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Feb 25
Federal Government Making Plans For Major Takeover of Internet
A dozen sources indicate that our “masters” in government in Washington are preparing to launch a major push for so-called “net neutrality” policies to regulate the internet. This socialist model will spread the stink and stain of government over the internet in a manner similar to the way governments have long controlled utilities. If adopted, …
Feb 25
Beware of Government-Funded Attacks on Privately-Funded Science
The government-worshipping Salon.com website is reporting that certain manmade-global-warming-skeptical scientists who have testified before committees of Congress regarding the (non)threat of manmade climate change are now under investigation by the government for being nongovernmentally funded. As most Lysander Spooner University students know, the vast majority of what passes for scientific research in the area of …
Feb 24
Dutch City Removes All Traffic Signs; Traffic Accidents Go Down
We were recently alerted by a lewrockwell.com essay about how traffic safety actually improves when traffic controls are decreased. American car traffic is tremendously overregulated; and there are way too many traffic cops on the roadways. Within the Lewrockwell.com link is the mention of a Dutch city of 50,000 people, Drachten, which stripped its streets …
Feb 24
17,000 Federal employees made more than $200,000 last year
Statistically, a federal worker is now more likely to die than to quit. Federal employees are so overpaid that there are multiple books on the shelves of most bookstores on the topic of how to get a federal job. Those who work in the federal government have hit the lottery. As the American middle class …
Feb 24
Savers Continue To Be Punished
If you save anything in modern America, you are an absolute fool. For years, the Federal Reserve Bank has set interest rates well below “natural” levels. (In a free lending market, private banks would tend to charge substantially more interest per dollar lent, and savers could expect substantially higher rates of return for keeping their …
Feb 20
CLIMATOLOGIST RICHARD LINDZEN: GOVERNMENT-FUNDED SCIENCE ALWAYS TENDS TO BE BIASED IN FAVOR OF GOVERNMENT
Dr. Richard Lindzen is an American atmospheric physicist and retired Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In an important interview, Lindzen states (beginning around 7:20) that: The trouble is all of us scientists are government employees—even if we’re working for private universities. All research is supported by the government. …
Feb 20
Great Lakes “likely to have the most ice since records began,” says meteorologist
Meteorologist Joe d’Aleo has studied the weather of the Great Lakes for years. On February 20, 2015, d’Aleo stated that the current state of ice on the Great Lakes is likely greater than at any time since records began.
Feb 20
Medicare Has Cost Ten Times More Than Government Predicted
Medicare was pitched in 1965 as being economically responsible. Its promoters in Congress estimated that the Medicare bill would cost $1.1 billion for the following two years. The day after the bill was signed into law, its costs were widely estimated to be $6.5 billion over a decade. The House Ways and Means Committee said …
Feb 18
New report says sea level will likely rise by 11 to 21 inches around New York City by the 2050s
Just as New York City and the U.S. eastern seaboard are experiencing record snow and cold, a panel of heavily-promoted (and undoubtedly massively government-funded) academics have released a report making typically hysterical predictions about the climate in the Big Apple. The report, authored by the professors at the “New York City Panel on Climate Change …
Feb 16
Lysander Spooner on Democratic Elections and Claims of “Sovereign Immunity” By Government Officials
In Lysander Spooner’s great essay, “No Treason,” Spooner wrote: No body of men can be said to authorize a man to act as their agent, to the injury of a third person, unless they do it in so open and authentic a manner as to make themselves personally responsible for his acts. None of the …
