by Julian Adorney. Dating is perhaps the freest “market” in the United States today, and its lack of regulation can teach us powerful lessons about the flaws inherent in government regulation. Most people recognize the absurdity of trying to regulate romantic relationships. What many don’t realize is that this absurdity stems not from the nature of ... MORE
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Showing posts with label special interest. Show all posts
What Romance Can Tell Us About Government Regulation
by Julian Adorney. Dating is perhaps the freest “market” in the United States today, and its lack of regulation can teach us powerful lessons about the flaws inherent in government regulation. Most people recognize the absurdity of trying to regulate romantic relationships. What many don’t realize is that this absurdity stems not from the nature of ... MOREPatrick Moore: Why I Am A Climate Change Skeptic
Confessions of a Greenpeace co-founder. I am skeptical humans are the main cause of climate change and that it will be catastrophic in the near future. There is no scientific proof of this hypothesis, yet we are told “the debate is over” and “the science is settled.” My skepticism begins with the believers’ certainty they can predict the global ... MOREJohn Stossel: Chicago Fray
Money can't buy you love, but ... Rahm Emanuel, current mayor of my old hometown, Chicago, is not a gentle soul. But he's smarter than his big-spending predecessor, Richard M. Daley, and the union pawn, Jesus "Chuy" Garcia, who becomes the new mayor if he beats Emanuel in a run-off election April 7. Emanuel was the tough Obama chief of staff ... MORECalifornia Begins Issuing Drivers' Licenses To Illegal Aliens
by Jazz Shaw. Welcome to 2015, with the usual hopes for new beginnings and fresh starts. Along with that, there is the expected flood of new laws going into effect all across the nation as proof of the various legislative bodies getting the work of the people done. The people of California in particular will see the fruits of their elected ... MOREJeffrey Tucker: 50 Shades Of Government
Time to let go of dependency. Every politically active group wants something from government, and government is happy to oblige. It’s even more obvious in the election season. Another way to put it: Government has lots to give in the way of laws, loot, privileges, protections and punishments. Every pressure group and political ... MOREBig Labor, Big Government Are Oppressing Farm Workers
by Matt Patterson. The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution passed in the aftermath of the Civil War, part of a package of amendments designed to secure civil liberties for all Americans. Unfortunately, farm workers in California’s Central Valley are finding their civil liberties stripped from them today — by a government ... MORE
WASH TIMES EDITORIAL: The Tax Man's Politics
Taxpayers pay for lobbying to make the agency bigger. The Internal Revenue Service continues to keep Congress, or least the House half of it, busy with investigations into the harassment of the Tea Party and how email evidence of IRS abuse mysteriously disappears. The dogs are eating a lot of the homework at the IRS. The emails that can ... MOREVeronique de Rugy: The Crony Capitalism Machine
The Export-Import Bank is inefficient and immoral. Congress will soon debate the fate of the U.S. Export-Import
Bank, an outfit that doles out money to favored corporations and
foreign governments. For 80 years, the bank and the crony
capitalists it supports have defeated every attempt to shut it
down. But that may slowly be changing. ... MORE
A. Barton Hinkle: IRS Scandal Implicates Democrats
Using government power to limit political speech. "Special interests are planning and running millions of dollars" in ads, warns President Barack Obama. But despite their "benign-sounding names," adds Democratic operative David Axelrod, some of them are "front groups for foreign-controlled companies." Together, they are trying to ... MOREStudy Finds E-Cigs Help Smokers Quit Better Than Patches
by Brian Stallard. No wonder big tobacco wants them banned. New evidence has surfaced that suggests using electronic cigarettes
may actually help tobacco smokers kick their harmful habit. However,
past studies have shown just the opposite, meaning that the consensus is
still unclear even as the facts are finally coming in. A study recently ... MORE
Special Interests More Influential Than Public Opinion
by Breanna Deutsch. New research supports what many Americans already believe – lawmakers
are influenced more by special interest groups than their constituents. Matt Grossmann, author of the new book, “Artists of the Possible: Governing Networks and American Policy Change Since 1945,” looks at the movers and shakers behind 790 ... MOREThe Dumbest Federal Policy You'll Read About Today
by A. Barton Hinkle. It benefits special interests, hurts consumers, and harms the planet. If you are like most people, you probably spend a lot of time
wondering, "What is the absolutely worst environmental policy on
the planet?" And if you are like most people, you probably think it
is America’s ethanol policy. So Virginia's recent decision to ... MOREVeronique de Rugy: Department Of Cronyism
The administration's favor-dispensing machine. What's the point of the Department of Commerce? If not for the Census and the Patent Office, the department would function as little more than a one-stop shop for special interests. Don't believe me? Look at its record. In Fiscal Year 2013, the Department of Commerce spent about ... MORE
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