6+ day, 14+ hour ago   (20+ words) From tariffs to “free” public services, government policies routinely transfer the costs and consequences of individual choices onto someone else....

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (403+ words) highly liberalized and competitive open-market economy. The country happily trades with countries all...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (265+ words) LancasterOnline Some recent letter writers believe that capitalism is the system we should strive for. News flash! Every industrial country I can think of is a mixture of both capitalism and socialism. Many citizens of the United States are happy…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (389+ words) Working in the literary reference book salt mines many decades ago, I recall taking 15-minute walks downtown during our afternoon breaks. One spring day, my close friend and co-worker, Thom, and I were accosted by a scruffy young fella, unkempt…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (773+ words) Emanuel County Live A story of socialism Fidel Castro was the son of a wealthy farmer in Cuba. Like many other infamous figures throughout history, his dreams far exceeded his grasp, and his legacy will always be in question. To…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (215+ words) “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely” – Lord Acton The much-quoted 19th century English historian believed that as people gain more authority, their moral sense tends to weaken and total control removes all limits on corrupt conduct. What makes…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (179+ words) Finally a clear depiction of socialist economics To the Editor: I wanted to give two thumbs up for Veronique de Rugy’s insightful opinion piece (“Socialism in the open and on the right,” Aug. 10) on what is and is not socialist…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago   (277+ words) Ideas Have Consequences is the title of a conservative classic published in 1948. In that best-selling book, Richard M. Weaver foresees the decline of the West due to a loss of faith in its governing ideals. Something parallel is going on today…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (143+ words) • Socialists may portray American capitalism as the opposite of socialism, but that’s not the case. • The noxious weed of socialism has been gradually strangling the American tree of liberty for a long time. • In 1913 the U.S. created a central…...

3+ week, 14+ hour ago   (136+ words) Kathleen Parker’s column in the Aug. 4 Times was repetitive regurgitation of mindless babble we’ve been force-fed all our lives – capitalism good, socialism bad. She was trying to make the argument voters in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary were misguided voting for…...