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France Needs Victims

The war between expropriators and producers has taken a wholly expected turn in France. The recently-elected socialist government announced

Aug 9, 2012
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Edward Hudgins
3 Mins
The Declaration and a Revolution Today

Americans are again celebrating Independence Day in traditional fashion, enjoying themselves with family and friends, picnics and fireworks.

Jul 3, 2012
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3 Mins
New Yorkers Shrug

Over the past decade New York State has lost 3.4 million residents, with incomes totaling $119 billion, according to the Tax Foundation

May 31, 2012
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Edward Hudgins
2 Mins
California's Choices: Austerity, Expropriation, or Liberty

California Gov. Jerry Brown announced that his state’s budget deficit will be $16 billion, up from earlier estimates of $9.2 billion, on a

May 16, 2012
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Edward Hudgins
3 Mins
Newt's Failed Presidential Campaign

Newt Gingrich is an American tragedy, a capacity and a potential wasted. The failed candidate for the 2012 Republican presidential nominatio

May 2, 2012
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Edward Hudgins
6 Mins
Paul Ryan and Ayn Rand's ideas: in the hot seat again

Last Thursday and Friday a flurry of news stories appeared addressing—again—the link between Rep. Paul Ryan and Ayn Rand’s ideas.

Apr 30, 2012
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5 Mins
Obama's Power Move: Scapegoating Speculators

On April 17, President Barrack Obama addressed Americans about rising prices of gasoline, now above $5.00 a gallon in parts of the country..

Apr 25, 2012
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Walter Donway
10 Mins
Rick Santorum: The Most Anti-Reagan Republican

With his virtual tie in the Iowa Caucuses, Rick Santorum is the final flavor-of-the-week conservative alternative to former Massachusetts Go

Jan 5, 2012
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Edward Hudgins
4 Mins
Obama's Mixed Inaugural Rhetoric

Presidential inauguration addresses are usually forgotten since it’s what the chief executive does after he’s sworn in that is of most

Jun 10, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
6 Mins
Happy Birthday George Washington!

George Washington unfortunately has become a cliché. For an older generation, he was too often treated as such a mythic figure that it was..

Jun 10, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
3 Mins
A Specter No Longer Haunts the Republican Party

Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter’s sudden change from the Republican to the Democratic Party has left Republicans with mixed feelings: rag

Jun 8, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
4 mins
Al Franken is Responsible for Not Being Responsible

Entertainment celebrities with leftist political views are hardly anything new. What is unusual, however, is for one to reveal the deep

Jun 8, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
2 Mins
A Specter of Small Government?

May 1, 2009—Republicans can both boo and cheer Sen. Arlen Specter’s switch to the Democratic Party. It’s a heavy blow for them to lose their

Jun 8, 2011
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3 Mins
The Triumph of Leviathan

October 1, 2003 -- Communism is dead; long live capitalism. Surely there is some truth to this claim, as even diehard advocates of communism

May 31, 2011
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Herbert London
4 Mins
This is Bob Barr

Editor’s Note: Bob Barr’s wide-ranging career has spanned law and politics, and multiple roles, including CIA analyst (1971-1978)..

May 30, 2011
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Lance Lamberton
10 Mins
Crisis in the GOP: The Battle for the Soul of the Republican Party

How can I say this? Surely we know the Republican response: “Think of the grim alternative! Congressional committees dominated or chaired by

Mar 28, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
15 Mins
Republican Statists: Back to the Future?

Fall 2006 -- As I was completing work today on this issue of the magazine, I received an e-mail announcing publication of Ryan Sager’s new

Mar 25, 2011
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Robert James Bidinotto
7 Mins
Are We All Libertarians Now?

November 2007 -- Brink Lindsey, The Age of Abundance: How Prosperity Transformed America's Politics and Culture. (New York: Collins, 2007)..

Mar 24, 2011
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10 Mins
Private I: Who Elected Democracy?

Back when I was writing the annual “Lands of Liberty” survey for the magazine Navigator, I would always include in the introduction a justification for evaluating the degree of democratic freedom in a country.

Mar 21, 2011
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Roger Donway
8 mins
Book Review: Shall "the Permanent Things" Endure?

“Conservatism is too often a conservation of the wrong things,” said T.S. Eliot during a lecture in 1937, “liberalism a relaxation of

Mar 16, 2011
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6 Mins

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