Showing posts with label charity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label charity. Show all posts

Ronald Bailey: Separating Church And State Money

If religious institutions truly want to be left alone ....  “I don’t believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute,” Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum declared in a February 26 interview with ABC’s This Week. “What kind of country do we live in that says only people of nonfaith can come into the public ... MORE

Anthony W. Hager: Pity The Poor Working Chump

50 years worth of war on poverty has produced little benefit, save for a few valuable lessons. For instance, we've learned about the valiant struggle the disadvantaged wage against capitalist oppression. The homeless, the hungry, and the downtrodden are victims of free-market greed. But there's one participant in Washington's war on poverty who's routinely ignored... MORE

Nick Bilton: iPads For Me, But Not For Ye

FAA gives pilots thumbs up, passengers thumbs down.     The Federal Aviation Administration said Tuesday that pilots on American Airlines flights would be allowed to use iPads instead of paper flight manuals in the cockpit starting Friday, as reported by ZDNet, even during takeoff and landing. But passengers are still required to shut down anything with  ... MORE

ViDEO: Ron Paul Knows What Davy Crockett Learned


A lesson few politicians grasp.

Forbes: America Before The Entitlement State

by Yaron Brook and Don Watkins.   Reacting to calls for cuts in entitlement programs, House Democrat Henry Waxman fumed: “The Republicans want us to repeal the twentieth century.” Sound bites don’t get much better than that. After all, the world before the twentieth century–before the New Deal, the New Frontier, the Great Society–was a dark ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: Two Different Worlds

A conflict of visions. Ideological clashes over particular laws, policies and programs often go far deeper. Those with opposing views of what is desirable for the future also tend to differ equally sharply as to what the reality of the present is. In other words, they envision two very different worlds. A small but revealing example was a recent New York Times criticism of former Apple CEO  ... MORE