Time to triage tax dollars and legalize self-ownership. Current U.S. drug policies have produced mediocre results, at best. Pessimists say that trying to eradicate drug use by making it illegal has failed altogether. Even optimists mostly view the prohibition approach as just holding the line, which is a polite way of saying that we are mired in an ugly ... MOREAmerican Interest: A Voter's Guide To Legalizing Marijuana
Time to triage tax dollars and legalize self-ownership. Current U.S. drug policies have produced mediocre results, at best. Pessimists say that trying to eradicate drug use by making it illegal has failed altogether. Even optimists mostly view the prohibition approach as just holding the line, which is a polite way of saying that we are mired in an ugly ... MORESuzanne Fields: The Immorality Of Feeding Big Bird
Blowing money while hopelessly in debt. For an 8-footer with a lot of yellow feathers and a bird’s brain, Big Bird is a fellow with a lot of friends in medium-high places. President Obama even has commissioned a campaign commercial taking Mitt Romney to task for treating the bird with something less than reverence. The Bird is all he’s talking ... MORE
World's Richest Man Cashes In On Obamaphone Giveaway
Top Obama donor supplies 'Obamaphones' to the poor. A Mexican telecom mogul who holds the title of world's richest man, and
one of President Obama's top donors are both getting even richer from
the U.S. government program that supplies so-called "Obamaphones" to the
poor. Carlos Slim, who has an estimated net worth of $70 ... MOREStella Paul: So This IS What "God Damn America" Looks Like
Jeremiah Wright watches dreams come true. Four years ago, our media overlords assured us that President Empty Chair was really Candidate Empty Pew -- a parishioner who sat for 20 years in Reverend Jeremiah Wright's nutty, hate-mongering church and never heard a single word. "God bless America? No, no, no! God d*mn America!" thundered ... MOREJ Tucker: Regulators Are Destroying Your Home Appliances
Say goodbye to automatic dishwashers that work. Ayn Rand’s novella Anthem, the ebook of the week in the Laissez Faire Club, is a story about a government that hates, fears, and bans technology precisely because it wants to keep the people enslaved in a primitive state of being. Preposterous right? Wrong: this is going on every day right ... MORESteve Baker: Cell Phones And College Tuition
Why do cell phones get cheaper while tuition gets higher? In 1978, my college tuition was about $1,200 per year. In 1985 my first cell phone also cost me $1,200, and its sole function was that it could make phone calls -- at about a buck per minute. (Motorola's first cell phone hit the market at $3,995!) But something interesting happened to ... MOREVIDEO: Why U.S. Health Care Costs More Than Canada's
It is why a Mercedes Benz is more expensive than a Toyota corolla.
Thomas Sowell: Race Cards
A powerful tactic to combat independent thought. If you are sick and tired of seeing politicians and others playing the
race card, or if you are just disgusted with the grossly dishonest way
racial issues in general are portrayed, then you should get a copy of
Ann Coulter's new book, "Mugged." Its subtitle is: "Racial Demagoguery
from the Seventies to Obama." ... MOREGreg Pollowitz: Al Gore No Longer Investing In Green Tech
One loser identifies another. Via The Street. Why does Al Gore hate America’s green-tech industry and love China and Bain Capital? When Al Gore talks, people listen. Just ask the folks who hand out Academy Awards and Nobel Peace Prizes. Al Gore also talks to investors. Since 2007, the former Vice President in Bill Clinton’s administration has been ... MOREShikha Dalmia: Big Labor Is Going For Broke In Michigan
Making unions more powerful than the legislature. We've seen Gov. Scott Walker's battle in Wisconsin and the Chicago Teachers Union strike next door. Now in Michigan comes another Midwestern political showdown that will carry enormous implications for the role of unions in American life. The Michigan Supreme Court recently approved ... MORECop Killing Of Innocent Man Deemed Justified By State
Police go to wrong house, kill man protecting home. WFTV obtained a final report on Tuesday from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement that outlines a fatal deputy-involved shooting that happened in July in Lake County. It comes two months after Andrew Scott was shot and killed when deputies showed up at the wrong apartment ... MOREGovernment's Own Numbers Crunchers See Collapse Ahead
by Ralph R. Reiland. The way the federal government runs things is already bad enough, but it's officially projected to get only worse, much worse, in the years ahead according to the government's own number crunchers. In fiscal year 2011 -- October 1, 2010 to September 30, 2011-- the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reports that the federal ... MOREWalter E Williams: Trickle Down And Tax Cuts
Tickle down demagoguery from the left. Dr. Thomas Sowell's "'Trickle Down Theory' and 'Tax Cuts for the Rich'"
has just been published by the Hoover Institution. Having read this
short paper, the conclusion you must reach is that the term "trickle
down theory" is simply a tool of charlatans and political hustlers. Sowell states that "no such ... MOREMatt Welch: Four More Years Of War
No matter who wins, we will stay overextended overseas. It’s hard to remember through the fog of constant war, but the
2008 presidential election was a contest between two candidates who
were propelled into their nominations by the anti-war vote. Barack Obama, we remember. He was the one who opposed the Iraq war in real ... MOREThomas Sowell: Phony In Chief
True believers may not want to know the truth. When President Barack Obama and others on the left are not busy
admonishing the rest of us to be "civil" in our discussions of political
issues, they are busy letting loose insults, accusations and smears
against those who dare to disagree with them. Like so many people who have been beaten in a verbal ... MOREBob Weir: Speed Traps Are Not Proper Enforcement
Deploying cops to squeeze money out of citizens. Let me begin by saying something I learned a long time ago as a cop in New York City; you will never make someone happy by giving him/her a traffic ticket. It doesn’t matter if you catch someone driving 20 miles over the speed limit, or you stop someone for driving an unregistered and uninspected vehicle. ... MOREDavid Rosen: Big Brother Invades Our Classrooms
Frightening new methods monitor students. The digital tracking and surveillance of school-aged kids has been growing. Much attention has been given to the phenomenon of corporate tracking of kids’ online activities, activities that violate the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). The law, originally adopted in 1998, requires Web sites ... MOREJennifer Waters: Right To Sell Your Own Stuff Is In Peril
It could even become illegal to resell almost anything. Tucked into the U.S. Supreme Court’s agenda this fall is a little-known case that could upend your ability to resell everything from your grandmother’s antique furniture to your iPhone 4. At issue in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons is the first-sale doctrine in copyright law, which allows you to ... MOREJohn Tamny: Why Atlas Shrugged Part II Is A Must-See Film
Who is John Galt? For those lucky enough to have read Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged,
they know well that it has a timeless quality to it. Most readers feel,
and with good reason, that a book from the 1950s was actually written
at the time and place in which they’re reading it. A college friend from Semester at Sea sent me his worn copy in ... MORE
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