Friedman and Hayek supported the notion. Switzerland will soon hold a nationwide referendum on granting a guaranteed and unconditional minimum monthly income of $2,800 for each Swiss adult. In America, where Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty just celebrated its 50th anniversary of failing to achieve victory, liberals jumped on the ... MOREVeronique de Rugy: Time For A Guaranteed Income?
Friedman and Hayek supported the notion. Switzerland will soon hold a nationwide referendum on granting a guaranteed and unconditional minimum monthly income of $2,800 for each Swiss adult. In America, where Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty just celebrated its 50th anniversary of failing to achieve victory, liberals jumped on the ... MOREWhat Can Unite Liberals And Tea Partyers? The NSA
by Connie Cass. Hoyt Sparks says he has no use for liberal Democrats and their "socialistic, Marxist, communist" ways. Toni Lewis suspects tea party Republicans are "a bunch of people who probably need some mental health treatment." Politically speaking, the tea-party supporter in rural North Carolina and the Massachusetts liberal live a world apart. ... MORE
Deroy Murdock: The United States Of Decline
America unravels at an increasingly dizzying pace. America is unraveling at a stunning speed and to a staggering degree. This decline is breathtaking, and the prognosis is dim. For starters, Obama now rules by decree. Reportedly for the 27th time, he has changed the rules of Obamacare singlehandedly, with neither congressional approval ... MORERamesh Ponnuru: Raising Minimum Wage Is Still A Bad Idea
A popular idea, just a bad one. Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, as President Barack Obama urged in his State of the Union address last month, is as popular an idea as ever. It’s also a worse idea than ever. Obama presented it as a way to help struggling families: “Americans
overwhelmingly agree that no one who works full ... MOREMinnesota Cops Fear Loss Of Millions If Pot Legalized
by Betsi Fores. The Minnesota Law Enforcement Coalition’s opposition to marijuana legalization is another case of the drug war run amok. The coalition, which includes Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association, Minnesota Chiefs of Police Association, Minnesota Sheriffs Association, Minnesota County Attorneys Association, and ... MOREA. Barton Hinkle: When Eminent Domain Is Just Theft
Say you buy a car. Drive it around for five years, get plenty of use out of it. Then one day you decide you paid way too much. You really should have paid half what you did. Or even less. So you go back to the dealership and say the car is worth less now, and you want a refund. Think you’d get it? Precisely. Yet this is just the kind of stunt ... MOREThomas Sowell: Another Galling Betrayal
It doesn't have to be this way. The Afghanistan government's recent release of dozens of imprisoned terrorists, many of whom had killed Americans, was a galling betrayal of those Americans who died defending Afghanistan against the Taliban terrorists — as well as those Americans who have returned home with arms or legs missing, ... MOREFeds Want To Track Your DNA Like A License Plate
by Steve Peacock. More evidence the government is not us. The federal government doesn’t just want the ability to track down your car; it wants to be able to track down your body as well. Just as details are emerging about a controversial, nationwide vehicle-surveillance database, WND has learned the federal government is planning an even ... MOREJohn Hood: Laboratories For Prosperity
Confirmation of free-market principles. Over the past three decades, America's state and local governments have experienced a large and underappreciated divergence. Some places, usually but not always led by Republicans, have become friendlier to free enterprise. Other places, usually but not always led by Democrats, have become ... MOREWalter E Williams: Concealing Evil
The slavery liberals love. Evil acts are given an aura of moral legitimacy by noble-sounding socialistic expressions, such as spreading the wealth, income redistribution, caring for the less fortunate, and the will of the majority. Let's have a thought experiment to consider just how much Americans sanction evil. Imagine there are several elderly ... MOREStanton Peele: Why We Have Drug Scares
Are there greater social problems we can't face? How many drug scares can you identify? Jacob Sullum identified these from 2013: marijuana, Salvia divinorum, cocaine,"bath salts," absinthe, Four Loko. Well, let’s go back a ways. Of course there was crack. There were horse tranquilizers. There was OxyContin. Before Oxy there were ... MORE10 Prison Security Techniques Being Used On The People
Marlon Brock on America's police state. Americans are not typically aware of how their federal and state prison systems work. What we think we know, we learned from watching television. When I took my first walk through at FCI (Federal Correctional Institution) El Reno Oklahoma as a new employee, I was surprised at how non- ... MORE
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