Author Archives: Joe Benning

Culture Wars

Posted on July 20, 2021 by Joe Benning

One of the things that makes the culture wars so vicious is that the attack on Western culture is a thinly disguised attack on Western civilization posing as progress. The “right side of history” and all that mindless propaganda.  We … Continue reading →

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The Voting Rights Scam

Posted on July 14, 2021 by Joe Benning

Where to begin? Let’s start with President Joe Biden’s over-the-top rhetoric about Republican resistance to H.R.1, the constitutionally dubious “For the People” Act the House passed that among other things nationalizes elections. Its dubious constitutionality partly owes to Section 4 … Continue reading →

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The Road to Hell…

Posted on July 11, 2021 by Joe Benning

As we all know, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. But it seems to be a lesson social planners never seem to learn. Ever. Here below is a YouTube video produced by Reason that illustrates just a … Continue reading →

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Helplessly Hoping Progressives

Posted on July 7, 2021 by Joe Benning

The absurdity of progressive politics is now on full display. Let us consider just two of the many inherently contradictory initiatives championed by the Biden-Schumer-Pelosi axis. What these initiatives share is the preposterous notion that a huge centralized bureaucracy is … Continue reading →

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Indicting The Trump Organization

Posted on July 2, 2021 by Joe Benning

In the matter of the indictment of both the Trump Organization and its CFO Allen Weisselberg, the Wall Street Journal reports that Mr. Weisselberg is charged with illegally avoiding taxes on $1.76 million he allegedly received in benefits over 15 … Continue reading →

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John Stossel Demolishes Popularly Believed Myths about Capitalism

Posted on June 16, 2021 by Joe Benning

It is sad but true that most people believe that free markets represent a zero sum game. Winners only win to the extent that other people lose. In reality, nothing could be further from the truth. In a free market, … Continue reading →

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Progressive Good Crime

Posted on June 11, 2021 by Joe Benning

Coinciding with the Biden Administration’s push for higher taxes on wealthy individuals and a greatly expanded IRS, ProPublica published documents that purport to show private tax information of several high profile billionaires including Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Michael Bloomberg and … Continue reading →

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Peak Biden?

Posted on June 2, 2021 by Joe Benning

When President Biden released his budget proposal this past Friday he listed his priorities in the following statement. (The budget document can be found here.) Biden’s list of priorities is typical in that it studiously avoids talking about trade-offs. Everything is … Continue reading →

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Magical Thinking

Posted on May 29, 2021 by Joe Benning

Republicans complain that Democrats are hypocrites. Democrats reply that Republicans are hypocrites. They are, of course, both correct in a generic sense. All politicians routinely say things they know or suspect to be false, especially if they think it affords … Continue reading →

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The Unbearable Incompetence of Mr. Biden

Posted on May 22, 2021 by Joe Benning

During the presidential campaign of 2020 the argument was being made that candidate Joe Biden was at heart a moderate who would guide the ship of state back to normalcy. Biden, who ran as not-Trump, asserted that all the talk … Continue reading →

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