Sen. Edward M. Kennedy is gone. No one in the last 40 years stood as a larger symbol of “liberalism,” the view that government is the answer for everything. A great deal has been said in recent days about his compassion and generosity. But bear in mind that in public life, his compassion consisted in spending other people’s money and authorizing government bureaucracies to interfere with the social cooperation that takes place whenever life, liberty, and property are respected.

Comments (2) | Quote this article on your site | Views: 918

Allowing today’s leaders to get away with war crimes will send a dangerous signal to future leaders that they can do the same.

Be first to comment this article | Quote this article on your site | Views: 568

Let’s assume that a U.S. president authorizes the CIA to rape the family members of suspected terrorists as a way to get them to talk. He also authorizes his subordinates to place the suspected terrorists on a rack that stretches them apart until they confess and disclose all details of their suspected terrorism.

Comments (2) | Quote this article on your site | Views: 847

Ain't it a shame our so-called liberal media is obsessed with "death panels" of fevered imaginations rather than death panels that exist in the real world, notably in our present health-care system?

Comments (2) | Quote this article on your site | Views: 941

Should libertarians hope that Barack Obama succeeds or fails in his presidency? The question comes to mind because conservatives got embroiled in the issue when their leading radio star, Rush Limbaugh, said he hoped Obama would fail. Some commentators thought that was a horrible thing to say. Radio stars need regular public controversy to keep their listeners tuned in, so there’s no point in analyzing what the Republican partisan Limbaugh might have meant. But the question may lead us to other insights.

Be first to comment this article | Quote this article on your site | Views: 521

“On my last day in Iraq,” veteran McClatchy News correspondent Leila Fadel wrote August 9th, “as on my first day in Iraq, I couldn’t see what the United States and its allies had accomplished. …I couldn’t understand what thousands of American soldiers had died for and why hundreds of thousands of Iraqis had been killed.”

Be first to comment this article | Quote this article on your site | Views: 522

I’m waiting for the health-care debate to start. The preliminaries have been spirited and loud, but how about a debate?
 
You may think there’s been a debate, but if you’d been listening carefully, you’d realize it’s a fake, like professional wrestling.

Comments (1) | Quote this article on your site | Views: 892