The Lighthouse®
The welfare state, the warfare state, and the Financially Responsible State are mutually exclusive propositions—yet we continue to act otherwise. But for how long?
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Lee E. Ohanian (California on Your Mind)
True, too many African Americans living in San Francisco face economic hardship. But reparations would depopulate and bankrupt the city, making things worse, not better, for the very persons the progressive left wants to help.
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Art Carden (AIER)
Don’t like chain stores? Think a Walmart in every town makes the world bland? End corporate welfare.
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Sr. Fellow Stephen Halbrook, author of The Right to Bear Arms, talks with Dana Loesch about the charges against actor Alec Baldwin resulting from the 2021 shooting on the set of the movie “Rust.” And, as usual, Halbrook gets it right.
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Volume 26, Issue 5: February 1, 2023
Alvaro Vargas Llosa (Washington Times)
The welfare state, the warfare state, and the Financially Responsible State are mutually exclusive propositions—yet we continue to act otherwise. But for how long?
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Lee E. Ohanian (California on Your Mind)
True, too many African Americans living in San Francisco face economic hardship. But reparations would depopulate and bankrupt the city, making things worse, not better, for the very persons the progressive left wants to help.
READ MORE »
Recommended Readings on Race and Civil Rights
By Williamson M. Evers
Art Carden (AIER)
Don’t like chain stores? Think a Walmart in every town makes the world bland? End corporate welfare.
READ MORE »
Sr. Fellow Stephen Halbrook, author of The Right to Bear Arms, talks with Dana Loesch about the charges against actor Alec Baldwin resulting from the 2021 shooting on the set of the movie “Rust.” And, as usual, Halbrook gets it right.
LISTEN »
The Right to Bear Arms
A Constitutional Right of the People or a Privilege of the Ruling Class?
A Constitutional Right of the People or a Privilege of the Ruling Class?
By Stephen P. Halbrook
The Beacon: New Blog Posts
- Unfit for the Bench: Judge Bjelkengren’s Lack of Constitutional Knowledge, by William J. Watkins, Jr.
- The WEF’s War on Your Words and Your Wheels, by K. Lloyd Billingsley
- Debunking the Myth: Clearing Up Misconceptions About Machine Gun Conversion Devices, by Randall G. Holcombe
- California’s SB 876: A Missed Opportunity for Education Technology, by Williamson M. Evers and Jonathan Hofer
- The End of the Road: How the WEF’s Vision Threatens Your Car, by K. Lloyd Billingsley
Catalyst: New Articles
- Honduras’ Charter City Experiment, by Scott Beyer
- The Folly Of Urban Planning In Guatemala City, by Scott Beyer
- Hollywood? No, Ottawa!: The Epidemic of Nepo Babies, by Francis Crescia
- Economics Isn’t, by Caleb S. Fuller and Scott Burns
