Sep 02
Government support and subsidies of health care increase demand without increasing supply, causing prices to rise.
Since the passage of Medicare in 1965, health care has risen in cost faster than inflation every single year. Meanwhile, less regulated hi-tec industries have produced LOWER prices for higher quality.
Now there is word that Obamacare will cause average premiums to spike more than 20 % in a single year in some states. See here.
This while U.S. GDP growth is 1% or below.
Aug 31
Government colleges and universities are some of the least free places in America. Now three professors co-teaching an online course called “Medical Humanities in the Digital Age” at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs have told their students that man-made climate change is not open for debate, and those who think otherwise have no place in their course. See this story in The College Fix.
The professors emailed their students:
“The point of departure for this course is based on the scientific premise that human induced climate change is valid and occurring. We will not, at any time, debate the science of climate change, nor will the ‘other side’ of the climate change debate be taught or discussed in this course.”
Aug 31
Those who trust government most are often the first to be killed when their goals of government supremacy are reached.
Now we read that North Korean Vice Premier Kim Yong Jin was executed for not keeping his posture upright at a public event. See here. 
Aug 30
Be afraid. Be very afraid. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has announced that it will take jurisdiction over the U.S. election system.
Elections, declared the Department, are “critical infrastructure.”
Upon the ruse, er. , . . justification of protecting elections from foreign hackers, the Department has announced it intends to oversee U.S. elections. See here.
Aug 30
U.S. President Obama has officially extended the national emergency that was declared after 9/11/2001:
“Because the terrorist threat continues, the national emergency declared on September 14, 2001, and the powers and authorities adopted to deal with that emergency must continue in effect beyond September 14, 2016.”
Few Americans are aware of how many ongoing “national emergencies” have been declared. See here.
Since the Great Depression, the U.S. government has operated under a state of ‘permanent emergency.’ President after president has used these ‘national emergencies’ to justify a wide range of extra-constitutional operations against the American people.
Aug 30
Overregulation and criminalization of medicine is driving more and more Americans to steal prescribed medications from their pets. See here.
Aug 28
Starving Venezuelans are circulating petitions to recall their president and other officials who impose the horrors of socialism upon them.
The Venezuela Constitution provides for such recall petitions.
“Nearly two million Venezuelans have signed the recall petition.”
President “Maduro’s underlings are unjustly harassing and even arresting citizens circulating the recall petition — just as previous electoral opponents of the regime have been arrested on trumped-up charges and often sentenced to long prison terms.”
“Now, Pres. Maduro has ordered five high cabinet minsters to review the recall petitions for the names of government workers in their employ and to fire any workers found to have actually used their rights.”
Aug 27
Data expert Tony Heller began scrutinizing government temperature data sets a few years ago. Heller has exposed many scandals involving the tendency of government agencies to ‘adjust’ the temperature record to bolster the claims of socialists that manmade-global-warming-by-CO2 will doom the earth unless governments take over all world industries.
Now Heller has found that government agencies have adjusted temp records to show this past July was TEN TIMES warmer in relation to the past than it actually was.
“The actual raw temperature data [NOAA uses] to generate their graph, shows one tenth as much warming from 1895 to 2016, with 1901, 1936 and 1934 as the hottest years.
Aug 27
During Hurricane Katrina, government troops erected roadblocks to keep out (private sector) rescuers. Government agencies wanted credit for any rescues.
Entire trucks filled with needed supplies, such as Wal-Mart semis carrying bottled water to the Hurricane victims, were turned away. Government agents wanted to deliver water to the victims (albeit a few days later and at massive taxpayer expense).
Now there is word that government agencies are stopping the so-called Cajun Navy, “the all-volunteer flotilla of Louisiana private boat owners credited with rescuing and helping countless thousands of marooned homeowners, livestock and pets” from helping any more Louisiana flood victims.
Aug 27
Trusters of government rarely think beyond what Thomas Sowell calls “Stage One.”
The District of Columbia–like many regions of the United States–has recently enacted an increased minimum wage for all D.C. workers. Employers must pay them $11.50 per hour. You know, . . . to help the poor.
It seems the minimum wage increase has caused a 3 % drop in D.C. restaurant employment. 1,400 jobs have been lost.
Nearby Maryland and Virginia, with lower minimum wages ($8.75 and $7.25 respectively), have seen increases in fast food employment during the same period.
Higher unemployment rates are linked to numerous social ills, including lifetime and household poverty, illness, admissions to psychiatric facilities, domestic violence and homicide.
