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... supply, among other factors, local and state governments have no such luxury, and many are struggling to find ways to pay increasingly high expenses. Increasingly, the onus is falling on taxpayers in ...
Tuesday, 13 July 2010
... government. In Chicago this notion was challenged by Otis McDonald who sued the city over its handgun ban. A Democrat who has lived on the city's South Side since 1972, McDonald came face to face ...
Friday, 02 July 2010
... activists in Israel questioning the motives of the Israeli government. Speaking to the Telegraph, Dan Yakir, chief legal counsel for the Association for Civil Rights in Israel said, “There is no information ...
Tuesday, 22 June 2010
... with using the power of government to thwart free enterprise. In this case, Copps views the matter as a threat to that power. In his statement on the FCC’s plan to reclassify the Internet, he complained ...
Friday, 18 June 2010
... are no roving gangs of thugs, no sneaky, shifty criminals eager to invade his home. No, privatized criminals like these present no threat to Yang. Instead, the threat comes from his own government. According ...
Thursday, 10 June 2010
... Fox News, and quoted by Capitalism Magazine, "In a 1996 paper [in the University of Chicago Law Review] 'Private Speech, Public Purpose: The Role of Governmental Motive in First Amendment Doctrine," Kagan ...
Wednesday, 26 May 2010
... was helped in this with a grant of 10,000 pounds from the British government. This amount was dwarfed, however, by the generosity of private benefactors who by and large bankrolled the undertaking. One ...
Sunday, 02 May 2010
... there was the unnecessary creation of the über-bureaucracy of the Department of Homeland Security, and the creation of the disastrous TSA. And let's not forget about waterboarding, rendition, and the government's ...
Saturday, 24 April 2010
... season.   But it’s too easy to assign blame to the corporate sector when there is another player at the pump: the government.   There are both obvious and less than obvious ways government has ...
Tuesday, 13 April 2010
For years government has been using declarations of eminent domain to seize private property and use it, supposedly, for the public good. It's a practice that has been abused, and is almost always controversial. ...
Monday, 29 March 2010
... to the American experience. Could a government really tyrannize people as the Communist governments are reputed to have done? Certainly for many decades, uncounted numbers of Americans have chosen not ...
Thursday, 25 March 2010
... an act of the people, and not of the states in their political capacities. It is an ordinance or establishment of government and not a compact … and it binds as a fundamental law promulgated by the sovereign ...
Thursday, 18 March 2010
Time for an axiom: Big Government is Bad. Or, put another way, power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. Or, maybe another one: big government is the last, best refuge of scoundrels. Case ...
Tuesday, 09 March 2010
... to be "the government's lack of interest in the matter." This story along with much else about the global warming fraud should make everyone outraged. Innocent children have now been murdered and maimed, ...
Tuesday, 02 March 2010
15. How to Stop Inflation
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... "the amount of government debt held by the private sector has gone up by over 30 percent" since 2008. That can only be paid off in two ways — either through increased taxes or, says Minnesota Fed ...
Monday, 22 February 2010
... the government can do The government can pay its current expenses out of current income. This calls for discipline and courage in government -- and it is particularly appropriate in prosperous times. ...
Friday, 19 February 2010
17. Of iPhones and Freedom
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... This is a trend also noted by Harvard economist Mankiw. On his blog on January 13, he argued: "With the pending passage of the healthcare bill and the more general expansion in the size of government, ...
Friday, 22 January 2010
... of Professor Mojib Latif, described as a "leading member" the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. According to the paper, Latif and his colleagues are scientists that "could never be described as ...
Tuesday, 12 January 2010
... today. Oh sure, you get to keep some of it. But government at all levels takes a huge bite out of earnings. What it does with an awful lot of that money is transfer it to others. This amounts to little ...
Monday, 11 January 2010
20. The Interpol Blues
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... police apparatus operating within the United States. Ultimately, that slippery slope is the one that leads to total government control of all aspects of life, and it is one that we have already been ...
Wednesday, 06 January 2010