by Dan Mitchell | Nov 8, 2017 | Blogs, Crime, Society
It’s impossible to imagine the evil and/or the sickness that would lead a person to massacre strangers in a church. But it’s very easy to predict the political aftermath of such a tragedy. Folks on the left (some well-meaning, some not) immediately urge more gun...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 7, 2017 | Blogs, Uncategorized
There’s no way to sugarcoat the monstrous evil of communism. The death toll is simply too large. But the silver lining to the dark cloud of Marxist socialism is that we have some clever jokes and satire. We’ll start with the Gipper. Here are some of his anti-communism...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 6, 2017 | Blogs, Economics, Socialism
I should probably be writing about the tax bill, or augmenting my series on the 100th anniversary (deathiversary?) of communism, but I can’t resist sharing some humor about socialism that appeared in my inbox this morning. Earlier this year, I posted a column...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 5, 2017 | Blogs, Uncategorized
To observe the tragic 100th birthday of communism, I wrote last week about Karl Marx’s legacy of death, suffering, destruction, and misery. Along with its sister ideology of national socialism, communism was the most potent killer of the 20th century. But what’s...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 4, 2017 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
My view on the Drug War is somewhat schizophrenic. In my personal life, I’m basically a social conservative. I don’t like drugs, I’ve never tried drugs, and I urge others to behave the same way. But I know that prohibition is a costly failure that leads to abusive...
