It is with great interest that I read this past week about the President's initial response to rising gas prices. What or who was to blame? According to the President...speculators. Nameless, faceless, speculators. They are to blame for the rising price of crude oil and the accompanying price at the pump! The problem is...speculators and people make various bets, and they say ... MOREGas Prices and Speculators: They Think You Are Stupid
It is with great interest that I read this past week about the President's initial response to rising gas prices. What or who was to blame? According to the President...speculators. Nameless, faceless, speculators. They are to blame for the rising price of crude oil and the accompanying price at the pump! The problem is...speculators and people make various bets, and they say ... MOREGreen Energy Vs The American Standard of Living
by Alex Epstein. This April 22, if you find yourself frustrated at rising gasoline prices, or rising electricity prices, or rising natural gas and heating oil prices, make sure you place plenty of blame on the environmentalists behind Earth Day; for decades they have found a reason to oppose every practical form of energy in the name of "saving the planet." Start with their ... MOREJohn Stossel: Watching the Watchmen
I believe in the right to privacy. Yet I can think of someone who deserves very little privacy — a policeman making an arrest. Unfortunately, in some states it's a crime to make a video of a policeman doing just that. People recording police have been threatened, detained or arrested. Some were jailed overnight. That's wrong. Police work for the public, they're paid with tax money, ... MORESteve Chapman: Posturing Against Pornography
The government should stop trying to censor the internet. We all know that pornography is offensive and destructive, so we can guess that wherever X-rated fare gains popularity, social decay will follow. It may come as a surprise, then, to learn which state has the highest rate of online subscriptions to adult websites. Not New York or California, but Utah. Yes, Utah. ... MOREThomas Sowell: Bull About Bullying
There is a lot of talk from many people about bullying in school. The problem is that it is all talk. There is no sign that anybody is going to do anything that is likely to reduce bullying. When politicians want to do nothing, and yet look like they are doing something, they appoint a blue ribbon committee or go to the U.N. or assign some Cabinet member to look into the problem and report ... MOREWalter E Williams: Academic Rot
The hate-America course of higher education. The average American, as parent, student and taxpayer, has little idea of the academic rot at so many of our colleges. Save for a tiny handful of the nation's colleges, what distinguishes one college from another is the magnitude of that rot. One of the best sources of information about our colleges is the New York City-based ... MOREVIDEO: John Stossel - A War On Ourselves
A look at one way government uses social concerns to combat individual liberty.
Why School Vouchers Are Worth A Shot
by Katrina Trinko. Imagine if we only passed legislation that simultaneously slashed spending, boosted income equality, shrunk government, protected the environment, and ensured that pandas didn’t go extinct. That’d be a recipe for do-nothing lawmakers who failed to solve any of our pressing problems, just because they couldn’t find a ... MORE
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