It seems like Hollywood is filled with a bunch of nitwitted, anti-intellectual, group-think liberal socialists. These entertainers have more money than anyone -- and good for them -- but instead of being in favor of money-making, they're furiously against it. I've...
Elections
Obama's Key To Winning The Next Election: Freebies Over Freedom
The economy is in the tank, and it will keep tanking. Republicans are unable to do anything about it, and Obama is unwilling because his ideology of socialism comes first. Still, he's favored to win in 2012. Why is this? Is it because the Republican candidates are so...
Election 2012: Degrees of Dissatisfaction
Normally, the search for a Republican candidate for President is a search for a candidate who actually agrees with the principles of limited government, individual rights, private property and capitalism. This year, the search is for someone who actually even agrees...
Donald Trump is No Capitalist
Punitive and redistributionist taxes, centralized planning, barriers to trade, and an entitlement “social safety net” are all ideas straight out of Karl Marx, not John Galt.
Vote Republican Rather than Tea Party?
At best, the Tea Party movement may be the first step in an ever-better progression.
French Pension Riots and U.S. 2010 Elections
First, Greece was in an uproar over government subsidies and entitlements. For the past seven days, France has also been rocked by nonstop violence caused by a slight change in government-controlled economic programs. The French have announced plans to raise the...
Scott Brown: A Mere Speed Bump on the Conservatives’ Road to Serfdom
Most polls in recent years reveal that Americans believe the country is “on the wrong track.” That’s surely true — and both political parties are taking them there. Yet few people know what the right track actually entails. It’s time to pave a new road entirely — not the road to serfdom, but a purely capitalist road, undergirded by a selfish-individualist ethic.
On The White House “Disinformation” Campaign
The “disinformation” I’ve found has actually come from the White House…
The Conservative Package Deal
One of the worst mistakes that one can make in about this election is to see the two-parties as standing for a fundamental alternative.The symptom of this is when an opponent of Party A ("don't vote for McCain") is accused of advocating a vote for Party B. A critic of...
2008 Presidential Elections: McBama vs. America
As the 2008 presidential election nears, and while John McCain and Barack Obama struggle to distinguish themselves from each other in terms of particular promises and goals, it is instructive to observe that these candidates are indistinguishable in terms of...
Election Bean Counting: “Billary” Versus Obama
Whatever one may think about Barack Obama as a candidate or as a potential President, his candidacy has brought something new to the American political scene. His stunning victory in the Iowa caucuses, in a state where more than 90 percent of the population is white,...
Notes on the Coming Election
For whom should one vote in the coming election? What is the principal factor one should consider in judging a candidate or a political party? Should one focus on what a candidate says he is going to do in office? Should one make one's decision by asking, as some have...
Peikoff on the 2006 Elections
Is there any point in voting for candidates of either entrenched party?
Under Siege: Voting Rights of Felons or Property Rights of Citizens?
The American people need protection from crime, private and government.
To Fight Corruption, Limit Government
If one is serious about fighting corruption, the first and most important thing that must be fought is all discretionary power on the part of the government and its officials.
Bush’s Betrayal of America: The Iraqi Elections
President Bush claims that holding elections on January 30 will bring Iraq a step closer to freedom, an outcome allegedly vital to America's security. But the Iraqi election will bring neither freedom to Iraq nor security to America. Consider the beliefs of the Iraqis...
Free Elections in Iraq: Victory and Defeat
The defeatists have been defeated. Remember all the political outcries that the Iraqi elections should be postponed because it would be impossible to hold elections with terrorism rampant throughout the country? Fortunately, most Iraqis do not see the American media,...
A Huge Election in Iraq
The election coming up in Iraq may turn out, in the long view of history, to be even more important than our own recent election. Both elections represent a country at a crossroads, with a choice of very different paths to take -- for many years to come -- according...
Stealing Elections in Ukraine
There are many ways to steal an election. On Nov. 21, the government of Ukraine tried them all. Busloads of hoodlums -- armed with permission slips allowing them to vote away from home -- cast ballots in successive polling places. Known supporters of the opposition...
Why Kerry Got Wiped Out During the Latest Election
"I can't believe I'm losing to this idiot," said presidential candidate John Kerry when he learned he was losing in the polls. This statement shows why Kerry got wiped out during the latest election. Most Americans do not find the president stupid. The "West Wing's"...
There’s Still Time
One of the reasons the electorate and the country are so divided is that there is no widespread adherence to any particular set of political convictions. Most Americans do not want to adopt Communism, Nazism, fascism or Islamofascism as a set of convictions, for...
American Unemployment and Elections
Concluding a sensational convention in New York with a speech that emphasized unflinching strength, President Bush got more good news this morning. The Labor Department announced that the unemployment rate had dropped to 5.4 percent -- the lowest proportion of...
Election 2004: Looking Ahead While Living Today
Q: Dr. Hurd, you sometimes imply that it would be worse to vote for John Kerry than for President Bush. But President Bush wants to push his religious agenda on the nation. Isn't that worse than John Kerry? A: Bush's religious agenda is bad indeed. I will make no...
Election Year 2000: A Million Black Voters Disenfranchised?
Tell me again. Which of the presidential candidates calls himself a "uniter" and not a "divider"? "Don't tell us that the strongest democracy on earth," said Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry in a recent speech for the NAACP, "that a million disenfranchised...
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