R Rahn: More Government Control Equals Poorer Nations
A free market tutorial from, of all places, Moscow. An upside down world. Here I am, in my London hotel
room, watching an English-language financial program being broadcast
from Moscow on RT (Russian TV). The program host is correctly berating
the heads of the major Western central banks for acting like socialists
in setting interest rates and ... MORE3 Reasons To Build The Keystone XL Pipeline
by Meredith Bragg & Nick Gillespie. Few energy projects have inspired the level of vitriol surrounding the Keystone XL Pipeline, that would run 1,700 miles from Alberta, Canada through the United States to refineries on the Gulf of Mexico. The oil sands of Alberta are estimated to hold 170 million 170 billon barrels of petroleum, the largest reservoir of black ... MOREJeff Berwick: Is America A Police State Yet?
There are ways to measure. Wendy McElroy writes: If you need to ask the question,
then the answer is “yes”. But that is a glib response and I do not
feel glib about America's slide through the nine rings of political
hell. A police state is generally defined as a totalitarian government that
exerts extreme and pervasive social, political and economic control
over ... MORE
Jay D. Homnick: Uncle Sam Finds His Snitch
The IRS invents a whole new kind of tax refund. My attitude to the second Obama administration is captured in the old joke about Bertha who gets on the New York-to-Chicago Greyhound bus and asks the driver to let her know when they get to Cleveland. She keeps loudly reminding him every half-hour or so until he is ready to pull his hair out. But he ... MORESheldon Richman: Don't Trust The Government On Drones
Obama's targeted killings set a dangerous precedent. “Covert” drone warfare requires a level of confidence in politicians that they will never deserve. In the Kentucky
Resolutions, the 1798 protest against the
Alien and Sedition Acts, Thomas Jefferson wrote, "It would be a dangerous delusion were a confidence in
[politicians] to silence our fears ... MOREMichael Moeller: There Is No 'Good Regulation'
The case for unbridled economic freedom. For an unapologetic capitalist, it's particularly frustrating when an allegedly pro-capitalist politician lacks the intellectual ammunition to adequately defend the free market. Concessions to statist opponents provide the illusion that statists have the moral upper hand. This is especially self-defeating when a ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Obama's Secret Court For Killing
What about the laws he swore to uphold? President Obama willingly admits he dispatched CIA agents to kill an American and his teenage son and the son's American friend while they were in a desert in Yemen in 2011. He says he did so because the adult had encouraged folks to wage war on the United States and the children were just ... MORELet Consumers Make Their Own Choices On Sugary Drinks
by Baylen Linnekin. Earlier this week the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), a group that regularly pushes for increased food regulations and considers soda to be “a slow-acting but ruthlessly efficient bioweapon,” announced it would be launching “a major action regarding the regulation of soda and other sugar-sweetened beverages.” ... MOREWalter E Williams: The Reality Of Abraham Lincoln
The politically-incorrect reality. Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" has been a box-office hit and nominated
for 12 Academy Awards, including best picture, best director and best
actor for Daniel Day-Lewis, who portrayed our 16th president. I haven't
seen the movie; therefore, this column is not about the movie but about a
man deified by many. My colleague ... MORE
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