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Five Reasons the War on Terrorism Will Never be Won with Foreign Invasions - Click To Read Article
Osama bin Laden and all al-Qaida leadership that aided in the 9/11 attacks should be vanquished. We can also protect our homeland from the next terrorist attack. But none of this requires America to invade a single foreign nation, and here are the five reasons why.

Five Ways to Solve America’s Health Care Crisis Without Accruing Massive Debt - Click To Read Article
It is widely conceded by pundits of varying ideological stripes that America faces a health care crisis. Both liberals and conservatives tout the problem; sadly, few quality solutions are proposed. The greatest problem within this crisis, also admitted widely, is the high cost of health care and health insurance. The proposals discussed here serve to lower costs for all consumers, without harming the high quality of care which distinguishes the American health care market, while addressing the humanitarian crisis of the uninsured poor.

Get Rich or Die Tryin' - Inequality, Education and the American Dream - Click To Read Article
The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer in America, and nowhere else. This reality is popular in the news these days, as it both provokes maximum interest and also opens itself to be manipulated by all sorts of political spinmasters, which in turn creates more news. The Left savors every glimpse of middle-class struggles during economic expansion, which they tout as the golden nugget of proof finally adjudicating the free market as inherently bad for workers. Europeans lead this chorus, where they are already aghast at America's assumptions of the free market's social value. But the data is welcomed on the Right, too, to the extent that it "proves" the economically-injurious impact of immigration.

Be Your Own Boss: Libertarian Ideas to Escape the Grind - Click To Read Article
There is little love lost between progressives and Big Corporations. Many Big Corporations, such as Wal-Mart and about a thousand others, are burnt at the rhetorical stake for their failure, inter alia, to provide great (or any) medical and dental benefits or a high-growth 401(k). Progressives generally believe that the market is to blame for this undesirable deprivation of basic freedoms, and that the only solution is more progressive regulation.The libertarian, of course, is not surprised, and has a market-based policy solution for this so-called market failure. The solution: Stop expecting your employer to act like a government, and give employees free choice to let the benefits market actually function.

Find Your Path to Freedom - Five Reasons Why Going Out on Your Own is the Best Solution - Click To Read Article
As unemployment hits a quarter-century high, many Americans - especially those of us just out of college or graduate school - are looking for a secure and prosperous career path. At the same time, we're not finding very much. This article is dedicated to helping you find your financial and personal freedom by becoming an entrepreneur, and offering your unique talents in the open marketplace.

Who Wants to be an Enemy Combatant? - Click To Read Article
The Supreme Court ruled in Boumediene v. Bush that the writ of habeas corpus applied to Guantanamo Bay detainees. The case was the first extension of habeas corpus - a legal tool to challenge the legality of one's imprisonment or detention - to aliens detained on foreign soil.

What Darwin Can Teach Us About the Economy - Click To Read Article
To help America evolve again, we should start by letting failing businesses fail, preserving the opportunity for new solutions to emerge. We should reduce the tax and regulatory burdens on entrepreneurs, freeing them to introduce new variations into the marketplace. We should cut business and personal taxes across the board, freeing the American people to make more choices and do more with their money.

The Political Failures of the Baby Boomers, and the Challenges for the Next Generation - Click To Read Article
The Boomers' failures are distributed uniformly from Right to Left. But given the liberal-leaning Boomers' original rise from the 1960s counterculture, their weak-kneed absorption into the partisan political establishment is most ironic. The generation that fought for free speech and the right to question authority now enforces strict political correctness and quashes political dissent from their tenured posts in academia.

Ten Reasons Why America's Public Schools Are Like America's Prisons - Click To Read Article
A shocking list of the ten reasons public schools are like prisons with assistance from Justin Hartfield of the Prometheus Institute.

The Fair and Balanced Myth - Three Reasons Why Media Bias Doesn't Matter - Click To Read Article
In a world of 6 billion people and only a limited amount of time and space for the media to tell you what has happened to them in a single day, something's obviously going to miss the final cut. The decision of what's Newsworthy varies greatly according to the personal opinions of the audience. If you're liberal, you want to hear about starving Darfuri children and Hugo Chavez' latest economic proposal. If you're conservative, you want to hear about the latest terrorist raid in Pakistan and global market trends.

Metropolitics: Why Local Government is the Solution to Preserve American Democracy (and Society) - Click To Read Article
It's quite unfortunate that American national elections are perceived as a Partisan Death Match through which 51% of the nation gets to impose its personal beliefs on the hapless 49% minority. America's Culture War (Kulturkampf for you Germans out there) is still raging, and is increasingly being fought over national social policy.

Little Green Reasoning: Five Points on Environmentalism - Click To Read Article
Environmental protection is Maslow's self-actualization - defining the human experience in a pleasing environment. But the path there is hierarchical - and every other social step on his ladder requires societal wealth and prosperity. That's why environmentalism is a present-day, rich country phenomenon. Up until recently, humans were trying to escape starvation, protect themselves, and generally stay alive by exploiting their land and dominating the natural environment.

Into the Sunset - The Past, Present, and Future of the American Auto Industry - Click To Read Article
Despite the attempt of the American car lobby to convince us otherwise, the laws of the universe apply to them as much as everyone else. The evolutionary selection process of the marketplace must be heeded. To survive, Detroit doesn't need the sympathy of patriotic Americans or the fiscal coddling of Congress. They just need to make good cars again.

How America's Foreign Policy is Making the US Less Safe in the War on Terrorism - Click To Read Article
Despite plenty of muscular rhetoric, President Bush's strategy in the War on Terrorism demonstrates a dangerous ignorance of the unique military, tactical, and political aspects of the terrorist threat, and breeds a dangerous and chaotic foreign policy which has only served to put our nation in greater danger.

Eight Reasons Why You Should Care About Social Security - Click To Read Article
Many less-political Americans, especially younger Americans, consider Social Security to be a boring, worthless issue that they don't need to care about. Here are eight reasons why that's wrong, and why everyone, especially the young, really should consider Social Security an important issue in their lives.

Get Rich: Policies to Put Green in the Palm of Your Empty Hand - Click To Read Article
People want policies to benefit them personally. Who cares, after all, if everyone else is well off when you're not? So politicians promise all sorts of schemes and ideas to keep jobs, make jobs, and make jobs pay more, in order to get more votes. Most of these schemes and ideas, however, don't work because most politicians don't know anything about economics.

Conservatism is Dead - Click To Read Article
In the 1990s, conservatives were vehemently opposed to nation-building. Wisely observing its gross failure in Vietnam, conservatives rightly objected to President Clinton's use of the American military to "liberate" Somalia, Haiti, and the Balkans. Even George W. Bush campaigned against "nation-building" in 2000. Here are "Five ways that the Conservative movement has lost itself."

Don't Bite the Invisible Hand That Feeds You - Click To Read Article
The anti-capitalist is a curious breed. They take a variety of different positions, but all share one common theme: the general belief that the market is an inherently evil force. They pass along such canards as "The free market doesn't work," "Capitalism is the exploitation of the worker," and "There is no such thing as the American Dream," among many others. They are often found writing for outlets such as The Nation and Harpers, as well as self-righteously demonstrating against free trade agreements and French labor proposals, inter alia.

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