The great appeal of pension politics. A nation's choice between spending on military defense and spending on civilian goods has often been posed as "guns versus butter." But understanding the choices of many nations' political leaders might be helped by examining the contrast between their runaway spending on pensions while skimping ... MOREThomas Sowell: Guns And Pensions
The great appeal of pension politics. A nation's choice between spending on military defense and spending on civilian goods has often been posed as "guns versus butter." But understanding the choices of many nations' political leaders might be helped by examining the contrast between their runaway spending on pensions while skimping ... MOREJohn Hoeven: The Right Climate For Remarkable Results
Lessons from North Dakota's oil fields. Delayed energy projects and regulatory hurdles to domestic oil
production not only cost the United States economy billions of
dollars and millions of jobs, but they also stand in the way of an
elusive goal: true American energy security. I believe, however, that our nation is within striking range of
that goal and, ... MOREScott Shackford: Dead Letters
The U.S. Postal Service's long, hard fall. The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) did not fare well in 2012. Costs, losses, and debts rose as the volume of mail continued a decline that began in the middle of the last decade. Now the USPS is warning that without help from Congress, it will run out of money by the end of October. In reason’s May 1991 ... MORESheriffs Prepare To Abandon Citizens To Federal Gun Grab
by Brandon Turbeville. In the wake of the highly questionable surge in school shootings and the long-awaited gun grabbing effort being promoted by the President, lawmakers, and the mainstream media, hundreds of American sheriffs have now gone on the record to state publicly that they will not enforce any new gun laws such as the ones being proposed in the ... MOREMark Almonte: Why Do Civilians Need Assault Weapons?
Could you visualize yourself needing one? The two strongest reasons for civilians to own assault weapons are self-defense and defense against tyranny. One self-defense situation that comes to mind is the L.A. riots. Who can forget the nightly news's live footage of thugs hurling rocks at passing cars, buildings on fire, and looters smashing storefront ... MOREHeather Roff: The Short Slide From Drones To Despotism
Powerful enough to trump the safeguards for rights. This past week a secret white paper outlining legal justifications for the targeted killing of a U.S. citizen came to light. The brief, titled "Lawfulness
of a Lethal Operation Directed Against a U.S. Citizen who is a Senior
Operational Leader of Al Qaida or an Associated Force" discusses ... MOREObamaCare ALREADY Forcing Doctors To Close Practices
Since the election took repeal off the table ... After 25 years of practicing medicine, Dr. Tamzin Rosenwasser
packed in her dermatology practice in 2011, barely a year after the
passage of President Obama’s health care initiative. The timing wasn’t
coincidental. “I have interrupted practicing medicine because of Obamacare,” said ... MOREWalter E Williams: Cultural Deviancy, Not Guns
A problem of standards. There's a story told about a Paris chief of police who was called to a department store to stop a burglary in progress. Upon his arrival, he reconnoitered the situation and ordered his men to surround the entrances of the building next door. When questioned about his actions, he replied that he didn't have enough men to cover ... MOREMark J. Fitzgibbons: A Property Rights Revolution For 2013
Bureaucratic bullying on steroids. A previously apolitical organic farmer in Virginia has set off a property rights revolution that would make Founders Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and author of Virginia's Declaration of Rights George Mason proud. Martha Boneta had a business license for her tiny farm store in scenic Paris, Virginia, ... MORE
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