Laissez-Faire Today

Let’s say you are a farmer and most of your animals are dead from disease. But there are a handful of chickens still making …

The DVD player crashed last night. The disc wouldn’t load. Clearly, the player had gone the way of all flesh. With great reluctance, it …

Do you know the amazing story of Lysander Spooner? He lived from 1808 to 1887. His first great battle was taking on the post office monopoly. In the 1840s, he was like most people at the time: fed up with the high prices and bad service. But as an intellectual and entrepreneur, he decided to do something about it. He started the American Letter Mail Company, and his letter business gave the government some serious competition.

The word “equality” is being rammed down our throats every day, with special focus on the so-called “income gap.” The presumption is that we …

There are occasions in American life – and they come too often these days – when you want to scream: “what the heck has …

There was a brief moment of joy at the news that retailers hired 206,000 new people in November. But only one day later, the …

Capitalism is supposed to be a system of profit and loss, but in recent years, central bankers and central planners seem to have forgotten …

How much more ridiculous can the US Postal Service get? This you will not believe. It has embarked on a public relations campaign to …

There are occasions in American life – and they come too often these days – when you want to scream: “what the heck has …

We’ve all visited Taco Bell a thousand times – 2 billion of us at least once every year – but now I’ve taken the …