by David Brown. New commissioner Rob Manfred says he would be open to Major League
Baseball considering a new approach to legalized gambling. Echoing
statements that NBA commissioner Adam Silver made recently, Manfred told ESPN's Outside the Lines on Thursday that, "It's important for baseball to give fresh consideration to the ... MORE
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Showing posts with label money. Show all posts
How Government Money Effects Climate Change Opinion
by Patrick J Michaels & Paul C "Chip" Knappenberger. In our post last week titled “Climate Alarmism: When is this Bozo Going Down?” we described how new research increasingly casts doubt on the validity of climate models and their projections of future climate change. It is increasing clear that climate models simply predict too much ... MORE
Americans Are Renouncing Citizenship At A Record Pace
by Laura Saunders. Significant numbers of people are continuing to renounce their U.S. citizenship or end their long-term U.S. residency. There are 776 names on the Treasury Department list published Friday for the third quarter of 2014. That’s the third highest quarterly figure ever, according to Andrew
Mitchel, an international tax lawyer in ... MORE
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citizens,
DOJ,
incentives,
income,
money,
passport,
self-interest,
statistics,
tax,
taxpayer
Liberty And Wealth Require Strong Money
by Daniel Oliver Jr. Conservatives hold that wealth and liberty correlate. This proposition was self-evident in the context of the Cold War and remains true today. It is the reason China cannot surpass the West in terms of wealth creation (contrary to the hysterics emanating from The Economist): a repressive country that continues to ... MORE
Rigged Gold Price Distorts Perception of Economic Reality
by Paul Craig Roberts and Dave Kranzler. The Federal Reserve and its bullion bank agents (JP Morgan, Scotia, and HSBC) have been using naked short-selling to drive down the price of gold since September 2011. The latest containment effort began in mid-July of this year, after gold had moved higher in price from the beginning of June and ... MORE
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contracts,
Federal Reserve,
gold,
government,
inflation,
manipulation,
money,
policy,
prices
Walter E Williams: Favors And Loot For Sale
A political marketplace for cronies. At a July fundraising event in Chicago, Mrs. Michelle Obama remarked, "So, yeah, there's too much money in politics. There's (sic) special interests that have too much influence." Sen. John McCain has been complaining for years that "there is too much money washing around political campaigns today." ... MORE
Poor Public Schools are Costing Us in Many Ways
by Charles Payne. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its report, Expenditures on Children by Families, and the cost of raising a child is now up to $245,000- not including the cost of college. The most expensive part of raising children is keeping a roof over their heads and food in their bellies; combined, the two equate to 46 % of total ... MORE
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children,
DOA,
economics,
education,
Millennials,
money,
public school,
responsibility,
taxpayer
Paying People To Vote Proposed In Los Angeles
by Thomas Lifson. Politicians worry the ignorant won't vote. Buying votes is illegal, yet the misnamed Los Angeles Ethics Commission is proposing to pay people to vote, in the form of lottery prizes. David Zahniser of the Los Angeles Times reports: Alarmed that fewer than one-fourth of voters are showing up for municipal elections, the Los ... MORE
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campaign,
money,
politicians,
politics,
progressives,
responsibility,
tactics,
vote-buying,
voting
Keith Weiner: Oklahoma Moves Towards the Gold Standard
Sound money legislation. There is strong opposition to any proposal to end the Federal Reserve and move away from its paper dollar. The Fed has many ideological and, of course, crony supporters. So it’s interesting that there was little controversy in Oklahoma around removing one of the obstacles to the use of gold as money. Republican Mary ... MORE
All Of Us Are Criminals In The Eyes Of The Police State
by John W. Whitehead. Why are we seeing such an uptick in Americans being arrested for such absurd “violations” as letting their kids play at a park unsupervised, collecting rainwater and snow runoff on their own property, growing vegetables in their yard, and holding Bible studies in their living room? Consider what happened to Nicole Gainey, ... MORE
Walter E Williams: Slavery Reparations
Just another hustle. Calls for slavery reparations have returned with the publication of Ta-Nehisi Coates' "The Case for Reparations" in The Atlantic magazine (May 21, 2014). In making his argument, Coates goes through the horrors of slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow and gross racial discrimination. First off, let me say that I agree with reparations ... MORE
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Blacks,
fairness,
government,
money,
morality,
reason,
reparations,
slavery,
spending,
taxpayer
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