterworth exposes Dr. Oz for a fraud.

Victor Davis Hanson: "After Obama, Americans will not be fooled for a generation or so into thinking that a Harvard PhD or Berkeley professor “really” knows that borrowing is prosperity, that gas should cost as much as it does in Europe, and that the more we pay millions to regulate, the more the vastly fewer who produce make us all prosperous."

Ron Paul’s foreign policy fallacies Ron Paul is once again popping off from the hip, using false contentions as ammunition. Focus on fallacies 2, 3, and 4. Weinstein's fallacy #1 is actually a factual statement.

David Boaz writes eloquently of the absurdity of a "war on drugs" in which conservatives seem to think that "the compassionate way to treat suffering people is to put them in jail."

David Friedman offers a calm, reasoned argument for not fearing global warming even if it is real.

As I've said before, Ron Paul’s Lapses Give Libertarianism a Bad Rap. David Catron agrees: "And character is, at bottom, the real problem with Ron Paul."

Republicans behaving just like Democrat scumbags

Barack Obama, America's biggest crony capitalist as well as most dishonest president ever

John Tamny: "We always hear about the “pain” of federal spending cuts, but someday, someone, somewhere in power will note that government spending is the pain."

Sheldon Richman and Robert Higgs debunk the "WWII ended the Depression" myth and "stimulus" spending in general--again.

Obama's disgusting, immoral, sneaky, and despicable crony capitalism