Category: Government

Professional licensing requirements keep out

Professional licensing requirements: harming workers, harming consumers

Professional licensing requirements look very unconstitutional when government power supports monopolies without benefiting either licensees or consumers. Almost a decade ago, in a post entitled “The scam what am,” I described one of the few things that make me, a rather temperate person, start ranting like a crazy woman: If

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Progressives Christian theocracy

It’s Progressives, not conservatives, who want to turn America into a Christian theocracy

If one takes Progressives at their word about Jesus and politics, it is Progressives who are working to turn America into a Christian theocracy. If you go to Amazon’s Kindle bestseller list, you will see that the current bestseller is Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (see image, left). Atwood wrote The

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American Taliban's attorney sees intelligence community destroying Trump

American Taliban’s lawyer: Intelligence community will destroy Trump

James Brosnahan, the man who represented American Taliban John Walker Lindh, happily awaits the time when America’s intelligence community destroys Trump. The Marin Independence Journal (as in Marin County, the uber-Leftist, hyper-affluent community north of San Francisco), reports on a talk that James Brosnahan gave to the Marin County Trial

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Bookworm Beat Woman Writing American Left's Fascism Russia Hoax

The Bookworm Beat 9/15/16 — the “polls they are a’changin'” edition and open thread

If Bill Clinton and Al Gore couldn’t do it, then no one can. A Leftist Facebook friend posted an article from The Hill with a lede saying that Donald Trump “floats rolling back food safety regulations.” The implication, obviously, is that in Trump’s America, we’re all going to die from

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Dear Elites — no, Trump is not a fascist, but Hillary probably is *UPDATED*

The hysterical screeds that self-styled “elite” Progressives are writing about Trump’s alleged fascism betray appalling historical and political ignorance. It’s time again, therefore, for an education about political systems. Before I begin, though, let me give you a perfect example of the shrill, uninformed rants from America’s supposedly educated class. This

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Mob Illustrated edition post-election counting

The Bookworm Beat 7/6/16 — The Hillary Moves On edition and open thread

Now that we’re the Banana Republic of America, I think it’s time for the #NeverTrump crowd to have a little “Come To Jesus” talk to determine whether they want Hillary the Untouchable, and her entire Leftist panoply of friends and goals, in the White House, or whether they’re willing to

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