An interview with Professor Jeffrey Miron. Harvard University professor Jeffrey Miron has advocated the legalization of drugs for decades. In a SPIEGEL ONLINE interview, he explains why prohibition is more dangerous than selling drugs in supermarkets. SPIEGEL: Mr. Miron, why should heroin, cocaine and marijuana be legal? Miron: The ... MOREHarvard Economist: Legalizing Drugs Suits American Ideal
An interview with Professor Jeffrey Miron. Harvard University professor Jeffrey Miron has advocated the legalization of drugs for decades. In a SPIEGEL ONLINE interview, he explains why prohibition is more dangerous than selling drugs in supermarkets. SPIEGEL: Mr. Miron, why should heroin, cocaine and marijuana be legal? Miron: The ... MORECapitalism In No Way Created Poverty, It Inherited It
by Yaron Brook and Don Watkins. The nineteenth century, many people believe, was an era in American history when workers were forced to toil in sweatshops twenty-eight hours a day for starvation wages. It was only when governments intervened, either directly on behalf of workers or indirectly by empowering unions, that conditions improved. ... MOREDeportation Case Has Chilling Effect On Homeschooling
by Bryana Johnson. In 1938, the practice of homeschooling was outlawed in Germany by Adolf Hitler and the infamous Third Reich. It was a rough period in German history, as thousands of young people were being pried from their parents’ direction and authority and drafted into the Hitler Youth program, where they were supposed to be ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Obama's False Alarms
Playing politics with blue smoke and mirrors. In an effort to remove the hot-potato issue of excessive government spending from the 2012 presidential campaign, and calling the bluff of congressional Republicans who always seem to favor domestic spending cuts but increased military spending, President Obama suggested the ... MOREIRS Moves To Collect Billions In Fees From Healthcare Law
by Ben Goad. The Internal Revenue Service on Friday unveiled its proposal to raise tens of billions of dollars through annual fees on health insurers, prompting fierce criticism from industry groups who warn the costs will be passed along to consumers. The proposed rule from President Obama's healthcare law will be published for public ... MOREThe Best Gun Control Measure Is Always A Job
by Thomas J. Basile. The President is in full campaign mode crisscrossing the nation talking about the need to curb gun violence through a host of new gun control measures. Characteristically he’s using children and families as props, and in homage to public employee unions no doubt, is throwing first responders into the mix at his events as well. ... MOREFounder: Subway Would Not Exist If Started Today
Company would have been strangled by regulations. The founder of Subway restaurants is slamming the government for
harsh regulations he says hurt small businesses, saying he would not
have been able to successfully start his company in today's climate. Fred Deluca told CNBC Wednesday that he believes government
regulations are ... MOREGene Beato: Government-Issued Comics For Propaganda
How government turned comic books into propaganda. Comic books, psychiatrist Fredric Wertham argued
in a 1953 Ladies Home Journal article that preceded his
1954 best-seller, Seduction of the Innocent, were
instruction manuals for everything from shoplifting in department
stores to tween lust-murder. If one were to set out how to teach children ... MORERasmussen Poll: 6% Rate News Media As Very Trustworthy
What are they thinking? Most voters still get their news from television and consider the news reported by the media generally trustworthy. Fifty-six percent (56%) of Likely U.S. Voters say they get most of their news from TV, including 32% who get it from cable news networks and 24% who get it from traditional network news. A new ... MOREWhat Does DOJ REALLY Think About Gun Control?
by Melancton Smith. According
to a DOJ memo obtained by the NRA, Washington really knows that assault
weapons are infrequently used in crimes and that banning high capacity
magazines really will not change anything. These are just drums beat by
the administration to get the public in a frenzy over the “epidemic” of
gun violence. So what do they ... MOREWhy Blacks And Women Should Not Have Guns
by William A Levinson. The Democratic Party believes that it owns the African-American vote, and it also looks to women for much of its support. This support requires serious reconsideration. The Colorado Democratic Party, as represented by State Rep. Joe Salazar, has said openly that women are too mentally unstable to handle firearms ... MOREJ Sullum: Where Does A Cop With An 80-lb Dog Search?
Answer: Anywhere he wants. Imagine that a police officer, after taking it upon himself to search someone's car, is asked to explain why he thought he would find contraband there. "A little birdie told me," he replies. Most judges would react with appropriate skepticism to such a claim. But substitute "a big dog" for "a little birdie," and you've ... MORE
America In Denial As Fiscal Tsunami Appoaches
by Gene Healy. It's hard to hear yourself think over all the caterwauling on Capitol Hill about the looming sequestration "crisis." For opponents of the spending cuts—at $85 billion, 2.3 percent of the $3.6 trillion federal budget—the rallying cry is half Lord Keynes, half St. Augustine: "Grant me chastity and continence—but not yet." But the time for a little ... MORECop Recorded Punching Woman In Face Found Not Guilty
Judge declares he meant no harm. Despite being caught on video violently punching a small woman in the face, police officer Jonathan Josey was found not guilty by Philadelphia Municipal Judge Patrick Dugan in a nonjury trial after telling the judge he didn't mean to punch the woman in the face, we was only trying to knock a beer out of her hand. ... MOREJeffrey Lord: Abolish The Department Of Education
Do it for the children. The Washington Post was alarmed. And House Republicans seem to be asleep. On Monday’s front page was the latest Obama horror story of what lay ahead for the fifty states if the sequester went into effect. Wrote the Post: The White House on Sunday detailed how the deep spending cuts set to begin this week would affect ... MORE
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