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P. Gardner Goldsmith | February 7, 2020
Many Americans recognize California as the “incubator” for collectivist proposals that soon spread like a virus across the nation, even while its…
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P. Gardner Goldsmith | December 12, 2019
In the 1960s, Patrick McGoohan’s iconic individualist “The Prisoner” was stripped of his name, told he was “Number Six,” and imprisoned in “The…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | October 29, 2019
As I reported in March of 2018, the light-on-wisdom, heavy-on-compulsion, government of California recently mandated that all new homes must be at…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | October 10, 2019
“Little Leviathan” -- the overbearing hand of regional government -- strikes again, and it offers everyone a larger lesson to take with them to their…
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P. Gardner Goldsmith | July 26, 2019
In the dystopian world of Terry Gilliam’s 1985 film “Brazil”, the main character, played by Jonathan Price, suffers in a government-controlled…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | June 3, 2019
  Author, scriptwriter, and producer Rod Serling was famous for, among many achievements, “submitting” tales of the bizarre and unsettling for “…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | February 2, 2019
Thomas Jefferson famously said that the “natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.” So it’s nice to see a…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | May 11, 2018
I was utterly stunned to discover something today. It happened while admiring the energy consumption of Al Gore’s 10,000-square-foot home in…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | November 15, 2017
For decades, many U.S.-based collectivists have told people that too many Americans are obese. They’ve implied that store owners and restaurateurs…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | August 10, 2017
(Photo: Rich701 Flicker.com) Lobstermen along much of the New England coast breathed sighs of relief the morning of August 9, when they awoke to…
P. Gardner Goldsmith | April 10, 2017
As if reciting a mantra, socialists tell people that their political philosophy is “for the people." Yet, just as every collectivist state on…