by Michael Barone. Forty years ago, American railroads were in trouble. The Penn Central, the largest railroad, had recently gone bankrupt. American freight rail was technologically obsolescent and hamstrung by union rules and government rate regulation. American passenger rail was unprofitable and unreliable. Freight rail was ... MOREWhy Freight Rail Pays And Passenger Trains Flunk
by Michael Barone. Forty years ago, American railroads were in trouble. The Penn Central, the largest railroad, had recently gone bankrupt. American freight rail was technologically obsolescent and hamstrung by union rules and government rate regulation. American passenger rail was unprofitable and unreliable. Freight rail was ... MOREUnion Greed Drives California To Bankrupcy
by Steven Greenhut. Few non-local people pay much attention to the goings-on in Stockton, a hard-pressed Gold-Rush-era industrial city of 300,000 that sits in the agriculturally rich San Joaquin Valley at the eastern edge of the California Delta. But bond-holders, taxpayers and government officials throughout the country will be listening to U.S. ... MOREJohn W. Whitehead: Highway Robbery, Government Style
Policing for profit is a bad thing for citizens. Long before Americans charted their revolutionary course in
pursuit of happiness, it was “life, liberty, and property” which
constituted the golden triad of essential rights that the government was
charged with respecting and protecting. To the colonists, smarting from
mistreatment at the ... MORENo Surprise, New York Ranks Last In Personal Freedom
from the NY Post. New York's big government - with its hands deep in taxpayers' pockets and regulations controlling everyone's lives - has made the Empire State the worst in the nation for personal liberty, a new study shows. A war on sugary drinks is the least of freedom-loving New Yorkers' worries, according a report by George Mason University, ... MORERobert J. Scamardella: Minimum Wage Harms The Economy
Why reduce the market for low-skill labor? Raising the minimum wage is the latest populist craze. President Obama recently proposed to hike the minimum wage to $9.00 an hour. New York State is poised to enforce such an increase. On its face, raising the minimum wage sounds benevolent. Closer examination shows that it hurts ... MOREMoving Gun Control Tyranny Forward Via Executive Power
by Jordy Yager. President Obama is quietly moving forward on gun control. The president has used his executive powers to bolster the national background check system, jumpstart government research on the causes of gun violence and create a million-dollar ad campaign aimed at safe gun ownership. The executive steps will give federal law ... MORENew Obama Regs For Gas To Add Up To 9 Cents A Gallon
by Rick Moran. Because it's for the kids, don't ya know? The new regs would remove 90% of sulfur from gasoline and tighten emission standards on cars. AP: An oil industry study says the proposed rule being unveiled Friday by the administration could increase gasoline prices by 6 cents to 9 cents a gallon. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates ... MOREMarta H. Mossburg: Food Regulations Of The Future
A sneak preview of the coming War on Obesity. March 29, 2020: The federal government today announced new regulations for buying fast food. Starting June 1, upon entering a national fast food chain restaurant or before ordering via a drive-thru each patron must undergo a Body Mass Index (BMI) analysis. The score will ... MOREProtect The Defenseless, Abolish Minimum Wage
by Don Watkins. A few years ago, I was in need of some extra cash so I decided to sell my laptop on eBay. A few days later, I got an offer. It wasn’t great, but then neither was my laptop. But before the payment went through, I got a call from the government. “We have decided that the offer you got was too low. We’re not going to let you sell your ... MOREObamaCare Gets Juicy As Employees Recognize Cost
The heavy cost of government health care. Yesterday, some person (or group) tweeted to me a link to a campaign (allegedly) by and for the current and former employees of Juicy Couture to demand “just hours.” You see, according to the campaign, the hip and trendy Juicy is doing what other companies are doing in an effort to cope ... MOREExpect These 8 Steps From The Government's Playbook
by Simon Black. To anyone paying attention, reality is now painfully obvious. These bankrupt, insolvent governments have just about run out of fingers to plug the dikes. And history shows that, once this happens, governments fall back on a very limited playbook: 1. Direct confiscation - As Cyprus showed us, bankrupt governments are quite happy to ... MOREMatt Taylor: Legalization Movement Plots Its Next 4 Years
Yes, we cannabis. Last November, with voters in Colorado and Washington state leading the way, ballot initiatives legalizing, taxing, and regulating recreational marijuana use passed for the first time ever. In Colorado, legalization actually outperformed President Obama. An Oregon effort would almost certainly have prevailed, too, if ... MORE
Gun Control Efforts Persist But Public Support Dims
Polls find fewer favor gun rights restrictions. Vice President Joseph R. Biden, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi
and other gun control advocates insisted Wednesday that both momentum
and public opinion are on their side, but recent polling shows Americans
turning against stricter laws as more time elapses since the Newtown ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Hope For The Dead
Without freedom, we are nothing. What does freedom have to do with rising from the dead? When America was in its infancy and struggling to find a culture and frustrated at governance from Great Britain, the word most frequently uttered in speeches and pamphlets and letters was not safety or taxes or peace; it was freedom. ... MOREThe Manufactured Authority Of The Nanny State
A core American concept, corrupted and ignored. Lately, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been the chief spokesman touting the merits and necessity of a Utopian nanny state. In a moment of honesty, he said while making a recent appearance on NBC, "I do think there certain times when we should infringe on your freedom." ... MOREJacob Sullum: Proactive Policing Becomes Harassment
NYPD's stop-and-frisk program is unconstitutional. The first time David Floyd was stopped and frisked, on a Friday afternoon in April 2007, he was walking down Beach Avenue a few doors from his house in the Bronx when two police officers confronted him, demanding to know who he was, where he was going, what he was doing, and ... MORE
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