Category Archives: Politics

Slate writer Marcelle Friedman proclaims that “justice prevails” as the International Judo Federation agreed to allow a Saudi Arabian female athlete to compete in the Olympics while wearing a headscarf. A better description would have been “misogyny prevails.” If Friedman and Slate had been … Continue reading →

Fareed Zakaria takes offense to Romney’s recent comment about culture making the difference in a country’s economic vitality. Zakaria claims that China, Japan, and India, whose economies had been stagnant for centuries, “miraculously” took off not because of any change in these countries’ cultures, but because … Continue reading →

A reader of the Washington Post recently took offense at the use of the term “authoritarian” when referring to Hugo Chavez and his imitators in Latin America.  Much better, in the opinion of the reader, to call Chavez a “radical, majoritarian democrat” who is only looking … Continue reading →

The government indeed causes a lot of problems, but contrary to Matthew Yglesias’s implication, most everyone would agree that government is beneficial.  Even Friedrich Hayek himself rejected a laissez-faire approach to the economy, believing instead that government is necessary to create … Continue reading →

One might think that a fact checker for a major newspaper organization would apply a certain level of objectivity to his work, but evidently not, if you’re Glenn Kessler of the Washington Post. In a recent column, Kessler reviews the … Continue reading →

In this week’s Washington Post, Warren Brown starts his car review (that’s correct, car review) with six paragraphs attacking and insulting none other than Mitt Romney.  Evidently the Post has freed its writers to attack Romney at any time and in any place, no … Continue reading →

Slate magazine writers are now hard at work devising pretexts for government to punish those who exercise their right to free speech.  Slate has always been marching in lockstep to Obama’s vision of centralized authoritarian government, so Matthew Yglesias’s suggestion for banning Chick-fil-A shouldn’t be surprising, but … Continue reading →