From democracy to pathocracy. Twenty years ago, a newspaper headline asked the question: “What’s the difference between a politician and a psychopath?” The answer, then and now, remains the same: None. There is no difference between psychopaths and politicians. Nor is there much of a difference between the havoc wreaked on
innocent ... MORE
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Showing posts with label freedom. Show all posts
John W. Whitehead: The Rise Of The Political Psychopath
From democracy to pathocracy. Twenty years ago, a newspaper headline asked the question: “What’s the difference between a politician and a psychopath?” The answer, then and now, remains the same: None. There is no difference between psychopaths and politicians. Nor is there much of a difference between the havoc wreaked on
innocent ... MOREJohn Stossel: A Better Choice For 2016
The Libertarian party is selecting a nominee too. A recent poll shows that if the election were held today, 11 percent of Americans would vote for a Libertarian, former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson. That's surprising, since last election Johnson got just 1 percent of the vote. This year, he's doing better, probably because Donald Trump and ... MOREIllegal Drugs Should Be Decriminalized, Say Health Experts
by Lisa Ryan. Current policies are damaging. The war on drugs has failed – and certain illegal substances should now be decriminalized, according to some of the world’s leading health experts. Harsh drug control policies have done little to affect drug markets or drug use, experts argued. Instead, the war on drugs and zero-tolerance ... MORESupport For Marijuana Legalization Hits All-Time High
by Christopher Ingraham. A new survey released today
by the the Associated Press and the University of Chicago finds that a
record-high percentage of Americans -- 61 percent -- say they support
marijuana legalization. The survey uses the same question wording
("Do you think the use of marijuana should be made legal, or not?") on
marijuana as ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Hope For The Dead
The judge's Easter thoughts. What is the connection between personal freedom and rising from the dead? When America was in its infancy and struggling to find a culture and frustrated at governance from Great Britain, the word most frequently uttered in speeches and pamphlets and editorials was not "safety" or "taxes" or "peace"; ... MOREThe Nanny Always Wins: NY Daily Fantasy Sports Stop
by Scott Shackford. There was too much freedom going on. Thousands—perhaps tens of thousands—of New Yorkers have been saved from the terrible possibility of enjoyment and/or failure (and winning or losing money) playing daily fantasy league sports. DraftKings and FanDuel have agreed today to immediately stop allowing New Yorkers to join ... MOREDominic Frisby: Why We Should Fear A Cashless World
Government monitoring can be complete. The health food chain Tossed has just opened the UK’s first cashless cafe. It’s another step towards the death of cash. This is nothing new. Money is tech. The casting of coins made shells, whales’ teeth and other such primitive forms of money redundant. The printing press did the same for precious ... MOREKyle Peterson: The Great American Disconnect
Blue state, red state, now libertarian state? Fifteen years ago a Yale grad student named Jason Sorens began pondering what might seem like a wild question: How many libertarians would it take to commandeer a state government? At the time Mr. Sorens, then a 24-year-old campus libertarian, felt failed by electoral politics. The Libertarian Party ... MOREA Powerful Defense Of Market Capitalism
by James Pethokoukis. Economist Deirdre McCloskey recently spoke in London, and this brief summary nicely captures her talk and her work on the power of economic freedom. Next year will see the arrival of her latest book, “Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World,” the completion of a trilogy on the wonder-working ... MORETrump And His Protesters Both Hate Free Speech
by Michael Graham. No love for the First Amendment. When it comes to Donald Trump’s “Go to Auschwitz!” thugs versus MoveOn.Org’s “Shut them down” rioters, I go for the full Kissinger: “It’s a pity they both can’t lose.” (Kissinger was talking about Iran and Iraq. Close enough) But they aren’t losing. If fact, the sucker-punching Trumpies and ... MORENew Hampshire Committee Approves Jury Nullification Bill
Because justice is a result, not just a process. A New Hampshire House committee has approved a bill that would make
jury nullification an official aspect of the state legal system. A coalition of nine representatives introduced House Bill 1270 (HB1270)
in January. The legislation would allow a defendant or defense attorney
to request that the court ... MOREAmerican Slips To 11th Place In Economic Freedom
Government is slowly squandering our heritage. A “solid C,” they call it in school. Not flunking, certainly, but also not excelling. That grade characterizes the score of 75.4 that the United States earned on the Heritage Foundations’s 2016 “Index of Economic Freedom,” which grades countries on such factors as property rights, government ... MOREGlenn Reynolds: Cash Is The Currency Of Freedom
Facilitating voluntary transactions. Former Treasury secretary Larry Summers wants to get rid of the $100 bill. But I think he has it exactly backward. I think we need to restore the $500 and $1000 bills. And the reason is that people like Larry Summers have done a horrible job. Summers wrote recently in The Washington Post that the $100 ... MOREThe Age Of Authoritarianism -- Government Of The Politicians, By The Military, For The Corporations
by John W. Whitehead. America is at a crossroads. History may show that from this point forward, we will have left behind any semblance of constitutional government and entered into a militaristic state where all citizens are suspects and security trumps freedom. Certainly, this is a time when government officials operate off their own inscrutable, ... MORE
Richard Ebeling: The Proper Role Of Government In Society
Individual rights must be preserved - without interference from government. What is the role of government in society? This has been and remains the most fundamental question in all political discussions and debates. Its answer determines the nature of the social order and how people are expected and allowed to interact with one another ... MORE
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