Category: Big Government
NEED FOR “PEOPLE-SIZED” INSTITUTIONS
“Excessive greatness of a town,” “multitude of corporations,” and too much “ghostly authority” or power of organized religion were listed by the 17th-century British political philosopher Thomas Hobbes…
SPINKS AND PRUITT-IGOE
The movie ROCKY, in which a street-fighter and amateur boxer from the Italian ghetto got a chance to fight the heavyweight champion, would not have been believable if…
The Santa Claus State
John Maynard Keynes is a perfect illustration of the truth of his own words when he said: “The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are…
Genocide Convention: Threat to American Rights — September 1977
1977 Suggested State Legislation — April 1977
SECULAR HUMANISM
Most Congressional bills or amendments that pass one House but are not voted on in the other House die quietly without further controversy. An exception to this rule…
PORNO SHOP DECISION
Although many people have mistakenly been led to believe otherwise during the last decade, the rights guaranteed in the Bill of Rights are not and were never intended…
KENNEDY ASSASSINATION COVERUP
Photo:Warren Commission presenting report on assassination of John F. Kennedy to Lyndon Johnson; Author:Cecil Stoughton; Public Domain If Watergate is this century’s most famous example of a coverup,…
Private Enterprise vs. Socialism — June 1976
Purchasing Power Comparisons of standards of living and purchasing power between the United States and foreign countries usually leave me wondering about their validity because of the obvious…