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Mar 02
“Conservatives” advocate more regulation on abortion
Here is a great column by the gifted libertarian writer Jacob Sullum. Sullum nails the hypocritical approach of so-called conservatives regarding abortion. People who call themselves conservatives are generally knowledgeable about the true effects of regulation. Regulation almost never accomplishes its stated goals; rather, it makes things more expensive and of lower quality. Regulations supposedly …
Mar 02
Bob Barr: the government is actually demanding that Apple invent a way to defeat its devices’ encryption safeguards
Good essay by former congressman and former Libertarian Party candidate for president Bob Barr, regarding the current fight between Apple and the U.S. government: the government is for the first time demanding that a company actually invent a way to defeat the very encryption safeguards it builds into the devices it sells.
Mar 02
More Campus Censorship at California State University
During the 1960s, American-Nazi-Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell often spoke at colleges and universities. Rockwell was hated and despised, and the college audiences occasionally erupted in loud booing; but college administrators reluctantly allowed the spectacles. They submitted to an understanding that public colleges were subject to the First Amendment and could not discriminate or engage …
Mar 01
Another dubious study claims humans are destroying the earth
Even more from the ‘false, but peer-reviewed’ category. The journal Nature recently published a study purporting to show that humans may have unleashed the sixth known mass extinction in Earth’s history. The study lays the blame for this alleged mass extinction on a variety of manmade causes: habitation loss, over-hunting, over-fishing, the spread of germs …
Feb 28
The U.S. has now gone 10 consecutive years in which GDP growth never rose above 3 percent
China, India and other countries have seen their annual GDP numbers grow by 6 to 8 to 10 percent annually. Much of the world has embraced increasing freedom, commerce and capitalism. Life expectancies have grown, and people are living healthier and happier all over the world. But not in the United States. A period of …
Feb 26
Oregon’s “Cover Oregon” Health Care Program Collapses after Losing Millions
Cover Oregon was a government “health insurance marketplace” that the state set up pursuant to Obamacare. The program initially cost $300 million to set up. About 170,000 people tried to sign up for Cover Oregon before it folded.
Feb 24
45 percent of U.S. households pay no income tax
One of the biggest lies of government-trusting socialists like Bernie Sanders is that “the rich” are in control of American politics because of the Citizens United decision, “unlimited” rights of spending on campaign ads, etc. In fact, the overall share of the federal tax burden paid by the richest 10 percent has been steadily increasing …
Feb 24
Bejing now houses more billionaires than does New York City
For much of two centuries, the United States was the global flagship of capitalism and free enterprise. New York City, with its New York Stock Exchange, and its large investment banks, was the world capitol of commerce. The buildings on the Manhattan skyline–the Chrysler Building, the Empire State Building (built mostly by the investors of …
Feb 24
Government launches major campaign to promote its surveillance agenda; accuses Apple of using the issue as a marketing strategy
The Justice Department has embarked on a national advertising campaign to drum up public support for forcing the makers of the iPhone to unlock the device used by alleged San Bernardino killers. It seems that FBI agents themselves are to blame for the locked-up iPhone. They bunglingly reset the password while trying to hack into …
Feb 21
Top-Spending Republican Candidate Flops at Polls
The SuperPAC supporting Jeb Bush for the Republican presidential nomination blew through $116 million and came up empty. See here. Bush’s collapse proves yet again that “unlimited” money to spend on campaign ads does not “buy” elections. The frontrunner, Donald Trump, has barely spent ten percent of this massive sum.
