As the digital age dawned on the newspaper industry a decade ago, most of the major U.S. and western newspapers recognized that they should create online editions to capture readers who abandon print newspapers. But it turns out that content is more important than forum. Newspapers are dying; and so are the online editions! See …
2016 archive
Apr 09
As Socialist Venezuela Collapses, its Government Demands Women Conserve Electricity by not Using Hairdryers
Socialism is a curse that should be wished on one’s enemies. All societies who embrace it will ultimately become sick and weak. Venezuela is an oil-rich country, but has been saddled with central planning and socialism for decades. Now the country is so short of electricity that its rulers are demanding that women stop using …
Apr 09
U.S. Senators Push Harder for Bill to Prohibit Private Encryption
It is the dream of every tyrant: to hold all power over others’ property and resources, to know all things about others while entrenching government privacy, and to kill all who resist. Now a group of power-gorged U.S. Senators are pushing (again) for a bill to ban (private-sector) encryption. See here. The king’s keys must …
Apr 08
Six years in: Obamacare is increasingly harming poor people
Government regulations aimed at helping the poor almost always harm the poor. After 6 years, the Affordable Care Act is increasingly harming the poorest Americans. In March, the Obama administration celebrated the Affordable Care Act’s anniversary by proudly declaring, “Thanks to this law, 20 million more Americans now know the security of having health insurance, …
Apr 08
Government-supported ‘higher education’ is moving even further toward government supremacism
It is widely recognized that government-supported academia lacks diversity of opinion and is generally intolerant of free-market or anti-government ideas. Yet a new study reveals that the percentages of college professors who describe themselves as “far left” or “left” is actually INCREASING. The percentages of all other groups is declining in academia. See here. Although …
Apr 05
Vermont and New Jersey legislatures have been hiking taxes; their residents are fleeing
In Vermont, taxes have recently been raised on home heating oil, mutual funds, banks, drivers, and businesses who don’t provide health insurance to employees. Consequently, thousands of Vermonters have fled the state over the past decade. In New Jersey, more than two million people have left after two decades of ever-higher taxes and outrageous spending …
Apr 05
Analysts now wondering if U.S. government leaked the ‘Panamanian Papers’
Yesterday’s headlines blared with news about leaked documents from a Panamanian law firm which show major world government leaders have been laundering money in secret off-shore bank accounts. In some cases, billions of dollars appear to have been siphoned from impoverished taxpayers around the globe to enrich the secret (tax-free) bank accounts of government officials. …
Apr 04
Overpaid Detroit Public School Administrators Caught Skimming Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars of ‘School Supply’ Money
Detroit public schools have exacted enormous funds from their surrounding taxpayers yet underperformed for decades. Now it emerges that some overpaid Detroit Public School Administrators have been funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars meant for ‘school supplies’ to themselves. See here. One Detroit principle accepted nearly $60,000 in bribes from a school vendor. The Detroit …
Apr 04
World government leaders are laundering and hiding money from the regulations they impose on others
High taxes, cops on almost every streetcorner, and burdensome regulations are the norm worldwide. Yet a USA Today report documents that numerous ‘world leaders’ have been caught hiding money in offshore private bank accounts. In some cases, the money hidden away by these government officials was looted directly from government accounts gorged with funds from …
Apr 03
New Study finds no evidence whatsoever that polar bears are suffering from climate change
A central claim in Al Gore’s film “An Inconvenient Truth” is that polar bear populations are threatened or dwindling due to manmade global warming. The various versions of the UN IPCC Reports also repeat this claim. But a new exhaustive study by Canadian scientists finds there is no evidence to support this claim whatsoever. See …
