Worse than Solyndra. Add the name LightSquared to your crony capitalism watch list. The story emerging has elements even worse than the squandering of half a billion dollars on an Obama bundler's venture. Brendan Sasso of The Hill reports: LightSquared plans to provide high-speed wholesale wireless service nationwide through a network of satellites and land-based cell towers ... MORE
Wendy McElroy: To Serve And Protect -- The State
Protect yourself, because the police are paid not to care. Last month, an international rights tribunal slapped America across the face through a showcase ruling that has no legal force. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights found that Jessica Lenahan could sue the Castle Rock, Colorado, police department for its refusal in 1999 to enforce a restraining order ... MORE
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Deep Corruption At The Obama Justice Department
by Quin Hillyer. Start rattling the chains. Start ratcheting up the hue and cry. Fire up the masses. It's long past time to force mass resignations at, and possible prosecutions of members of, the Obama Justice Department -- and, more broadly, of the West Wing itself. Forgive all the links, but the scope of the corruption is so large as to defy adequate descriptions, in a single ... MORE
A. Barton Hinkle: The Renewable Energy Boondoggle
The truth about wind and solar power. Last month Glen Besa, the director of the Sierra Club's Virginia chapter, rebuked Dominion Virginia Power for failing to "jump-start the clean, renewable energy industry in Virginia. ... Offshore wind, which is plentiful off Virginia's coast, could create 10,000 jobs in the commonwealth. It is time for Dominion to make major investments ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: Back To The Future
Part I Part II Part III Those who are impressed by words seem to think that President Barack Obama made a great speech to Congress last week. But, when you look beyond the rhetoric, what did he say that was fundamentally different from what he has been saying and doing all along? Are we to continue doing the same kinds of things that have failed again and again, just because ... MORE
Jacob Sullum: You Say 'Ponzi Scheme,' I Say Fraud
A distinction without a difference. At the Republican presidential debate in Tampa on Monday night, Mitt Romney said Rick Perry has needlessly "scared seniors" by calling Social Security "a Ponzi scheme." Romney, more sensitive to the anxieties of retirees, prefers to say "the American people have been effectively defrauded out of their ... MORE
Jon N Hall: Inequality -- It's A Good Thing
The conflict between liberty and equality. Equality is the highest value of the American political left. So the left is always on the lookout for any trace of inequality. And of course they find it -- everywhere. That's because equality doesn't exist in this world, except when we get down on the micro level. On the micro level of quarks, electrons, photons, and such, equality reigns ... MORE
Gary Johnson: The Invisible Man Running For President
Why does the media shut him out? The 2012 race for the GOP nomination has been raging lately. With the entrance of Rick Perry, many media outlets are becoming increasingly excited over the novelty of a new candidate. What about the novelty of unique ideas? Governor Gary Johnson has been running for President since April 21st. He was in the first Republican debate on ... MORE
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Walter E Williams: Too Much Higher Education
Just think about it. Too much of anything is just as much a misallocation of resources as it is too little, and that applies to higher education just as it applies to everything else. A recent study from The Center for College Affordability and Productivity titled "From Wall Street to Wal-Mart," by Richard Vedder, Christopher Denhart, Matthew Denhart, Christopher ... MORE
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