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The only graph you need

Here it is, the only graph you need to understand the world you live in: Fossil fuels are largely responsible for the success of mankind shown in this graph. Fossil fuels have lifted more people out of...

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Uneven Justice in the Obama Justice Department

Michael Mukasy, from a speech delivered on July 19, 2015, aboard the Crystal Serenity, during a Hillsdale College cruise from Lisbon to London. Obama and the Obama Justice Department. If you think...

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Pew Poll: Middle Class Losing ground

Tax Prof Blog: After more than four decades of serving as the nation’s economic majority, the American middle class is now matched in number by those in the economic tiers above and below it. In early...

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Establish Republicans keep selling us down the river

The phrase “sold down the river” originated in the antebellum South and referred to Kentucky slaves being sold down the Mississippi where deep South plantation owners were paying ever high prices for...

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If you want equality you should want capitalism

I knew this even before I read Barry Brownstein’s essay at The Freeman, Capitalism Promotes Equality. You see, I’ve read enough history to know that modern plumbing is modern, meaning for the great...

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How The Welfare State Begins, and Ends

A Cato intern, Silvia Morandotti, used her artistic skills to create two images that show what a welfare state looks like when it first begins and what it eventually becomes. Isn’t solidarity...

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Barack Obama and The Curley Effect

James Michael Curley (1874-1958) was mayor of Boston during four non-succesive 4-year terms from 1914 to 1950. Before his first term as mayor of Boston he was a member of the U.S. House of...

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Liberal fail: Home ownership at 48-year low

The financial crisis of 2008 had several causes but a root cause that contributed to all the other causes was the government’s insistence that banks loan money to people who could never pay it back....

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Black-owned business gets a lesson in black political correctness

Black-Owned Restaurant Facing Boycott After Catering a Trump Event Chef Don Studvent, a Black business owner in Detroit, Michigan, is under fire for catering an event for Donald Trump’s son. His 7-year...

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The real story of Thanksgiving

You probably think communism is the political system that Marxist philosophy brought about.  But communism was tried in America as early as 1620 when the first pilgrims arrived in Massachusetts Bay....

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