With friends like government, who needs enemies? What does it take to be able to own and operate a taxi and earn $30,000, $40,000 or more a year? You need to purchase a used car and liability insurance. Compared with other businesses, the startup cost to become a taxi owner/operator is modest; that's until you have to come up with money for a license. In May 2010 ... MOREWalter E Williams: Cruel Laws
With friends like government, who needs enemies? What does it take to be able to own and operate a taxi and earn $30,000, $40,000 or more a year? You need to purchase a used car and liability insurance. Compared with other businesses, the startup cost to become a taxi owner/operator is modest; that's until you have to come up with money for a license. In May 2010 ... MOREIain Murray: Time To Promote Economic Climate Change
Steve Wynn is right! Among the long string of bad economic news from the last few years, there is something to celebrate: The political consensus in Washington that government could keep on growing at no cost to the growing economy has finally broken down. The size and scope of government is now the defining issue of our time. It is a welcome debate. However, it has ... MOREMark Steyn: 'Life On This Planet' Is About To Change
More change than hope ahead. That thoughtful observer of the passing parade, Nancy Pelosi, weighed in on the "debt ceiling" negotiations the other day: "What we're trying to do is save the world from the Republican budget. We're trying to save life on this planet as we know it today." It's always good to have things explained in terms we simpletons can understand. ... MOREVIDEO: Andrew Napolitano - The Story of Money
Judge Napolitano attacks the wisdom of central banking.
Matt Patterson: America - Time To Start Over
Pale and poor are the hands that hold the reigns of state in these times of peril. This must have been what it was like living the 1930's; politicians running around, fingers in their ears, unwilling or unable to confront a rising conflagration that they helped light. Back then, the threat came from a revivified and revanchist Germany. Western leaders stood by while ... MOREA. Barton Hinkle: Does Your Body Belong To You?
Food nannies want the government to control your diet. “Perhaps you’ve noticed the trend among certain people these days,” wrote Neil Genzlinger in The New York Times the other day, “to decide that certain other people are not living acceptable lives and must be reformed.” Yes. There certainly is a lot of that going around. You can see it in the comments from ... MOREVIDEO: Walter E Williams - Civil Rights Assumptions
Professor Williams injects reason into conventional assumptions.
Jan Brewer, A Phony Federalist
The Arizona governor is a woman of pragmatism. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican and former U.S. attorney, has never been keen on his state's Compassionate Use of Medical Marijuana Act, which his predecessor, Jon Corzine, signed into law on the last day of his administration. But last week Christie announced that New Jersey will proceed with plans to let ... MOREDoom Sells: Climate Witchcraft & Post-Normal Science
by Norman Rogers. French philosophers invented deconstructionism and postmodernism, or the theory that nothing means what it says. Followers of these ideas are adept at finding hidden messages of capitalist oppression in the most unexpected places. A related ideological disturbance is post-normal science. Post-normal scientists favor relaxing scientific rigor in order to ... MOREAudit of Federal Reserve: $16 Trillion In Secret Bailouts
Ever wonder what legalized plunder looks like? The first ever GAO(Government Accountability Office) audit of the Federal Reserve was carried out in the past few months due to the Ron Paul, Alan Grayson Amendment to the Dodd-Frank bill, which passed last year. Jim DeMint, a Republican Senator, and Bernie Sanders, an independent Senator, led the charge for a Federal ... MOREThe "Balanced Budget Amendment" Is A Trap
by Chip Wood. A lot of good people who believe, as I do, that we need to balance the federal budget have fallen for a very bad idea. I’m referring to the notion that a balanced budget amendment will somehow help solve the fiscal disaster our country faces. I just got a promotional email from Regnery Publishing, one of my all-time favorite book-publishing companies. ... MOREA. Barton Hinkle: Is The Tea Party Crazy Or Just Nuts?
The media demonizes advocates of limited government. The late Sen. Paul Wellstone of Minnesota was a man of the hard left—"the Senate's most liberal member," as Mickey Kaus once termed him in the liberal online journal Slate. Wellstone opposed the first Iraq War—and the second one. He was no friend of the Second Amendment—or the First. He thought the ... MORE Alex Epstein: Nuclear Power Is Extremely Safe
That's the truth about what we learned from Japan. In the midst of a still struggling and fragile global economy, Germany has announced that it will shut down seven nuclear plants by the end of the year--which means that Germans will be left to run their factories, heat their homes, and power their economy with 10% less electrical generating capacity. Nine more plants ... MOREThomas Sowell: Debt-Ceiling Chicken
Thinking about the long haul. The big news, as far as the media are concerned, is the political game of debt-ceiling chicken that is being played by Democrats and Republicans in Washington. But, however much the media are focused on what is happening inside the Beltway, there is a whole country outside the Beltway -- and the time is long overdue to start thinking ... MOREIra Stoll: Five Facts About the Debt
Setting the economic record straight. Five under-appreciated points about the federal budget and debt ceiling: 1. Whenever I need to get my bearings in the debate over the debt, the deficit, or the debt ceiling, I go to the web site of the White House Office of Management and Budget and download historical table 1.3. The story it tells, in very round numbers ... MOREWalter E Williams: Job Destruction Makes Us Richer
White House economic ignorance on full display. Here's what President Barack Obama said about our high rate of unemployment in an interview with NBC's Ann Curry: "The other thing that happened, though — and this goes to the point you were just making — is there are some structural issues with our economy, where a lot of businesses have learned to ... MORE
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