When the man who unleashed Colin Powell to preach affirmative action to the traditionally opposed Republicans takes a stand ostensibly against race quotas, skepticism is in order. The president’s filing of a legal brief challenging racial preferences in student admissions at the University of Michigan warrants even more suspicion considering his
It was assistant broker Douglas Faneuil’s word against Martha Stewart’s. The word of a liar and a “man” who referred to himself cloyingly as “baby” (”Baby put Ms. Martha in her place!!!”), against that of a mensch who, over the years, has delivered on her promises to countless satisfied customers. But first came Sam. ImClone CEO Sam Waksal
Inundated from early childhood with government propaganda in public schools and educational institutions by legions of publicly certified intellectual, most people mindlessly accept and repeat nonsense such as that democracy is self-rule and government is of, by, and for the people. — Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Democracy, The God That Failed James
On the eve of the federal convention, and following its adjournment in September of 1787, the Anti-Federalists made the case that the Constitution makers in Philadelphia had exceeded the mandate they were given to amend the Articles of Confederation, and nothing more. The Federal Constitution augured ill for freedom, argued the Anti-Federalists.
Yes, it has happened. A mere 23 years after the 1994 transition, in South Africa, to raw ripe democracy, six years following the publication of a wide-ranging analysis of that catastrophe, Into the Cannibal’s Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa , a Beltway libertarian think tank has convened to address the problem that is
The Indian tribesman’s claim to his ancient stomping grounds can’t be reduced to a title search at the deeds office. That’s the stuff of the positive law. And this was the point I took away from a conversation, circa 2000, with Mr. Property Rights himself, Hans-Hermann Hoppe. Dr. Hoppe argued unassailably—does he argue any other way?—that if
News first broke about America’s Niger misadventure on October 4. “The real news here is that the US has forces in Niger, where they’re conducting covert operations,” this writer tweeted out. “Hashtag America First.” Official media ignored the ambush of the American Special Forces, until the story gained anti-Trump traction. No word came from John
In a fit of pique in 2016, then-President Barack Obama expelled Russian diplomats from the United States. K. T. McFarland, Michael Flynn ‘s deputy in the Trump transition team, worried that Obama’s expulsion of the diplomats was aimed at “ boxing Trump in diplomatically, “ making it impossible for the president to “improve relations with Russia,”
In the tradition of dimming debate, the chattering class has reduced systemic corruption in South Africa and the near collapse in Zimbabwe, respectively, to the shenanigans of two men: Jacob Zuma and Robert Mugabe. Zuma, the President of South Africa, currently faces possible impeachment for corruption , while Robert Mugabe has now been forcibly
In teasing out right from wrong, discriminate we must between acts that are criminal only because The State has criminalized them ( mala prohibita ), as opposed to acts which are universally evil ( malum in se ). Israel’s sacking of Gaza is malum in se, universally evil . Gaza is clearly an easy case in ethics. It’s not as though the genocide
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