Health Care Solutions: Patients in Command
In a scene from the movie “Monty Python’s Meaning of Life,” a pregnant woman in labor is seen being wheeled down hospital corridors at freeway speeds, with the bumpers of the gurney crashing through...
View ArticleBono: Capitalism Works
Speaking at Georgetown University earlier this year, renowned rocker Bono, who has also become well-known for his push for aid to Africa, explained that the only way for the continent to rise from...
View ArticleHow Pension Plans Beguiled Us
Having a pension plan has been part of the American Dream for millions of workers. Put in thirty or thirty-five years with a company, retire, and then the company will send you a check every month for...
View ArticleBarack Obama and the Bad Ideas of Progressivism
Barack Obama’s serial gross incompetence has elicited all sorts of explanatory theories. He’s a closet socialist, an Alinskyite radical, a secret Muslim, or an anti-American internationalist. Though...
View ArticleObamaCare’s Liberal Greed
Oliver Stone made Gordon Gekko and his famous quote “Greed is Good” into everything that was wrong with capitalism. A quarter of a century later, liberal politicians like Obama and Bill de Blasio are...
View ArticleWhy Is the Pay So Lousy?
Even if you’re lucky enough to have a job in the Sarbanes-Oxley-Dodd-Frank-Bernanke-Sebelius-Obamacare economy, and even if you’ve beaten the 31-year record and are still part of the 62.8% of American...
View ArticleOnly Capitalism Can Fix Obama’s Socialist Website
Every leader has his great challenge. FDR had WW2. JFK had a trip to the moon. Ronald Reagan had the Cold War. George W. Bush had 9/11. Barack Obama has a website. ObamaCare loyalists are calling the...
View ArticleThe Pope and Capitalism
Pope Francis, in his apostolic exhortation, levied charges against free market capitalism, denying that “economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater...
View ArticleOur Ideologically Biased Language
From Barack Obama to Pope Francis, the subject of “income inequality” has been rolling off of the tongues of some of the planet’s most visible figures over the last couple of weeks. The former went so...
View ArticleThe Festival of Dangerous Ideas
“America is a country that is now utterly divided when it comes to its society, its economy, its politics,” wrote David Simon, author and creator of the gritty television crime drama The Wire, in a...
View ArticleA New “Animal Farm” Targets Capitalism
Actor Andy Serkis is set to direct an upcoming movie adaptation of George Orwell’s classic novel Animal Farm. But there will be a slight deviation from the story’s original focus: rather than serve as...
View ArticleImmigrant Taxi Drivers Targeted in De Blasio’s New York
Now that Mayor Bill de Blasio has taken office, he can reassure the nervous business community by curbing some of the election rhetoric, which some among his supporters have taken to new levels. Mayor...
View ArticleLeftists Love Global Warming Because They Hate the Middle Class
This week, Secretary of State John Kerry announced to a group of Indonesian students that global warming was “perhaps the world’s most fearsome weapon of mass destruction.” He added, “Because of...
View ArticleIgnoring Hip-Hop Ensures a Democratic President in 2016
[This is the third part of Ronn Torossian's three-part series on why hip-hop and Jay-Z are worthy of America's respect. To read part 1, click here, for part 2, click here.] Wise conservatives might ask...
View ArticleThe Progressive Paradigms Lost
The progressive mind functions in terms of fossilized paradigms into which every crisis and problem are fitted, no matter how many qualifying or contradictory facts are left behind. These paradigms are...
View ArticleThe Climate Change Fundamentalists
Climate change fundamentalists are predicting an apocalypse. Human depredation in the form of unbridled materialism is the cause. Any dissent from the fundamentalists’ doomsday prophesies if their...
View ArticleBill Whittle: My Friend Failure
Bill Whittle talks about our inalienable right to fail our way to happiness. See the video and transcript below: TRANSCRIPT: MY FRIEND FAILURE Hi everybody. I’m Bill Whittle and this is the Firewall....
View ArticleBill Whittle: Get to Work!
Everywhere we look today we see SCANDAL FATIGUE gripping the nation. It’s bad enough that Leftist policy has crippled the national economy; in his latest FIREWALL Bill Whittle explains why you...
View ArticleDinesh D’Souza Tells the True Story of America
Dinesh D’Souza’s latest film, “America, Imagine a World Without Her,” which earned a rare A+ rating from CinemaScore, is apparently such a threat to progressive ideology that Costco initially ordered...
View ArticleJesus, Today’s Church, and ‘Inequality’
That Jesus commanded His disciples—of which I am one—to love “the poor” is beyond dispute. Equally beyond dispute, however, is that, regardless of what growing legions of left-leaning clerics would...
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