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Mar 16
NASA now claims that California has only one year of water left
We all know government agencies are in the habit of scaring people into giving government more power. Now we read in Newsweek that NASA is now claiming that Californians will be out of water within one year. Even if true, this NASA claim should be seen as an opportunity to private-sector entrepreneurs. Instead it will …
Mar 16
Al Gore: Those Who Disagree With Government on Climate Change Must Be Punished By the Government
Former vice president Al Gore spoke to a crowd at Austin’s “South-By-Southwest” Convention (“SXSW”) and told an audience on March 13, 2015 that the federal government should “punish climate-change deniers,” and that “politicians should pay a price for rejecting ‘accepted science.’” No doubt Galileo is looking down on America from above and shaking his head.
Mar 15
Even as Policymakers Add Burdens to Car Travel, Private-Sector Innovators Are Perfecting Driverless Cars
In the past 50 years, policymakers have saddled car drivers with an immense array of rules and regulations designed to turn drivers into virtual slaves. Licenses, taxes, fees, government inspections, registrations of all kinds, traffic cops pulling drivers over at gunpoint to issue citations for minor infractions. Upon being pulled over at gunpoint, drivers are …
Mar 14
Seattle City Council Enacts $15 Minimum Wage in 2014, By 2015, Restaurants Respond With “higher menu prices, cheaper, lower-quality ingredients, reduced opening times, and cutting work hours and firing workers”
The Seattle minimum-wage hike will go into effect incrementally over the next several years. Observers are predicting that numerous businesses will shut their doors. Stay tuned! Here is the link.
Mar 14
A Broken Model of Service Delivery: Gigantic Increases in Government Education Spending Have Had No Positive Impact on Student Performance
Government education is a monstrous failure by any measurement. This graph shows that while government spending in education has increased faster than inflation for decades, ALL MEASUREMENTS OF EDUCATION OUTCOMES–whether SAT scores, standardized-test outcomes, or basic reading or math performances–HAVE SHOWN NO IMPROVEMENT. The graph is from the Cato Institute.
Mar 14
Federal Prosecutors Now Threaten to Prosecute People Unless They Convince Their Loved Ones to Plead Guilty
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
World’s Paper Currencies Are Spiraling Lower in Value
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
Massive Corruption Behind FCC’s ‘Net Neutrality’ Push Slowly Being Revealed
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
Venezuela’s Socialist State-Owned Oil Company Collapses in a Flurry of Arrests, Corruption Probes
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
“Unfair Pricing” is Sometimes Quite Fair
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 . . …
