The Lighthouse®
How you vote on Tuesday is not, properly understood, a Red issue. It is not a Blue issue. How you vote on Tuesday—properly understood—is a women’s issue. And no woman wants to “Co-Parent with the Government.” And neither do the men. Liberty itself is on the ballot.
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Randall G. Holcombe
The secret ballot, among other things, prevents the selling of votes. The vote being secret, the purchaser cannot be certain that the seller voted as promised. But mail-in voting could open the doors to vote buying by organized interest groups. How is that democracy?
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Is Russia getting desperate over Ukraine? Here at home, what in the world did PayPal think it was doing when it announced financial penalties for "misinformation"? And what did Kamala Harris mean when she said that hurricane relief would be allocated according to racial equity?
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William F. Shughart II
Why do we reset our clocks back in the fall? To overcome the stupidity of springing them forward into Daylight Savings Time in March. And back the clocks should stay. For starters, we’ll see a drop in heart attacks, strokes, automobile accidents, and visits to the emergency room.
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Victor Davis Hanson (American Greatness)
Tone down the political fireworks lest the nation’s unhinged translate such rhetoric to violence? Sure. But let’s remember that what most see as progressive incendiary rhetoric is, for the Left, the necessary talk, the sacred “context,” of “social justice”—which justifies everything, including (especially?) violence.
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Ivan Eland (Inside Sources)
The future Chinese threat to U.S. security is likely to be as hollow as the one from Russia has proved to be. President’s Xi increasing state control of the economy will make it poorer, thus less able to fund further a military already likely weakened by as corrupt an officer class as Russia’s. In an actual fight? China will be more a paper tiger than we may think.
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Volume 25, Issue 45: November 8, 2022
Naomi R. Wolf (Outspoken with Dr. Naomi Wolf)
How you vote on Tuesday is not, properly understood, a Red issue. It is not a Blue issue. How you vote on Tuesday—properly understood—is a women’s issue. And no woman wants to “Co-Parent with the Government.” And neither do the men. Liberty itself is on the ballot.
READ MORE »Randall G. Holcombe
The secret ballot, among other things, prevents the selling of votes. The vote being secret, the purchaser cannot be certain that the seller voted as promised. But mail-in voting could open the doors to vote buying by organized interest groups. How is that democracy?
READ MORE »
Is Russia getting desperate over Ukraine? Here at home, what in the world did PayPal think it was doing when it announced financial penalties for "misinformation"? And what did Kamala Harris mean when she said that hurricane relief would be allocated according to racial equity?
READ MORE »William F. Shughart II
Why do we reset our clocks back in the fall? To overcome the stupidity of springing them forward into Daylight Savings Time in March. And back the clocks should stay. For starters, we’ll see a drop in heart attacks, strokes, automobile accidents, and visits to the emergency room.
READ MORE »Victor Davis Hanson (American Greatness)
Tone down the political fireworks lest the nation’s unhinged translate such rhetoric to violence? Sure. But let’s remember that what most see as progressive incendiary rhetoric is, for the Left, the necessary talk, the sacred “context,” of “social justice”—which justifies everything, including (especially?) violence.
READ MORE »
Ivan Eland (Inside Sources)
The future Chinese threat to U.S. security is likely to be as hollow as the one from Russia has proved to be. President’s Xi increasing state control of the economy will make it poorer, thus less able to fund further a military already likely weakened by as corrupt an officer class as Russia’s. In an actual fight? China will be more a paper tiger than we may think.
READ MORE »
In Search of Monsters to Destroy
The Folly of American Empire and the Paths to Peace
The Folly of American Empire and the Paths to Peace
By Christopher J. Coyne
The Beacon: New Blog Posts
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- Are We in a Fiscal Doom Loop?, by Craig Eyermann
- Stop the Madness of Mandatory Time Changes!, by William F. Shughart II
- The Fed Is Doing the Right Thing, by Randall G. Holcombe
- Vote Selling and Voter Behavior, by Randall G. Holcombe
- California Propositions 2022: What’s on the November ballot?, by -No Author-
Catalyst: New Articles
- Privacy in Social Media: The Paradox Doesn’t Exist, by April Liu
- Germany Slow On Nuclear as Winter Looms, by Paige Lambermont
- Can Granny Flats Make California Affordable?, by Laura Williams
- An Intro to Politics for the Politically Clueless, by Patrick Carroll
