Category Archives: BARSTOOL POLITICS

The Privilege Paradox

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Does being privileged provide an advantage?Helping individuals who may be at a disadvantage in life is a virtue, but there is an ideology which doesn’t care about the individual, but instead sees only a collective group of various arbitrary categories … Continue reading

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Who would have guessed that with Trump as the ruler, the big government progressive left crowd would start sounding like limited government right wingers?

Ever since the progressive era gained traction around 100 years ago, the leftists have worked so hard to grow the power and scope of federal government control over everyone’s lives. During the last 8 years, Obama and his congregation got … Continue reading

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AFFIRMATIVE ACTION ON THE GOLF COURSE, AND WHAT’S UP WITH THE GENDER PAY GAP

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It is widely reported that women in the U.S. make about 22% less than men in the workforce. But what does that really mean? Some folks think this is an example of discrimination based on stereotypes, and is a problem … Continue reading

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Your Income Tax Return Explained by Jeremy

Imagine if a bully (the State) in school collects everyone’s lunches (income tax) in order to redistribute the lunches to those who are most loyal to him and most dependent on him for lunches. You must give him a portion … Continue reading

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Should the Wealthy be Obligated to “Give Back” to the Community?

How many times have you heard the progressives mention that the wealthy should give back to the community? They make it sound as if the wealthy person made others worse off by becoming wealthy. How do they think others become … Continue reading

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Your Vote Counts, But not in a Good Way

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As many of you may know by now, I am a supporter of voluntary and consensual interactions, exchanges, and relationships between individuals, and I believe initiating the use of force and coercion against others is unethical. If that sounds too … Continue reading

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Response to Expand Your Personal Value

I’m not sure who thinks there is a finite amount of wealth that exists in the universe that should be divided equally – I certainly don’t. However, a company will have a specific amount of profit or working capital to … Continue reading

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Expand your personal value

          It’s funny how people get outraged at the difference in pay that CEO’s make compared to the entry level workers.  It’s as if they think that there is a fixed amount of wealth that just … Continue reading

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Big Bad Business

          Many progressives try to claim that intervention from the State (government) is the best solution to any problem in society, rather than a solution from a private voluntary approach.  They claim that the cause of … Continue reading

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VOTE FOR YOURSELF

               Oh, which presidential candidate is the best one to vote for in order to make the economy stronger?  Obama needs four more years in order for the implemented policies and regulation to take effect.  Romney will fix the economy … Continue reading

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JEREMY’S “SASSBACK” TO SANDY’S RESPONSE TO “Stop Fixing”

          Thanks Sandy.  I enjoy getting to know your story more.  It sounds like we agree on many things but still come to different conclusions as to why things are the way they are.            In your response to “Stop … Continue reading

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Response to Stop Fixing

Jeremy, I am so impressed with your knowledge of American history. Whenever I read something you’ve written, I am moved to follow up on a phrase or reference (Hegelian Dialectic and eugenics to mention just two). There’s really no “but” … Continue reading

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Stop “fixing” everything

“One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.” –Milton Friedman                  It seems like those on the network news are always baffled as to why the U.S economy is … Continue reading

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Reserving Judgment on Putin

Jer- I will be happy to sass you back on this topic once you publish a photo of Dmitri on horseback sans shirt.

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Putin back in the saddle

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          The election of Vladimir Putin last week didn’t get much of any news coverage.  The day after the election I turned on the news with the intent of finding the results between Dmitri Medvedev (the incumbent president) vs. Prime … Continue reading

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