Category: Published Commentaries

Blue-State Bailout Arguments Contradict Core Blue Principles

Blue-State Bailout Arguments Contradict Core Blue Principles

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
In the days before Thanksgiving, the New York State Comptroller issued a report arguing that horrifically governed blue states really do deserve a federal bailout because, in the case of New York, the state only gets back 91 cents for every ...
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Disney, Starbucks To SEC: Lock Conservatives Out

Disney, Starbucks To SEC: Lock Conservatives Out

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
Conservatives, libertarians and even moderates – the whole center-right majority of the United States – grow increasingly worried that corporate social activism seeks to shut them out of business and civic life. Disney and Starbucks have now provided proof. The ...
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Big Business Pursuit Of Political Power Forces Response From Right

Big Business Pursuit Of Political Power Forces Response From Right

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
Big business, or at least the biggest and loudest members of the cadre, has turned away from the clean and honest pursuit of money via voluntary exchange, and toward the aggregation of political power to force its will on all ...
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AT&T’s Debt Woes, CNN Irresponsibility Anticipate Bezos-Owned Woke Mill

AT&T’s Debt Woes, CNN Irresponsibility Anticipate Bezos-Owned Woke Mill

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
AT&T carries massive debts and appears to be “financially unstable.” The company is considering selling CNN, the one-time news station that it acquired with Time Warner in 2018. But the network, which before Trump’s ascendancy had viewers the same way those ...
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Prepare For The Man-Hate To Boil Back Over

Prepare For The Man-Hate To Boil Back Over

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
Minority groups supported right-of-center candidates in 2020 at much higher levels than in presidential cycles since 1960. In many areas, the majority of Hispanic votes were cast that way. Black votes for the right soared. Even including the weight of ...
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Biased “Expertise” Is Worse Than Worthless

Biased “Expertise” Is Worse Than Worthless

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
Few institutions, habits or presumptions have survived the rolling conflagration that has been 2020 without getting a little singed. But few have been razed as thoroughly – burned down to the subbasement timbers and then entombed in concrete from a ...
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Woke Companies, Stop Pandering To Millennials’ Socialism Phase

Woke Companies, Stop Pandering To Millennials’ Socialism Phase

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
The agitators who indignantly demand that corporations adopt their radical leftwing policy wishlists don’t care a hoot about corporate profits in the near term or into the “sustainable” future. If they did, they’d pause at evidence that they’re urging corporations ...
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Beijing Presents Itself as Climate Steward as China-Borne Pandemic Continues to Rage

Beijing Presents Itself as Climate Steward as China-Borne Pandemic Continues to Rage

Commentary /
As European countries ponder the reimposition of lockdowns and other drastic measures to confront a second wave of COVID-19, and U.S. officials fear a similar outbreak on this side of the Atlantic, China—where the pandemic originated—has decided to change the ...
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When It Comes To Climate Science, Benedict Cumberbatch Is No Sherlock Holmes

When It Comes To Climate Science, Benedict Cumberbatch Is No Sherlock Holmes

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
Actor Benedict Cumberbatch is a preening twit. It’s a shame to have to say that. He’s been immensely watchable since his long-ago appearance in a not-very-good British one-off series called Fortysomething that he, and mostly Hugh Laurie, saved from being dire. Tremendous Sherlock, ...
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Science Is Real – But They’re Doing It Wrong

Science Is Real – But They’re Doing It Wrong

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
Have you, too, been irritated by those signs on the lawns of your most unjustifiably smug neighbors – the ones composed of a list of cliches that, depending on how they’re interpreted, are either innocuous bromides, dog whistles to the virtue ...
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