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Jul 17
Public Universities Continue their War on Freedom of Speech and Thought
There is no reason that taxpayers should be forced to OWN a university. The two justifications that are routinely offered for the existence of government universities do not stand up to scrutiny. The first claim–that public schools somehow meet the needs of the poor in ways that private institutions do not–is shattered by measurable data. …
Jul 17
Report: Student Loan Program has Drastically Increased Tuition Costs while LOWERING the Proportion of Poor People in College.
Imagine a government program that achieves THE VERY OPPOSITE result of its intentions. This is the truth about every large government program. Social Security has impoverished seniors (and America) and transferred vast sums from poor people to rich people. See here, here, and here. Minimum wage laws increase unemployment and greatly harm poor people. See …
Jul 17
Judges are increasingly dismissing civil cases.
As many legal commentators have noted, jury trials are virtually vanishing. Prosecutors file complicated multi-count indictments, expecting that every defendant will be forced to plead guilty to something. Increasingly, only a fool would risk his life by taking such cases to a jury. Almost every error is a crime and almost every crime is a …
Jul 15
Stossel: Greece has submitted to little or no true “austerity.”
The occasionally brilliant John Stossel is out with a good column. Stossel attended Freedomfest in Las Vegas recently and learned about countries such as New Zealand and Canada, which saw their economies greatly improve after cutting government spending. Greece, however, has been in the news for years, unable to stay afloat financially. Greece recently defaulted …
Jul 15
Government continues to seek total access to every microprocessor
Jacob Sullum is one of America’s most gifted writers on civil liberties. His most recent column points out that federal police-state control freaks are (once again) seeking to ensure that all future federal laws governing computer technology be written so that the surveillance freaks in the federal government (the NSA, FBI, etc.) will always be …
Jul 14
New hoax “report” claims to have uncovered “internal documents” from the oil industry which “acknowledged” manmade global warming “as early as 1981.”
BUT THE ‘INTERNAL DOCUMENTS’ ARE A 2014 EMAIL BY A RETIRED EXXON EMPLOYEE REFLECTING ON PAST DISCUSSIONS OF THE IDEA People in an office environment often engage in email discussions about political ideas, facebook postings, upcoming concerts, and restaurants. Now a powerful pro-government climate hysteria organization called the “Union of Concerned Scientists” is pointing to …
Jul 14
Climate-change billionaire Tom Steyer, the largest political donor in history, spends millions to “fight the influence of billionaires in politics.”
Climate-change socialists–those who push for more government power to control (other) people’s “carbon footprints”–sometimes spin a tale about the influence of oil billionaires, or the fossil fuel industry, in politics. They claim that wealthy political donors spend millions to push free-market economics, and thwart the supposedly sensible policies promoted by government supremacists. Nothing could be …
Jul 13
The U.S. is now among the highest-taxing nations.
The United States, once the world’s flagship of capitalism, low regulation and free markets, has entered the category of a high-taxing society. Here is a website that generally provides the average tax rates of the world’s countries. Notice that the U.S. is now taxing its citizens at rates above the North American average, the Western …
Jul 13
Evidence surfaces showing that ISIS beheadings may be faked or staged
Infowars.com has obtained a video–purportedly from Russian hackers or “hacktivists”–showing a movie set where “ISIS”-type “beheadings” are (or can be) staged. Reportedly the hacktivists claim to have obtained the footage from a cell phone linked to U.S. Senator John McCain. It has been widely reported that the entirety of the “ISIS” threat has been a …
Jul 11
Pope Spews Satanic Lies
Somebody’s gotta say it. The current Pope of the Catholic Church is spewing utter falsehoods that have been so repeatedly disproven that only a knowing deceiver could spread them. Socialism has impoverished, starved and killed millions. For centuries, those who have trusted their governments to dispense food, shelter, clothing or medical care have watched as …
