Posts with the tag “big-government”
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The Left's Big Pitch: Embrace a Worse Life in the Name of Equality
December 21st, 2022
By Ben ShapiroThis week, The New York Times released a long expose of the shortcomings of the United Kingdom's National Health Service. Long cherished as a crown jewel of Left-wing governmental policy... Read More
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The Science of Happiness
December 14th, 2022
By John StosselAre you happy? Many people say they feel happier during the holidays. But I'm not happy. Democrats and Republicans keep voting for bigger government. Few people accept the... Read More
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Politics by Profession
August 10th, 2022
By John StosselWhy are you a conservative? Or a libertarian, Republican, Democrat, socialist? Ok, if you read my column, you're probably not a socialist ... But how do people come to... Read More
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COVID's Good News
July 27th, 2022
By John StosselAt least the pandemic had a silver lining. It taught parents that there are better alternatives to government schools. When COVID hit, bureaucrats in control were eager to c... Read More
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Where's the Beef?
July 20th, 2022
By John StosselHow can it be that with so much cattle in America, we sometimes can't buy meat? At the beginning of the pandemic, Costco, Wegmans and Kroger limited purchases of beef. Hundreds of... Read More
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Dictator Envy
July 13th, 2022
By John StosselSome Western leaders envy dictators' powers.President Donald Trump said, when North Korea's Kim Jong-un speaks, "his people sit up at attention. I want my people to do the same."Preside... Read More
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If 'No One Wants to Take Our Guns,' Stop Saying the Opposite
June 2nd, 2022
By Larry Elder[Editor's note: the following column was originally published in 2017.]Almost immediately after the 2017 Las Vegas shooting came the calls for "common sense" gun control. The quest almos... Read More
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That we are underlings...
May 9th, 2022
By Patrick HallThe late German sociologist, Karl Mannheim, along with political scientist Aaron Wildavsky (May 31, 1930 – September 4, 1993) recognized the tendency in Western cultures to breed, or at... Read More
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“Voter rights legislation” is a demand for government-backed systemic voter disenfranchisement!
January 11th, 2022
By Kevin McGrayOne of the worst affronts to the collective dignity of a supposedly “free society” is the active undermining of the expression of free voices via the vote. Shockingly, otherwise reasona... Read More
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The Year of Living Unreasonably
December 29th, 2021
By Ben ShapiroIn 2020, Americans learned that if emergency dictated, we could lock down, mask up, and blow out spending to temporarily stymie the impact of a global pandemic. We learned that if uncert... Read More
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No Wonder Why People and Businesses Are Dumping California
December 23rd, 2021
By Larry ElderA recent study by the Cato Institute, the libertarian think tank, ranked California 48th out of the 50 states in personal and economic freedom. The study also examines fiscal policy and ... Read More
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Questioning the Science
December 22nd, 2021
By John StosselWhen people criticize Dr. Anthony Fauci, he says: "They're really criticizing science. Because I represent science."Pretty arrogant.I assume Fauci is a top-notch scientist. My brother w... Read More
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A Different Park
December 8th, 2021
By John StosselPeople want "public" rather than "private."Public is ... free, right? Wide open. Sharing. Available to everyone. All good things."Private" is ... selfish, closed, for the rich.Clearly, ... Read More
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This Is Why I Ran
November 4th, 2021
By Larry ElderDuring and after my unsuccessful eight-week campaign for governor of California, I received many letters and tried to reply to as many as I could. These stood out.Dear Mr. Elder,Hi, my n... Read More
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Freedom Waters Will Break Through Biden's Authoritarian Mandate Wall
October 26th, 2021
By Ken BlackwellThe American people must never lose sight of what makes our country great as we march toward victory in our ongoing efforts to defeat the COVID-19 pandemic. We will defeat this enemy w... Read More
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Break Rules
July 14th, 2021
By John StosselAmerica has so many regulations that today, often the only way to do something new, to create something great, to prosper is to ignore rules.Minutes before SpaceX launched a rocket, the... Read More
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Big Business Loves Big Government
July 7th, 2021
By John StosselPoliticians say they pass laws to "protect Americans from big business."People like hearing that. Many don't like big business.Unfortunately, most people don't realize that those laws o... Read More
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