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Showing posts with label control. Show all posts
Showing posts with label control. Show all posts
Property Rights and Property Taxes: To Possess Not Own
by Nick Giambruno. Do you really own something that you are forced to perpetually make payments on and which can be seized from you if you don’t pay? I would say that you don’t. You would possess such an item, but you wouldn’t own it—an important distinction. A ridiculous perversion of the concept of ownership and property rights has ... MOREKatherine Mangu-Ward: Guy Who Tried To Shut Down Kid's Lemonade Stand Gets Taste Of Own Medicine. And It Sucks
Smothered by regulation. Remember Doug Wilkey, the grumpy Floridian who
tried to get a lemonade stand that was operating next door to his
house shut down by local authorites? Whelp, looks like he's
getting
a taste of his own medicine. A tipster contacted the city and pointed officials toward records that show Wilkey, as recently as March, ... MOREStudy: You Have 'Near-Zero' Impact on U.S. Policy
by Winton Hall. A startling new political science study concludes that corporate interests and mega wealthy individuals control U.S. policy to such a degree that "the preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy." The startling study, titled "Testing Theories ... MORENanny-State Mindset Leads To Police Brutality
by Scott Rasmussen. Liberty is slowly being made illegal. In Florida recently, police pulled up to a young boy playing in the park and asked where his mother lived. According to a report on WPTV, the mom was then arrested for "allowing her son to go to the park alone." Her son had a cellphone, and she would check in with him along the way. ... MOREWhy Government Should Never Control The Internet
by Robert M. McDowell. Tomorrow is the deadline for the public to comment on the Federal
Communications Commission’s (FCC) attempt to regulate the Internet under
the seemingly innocuous moniker of “net neutrality.” The architect of this movement, and the man who coined the term “net neutrality,” is Columbia law professor Tim Wu. ... MORE
Jeffrey Tucker: The War Is On You
Why governments needs an enemy. After 25 years of war on Iraq, the U.S. has what to show for it? A
handful of dust. And at what cost in lives and property? It boggles the
mind to consider the breadth and depth of the suffering. Iraq was the great experiment following the Cold War for how the U.S.
military machine could be used to make ... MOREThomas Sowell: The Ambassador And The Post Office
A lesson about capitalism. At one time, people in India had to get on a waiting list to buy Hindustan Motors' Ambassador automobile, even though it was an obvious copy of Britain's Morris Oxford of some decades earlier. The reason was simple: the Indian government would not allow cars to be imported to compete with it. The fact that the ... MORESteve Tobak: How To Gain Personal Freedom And Control
My dad was a strict disciplinarian. I hated that. I hated it so much
that I grew up desperately wanting to control my own life. To have the
freedom to do what I want, how I want, when I want. But here’s the thing. The pursuit of personal freedom has brought me
face-to-face with an interesting dilemma. Turns out, it takes a
tremendous ... MOREAbby Wisse Schachter: The War On Fun
When safety becomes a god. In 1859, the esteemed magazine Scientific American issued a warning about young people's "pernicious excitement" over a trendy game: chess. The shuffling of pawns and rooks was "a mere amusement of a very inferior character, which robs the mind of valuable time that might be devoted to nobler acquirements ... MOREEPA Wildly Expands Authority to Regulate Private Property
by Bridget Johnson. The Environmental Protection Agency today unveiled its proposed rule to bring natural and man-made bodies of water big and tiny under the purview of the Clean Water Act, sparking accusations that the administration has embarked on an unprecedented breach of private property rights without scientific basis. ... MOREWalter E Williams: Bizarre Arguments And Behavior
Deceivers and control freaks. Some statements and arguments are so asinine that you'd have to be an academic or a leftist to take them seriously. Take the accusation that Republicans and conservatives are conducting a war on women. Does that mean they're waging war on their daughters, wives, mothers and other female members of their ... MOREEdward Cline: Our Sociopathic Political Class
Deranged or just wrong about everything? In his March 10th FrontPage column, “Obama’s Appeasement Leads to War,” about how appeasing tyrants has and will continue to lead to war and more international strife, Daniel Greenfield wrote: On the shield of the Strategic Air Command a steel mailed fist grips a lightning bolt ... MORE
Kaley V. United States: A Terrible Supreme Court Decision That Lets The Government Take Your Assets Before Trial
by Chanakya Sethi. High Court expands government's ability to steal. Justice for Kerri and Brian Kaley, the Supreme Court held Tuesday, is of the Alice in Wonderland variety: First comes the punishment—the seizure of all their assets—then the trial, and the crime last of all.* “But suppose they never committed the crime?” Alice asks. “It doesn’t ... MORE
Nick Gillespie: Kill The FDA (Before It Kills Again!)
Death by government. If you haven't seen The Dallas Buyers Club, which took home three Oscars last Sunday, you should. It's the most flat-out libertarian movie since Ghostbusters and one of the best message movies I can think of (of course, like all quality message movies, it's first and foremost a powerful piece of art). Specifically, it shines a ... MOREBarry Farber: An Impudent Putin, A Flaccid Obama
Russia looks to rebuild an empire. One Hollywood marriage was so disastrous that when she (Ethel Merman) wrote her autobiography, she left the chapter about her marriage to him (Ernest Borgnine) completely blank! Pretend I’m doing that now to President Obama’s speech of Friday, Feb. 28, about Russian troop movements against Ukraine. ... MORE
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