Just what is in their rational self-interest? Third parties have had an unbroken record of failure in American presidential politics. So it was refreshing to see in the Tea Party an insurgent movement, mainly of people who were not professional politicians, but who nevertheless had the good sense to see that their only chance of getting their ... MOREThomas Sowell: Tea Party At The Crossroads
Just what is in their rational self-interest? Third parties have had an unbroken record of failure in American presidential politics. So it was refreshing to see in the Tea Party an insurgent movement, mainly of people who were not professional politicians, but who nevertheless had the good sense to see that their only chance of getting their ... MOREWalter E Williams: Does Washington Know Best?
Perhaps they know the best way to steal power. According to some estimates, there are more than 100 million traffic signals in the U.S., but whatever the number, how many of us would like Washington, in the name of public health and safety, to be in sole charge of their operation? Congress or a committee it authorizes would ... MOREJohn Whitehead: Who’s to Blame for Battlefield America?
The founders warned us against a standing army. It’s hard to pinpoint what exactly is responsible for the growing spate of police shootings, brutality and overreach that have come to dominate the news lately, whether it’s due to militarized police, the growing presence of military veterans in law enforcement, the fact that we are a ... MORE
George Leef: Minimum Wage Alchemy
Not just economically bad, philosophically cancerous. The driving force behind Obamacare was the absurd belief that through legislation and regulation, the government could make many healthcare consumers better off without making any of them worse off. As we are now discovering, the truth is the reverse of that – hardly anyone ... MOREGlen Harlan Reynolds: A Look At Medicaid's Awful Results
Incentives against doctors and high quality medical care. As the Obamacare debacle rolls on -- looking even worse
than it did a week ago, if that's possible -- there's a separate but
related issue involving Medicaid expansion. And, as with Obamacare,
people who oppose the expansion risk being called heartless murderers
for "denying sick ... MOREGive "Capitalism" A Chance
by Shanmuganathan Nagasundaram. The prevailing majority opinion in the country and the world over is that the crisis of 2008 was caused by greedy speculators and unregulated capitalism (the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act in the US, unfair lending practices, etc). But that’s not so, and it’s probably best to start by defining what ... MORE
J.D. Tuccille: Why Not "Opt Out" Of Government Control?
It's getting ever-easier to exit the system. Balaji Srinivasan, a Stanford
Universty instructor and genomics entrepreneur, recently offered
some radically individualistic advice to aspiring tech innovators.
Speaking at at this year's Startup School, sponsored by tech
"seed accelerator" Y
Combinator, he warned members of the audience ... MOREU.S. Police Have Killed Over 5,000 Civilians Since 9/11
Death by cop 8X more likely than death by terrorist. Though Americans commonly believe law enforcement’s role in society is to protect them and ensure peace and stability within the community, the sad reality is that police departments are often more focused on enforcing laws, making arrests and issuing citations. As a result of this as ... MOREObamaCare Leaves Docs On The Hook For Deadbeats
More incentives not to be a doctor. Tucked inside nearly 11,000 pages of the Affordable Care Act is a little-known provision that doles out three months of free health care to individuals who choose to default on their premiums. People who receive the federal subsidy to be part of Obamacare will be allowed to incur a three-month ... MOREJudson Phillips: Laws, Damn Laws And Regulations
Stop the dictatorship. There are laws, there are damn laws and then there are regulations. America is awash in laws, many of them bad. We are drowning in regulations, almost all of which are stupid, illogical and simply bad. How many laws are there? Well, it is tough to get an exact count. There are over three thousand criminal laws in the ... MORE
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