“Slavery Is Freedom” and “Tax Hikes Are Tax Relief.” So we didn’t go over the fiscal cliff and instead got a deal that delivers no cuts in government spending, raises taxes on “the rich” (the definition of which consistently changes), expands the size and role of government, keeps the red ink flowing at record levels, and provides ... MORERalph R. Reiland: The Cliffs Of 1984
“Slavery Is Freedom” and “Tax Hikes Are Tax Relief.” So we didn’t go over the fiscal cliff and instead got a deal that delivers no cuts in government spending, raises taxes on “the rich” (the definition of which consistently changes), expands the size and role of government, keeps the red ink flowing at record levels, and provides ... MOREWashington Times: EPA's Chilling Effect
Alaskan liberty goes up in smoke under new air regs. Not-so-unintended consequences of overregulation are in the air. Newly adopted rules limiting airborne soot imposed by bureaucrats in Washington threaten to freeze the choices — and toes — of individuals living more than 4,000 miles away in subarctic Alaska. ... MOREYael Ossowski: How Walt Disney Cashes In On Welfare
Why are taxpayers picking up the tab for Mickey Mouse? Since his first appearance in the 1928 animated short
Steamboat Willy, there has been no greater American
ambassador than Mickey Mouse, the cartoon character who sparked the
launch of the media empire of the Walt Disney Co. Generations of children and adults worldwide have grown ... MORE
Katie Kieffer: Five Good Men
There are a few good men. And, by "a few," I mean five. Certainly there are far more than five good men in America. But in the U.S. Senate, there are just five moral Republicans. Who am I referring to? Let me introduce you to the five men in the Senate who stood their ground while their Republican peers (save two abstainers) voted for a fiscal cliff ... MORE
Damon's Anti-Fracking Movie Financed By Oil-Rich Arabs
Lachlan Markay on an inconvenient truth. A new film starring Matt Damon presents American oil and natural gas
producers as money-grubbing villains purportedly poisoning rural
American towns. It is therefore of particular note that it is financed
in part by the royal family of the oil-rich United Arab Emirates. The creators of Promised ... MOREObama Supporters Shocked, Angry At New Tax Increases
by Joseph Curl. Sometimes, watching a Democrat learn something is wonderful, like seeing the family dog finally sit and stay at your command. With President Obama back in office and his life-saving “fiscal cliff” bill jammed through Congress, the new year has brought a surprising turn of events for his sycophantic supporters. ... MORE
Walter E Williams: Dishonest Educators
Test-taking frauds. Nearly two years ago, U.S. News & World Report came out with a story titled "Educators Implicated in Atlanta Cheating Scandal." It reported that "for 10 years, hundreds of Atlanta public school teachers and principals changed answers on state tests in one of the largest cheating scandals in U.S. history." More than three-quarters of the ... MOREAmericans Are The Most Spied On People In History
Big Brother is in the building. TechDirt notes: In a radio interview,
Wall Street Journal reporter Julia Angwin (who’s been one of the best
at covering the surveillance state in the US) made a simple observation
that puts much of this into context: the US surveillance regime has more data on the average American than the Stasi ever did on East Germans. ... MOREEric Frankson: Sobriety Checkpoints Violate Our Rights
The gutting of the Fourth Amendment. Until 1990, sobriety checkpoints were illegal
in California and the United States. But a Supreme Court decision
overturned 200 years of protection from illegal search-and-seizure. The Supreme Court case Michigan Department of State Police vs. Sitz changed how we party and how we view the police. ... MOREGene Healy: The Five Worst Op-Eds of 2012
The New York Times comes on strong. For three years running, I've closed the Old Year with a
seasonal burst of bile, my annual Five Worst Op-Eds column. As before, this year's malicious listicle rewards bad arguments and bad writing, with extra points for warped values. 5. Eric Posner, "The World Doesn't Love the First Amendment," ... MOREBaylen Linnekin: Labeling Law Will Hurt American Pizza
Congress needs to order a slice of wisdom. This week, as a new Congress was being sworn in, the Food and
Drug Administration
released two sets of controversial and long-delayed food-safety
rules. Another FDA rule that’s been long in the making is the agency’s proposed menu-labeling rule. The purpose of that rule, first proposed
in 2010 as ... MOREStop Talking About Freedom And Start Protecting It
Lawmakers pay lip service to liberty while trampling it. This year’s Rose Parade in Pasadena, California featured the Department of Defense’s “Freedom Isn’t Free” float. While nothing is close to free when DOD is involved—the B-2 bomber that made a fly-by as parade-goers cheered cost more than twice its weight in gold—the rose- ... MOREMark J. Perry: The Truth About Those 'Big Oil Subsidies'
A lesson in political double-talk. Do a Google search for the term “subsidies for oil companies” and you’ll get more than 600,000 results. Try a search for “subsidies for Big Oil” and you’ll get almost 700,000 results. The term “tax breaks for Big Oil” has almost half a million results. Then do a Google search for “tax breaks for green energy”
and you’ll only ... MOREGet Ready For An ObamaCare Tax Onslaught
by Grace-Marie Turner. The third wave of ObamaCare taxes began on January 1, the latest
blitz before the tsunami of changes from the health overhaul law hit in
2014. These new and higher taxes are being levied to partially pay
for ObamaCare’s massive new subsidies for private health insurance and
expansion of Medicaid. The most controversial of ... MOREThomas DiLorenzo: The Rationally Misinformed Voter
A populace designed to serve. In the sub-discipline of economics known as public choice, an important concept is the theory of "rational ignorance." First articulated by political scientist Anthony Downs in the 1950s, and expanded upon by economist Gordon Tullock and others, the theory of rational ignorance holds that it is perfectly rational for ... MORE
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