Walter E Williams: Parting Company
Secession is really the battle for self-determination. For decades, it has been obvious that there are irreconcilable differences between Americans who want to control the lives of others and those who wish to be left alone. Which is the more peaceful solution: Americans using the brute force of government to beat liberty-minded ... MORERonald Bailey: Why Economic Backwardness Persists
Empower the elites. Why do some societies maintain institutions that cause economic
backwardness? This is the vital question that MIT economist Daron
Acemoglu and Harvard economist James Robinson asked in their
seminal 2006 article, “Economic
Backwardness in Political Perspective” in the American
Political Science Review. ... MOREThomas Sowell: Jensen And Flynn
Trivializing politically incorrect findings. Anyone who has followed the decades-long controversies over the role of genes in IQ scores will recognize the names of the two leading advocates of opposite conclusions on that subject— Professor Arthur R. Jensen of the University of California at Berkeley and Professor James R. Flynn, an American expatriate ... MORERobert Rector: 'Poverty' Like We've Never Seen It
The definition of poor keeps expanding. The federal government now considers a family of four in New York City to be poor if its pre-tax income is below $37,900.Even with full medical coverage. The calculation helps explain why newly revised Census Bureau figures hike the number of poor Americans to 49 million as of last year, further widening ... MOREGovernment Regulators Have Alcohol In Their Crosshairs
Is alcohol the new soda? Last week a
new study released by the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) reported that American adults drink alcoholic
beverages in moderation. Calories from alcohol, the study
concludes, make up 5 percent of the total calories consumed by
American adults. What's more, few Americans consume alcohol ... MORESupreme Court Blocks Law Prohibiting Taping Of Police
Light allowed to shine on police activities. The U.S. Supreme Court has blocked enforcement of an Illinois law that prohibited people from recording police officers on the job. The justices on Monday left in place a lower court ruling that found that the state's anti-eavesdropping law violates free speech rights when used against people ... MORECarol Roth: Insider Trading Should Be Legalized
Information makes the market efficient. Former SAC Capital trader Mathew Martoma’s insider trading investigation is
just one of a bevy of high-profile insider trading cases that have come
to light in the past few years and I think spending time and effort on
these cases is a farce. Should
the allegations prove to be true, I am not ... MOREManny Fernandez: 'Secession Fever' Hits Texas
The bumper stickers are everywhere. In the weeks since President Obama’s re-election, Republicans around the country have been wondering how to proceed. Some conservatives in Texas have been asking a far more pointed question: how to secede. Secession fever has struck parts of Texas, which Mitt Romney won by nearly 1.3 million votes. ... MOREYaron Brook: Why The Glass-Steagall Myth Persists
Lies about the free market. The growth of government intervention over the last century was built on the back of a handful of myths. A generation ago, the dominant myth was that free markets had caused the Great Depression, a falsehood ultimately debunked by economists like Milton Friedman. Today, the key myth is ... MOREMore Evidence Of Growing Police State in America
California man jailed four days for recording cops. A California man was jailed for four days for attempting to record police officers on a public street. Daniel J. Saulmon was charged with resisting, delaying and obstructing an officer
but the video shows he was standing well out the way of a traffic stop
and was only arrested when ... MOREThomas DiLorenzo: The American Tradition Of Secession
"This country was born through secession." Leftists and neocons in the media who tend to agree on the propriety and desirability of an ever-growing welfare/warfare/police state were predictably apoplectic when Ron Paul recently stated on his House Web site that secession is "a deeply American principle." Congressman Paul ... MORELaurence M Vance: Why Are Brothels Illegal?
Contempt for the principles of liberty and self-ownership. In contrast to the boring and predictable presidential candidates, there are some unusually colorful candidates who somehow manage to get into office each time there is an election. Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger was twice elected to the California governorship. Professional wrestler Jesse ... MOREWhy Minimum Wage Laws Hurt, Not Help, Employees
by James Street. I began working at the ripe old age of 15. I refereed paintball on
the weekends. And it sucked. It was hot, stinky, I wasn't a big fan of
most of my fellow employees, my boss was a jerk, and I got paid $6 an
hour. I only worked 12 hours a week or so, and being a single teenager,
Uncle Sam raped me royally on taxes. One would think that such a ... MOREWhat Pot Legalization Means To The Pro-Freedom Agenda
by Steven Greenhut. When it comes to real political change, the people almost always are light years ahead of the politicians, most of whom are so worried about re-election that they take only carefully crafted positions that appeal to their core constituencies. If anything, the general election reaffirmed the big-government
status quo, but ... MOREDHS Wants To Double Predator Drone Fleet Within The U.S.
Despite safety and privacy concerns. Despite renewed criticism from both parties in Congress that domestic drones pose a privacy danger to US citizens—and a report from its own Inspector General recommending to stop buying them—the
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has indicated it wants to more
than double its fleet of Predator ... MORE
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