Gun control is often an emotionally debated issue, particularly after tragic events such as the Parkland, FL shooting this week. Many who are understandably outraged want to do practically anything possible

It turns out that not only are so many Americans at the federal/state trough, but I believe it’s 48-49% of Americans have no federal income tax liability. And not having a federal income tax liability

Federal prosecutors have filed charges against 13 Russians who allegedly sought to “sow discord in the U.S. political system” through social media posts, ads, and videos falsely presented as the work of

For Marx, history itself could be viewed as a never-ending sequence of battles between the oppressed and the oppressor. Now Marx was more specific than that, because he took an economic view of history–a

Whenever we talk about sound money and using gold and silver for everyday transactions, some people mock the idea with joke about having to cut coins into little slivers to make change. But with the advent

"Here’s an actual argument that works with socialism: it is immoral to steal from people, even if you vote to steal from people. If there are three people in a room–I have $100 and you and your friend

Things cost money. You may think that has nothing to do with you and everything to do with companies trying to squeeze money out of people. But economics tells a different story.

More so than any other state, California has embraced so-called green energy. The state has banned offshore drilling, passed draconian auto emission standards, imposed wind and solar energy mandates–with

I found myself enjoying an open-air art show at Santa Barbara back in 2004. My experience was, well, let’s just say modified, by the presence of hundreds of crosses placed in the sand by a left-wing

For our final installment it’s fitting that we talk about creative destruction. It’s an economic term coined by Joseph Schumpeter in 1942 to describe the phenomenon by which a new innovative product or

Let’s start with a question. When it comes to the debate over mass-shootings in America, why does the discussion always go towards tougher gun laws? And yet, we’re talking about the role of antidepressants

Want a soda? This will cost you more in Philadelphia, because politicians there voted to tax them. The politicians said the tax will fund early childhood education. But store owners say, “it’s a bad tax.”

The health of an economy can be measured using a variety of indicators. Common ones include the unemployment rate, monthly job creation figures, and GDP, or the total value of all goods and services produced

The steel industry isn’t in favor of free enterprise. It wants tariffs and import quotas. Again, I don’t blame them. They’re trying to protect their own interests. But the rest of us are fools if we let

If one big government is bad, imagine how much worse two big governments would be. But that’s what people living in Europe have had to deal with: their own nation’s bloated government and the super-national

This is clearly opposite of what you normally hear, but that is because we’re often just being told of one disaster after another – telling us how many events are happening. The number of reported events

Dear college students, you probably know that paying to go to school also means you pay for a lot of frivolous things. For example, Louisiana State University recently built a lazy river as part of an