Without a free market, the U.S. would not have “liberty,” “prosperity,” or “economic growth.” Young religious people who are not on the left used to support free markets “by default,” but that’s no longer the case, explains Mark Tooley, president of the Institute on Religion and Democracy. Share This
Ohio’s Fracking Boom Brought Out the Best in American Enterprise | Rep. Troy Balderon
We have “100 years of natural gas below our feet” is Rep. Troy Balderon’s, R-Ohio, appraisal of the energy situation in his home state. Since the early 2010s, The Buckeye State has been host to one of the largest “fracking booms” in the country, which has helped awaken and foster the entrepreneurial spirit throughout the… Continue reading Ohio’s Fracking Boom Brought Out the Best in American Enterprise | Rep. Troy Balderon
The Inequality Smokescreen
by Bruce S. Thornton // FrontPage Magazine Desperate for a diversion from the disasters of Obamacare, the president has conjured up the old leftist “income inequality” cliché. His court-pundits complain that “the richest nation on earth is starting to resemble a banana republic,” according toThe New Republic, while Berkeley Professor Robert Reich has thundered against “casino… Continue reading The Inequality Smokescreen
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The Stupid Party
by Bruce S. Thronton FrontPage Magazine The presidency of Barack Obama has established once and for all that modern liberalism is now the stupid party. Very little of liberal thought these days represents anything fresh or new, but rather comprises what Lionel Trilling once reduced conservatism to: “irritable mental gestures which seek to resemble ideas.”… Continue reading The Stupid Party
Wall Street’s Disgruntles Utopians
by Bruce S. Thornton FrontPage Magazine The Occupy Wall Street protesters are looking more and more like the shock troops of the Democratic Party’s electoral tactic of class warfare. Responding to a question about the protesters, the President gave an oblique endorsement when he said, “The American people understand that not everybody has been following… Continue reading Wall Street’s Disgruntles Utopians