Evan Vanderwey

Thank you, Ray Kroc . . . He may have been a jerk, but he was also the perfect object lesson in consumer-centered entrepreneurship.

Combating bad ideas . . . is best done with good ideas. Criminalizing words just doesn’t work.

The loud elite . . . Apparently, the more expensive the college, the more likely its students are to go hysterical over “offensive” speech. And there’s a chart to prove it.

A new portrait in the Oval Office . . . Trump may want to rethink the Andrew Jackson portrait that went up shortly after his inauguration. Unless ethnic-cleansing, constitution-hating war monger was what he was going for.

Fake News . . . Remy style.

Strange bedfellows . . . The New Left and Libertarians have found agreement here: “that compulsory school attendance laws be abolished.” ~ Ralph Raico.  This speech was given in 1974, but its observations are coming full circle today.

The consumer is captain . . . Mises laid it out (he was not the first, but he was the most compelling), and now Uber is demonstrating it.

Commerce, our protector . . . How a restaurant’s (or any company with regular customers) reputation is MUCH more effective in keeping the consumer safe than government inspectors.

Doubling down on bloat . . . Trump once described our military as bloated. Now he’s increasing its budget by $54B a year. What does this portend? Nothing good, says John Stossel.

The Hollywood Awards . . . You probably missed this star-studded gala. Don’t worry — they got the envelopes right.