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The short answer is “no.” This WSJ article exposes this common myth. FDR did not get us out of the Great Depression—not during the 1930s, and only in a limited sense during World War II. Let’s start with the New Deal. Its various alphabet-soup agencies—the WPA, AAA, NRA and even the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)—failed [...]

In today’s TIA Daily, Robert Tracinski links to an article about the situation in Greece, and highlights the quote “you can’t mix Freedom and Free Lunch.” It’s a great line, no doubt, but the one that caught my attention was, “the spectacle of government workers, cranky retirees, militant unionists, and mad dog socialists locked arm in [...]

TechCrunch has been mistakenly cheerleading the FCC lately. Earlier this month they said that FCC regulation of the internet would be “a huge win for consumers.” This article makes the usual error (as with health care, or bailouts) of asking for a government answer to a problem without realizing that the cause of the problem [...]

In the video below, Jenny Beth Martin does a nice job explaining the core values of the Tea Party movement, while defending it against the media’s default smear of racism. The most egregious attempt at this smear in the video is when the host asks, because nearly 80% Tea Party supporters are Caucasian, ”what would you [...]

I’m not sure if Charles Johnson thinks that the rights of American’s are granted by government, or if the false dichotomy in his sentence is supposed to be attributed only to the way “people like” Rep. Peter King sees things. Either way, it’s worth touching on here. People like Rep. King are usually the same [...]

The Broken Window Fallacy teaches us the important economic lesson that it is necessary to “take account of that which is not seen,” that when we see tax dollars being spent on a government project, we mustn’t forget all of the other ways that money could have been used if it wasn’t appropriated from it’s rightful [...]

Well, yesterday’s news from the House wasn’t the birthday present I had hoped for. I don’t feel like saying much more than I haven’t already said before. One word will suffice; REPEAL.

Since this is the big weekend for the health care plan, let’s take a look at Paul Ryan taking the president to task for the “gimmicks, smoke and mirrors,” and shady accounting used to trick us into thinking this massive new government entitlement will save us money, let alone be budget neutral. Pay attention to the [...]

When discussing health care, or hearing about it in the news, you are sure to come across the subject of “pre-existing conditions.” The Left rails against insurance companies for “discriminating” against potential clients because of their pre-existing conditions. So what is a pre-existing condition? Let’s examine the phrase. Taking the last part first, it’s a [...]

The right to protect yourself and your property is unalienable. I’m proud to share a belief in this right, as well as a surname, with one of the plaintiffs in today’s case before the Supreme Court, McDonald v. Chicago, which could render unconstitutional Chicago’s handgun ban. Beyond being the correct decision on an individual rights [...]