Debra Saunders: Where Windbags Outlaw Plastic Bags

A story of San Francisco politics.   On his official website, San Francisco Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi starts his list of accomplishments with this item: "Plastic Bag Ban: First-in-the-Nation ban on plastic bags in chain grocery stores and drug stores, which sparked similar legislation around the world from Oakland to Canada to Paris to Beijing." In his final month as supervisor ... MORE

VIDEO: Walter E Williams - Corporations Are Tax Collectors

Walter E Williams: Free To Die?

Forcibly using one person to serve another.   Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, in his New York Times column titled "Free to Die" (9/15/2011), pointed out that back in 1980, his late fellow Nobel laureate Milton Friedman lent his voice to the nation's shift to the political right in his famous 10-part TV series, "Free To Choose." Nowadays, Krugman says,  ... MORE