Intellectuals vs. the rest of us
Why are so many opposed to private property and free exchange — capitalism, in other words — in favor of large-scale government interventionism? Lack of knowledge, or ignorance, is one answer, but there is another.
Archive of entries posted on 7th May 2012
Teachers’ Fund Lawyers-Up Against Walmart Brass
By Steven Mikulan The Frying Pan
The California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) filed a lawsuit last week against current and former members of Walmart’s board of directors, and other company officers, charging them with gross violation…
Teachers’ Fund Lawyers-Up Against Walmart Brass
By Steven Mikulan The Frying Pan
The California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) filed a lawsuit last week against current and former members of Walmart’s board of directors, and other company officers, charging them with gross violation…
The Problem WIth Independent Expenditure Committees
Frank Bigelow seems an affable fellow. He is running for the newly drawn 5th Assembly district which includes parts of Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, El Dorado, Placer, Tuolumne, Mariposa, Madera and Mono counties.
But not Sacramento.
So it’s a bit odd to find a four-page, glossy color 8½ by 11 inch mailer touting Bigelow’s candidacy in the mailbox of a suburban Sacramento home.
The mailer was paid for by a group called the Mother Lode Taxpayers Association whose major funding comes from the California Dental Association and the California Realtors.
The Mother Lode Taxpayers Association is an independent expenditure committee meaning [....]
Political cronyism has become the way
Cronyism is the practice of seeking business success through government rather than through markets. The difference is that business succeeds in the market by providing goods and services that people are willing to buy. Political cronyism, on the other hand, results in people being forced to buy from, or to otherwise involuntarily subsidize, certain business firms that have succeeded in the political arena.
Myth: Markets debase culture and art
There is no contradiction between the market and art and culture. Market exchange is not the same as artistic experience or cultural enrichment, but it is a helpful vehicle for advancing both.
The Dynamics of the Season, Part IV
By Sam Clovis Now that I have over-generalized and over-simplified the various facets of the three dominant political philosophies in play in the Republican Party of Iowa, perhaps now I ought to discuss why any of this should matter. Perhaps the most important element of any state party process is the development of its platform. [...]