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The Police and The Fire Department
Have you noticed that in discussions about privatizing certain parts of the economy that are currently heavily financed by taxes, the police and the fire department often get lumped together? Yet they...
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The Best Foreign Policy? Lead By Example At Home
A foreign policy is an extension of the proper role of government to protect us against foreign threats. I’m an advocate of the idea that by far the best foreign policy instrument available to us...
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Education And Your Rights
With the spectacle of government (public) school teachers on strike in Chicago, this week offers a good opportunity to reflect on how education should be handled in a rights respecting society. I could...
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National Parks Inc.
This week, let’s get away from the sometimes poisonous air of the election and get out in the open. Let’s visit one of our fabulous National Parks. I love National Parks; I have probably visited close...
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Don’t Give Up on the “47 Percent”
Romney’s “47 percent” comment certainly has had staying power this election season. On the one hand, he is correct that a growing number of Americans think their need is a claim check on their...
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Free Traders Unite!
In the foreign policy presidential debate, supposedly in an effort to garner votes in Ohio industrial towns, both Romney and Obama accused China of granting unfair subsidies to exports to the U.S. This...
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Government Disaster Relief – A Recipe for Disaster
A week after she came ashore, Sandy’s impact is still being acutely felt up and down the Eastern seaboard. Homes and businesses are still without power, lines are long at the pump, grocery store...
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Sweden—Welfare Statism Fact and Fiction
I’m a native of Sweden. My accent normally gives me away. Think the Swedish Chef in The Muppet Show (although my meatballs are tastier). When people find out, they often want to know more. Many...
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Gun Control Diversion Tactics
The common perception after Newtown/Sandy Hook is that gun control advocates are seizing the opportunity to further their agenda; that they’re putting pressure on the defenders of the 2nd Amendment to...
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Domestic Partnershippal Bliss
SEPARATE! is a blog about relationships in a fashion. More precisely, it’s about our relationship to the government. Normally I don’t cover domestic relationships. That’s for Dr. Laura, Dear Abby, Dr....
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Ire At The IRS
The IRS has systematically delayed 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) applications for organizations with a supposedly anti current administration bent. The only surprise here is that anybody is surprised....
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The Highway to Highway Heaven
The nation’s bridges are crumbling and our roads are in disrepair. A few years ago the I-35 bridge in Minneapolis tragically collapsed. And back in May of this year the I-5 bridge in Skagit, WA, caved...
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Defund ObamaCare But Don’t Forget A Positive Healthcare Reform Vision
I’m all for defunding ObamaCare. In fact, here at SEPARATE! we’re working to defund most of government with a few exceptions. I’ve been waiting for senators Lee, Cruz, and Paul, certain U.S. House...
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Volunteers For Syria!
When arguing the moral case for separating state and the economy, it’s important to distinguish between Separate What, the areas that should be free from government interference, and Separate Not, the...
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Government Shutdown Solution? National Parks Inc. Revisited
With our National Parks closed for business to the chagrin of RV’ing seniors, foreign tourists, NPS employees and others, let’s revisit SEPARATE!’s solution to the problem: National Parks Inc. This...
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Fight Public Education Spending Proposals with Principles, not Pragmatism
Here in Colorado, we’ll be voting this November on whether to increase state income taxes to pay even more for public (government) education. The debate is very pragmatic, centering on whether the...
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Hymn To The Individual
2013 was a good year for championing the moral case for separating state and the economy. The collectivists were out in full force: NSA snooping overreach, healthcare rights violations, gun control...
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A Prescription For Curing VA Care
By now, everybody is familiar with the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) healthcare scandal with its revelations of physician shortages, perverse government payment incentives, and institutional...
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ISIS, Meet Doc Holliday
Wyatt Earp: What makes a man like [Johnny] Ringo, Doc? What makes him do the things he does? Doc Holliday: A man like Ringo has got a great big hole, right in the middle of him. He can never kill...
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Republican Congressional Majority: This Time With Bold Visions And Action Plans?
Republicans have been given another lease on life and an opportunity to prove that they can learn from their past congressional majority failures. Past outcomes have almost without exception been...
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