Posts Tagged ‘ Powerlineblog ’

The Laboratory Of Bad Ideas

The Laboratory Of Bad Ideas

H.L. Mencken once wrote that “every election is an advance auction of stolen goods.” Perhaps no polity better illustrates this maxim than New York, where the wealth of taxpaying citizens is routinely plundered  in order to sate the avarice of large, concentrated blocs of voters, i.e. looters. We’ve become inured to this political cycle,...
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Guns Blazing

Guns Blazing

This administration’s strange means of implementing legislation, i.e. enacting it through administrative edicts which bypass the opposition of Congress, is not limited to immigration matters. The recent rules enacted by Barack Obama regarding gun sales are merely an extension of the distinctly unilateral policymaking which has been a hallmark of his presidency. Although, as...
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21st Century Heterodoxy

21st Century Heterodoxy

Ben Carson has outlined the broad strokes of his immigration plan. Like some of the other proposals by Dr. Carson which lie outside  his field of expertise, it is muddled, at best. Unfortunately, it’s also redolent of the Chamber of Commerce/Wall St. Journal/Bush family exaltation of cheap labor at the expense of American workers....
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