Waiting for the Good Old Days

A Department of Justice official recently announced that radical Islamists pose less of a threat to the country than "€œanti-government and hate groups."€ You heard right: Online trolls are a bigger danger than fanatics who chop off heads. The feds are reacting to this rise in homespun ...

Chromosomal Damage

Since when did sexual harassment become the go-to reaction of women in the workplace? According to Kim Elsesser, author of the new book Sex and the Office, the widespread fear of sexual-harassment suits has made it nearly impossible for men and women to work together in a professional setting. The ...

White Plight

Former Virginia senator Jim Webb is campaigning for president to bring low-income whites back to the Democratic Party, recently telling Yahoo News that "€œI think that [the Democrats] have kind of unwittingly used this group, white working males, as a whipping post for a lot of their ...

Higher Learning at an All-Time Low

Vermont senator Bernie Sanders is nipping at Hillary Clinton's two-inch heels in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination based largely upon his higher-education plan. With student debt now outpacing credit-card debt, the socialist senator wants to make four-year public colleges and ...

Rise of the Stoics

God bless the South. As a Pennsylvania-born descendant of loyalists, I can"€™t say that enough. From resisting tariffs to the Civil War to desegregation, the South has been a thorn in the side of the federal government for almost two centuries. I don"€™t, of course, condone slavery or Jim ...

Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco

Another Kind of Sanctuary

It's a shame how tragedy ignites the public's attention span. But "€œIf it bleeds, it leads"€ works for a reason, so we might as well accept it. The terrible and unfortunate murder of 32-year-old Californian Kate Steinle by illegal immigrant Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez has brought the issue ...

Georgetown, Washington D.C.

Identity Controls in D.C.

In the wake of Open Borders Day, Ryan Cooper of The Week laments that for all the talk of inclusiveness and tolerance, rich white folk won"€™t let the hoi polloi into their neighborhoods. Apparently, this trend is especially prevalent in the nation's capital, which is ostensibly home to ...

Death and Taxes

"€œWhat is taxation but theft on a gigantic, unchecked, scale?"€ Murray Rothbard's question doesn"€™t have an answer. The coercive taking of money is theft. No exceptions. Mental masturbation on the "€œsocial contract"€ or necessities of public action don"€™t eliminate that fact. The ...

The Almighty Measle

The recent outbreak of measles has predictably sparked a national debate. California, which is the center of the story, reports just over a hundred cases. The second-most reported cases are in Arizona, with seven children who have the disease. New York and Utah each have up to three infected ...

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