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Copyright 2015 by John T. ReedI was just reading Charles Murray’s new book By the People. I decided to set it aside and watch a DVR of John Stossel’s program from tonight. To my surprise, the theme was we the people civil disobedience—Murray’s shtick, and his first guest was Murray talking about this book.I heard Murray talk about this last July at Freedom Fest where he and I were speakers. Stossel was there, too. And we all three will be there (Planet Hollywood in Vegas) again this July 8-11. Stossel now does one of his shows from there each year....

Copyright 2008The Reverend Jeremiah and Obama’s speech about “race” have inspired many to say we need a “dialogue on race,” that is, blacks and their relationship to whites. For the record, blacks are not the only people who have a race, but too many of them seem to think they are. The fact that Obama uses the word “race” when he is really talking about relations between blacks and whites shows how distorted his perspective on the matter is.‘Benign neglect’The phrase “dialogue on race” is fuzzy psychobabble. In the late 1960s, Nixon urban affairs staffer Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote a memo...

From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.There is a whole Wikipedia write-up just on those phrases. It says the phrases are a slogan popularized by Karl Marx in his 1875 Critique of the Gotha Program.Unless you knew it was a Marxist slogan, you probably agreed with it. Why would whether Karl Marx said it or not matter? It should not. That is the point of this article.From each according to the progressive income tax table, to each according to the various safety net lawsIn 2010, Sean Hannity went on a jag of reading the slogan...

AbortionAbortion is one of the thorniest ethical questions ever to face human beings. Neither the right yelling “Never” nor the left yelling “Always” through their bullhorns has an intelligent position on the issue. The American people in general recognize the complexity and lack of clarity of the moral issues involved.I do not have the solution to the abortion issue anymore than the left or right does, but I have a suggestion reflecting one aspect of abortions that I think is dead wrong. I do not like the “Out of sight, out of mind” way abortions are handled.When my wife was...

My Baby Boomer generation has famously refused to get old. Those of us in the front rank (born in 1946) are now 69 years old. So we are getting old whether many of us are willing to admit it or not. The kooky belief seems to be if you work out and buy groceries at Whole Foods, you don’t get old. Thus bicycling, which is arguably exercise, being done by adults. When I was a kid in the 1950s and the early 1960s, adults did not ride bikes. We were much poorer then—no TV or car at my house—so, if anything,...