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Ryan McMaken

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  • When Communists Abolished the Weekend

    When Communists Abolished the Weekend0

    Anti-capitalists on both left and right tell us that “capitalism” is destroying the weekend. The conservatives insist we need laws to punish people who try to sell things on Sunday. Leftists insist “unbridled capitalism” is destroying the weekend, which “lets us cultivate the seeds of civil society…” But it’s not capitalism that’s doing this dirty work. The decline of

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  • The Deep State: The Headless Fourth Branch of Government

    The Deep State: The Headless Fourth Branch of Government1

    School children learn that there are three branches of government: the legislative, executive, and judicial. In actual practice, however, there are four branches of government. The fourth is what for decades now has been called a “headless fourth branch of government,” the administrative state. As early as 1937, in a “Report of the President’s Committee on Administrative

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  • California: The Blue Ribbon Poverty State

    California: The Blue Ribbon Poverty State0

    The U.S. Census Bureau released new poverty data this month, and California once again has the nation’s highest poverty rate, according to the “Supplemental Poverty Measure.” According to the SPM, California’s poverty rate in 2018 was 18.1 percent, followed by Louisiana with 16.5 percent, and Florida with 16.2 percent. The states with the lowest poverty rates

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  • Why Joe Biden Is Winning the Gun-Control Debate

    Why Joe Biden Is Winning the Gun-Control Debate0

    There are two fundamental arguments most commonly made against gun control. The Anti-Crime Argument The first one is based on the idea that persons have a fundamental right to self-defense against ordinary criminals. That is, in a world where criminals have access to either legal or illegal weapons, ordinary people ought to be able to

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