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Video: Daniel Hannan and Sean Hannity on American Exceptionalism

Daniel Hannan is South East England’s Conservative Member of Parliament. In this clip, he talks with Sean Hannity about Obamacare, American exceptionalism, and the much broader topic of the...

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Pope Francis and Obama Are Both Wrong

A recent Washington Post article reflected on Pope Francis as he struggles to make the Church more humble and focused on the poor. He wants to rid the monolithic Church of the huge bureaucratic...

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Daniel Hannan on ‘Inventing Freedom: How the English-Speaking Peoples Made...

From the Heritage Foundation, November, 2013: In “Inventing Freedom”, Daniel Hannan reflects on the historical origin and spread of the principles that have made America great, and their role in...

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The more economic freedom, the better things get for people

We keep reporting on it, over and over. Every survey of economic freedom shows the same thing: as economic freedom increases, human well-being increases. Of course, the converse of that is also true....

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Video: We don’t need masters. We don’t need experts.

What we need is to be FREE. When we’re free, we work things out among ourselves through voluntary interactions, and everybody is happier for it. What is so hard to understand about this? NO MORE MASTERS!

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The Fed @ 100: Can’t fix Obamanomics

Today’s centennial anniversary of the creation of the “Third Bank of the United States,” legally titled the Federal Reserve,  seems a good time to reflect on its mostly unchecked power, role in causing...

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Arthur Brooks Has the Key to #Happiness

I won’t provide a lot of preamble. You simply ought to set aside 19 minutes and watch. You can also read Brooks’ piece in the New York Times. Great! Happiness starts here: http://on.fb.me/1e6sMc0 How...

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Capitalism’s Imperious Moral Code

A follow-up to “With Two Hands Tied Behind Their Backs: Famous Quotes on the Success of the Jewish People.” By Andrew G. Benjamin Fair exchange, fair products and fair payments for goods and services...

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The insane failure of the “war on poverty”

A few days ago, we posted “The inmates are running the asylum . . . and it’s driving business abroad,” which included this discussion of the aphorism “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing...

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Poverty: Another War We’ve Lost

Because this is near the 50th anniversary of Lyndon Johnson’s declaring war on poverty, there has been a lot of attention paid to the problem that I’m betting will somehow survive even longer than...

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Video: Thomas Sowell rips Obama apart without breaking a sweat

“The road to hell is paved with Ivy-league degrees.” —Thomas Sowell This is from 2012, but it is timeless nonetheless.

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United States in danger of being surpassed in economic freedom by Botswana

15 years ago, the United States ranked in the top five most economically free nations of the world in most of the ranking systems of organizations who take such surveys. Since then, we have plummeted...

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Free Markets in Healthcare Aren’t ‘Broken’—Just Not Allowed to Work

Democrats excel at “message discipline”—sticking to talking points whether their script is factually correct or not. Repeated often enough, the script becomes “truth.” Democrats’ script says: “The U.S....

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More Freedom, More Prosperity

Here’s the deal. At some point, the left doesn’t get a pass any more because of their “good intentions.” If they spent half as much time analyzing the effects of the kinds of policies they support as...

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