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Disaster Relief as Bad Policy
In light of nature's prevelance in the recent news cycle, it's worth reevaluating a poignant article from William F. Shugart II, published by the Independent Institute in their Spring 2011 issue of The Independent Review.Only 25 percent [...]
A federal day of service?
At his inauguration, Obama called for a day of service. Now, he has called for Patriot's Day (September 11) to be a day of service. Only a person who has never been in the habit of service to his fellow man calls for service. [...]
Mark Mix on Right to Work
Mark Mix, President of the National Right to Work Foundation, recently appeared on Fox Business' The Willis Report to discuss the effects of Right to Work and the Boeing situation in South [...]
Liberty NewsWire - August 24, 2011
"The Associated Press has revealed that the NYPD operates far outside its borders and targets ethnic communities in ways that would run afoul of civil liberties rules if practiced by the federal government. And it does so with unprecedented [...]
What John McCain Really Thought of Moammar Khadafy
You've got to hand it to John McCain, the Senator who hasn't found a war to oppose in nearly 30 years. He was thumping the war drums in Libya and complains that President Obama wasn't nearly enthusiastic enough about killing [...]
Liberty NewsWire - August 26, 2011
"Citing "a range of tools that could be used to provide additional monetary stimulus," he said the Fed "will continue to consider those and other pertinent issues, including of course economic and financial developments, at [...]
The More Things "Change"...
... the more they stay the same, especially in government.Remember when then-candidate Obama said it was "unpatriotic" that Bush added $4 trillion to the national debt?Via CBS News:The debt was $10.626 trillion on the day Mr. Obama took [...]
Liberty NewsWire - August 25, 2011
"The president is widely expected to repeat his calls for an extension of a payroll tax cut, push for patent reform and bilateral free trade deals, and suggest an infrastructure bank to upgrade the country's roads, airports and other [...]
3 Myths about Capitalism
Everyone has heard these myths before, "Being pro-capitalism means being pro-big business", "Capitalism creates income inequality", and my personal favorite "Capitalism caused the financial crisis."Harvard [...]
Liberty NewsWire - August 22, 2011
"The Federal Reserve lent Wall St. firms a staggering $1.2 trillion in a previously unrevealed bank bailout that dwarfs the size of TARP, reports Bloomberg News." - PoliticoWall St. Aristocracy Got 1.2 Trillion from Fed - [...]