Take a look at the skillful arguments against central planning in the first two minutes of the clip below. Why don’t we see any Republican officeholder taking on such fundamental issues, like the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, with such clarity?

Film made in the Truman era explains what Republicans don’t.
Progressives will call the rest of this video over-the-top anti-communist scare tactics.  They may call those who made it intolerant sexist jingoists. This means that their arguments need not be answered with reasoned responses. There’s a name for responding to …

For about five years I knew a man casually from his work. We chatted about six times a year as I waited in his shop 15 minutes at a time. He died recently and I learned that he was a big fan of video games.
We had never talked about video games. We had talked about where to go camping, how to keep the pool clear, where to buy decent Italian rolls. We talked about a whole lot of stupid things that neither of us was interested in like whether synthetic …

Please don’t watch the embedded video below yet. Please take this test first:
Are you a fan of Sarah Palin?
Are you a fan of C.S. Lewis?
Do you dislike the mainstream media?
If you answered yes to all three, you are going to have to approach the video below as you would a bottle of 20 year old scotch. Please do not watch it with Christmas music in the background, or on your laptop in front of your TV. Turn off the TV, take the phone off the hook, and sit down and …

I’d like to establish early on that you ignore what the Walt Disney Company has to say about crowd control at your peril. For example, in bidding to provide the event management for the U.S. Bicentennial celebration in 1976 Disney proposed to stage an evening that featured first fireworks, then a free concert, then a second free concert. They knew from experience in their theme parks that everyone would stay for the fireworks, but far fewer would stay for the first concert, and fewer still for …