The Role of Ideology in Politics
The School of Athens, a place for the development of ideologies Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Raphael (1505) Many of the people with whom I have talked over my lifetime, if indeed not most, hated the … Read More
Tag: Political Disputes
Differing positions between political parties, including their bases and other supporters.
Donald Trump’s Lack of Knowledge
Sweeping up Hungarian banknotes after the Hungarian pengö was replaced in 1946. Wikimedia Commons/Mizerák István – Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum Történeti Fényképtára, Budapest Donald Trump’s loose lips could sink a whole … Read More
The Anguish of a Conservative Voter
OMIGOD! Donald Trump is going to be the Republican nominee!! (c) Can Stock Photo Now that Donald Trump is the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party, what is a principled … Read More
More on HGV Defenses
YAL-1A airborne laser in flight with the mirror unstowed Photo Credit:Wikimedia Commons/U.S. Missile Defense Agency This is the third post in a series on the threat of Chinese and Russian … Read More
The Menace of Hypersonic Glide Vehicles
Deployment of U.S. Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle (HTV2) AFP Photo/Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA) While Obama’s administration is cutting back on defense spending and futuristic defense development programs, both … Read More
Crony Capitalism
World Map of Transparency International’s perception of corruption index for 2015 Wikimedia Commons/Turnless If there is one area of agreement between believers in capitalist free-markets and American Leftists, it is that … Read More
The Anti-Freedom Bias of Progressives
Galileo’s trial for scientific heresy by the Roman Catholic Church Wikimedia Commons/Painting by Cristiano Banti (1857) (US-PD-Art) I am not the only one to notice the increasingly authoritarian tendencies of … Read More
Economic Plans of Trump, Sanders, and Clinton Are Fantasies
Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and Bernie Sanders: A rogues gallery of economic ignorance Image Credits: Top Left to Right: Wikimedia Commons/Michael Vadon, Wikimedia Commons/Voice of America Bottom: Wikimedia Commons/Gage Skidmore … Read More
Compromise Between the Right and the Left
Compromise: Are our arms long enough to reach across the chasm? Image Credit: CanStockPhoto/photocreo A commenter on the post Economic Questions: Is Everyone Fooling Themselves? was concerned about the ability … Read More
The Intolerance of Barack Obama and the Democrats
Obama and Trump: Two sides of the same coin? Photo Credits: Left: President Barack Obama in Nordea Concert Hall via photopin (license) Right: Flickr.com/WalkingGeek Yesterday the Wall Street … Read More
Globalization, Xenophobia, and Donald Trump
Views that fuel Donald Trump’s Campaign Image Credit: Flickr.com/Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com The political reactions working in favor of Donald Trump, or for that matter, Bernie Sanders have been a long time … Read More
The Noose Tightens on Hillary Clinton
Justice awaits! Photo Credit: Flickr.com/S Baker Neither the Democratic electorate nor most of the media have shown much interest in Hillary Clinton’s legal troubles so far, but recent … Read More
Donald Trump’s Uncertain Trumpet
Trump speaking at 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Gage Skidmore Marco Rubio’s call at last night’s Republican debate to fact check the differences between Donald Trump’s … Read More
The Political Defense of US Capitalism
Storm Clouds of Socialism (c) Can Stock Photo / leedsn This essay is a continuation of my previous … Read More
Can U.S. Capitalism Be Supported Politically?
A collective life under socialism. (Of course, Bernie Sanders would say this is capitalism!) The Last Judgement, Hell By Fra Angelico (circa 1395–1455) – The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der … Read More
The Federal Reserve Is in a Bind
Janet Yellen, Chairman of the Federal Reserve System Wikimedia Commons/United States Federal Reserve Wednesday and Thursday, Janet Yellen, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, gave one of her periodic reports … Read More
Meanings of the Word Socialism
Lamartine, before the Hotel de Ville, Paris rejects the red flag of revolution and socialism on Feb. 25, 1848. By Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux , Public Domain Late yesterday, while … Read More
An Astonishing Thought About Taxes
photo credit: Taxes – Illustration via photopin (license) This morning I read an astonishing conjecture that something could actually be done this year about the tax burdens hobbling the American … Read More
Big Corporations Abandoning the U.S. at an Increasing Rate
Abandon Ship! Photo Credit: Flickr.com/Just Taken Pics The flow of big corporations abandoning the United States for more friendly business climates is increasing steadily. Some of the … Read More
Bernie Sanders Is Probably The Democrats’ Nominee
Hillary Clinton testifying to the House Select Committee on Benghazi. Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/C-Span It is becoming increasingly apparent that whoever the Democratic Party’s nominee will be, it will not … Read More
A Movie Hillary and the Democrats Should Fear
President Obama and Secretary Clinton honor the Benghazi attack victims at the Transfer of Remains Ceremony held at Andrews Air Force Base on September 14, 2012. Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/US … Read More
What Do Young Americans Believe?
Sir Winston S. Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1940 to 1945 and 1951 to 1955 Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Library of Congress/United Nations Information Office “Socialism is the philosophy … Read More
Cutting Government Expenditures
Federal government budget considerations (c) Can Stock Photo/robwilson39 I have been promising for some time now, most recently in What to Do About Keynesian Secular Stagnation, to discuss how the … Read More
How to Solve Problems in Chaotic Social Systems
The problem space: a system with chaotic boundaries Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Eequor In Central Planning for Chaotic Social Systems I discussed how social systems, particularly economic systems, are really chaotic … Read More
What to Do About Keynesian Secular Stagnation
“I’m here from the government, and I’m here to help!” Image Credit: FreeImages.com/Daniel Perry In the preceding post The Keynesian Excuse: Secular Stagnation, I described the Keynesian revival of the … Read More
The Growing Backlash Against the Left
Tea Party Protest, Washington D.C. Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Freedom Fan In my last post I commented on Peter Beinart’s confident prediction that America would follow the … Read More
Are Americans Really Moving to the Left?
Tomb of Karl Marx Photo Credit: Flickr.com/Matt From London These troubled times see Americans traveling in sharply different ideological directions. At least partially isolated from each other … Read More
The Limits to Free Speech
Plato’s Academy in Athens Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Raphael (1509-1510) Recently I heard on Fox News of an event that illustrates autocratic tendencies among students at an elite university, and for … Read More
Progressives’ Disrespect for the US Constitution
Ever since President Woodrow Wilson, progressives in the United States have expressed varying degrees of disrespect for the U.S. Constitution, and have chafed over its limitations on the implementation of … Read More