Labor force participation hovers near 37-year low. The labor force participation rate hovered between 62.9 percent and 62.7 percent in the eleven months from April 2014 through February, and has been 62.9 percent or lower in 13 of the 17 months since October 2013. Prior to that, the last time the rate was below 63 percent was 37 years ago, ... MOREAli Meyer: 92,898,000 Americans Are Not Working
Labor force participation hovers near 37-year low. The labor force participation rate hovered between 62.9 percent and 62.7 percent in the eleven months from April 2014 through February, and has been 62.9 percent or lower in 13 of the 17 months since October 2013. Prior to that, the last time the rate was below 63 percent was 37 years ago, ... MOREFrance Dishonors Charlie Hebdo By Policing Hate Speech
by Brendan O'Neill. Two months after the massacre at Charlie Hebdo, the French state has just taken a massive merde on the graves of those who were killed. It has decided to honor their memory, or dishonor it, by
instituting what promise to be the most stringent anti-hate speech
laws in Europe. It has declared an “unmerciful battle”—the Justice ... MOREGoogle Works To Rank Sites Based On ‘Truthfulness’
by Maxim Lott. In a step that critics worry will inject political bias into search results, a Google research team released a report this month on ranking search results based on how factual websites are. They propose eventually using that to change Google rankings, which are currently based on website popularity. The Google researchers give, as an ... MORETed Cruz & The Political Prudence of Marijuana Federalism
Principles matter. At the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) last week, Ted
Cruz responded to a question about marijuana legalization in Colorado by
endorsing a federalist approach to the issue. “I actually think this is
a great embodiment of what Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis called
‘the laboratories of democracy,’” the ... MORE
Mark Cuban Says Tech Bubble Is ‘Far Worse’ Than In 2000
Launching "into the giddy phase. "What a week for Mark Cuban. Fresh off being tapped for the role of the president alongside Ann Coulter in the upcoming blockbuster “Sharknado 3,” the brash billionaire’s bearish forecast has landed him a spot in MarketWatch’s call of the day. “If
we thought it was stupid to invest in public Internet websites that ... MOREJohn Horvat II: Why Johnny Can't Sled Anymore
All must be safe and sterile. In the midst of this cold winter, I chanced to come upon a scene that gladdened my heart. It was a group of unsupervised boys sledding down a hillside. They weren’t only sledding. They were ramming into other sleds. At the bottom of the hill, they pushed each other down, rolling and tumbling in the snow. ... MOREDEA Warns Of Stoned Rabbits If Utah Approves Medical Pot
The new face of marijuana addiction. Utah is considering a bill
that would allow patients with certain debilitating conditions to be
treated with edible forms of marijuana. If the bill passes, the state's
wildlife may "cultivate a taste" for the plant, lose their fear of
humans, and basically be high all the time. That's according to testimony ... MORERand Paul & Scott Pruitt: Massive EPA Power Grab Would Deliver Devastating Blow To American Property Rights
Gov't looks to downgrade individual rights, again. Respect and protection of private property rights sets the United States apart from other nations and has fueled the greatest expansion of economic freedom the world has ever known. Indeed, private property rights are among the foundational rights of any democracy, not just ours. President ... MORETop Brits Call On The U.K. To Decriminalize Drugs
by Carly Schwartz. British businessman Richard Branson and U.K. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg have advocated for drug policy reform in the past. But experts say their op-ed calling on the U.K. to end the war on drugs, published Tuesday in The Guardian, is especially noteworthy as British elections near. "Doing this in advance of the election is ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: A Lone Wolf President
Can the president rewrite federal laws? Can he alter their meaning? Can he change their effect? These are legitimate questions in an era in which we have an unpopular progressive Democratic president who has boasted that he can govern without Congress by using his phone and his pen, and a mostly newly elected largely conservative Republican ... MORE
George Will: The House Takes On IRS Lawlessness
Preventing Lois Lerner 2.0. Representative Peter Roskam is now chairman of the Ways and Means subcommittee whose jurisdiction includes oversight of the Internal Revenue Service, and hence of Lois Lerner’s legacy. He knows how interesting her career was before she, as head of the IRS exempt-organizations division, directed the suppression ... MOREStudy Confirms E-Cigarettes Generate Virtually No Toxins
by Jacob Sullum. Does it matter to the option destroyers? Anti-smoking activists and public health
officials who question the usefulness of electronic cigarettes in
reducing tobacco-related disease often talk as if the content of
the aerosol generated by these newfangled contraptions is utterly
mysterious. While it may be plausible that the absence of
... MOREA Majority Favors Marijuana Legalization For First time, According To The Nation’s Most Authoritative Survey
by Christopher Ingraham. For the first time, the General Social Survey
-- a large, national survey conducted every two years and widely
considered to represent the gold standard for public opinion research --
shows a majority of Americans favoring the legalization of marijuana. In
interviews conducted between March and October of last year ... MORETexas Sees First Bill To Fully Repeal Marijuana Prohibition
by Mark Wiggins. A Northeast Texas lawmaker says it's time to end the state's nearly century-old prohibition on marijuana, and has filed the first bill to do so in at least 50 years. State Rep. David Simpson (R-Longview) filed House Bill 2165 Monday, which would strike all references to marijuana from Texas statues. Digital records ... MORE
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