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Medicare for All Would Eliminate Americans’ Choices in Health Coverage 0
- Front Page, Headline News, Political Opinion
- May 22, 2019
With the debate over health care heating up again, Medicare for All once more is a hot topic. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., has sponsored a new version of his Senate bill that promises to free Americans from health care concerns. But at the core of the Sanders bill is still the vast and fundamentally illiberal restriction on
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Are Conservatives Throwing in the Towel on Fiscal Restraint?0
- Economics of Liberty, Front Page
- May 20, 2019
We’ve all heard the refrain these days regarding the misguided notion that “capitalism is broken.” It has even crept into my house, as my oldest daughter has been hearing from her classmates about the virtues of socialism (the dire situation in Venezuela notwithstanding). This Is Both Startling and Thrilling It startles me because I wonder
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How Do Libertarians Look at Venezuela?0
- Foreign Policy, Front Page, Political Opinion, WORLD
- May 12, 2019
When it comes to Venezuela, medicine, food, guns, and hope are scarce. So is information. Even in an age where images on social media of tanks rolling over protesters, government forces shooting into crowds, and people eating out of trash cans are relatively instantaneous. The Venezuelan government isn’t the only one attempting to control the
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The Linda Problem and Why Democratic Socialists Flunk Logic 101 0
- Economics of Liberty, Front Page, Political Opinion
- May 10, 2019
How do we overcome our need to make our story cohere with our preexisting biases? Thursday, May 9, 2019 Consider the following facts: Venezuela is a country with vast natural resources. Once it was one of the wealthiest countries in South America. Venezuela nationalized many vital industries such as oil. Price controls were instituted, and
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US To Offer Guaido ‘Range Of Options’ To Help Topple Maduro 0
- Foreign Policy, Front Page, War & Peace, WORLD
- May 6, 2019
Jason Hopkins Republish Reprint Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made clear that the U.S. government is prepared to support Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido in a multitude of ways, leaving open the possibility of military intervention. “Oh, make no mistake, we have a full range of options that we’re preparing for,” Pompeo said Sunday on ABC’s
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Steven Crowder Calls Out Bernie Sanders over “Venezuelans Living the American Dream”0
- 2020 Presidential Race, Front Page
- May 6, 2019
By now, the world is well aware of the Socialist disaster in Venezuela which finally erupted into the people rising up against the government and resulted in such tragedies as a man getting run over by an armored military vehicle and citizens being fired on by helicopters. However, in spite of the glaring failure of
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