Mar 14
In 2008, federal prosecutors were stymied because Rod Blagojevich, the former governor of Illinois, refused to plead guilty to corruption charges. (In recent years, in most American jurisdictions, roughly 80 to 95 percent of all criminal defendants plead guilty and waive their rights to trials.) It has now been revealed that federal prosecutors approached ROBERT …
Mar 13
Most Americans believe–quite correctly–that the U.S. government is spending recklessly and that its central bank, the Federal Reserve, is printing currency recklessly to prop up U.S. government finances. However, almost all of the other governments of the world are doing the same thing–and most of them are printing money even faster than the U.S. Federal …
Mar 13
The Daily Caller is out with a report on the FCC’s 400-page ‘Net Neutrality’ proposals. It is emerging that the FCC majority was lobbied heavily behind the scenes by overt Marxists and government-supremacist billionaires such as George Soros and the trustees of the Ford Foundation. The ideology behind the FCC’s ‘net neutrality’ takeover is overtly …
Mar 13
All trusters of centrally-planned economies dream the same dream: a utopia of enterprises–owned by the collective–which operate according to principles of sharing instead of profits. Socialist takeovers of oil, mining and industrial firms have occurred many times. And each time the results are the same: poverty, corruption and violence. Socialists worldwide cheered the revolution of …
Mar 13
From the book, “Roads in a Market Economy” by Gabriel Roth (1996, page 63): A more modern example of efficient but’unfair’ pricing . . . was related by P.F. Amos at a conference in 1979: Having taken a bus to the Nepal-India border from Kathmandu, and being first through customs, Mr. R.G. Bullock . . …
Mar 12
Government has been named the most important problem facing the country for four straight months and has widened its lead over other concerns (the economy, jobs, healthcare). The Washington Times story is here.
Mar 12
Two important stories from March 11, both of which are likely related: The Washington Post, dated March 11, 2015: “Americans are moving faster than ever away from traditional TV”: Between 2012 and 2014, viewers ages 50 through 64 watched one hour and 12 minutes less of traditional TV each week; they increased viewing of videos …
Mar 10
Australian paleoclimatologist Bob Carter is a highly-regarded and articulate debunker of manmade-global-warming alarmists. During a panel discussion sanctioned by the Ayn Rand Institute last year, Professor Carter stated that there has been “worldwide collusion” among government-sponsored scientists who authored the UN IPCC “climate change” reports. A Youtube video of the discussion is here. Dr. Carter’s …
Mar 10
We’ve all been told the science is settled; look no further. Surrender even more power, money and freedom to governments, and allow governments to impose drastic restrictions on fossil-fuel consumption to save us all from manmade global warming. In 2001, Canadian reporter Donna Laframboise, a former National Post and Toronto Star columnist, began looking into …
Mar 09
If the power of capitalism and free markets were unleashed on health care, we would immediately see costs go down. The poorest people in society could afford high-quality health care products and services. Witness this story about fifty-cent microscopes. Private sector innovators have developed microscopes that can be sold for less than the price of …
