Tag: free enterprise
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Individual Choice VS Government Tyranny: The Debate Goes On
by Tom DeWeese, American Policy Center, ©2025 (Jul. 7, 2025) — In the Fall of 2006, I received a most unexpected invitation to travel to Cambridge University in Great Britain and take part in a debate before a 200-year-old debating society called the Cambridge Union. The issue we were to debate – “This House believes that…
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Try Energy Freedom
“BEFORE WE ALL FREEZE IN THE DARK” by Viv Forbes, carbon-sense.com, ©2017 (Mar. 12, 2017) — We don’t have an electricity supply crisis – we have an energy policy crisis. Vote-seeking politicians with little understanding of markets, engineering or energy have passed costly laws, shuffled a pack of complex regulations, imposed discriminatory taxes and subsidies,…
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Public/Private Partnerships: Government-Sanctioned Monopolies
“ALL FOR THE COMMON GOOD” by Tom DeWeese, American Policy Center, ©2017 (Jan. 31, 2017) — President Trump is calling for a major new investment for rebuilding the nation’s infrastructure of highways, bridges and more. There is no question that it needs to be done. However, it’s vitally important that local, state and federal government…
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Green Pixie Dust Energy Policies
DEMOCRATS FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE WITH RENEWABLE PIXIE DUST, WHILE REST OF WORLD BURNS FOSSIL FUELS by Paul Driessen, ©2016 (Oct. 1, 2016) — “There’s been a record six straight years of job growth, and new Census numbers show incomes have increased at a record rate after years of stagnation,” NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt misinformed…
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How the West Got Healthy and Prosperous
VITAL INGREDIENTS INCLUDED THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD AND FOSSIL FUELS – TRUTHS WE FORGET AT OUR PERIL by Paul Driessen, ©2016 (Jun. 4, 2016) — Several years ago, physician, statistician, sword swallower and vibrant lecturer Hans Rosling produced a fascinating 4-minute video that presented 120,000 data points and showcased how mostly Western nations became healthy and prosperous…
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Graduates Face a Big Challenge
WHEN THEY GO INTO THE REAL WORLD, COLLEGE AND HIGH SCHOOL GRADS WILL ACTUALLY HAVE TO THINK by Paul Driessen, ©2016 (May 22, 2016) — As they don caps and gowns, endure commencement speeches and take their diplomas, many high school and college graduates face bleak prospects in an economy that grew a dismal 0.5%…
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Obama’s 0.7 Percent “Solution”
OBAMA, DEMOCRATS AND BUREAUCRATS BURY AMERICA’S FUTURE UNDER MORE FEDERAL REGULATIONS by Paul Driessen, ©2016 (Feb. 7, 2016) — America’s abysmal 0.7% economic growth during the fourth quarter of 2015 meant the annual growth rate was an anemic 2.4% … and average annual growth for the six-year Obama era a pathetic 2.2 percent. This is “dead…
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US History Curriculum Corrupted by Obama’s Department HEW
COLLEGE BOARD ACCEPTS REVISED, “POLITICALLY-CORRECT” U.S. HISTORY CURRICULUM FOR TESTING by Capt Joseph R. John (Ret.), Chairman, CombatVeteransForCongress, ©2015 (Aug. 4, 2015) — In President Ronald Reagan’s administration, and for 212 years prior to his Presidency, the amazing and unique US History of the Republic was taught to the nation’s youth in grammar, junior high,…
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Stand Up America; Help MG Vallely, USA (Ret)
THE MOST IMPORTANT CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION IN 238 YEARS by Capt. Joseph R. John (Ret.), ©2014 (Oct. 19, 2014) — “Stand Up America” actively works at protecting and defending the US Constitution, supports The Free Enterprise System, and in the below listed letter from its Founder, MajGen Paul E. Vallely, USMA ’61, USA (Ret), they are…
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The Principles of Freedom VS Agenda 21
ARE WE HEADED TOWARD A “WELL-ORDERED SOCIETY?” by Tom DeWeese, ©2014, American Policy Center (Apr. 21, 2014) — In February, 2014, I was invited to present the keynote address to the annual Clouds Over America conference in Oklahoma City, OK. Part of the program that evening was the presentation of awards to members of the…