Why are Texas schools tracking students with RFID chips? To follow the money.
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Why are Texas schools tracking students with RFID chips? To follow the money.
Rob Wile: Why Everyone Is Losing Hope For Green Energy
Green energy sounds like such a great idea. Unfortunately, it is extremely costly and requires heavy government subsidies. Last year, the epic downfall of Solyndra — the former solar cell manufacturer backed by the Obama administration — was one of the most notorious blows to the industry. As with most young industries, experts argue that ... MOREJessica Melugin: Internet Sales Taxes Attack States' Rights
Government intervention kills competition. Proponents of Internet sales taxes are asking the lame-duck Congress to bless their state tax cartel as part of a larger tax reform package by passing the Marketplace Equity Act (H.R. 3179) and its companion in the Senate, the Marketplace Fairness Act (S. 1832). These aren’t your average tax increases, ... MOREThe Governing Class And The Decline Of America
by Steve McCann. The United States will not reverse its descent into the abyss of financial and societal bankruptcy until the current political and governing establishment is replaced. That will not happen until the American people, who have been deliberately ill-educated and deceived, experience first-hand the early stages of the turmoil and ... MORETibor Machan: It's All About Choices, Stupid
Associations should be voluntary. There is a phony conflict afoot that statists are fond of bringing up when they try to discredit the free society. It is about the individual versus the community. Champions of human liberty are often mis-characterized as denying the significance of human community life. As if individualists advocated that ... MORESheldon Richman: Nullify The Drug War
Reclaiming individual liberty. Thomas Jefferson said a revolution every 20 years would be a good thing. Regardless of what one thinks of that, perhaps a little constitutional crisis every now and then would have its benefits. One such crisis may be brewing now. On election day, solid majorities of voters in Colorado and Washington voted to make ... MORERituparna Basu: It's Time To Unplug Medicare's Third Rail
Time for a financial reckoning. This election Paul Ryan and other Republicans dared approach the
third rail that is Medicare, and Democrats upped the voltage, branding
Republicans every chance they got as wanting to “end Medicare as we know
it.” But whatever you thought of Ryan’s particular proposals for Medicare,
and whoever you voted for, there’s one ... MOREMatt Welch: Means-Testing Everything But Government
Washington's phantom austerity. Here's just how stubborn the growth of government is: Even after
a Democratic president wins office by campaigning until Election
Eve on a "net
spending cut," even after he gives his first proposed budget
the humblebragging title of "A
New Era of Responsibility," even after both Barack Obama and
Federal ... MORE
Arvind Kumar: Fourteen Is The New Fifteen!
A little revision from the global warming cult. According to the leaders of the global warming doomsday cult, the average surface temperature of Earth is 14 degrees Celsius (57.2 degrees Fahrenheit), but this is a new value which has quietly replaced the original average of 15 degrees Celsius (59 degrees Fahrenheit). In March 1988, a few ... MOREJohn Stossel: Legalize Insider Trading
Think about it. Insider trading leads the news again, casting a cloud over Steven Cohen's SAC Capital Advisors $14 billion hedge fund. The SEC charged Mathew Martoma, who used to manage a SAC Capital division, with using inside information about tests on an Alzheimer's drug to trade stock of the company working on it. The media love this stuff. ... MORE
Feds Plot To Crackdown On Medical Marijuana Patients
Feds subpoena Mendocino County medical marijuana records. Mendocino County officials are under federal orders to surrender records
from their now-suspended medical marijuana permitting program, raising
questions about the fate of those named in the permits as well as more
than $800,000 in fees collected from pot growers. But Sheriff Tom ... MOREWhy $16,000,000,000,000 Only Hints At True U.S. Debt
by Chris Cox and Bill Archer. A decade and a half ago, both of us served on President Clinton's Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform, the forerunner to President Obama's recent National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. In 1994 we predicted that, unless something was done to control runaway entitlement ... MOREDonald Lambro: Obama's War On Wealth
Higher taxes mean slower growth. A big issue is missing in the debate over the “fiscal cliff”: how to get the Obama economy growing again, fueling capital investment, jobs and higher incomes. In all the fire and fury over whether we should raise or cut taxes, or how we can pound the deficits and a monster national debt into submission, ... MOREJacob Sullum: Fine Print In Government's Privacy Policy
How your life became an open e-book. In 1986 The American Banker defined E-mail as
"a trademark of CompuServe," Computerworld noted that
sending a single message required a 10-minute phone call, and
InfoWorld described "a pilot scheme that will allow users
of one system to send messages to mailbox holders on another." That
was the year ... MORECarbon Tax Could Come After Fiscal Cliff Deal
by William Bigelow. According to one former member of the White House Climate Change Task Force under President Clinton, President Obama may have plans to implement a carbon tax as soon as the fiscal cliff negotiations are settled. Forget the fact that Obama and his minions have repeatedly protested that they won’t press for a carbon tax, Paul ... MOREBrian Siegal: America Inching Toward Police State
Citizens under the microscope. Remember, remember the ninth of November. It was a day not unlike any other, but a day that is yet another constantly overlooked reminder of the terrible state of this great nation. It is the day David Petraeus’ resignation was accepted. So, wonderful American citizens, I’d like to take this time to have a ... MORE
Marijuana Legalization Poses Threat To Prison Industry
For-profit prisons fear bleak outlook. Does the move toward legalization of marijuana pose a threat to the for-profit prison industry? On November 6th, voters in Colorado and Washington passed referenda legalizing the recreational use of marijuana. It is not clear yet how federal enforcement officials will respond to the new laws in practice, ... MORE
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