by Dan Mitchell | Apr 22, 2018 | Blogs
After the horrific school shooting in Parkland, Florida, I explained that the gun-control policies being pushed by left-leaning students such as David Hogg would be utterly ineffective at deterring evil people. But give the kid credit. He’s fully exploiting his 15...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 14, 2018 | Blogs, Economics
When trying to convince someone about the downsides of socialism, I generally make a practical argument. I point out that socialism has universally failed, whether looking at totalitarian versions in places such as North Korea and Cuba or democratic versions in places...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 18, 2018 | Blogs, Uncategorized
I shared some satire about gun control last month, but the left’s campaign to exploit the horrible Parkland shooting seems to have instigated a bunch of new material. So let’s have some weekend fun. We’ll start with this humorous image from Reddit‘s libertarian page...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 3, 2018 | Blogs, Uncategorized
I sometimes feel guilty when I mock communism. Should I really be joking about an ideology that directly or indirectly caused 100 million deaths? Are laughs appropriate when there is ongoing torture, abuse, and starvation in communist hellholes such as North...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 24, 2018 | Blogs
I like to share examples of political/policy humor, including self-deprecating jokes that poke fun at libertarians (we may be dorky, but at least we don’t want to control your life!). But I have a challenge. When sharing jokes that make mock leftist economics, I have...