Two and a half years into his presidency, President Trump would already have built a hotel and casino on the floor of the Grand Canyon straddling the Colorado River — if he could. No doubt it would be completed with a giant Trump sign, standing atop a towering column that flashed at the eye level of tourists gazing down into
Read moreBy Russell Glass Editor’s Note: This guest post was contributed by Russell Glass, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and author of the new children’s book “Voting With a Porpoise.” In a previous post, I described how to talk politics to people who disagree with you: 1) tell compelling stories that 2) invoke at least one important morality and 3) talk about existing
Read moreBy Stan Holt Saying you love the U.S. Postal Service today is a little like saying you love taxis in the age of Uber and self-driving cars. Or coal in the age of solar. Who would mourn snail mail? Can’t you get everything worth getting digitally now? Would you — or the earth’s forests — miss the junk mail? But
Read moreWe have four decades of evidence comprehensively proving that trickle down economics was a con perpetuated on ordinary citizens to enrich the already wealthy. We need to return instead, to the middle-out economics that fostered the most stable and fastest growing economy America has ever seen. “Once upon a time, in the middle of the last century, America had a
Read moreSometimes bumper stickers get right to the truth. Case in point, the bumper sticker that reads, “The Labor Movement: The Folks Who Brought You the Weekend.” Unions fought hard for victories that still benefit the overwhelming majority of Americans: safe workplaces, child labor bans, healthcare benefits, pensions, and of course, the 40-hour work week, aka the weekend. Fighting for these
Read moreWhy does libertarianism seem to offer the most to those who are already flourishing, and so little to those who aren’t?
Read moreSuccessful men like Bill Gates, and successful women like Sheryl Sandberg, are commonly thought to have risen to the top of the business world solely because of their own gifts and grit. It’s a concept popularized by Ayn Rand’s novels: captains of industry realize their own greatness completely on their own—in spite of the government (and the mediocre bureaucrats who
Read moreKansas: A Case Study in Shrinking Government
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You could be forgiven for thinking the bulk of the federal government’s budget goes to welfare, foreign aid, and supporting illegal immigrants.
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Many Americans look to the 1950s under the Eisenhower Administration as a golden age of government, and wonder what has gone wrong since. These Americans believe today’s federal government consistently does a poor job, as illustrated by the sneer “good enough for government work.” In a capitalist society, we show what we value by what we invest in. And one
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What Has The Government Ever Done for Us? 