Year: 2015

I’m upset that the presidential candidates, all of them, rarely mention a huge problem: the quiet cancer that kills opportunity — regulation. The accumulated burden of it is the reason that America is stuck in the slowest economic recovery since the Depression. I understand why candidates don’t talk about it: Regulation is boring. But it’s […]

Academics and public intellectuals, who should know better, attempt to explain the highly visible and publicized pathology witnessed in cities such as Baltimore, Detroit, Chicago, Ferguson and others as a legacy of slavery. The argument is made that the problems encountered by many black Americans are rooted in white racism, greed and income inequality. They […]

Fear, at least the fear measured by the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX), is in high feather right now on Wall Street. And that’s probably good for you, as David Williams and I discussed on the most recent RansomNotes.tv. “Perhaps the most widely cited gauge of volatility is the CBOE Volatility Index VIX, which saw the […]

“We are the change that we seek.” “Hope and Change” These statements and campaign slogans of candidate Barack Obama in 2008 exemplified a basic difference between the Left and the Right. The further left one goes the greater the belief in change. Conservatives, on the other hand, as their name implies, wish to conserve unless […]

Last Tuesday, President Barack Obama hiked to Exit Glacier in Alaska with photographers in tow, to send the world a message. The glacier is melting. Obama blames it on the increasing use of fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas, which he wants to restrict not only in the U.S. but also worldwide. […]

Donald Trump has successfully placed immigration at the center of the U.S. Presidential election. But while the issue is still largely a debating point in the United States, it has quickly and violently become a life and death issue for the European Union, which is in the midst of the most significant immigration and refugee […]

As tens of thousands of migrants flood into Europe from Syria — primarily as a result of poorly considered Western military intervention and the subsequent rise of the Islamic State — hearts are growing so large that they risk displacing brains. Emotional blackmail doesn’t lead to sound policy. There’s always a temptation to resolve sensitive […]

This special edition of The Glazov Gang was hosted by Ari David, the host of the Ari David Show Podcast, and joined by Raymond Ibrahim, Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. Raymond came on the show to discuss The Ugly Truth about Historical “Voluntary” Islamic Conversion, unveiling how most of the non-Muslim ancestors of […]