Are you still unsure if Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is bleeding red? Senator Sanders, known for celebrating bread lines, has been championed as a democratic socialist, which is essentially the same thing as regular socialism. However let’s say that democratic socialism is different than what has been practiced in Venezuela or the Soviet Union, the […]
Austrian Economics
A college ‘education’ is about joining ‘respectable’ social circles
By: Ryan McMaken An old friend of mine, who taught political science for 25 years at the University of Colorado, was known to tell his students that the realreason they were there was to marry people from the right social class. While perhaps a little overly cynical, this assessment certainly wasn’t totally wrong. Few parents have ever been […]
EARTH HOUR: Let’s celebrate fossil fuels
By: Andrew Moran Green puritanism is the outrage over someone, somewhere being cheerful and grateful with what fossil fuels have given humanity over the last century. You are a heretic, a scoundrel, and a misanthrope if you dare enjoy anything that oil and gas have helped produce since George Bissell and Edwin L. Drake successfully drilled for […]
Random Friday: International Women’s Day edition
News Story of the Day: The gender pay gap has been debunked. You have to be a fool to take it seriously. But, because they do not have facts on their side, leftists want to wield the club of the state to just give men and women the same amount of money, even if one […]
How do you get socialism in America? Green New Deal, Modern Monetary Theory (MMT)
By: Mark Hendrickson Thank you, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The Green New Deal (GND) she has unveiled is most illuminating. It is now unmistakably clear that AOC, Bernie Sanders, and other democratic socialists in the Democratic Party don’t want “socialism lite” but rather they want the federal government to take control of the “commanding heights” of […]