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Relevance: 48% Posted on: July 8, 2010
After World War II, European Social Democrats — the heirs of Karl Marx’s delusional vision — broke with their heritage. They rewrote their political principles, compromising. No longer would they go for socialism whole hog; they abandoned its key feature, the replacement of markets with total government control. This was…
Relevance: 48% Posted on: June 3, 2018
There can be no fanatics in the cause of genuine liberty. Fanaticism is excessive zeal. There may be, and have been fanatics in false religion – in the bloody religions of the heathen. There are fanatics in superstition. But there can be no fanatic, however warm their zeal, in the…
Relevance: 48% Posted on: December 6, 2012
In California and Rhode Island (to name just two states) cities are going bankrupt . . . or closing libraries and parks and cutting police and firemen to forestall going belly up. Meanwhile, they continue paying huge sums in employment benefits for folks who used to work at city hall,…
Relevance: 48% Posted on: January 11, 2021
On January 11, 1571, the freedom of religion was granted to Austrian nobility. Two years earlier, the first recorded lottery in England was held. In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the eleventh day of the first month of 1759, the first American life insurance company was incorporated. On January 11, 1935, Amelia Earhart became…
Relevance: 48% Posted on: January 11, 2022
On January 11, 1571, the freedom of religion was granted to Austrian nobility. Two years earlier, the first recorded lottery in England was held. In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the eleventh day of the first month of 1759, the first American life insurance company was incorporated. On January 11, 1935, Amelia Earhart became…
Relevance: 48% Posted on: January 11, 2023
On January 11, 1571, the freedom of religion was granted to Austrian nobility. Two years earlier, the first recorded lottery in England was held. In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the eleventh day of the first month of 1759, the first American life insurance company was incorporated. On January 11, 1935, Amelia Earhart became…
Relevance: 48% Posted on: January 11, 2024
On January 11, 1571, the freedom of religion was granted to Austrian nobility. Two years earlier, the first recorded lottery in England was held. In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the eleventh day of the first month of 1759, the first American life insurance company was incorporated. On January 11, 1935, Amelia Earhart became…
Relevance: 47% Posted on: June 16, 2010
For the last week, I’ve had the arduous duty of traveling across beautiful Switzerland, studying their very robust system of voter initiative and referendum. An important issue came up: is so-called “direct democracy” good or bad for business, for economic growth? Years ago, a Swiss professor suggested that allowing voters…
Relevance: 47% Posted on: December 7, 2014
Over at Townhall.com, the politics of helping the poor meets some realities, including the politics of race and the adjudication of rights. Click on over. Then come back here for more reading. WhiteHouse.gov: FACT SHEET – Opportunity for all [sic] President Obama Launches My Brother’s Keeper Initiative to Build Ladders of…
Relevance: 47% Posted on: May 22, 2016
This week at Townhall, an expansion of Monday's Common Sense outing . . . to the outhouse. But whether the question is what is in and what is out, the reality is, WHERE and WHO must decide WHAT goes WHERE and WHY. Click on over. Then come back here for…
Relevance: 47% Posted on: June 14, 2013
Did it take courage to do what Bob Fletcher did? Fletcher was a California resident who died this June at the age of 101. The New York Times reports how he helped Japanese neighbors after the U.S. began interning Japanese-Americans living on the West Coast, a shameful policy adopted after…
Relevance: 47% Posted on: December 28, 2016
In the United States today, we have more than our share of nattering nabobs of negativism. They have formed their own 4-H club — the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history. Delivered in San Diego, California, by Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, September 11, 1970, as written by William Safire, speechwriter
Relevance: 46% Posted on: October 16, 2011
My week began with a celebration: The centennial of California’s initiative process. I wrote about it at Common Sense, the daily commentary I’ve penned since 1999 (you can sign up for the email version on the Citizens in Charge website). “The enormous impact of California’s initiative process can hardly be…
Relevance: 46% Posted on: September 28, 2016
California has become the 32nd state to stand up for the dying. Gov. Jerry Brown just signed the “right to try” law that the Goldwater Institute has been pushing. It allows diagnosed terminally ill patients with only a few months left to live to try “experimental” medications. These are drugs…
Relevance: 46% Posted on: July 30, 2021
Congress is about to make the lives of an awful lot of people an awful lot harder. So what else is new? But the legislation in play does seem new — in suddenness and scope. It would impose massive newfangled regimentation on how we make a living. And it would…
Relevance: 46% Posted on: March 21, 2015
I believe the preservation of our civil liberties to be the most fundamental and important of all our governmental problems, because it always has been with us and always will be with us and if we ever permit those liberties to be destroyed, there will be nothing left in our…
Relevance: 46% Posted on: January 15, 2024
I believe the preservation of our civil liberties to be the most fundamental and important of all our governmental problems, because it always has been with us and always will be with us and if we ever permit those liberties to be destroyed, there will be nothing left in our…
Relevance: 45% Posted on: March 14, 2012
Getting good estimates is not easy. Anyone who’s hired a contractor knows to make sure the estimates are sound by insisting that bidders stick to their estimates. This is not what happens in government, though. Projects almost always start out with a whopping figure for an estimate . . .…
Relevance: 45% Posted on: January 30, 2020
Progressives who lean socialist used to hide their worst intentions. Now they are letting it all hang out. There have always been overt socialists in the U.S., of course. They would sometimes protest the reluctance of fellow travelers to fully embrace socialism’s moniker. But the sentiment “Ah, screw it, let’s…
Relevance: 45% Posted on: January 19, 2022
It wouldn’t surprise me if Tiffany McHugh, former director of the Foothills Christian Church Preschool in San Diego, wishes now that she had been running a preschool in a slack state like Florida. Florida doesn’t penalize such malefaction. It doesn’t even prohibit it. Yes, things have gotten pretty bad in…
Relevance: 45% Posted on: November 6, 2014
As we make sense of this week’s sea change — of the Great Shellacking Democrats took on Tuesday — some caution is in order. In 2006, voters did not choose the Democrats because of what they were or what they promised, but because of what they weren’t: corrupt, clueless Republicans.…
Relevance: 45% Posted on: January 9, 2024
Not everything that we dislike should be illegal. Not everything that we like or want should be made mandatory. To most of us, this is common sense. We lack the totalitarian impulse. But every day, otherwise-inclined people, including lawmakers, notice another aspect of our lives that they decide must no…
Relevance: 45% Posted on: April 13, 2012
Yesterday, I explained how the official title for California’s Proposition 28 tricks voters who favor tougher term limits into supporting a measure that will dramatically weaken those limits. The title’s slipperiness is anything but accidental. It was designed to fool, hiding the fact that the measure doubles the time legislators…
Relevance: 45% Posted on: June 15, 2020
However hard they try, men cannot create a social organism, they can only create an organization. In the process of trying to create an organism they will merely create a totalitarian despotism.Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited (1958), chapter three, p. 24.
Relevance: 45% Posted on: June 18, 2020
The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more. Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited (1958), chapter one, p. 12.
Relevance: 45% Posted on: July 17, 2017
On July 17, 1938, pioneer aviator Donald Corrigan took off from Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn — New York City's first municipal airport — with a flight plan for a return trip to his previous disembarkation point, Long Beach, California. His official story was that he got confused after ten…
Relevance: 45% Posted on: July 17, 2018
On July 17, 1938, pioneer aviator Donald Corrigan took off from Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn — New York City’s first municipal airport — with a flight plan for a return trip to his previous disembarkation point, Long Beach, California. His official story was that he got confused after ten…
Relevance: 45% Posted on: March 27, 2015
Which is worse, paying for stuff you use . . . or being constantly harassed for using it? One consequence of widespread failure to charge market rates for water turns out to be hyper-regulation of hydro-usage, and the penalizing — even criminalizing — of using “too much” H2O. To deal…
Relevance: 45% Posted on: June 27, 2016
Increasingly, folks in government balk at the commonsense requirement for transparency. They don’t like the basic idea of a republic, apparently — that we have rights; folks in government have duties. They are bound to serve us. And allow us to oversee their work. The latest bizarre attempt to wiggle…
Relevance: 45% Posted on: April 12, 2012
When California voters read Proposition 28’s ballot title, they overwhelmingly support the June 5th measure. That support radically dwindles when they learn more. The Public Policy Institute of California released a poll showing 68 percent in favor and only 24 percent opposed. Surveyed Californians were responding to the official ballot…
Relevance: 44% Posted on: June 13, 2020
Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited (1958), chapter one, p. 14.
Relevance: 44% Posted on: December 1, 2015
If you try to compare those police who take people’s money and property through civil asset forfeiture laws to burglars, who rob folks in more traditional ways, you are just not being fair. To the burglars. The Institute for Justice recently released an updated Policing for Profit report showing that…
Relevance: 44% Posted on: August 9, 2023
Alabama recently passed a law to prohibit public agencies from disclosing information “that identifies a person as a member, supporter, or donor of a 501(c) nonprofit organization . . . except as required by law.” SB59 is comprehensive, stating that “notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary,” no public…
Relevance: 44% Posted on: February 1, 2018
It took me a moment. And I assure you, I wasn’t high. When I read that California State Treasurer John Chiang was considering a “marijuana bank,” my first thought was that he was talking about warehousing bud and leaf. Well, no. That would be stupid. So, maybe reporters and bloggers…
Relevance: 44% Posted on: July 17, 2020
On July 17, 1938, pioneer aviator Donald Corrigan took off from Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn — New York City’s first municipal airport — with a flight plan for a return trip to his previous disembarkation point, Long Beach, California. His official story was that he got confused after ten…
Relevance: 44% Posted on: July 17, 2019
On July 17, 1938, pioneer aviator Donald Corrigan took off from Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn — New York City’s first municipal airport — with a flight plan for a return trip to his previous disembarkation point, Long Beach, California. His official story was that he got confused after ten…
Relevance: 44% Posted on: July 17, 2021
On July 17, 1938, pioneer aviator Donald Corrigan took off from Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn — New York City’s first municipal airport — with a flight plan for a return trip to his previous disembarkation point, Long Beach, California. His official story was that he got confused after ten…
Relevance: 43% Posted on: September 13, 2011
In their just completed session, California legislators expressed deep concern about transparency, democracy and good government. Sen. Mark DeSaulnier authored Senate Bill 448 to mandate “a little transparency” in the initiative petition process. The legislation would have forced citizens paid to circulate petitions to wear a sign on their chests…
Relevance: 43% Posted on: September 19, 2021
Paul Jacob offers a good rule of thumb to answer this question. Case in point? The California recall: https://youtu.be/r_LSYV7UOKE
Relevance: 43% Posted on: September 11, 2021
Ah, California, you keep us entertained. And not just Hollywood. This week, Paul Jacob concentrates on one disastrous policy and the judge who defended said policy against the clearly stated wishes of the Californians themselves. Also on the docket? A different judge actually helps Californians out: https://soundcloud.com/thisweekincommonsense/where-we-are-now This Week in…
Relevance: 43% Posted on: October 12, 2018
Two propositions on this November’s California ballot, Propositions 8 and 11, have found an opponent. “Both would have voters decide very narrow union-management conflicts in two relatively small medical service sectors,” explains Dan Walters, long the dean of California columnists. Unions are sponsoring Prop 8, which “purports to limit profits…
Relevance: 42% Posted on: May 13, 2012
On May 13, 1846, in a blatant attempt to grab territory, the United States declared war on Mexico beginning the Mexican-American War. On May 13, 1940, Germany invaded France as the German army crosses the Meuse and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill makes his "blood, toil, tears, and sweat" speech…
Relevance: 42% Posted on: August 16, 2017
The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior “righteous indignation” — this is…
Relevance: 42% Posted on: November 10, 2017
Symbols sure seem important in politics and government. I love the Statue of Liberty. Others may cherish the Lincoln Memorial and Mount Rushmore more. I’ve even heard people wax poetic on the images we find on our coinage. But what about “The Star-Spangled Banner”? The lyrics are not general at…
Relevance: 42% Posted on: October 7, 2016
On October 7, 1792, George Mason — "The Father of the Bill of Rights" — died. He had drafted the Virginia Declaration of Rights in 1776, and, at the time of the drafting and ratification of the Constitution, had insisted on the addition of articles to solidify state's and individual…
Relevance: 42% Posted on: October 7, 2017
On October 7, 1792, George Mason — "The Father of the Bill of Rights" — died. He had drafted the Virginia Declaration of Rights in 1776, and, at the time of the drafting and ratification of the Constitution, had insisted on the addition of articles to solidify state's and individual…
Relevance: 42% Posted on: October 7, 2018
On October 7, 1792, George Mason — "The Father of the Bill of Rights" — died. He had drafted the Virginia Declaration of Rights in 1776, and, at the time of the drafting and ratification of the Constitution, had insisted on the addition of articles to solidify state's and individual…
Relevance: 42% Posted on: April 25, 2014
Some say a mighty enough earthquake on the San Andreas Fault could dump much of the California coast into the Pacific Ocean. Could the state’s perilous public employee pension problems cause even worse damage? State and local governments in the Golden State have underfunded their golden-parachute pension promises by a…
Relevance: 41% Posted on: October 16, 2023
Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder had a dream that ebony and ivory would live together in perfect harmony, like the keys on a piano keyboard. If the keyboard can do it, “oh Lord, why don’t we?” Agreed, let’s do that. But not everybody wants to. And out in California, it…
Relevance: 41% Posted on: July 17, 2015
On July 17, 1938, pioneer aviator Donald Corrigan took off from Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn — New York City's first municipal airport — with a flight plan for a return trip to his previous disembarkation point, Long Beach, California. His official story was that he got confused after ten…