Posts Tagged ‘
government ’
Nov 21st, 2011 |
By Wendy McElroy |
Category: Featured, Politics
A headline in the National Post (July 10) announced, “Hot Dogs and Poutine Stage Comeback After Quebec Rink's Fans Revolt.”
The story revolved around the town of Lac-Etchemin, Quebec, which prided itself on being the first Canadian municipality to ban “unhealthy” food from its arena. “Now, in an admission that paninis ...
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Tags: food, food choice as inalienable right, government, government out of the kitchen, hot dogs, Nanny State, Quebec
Posted in Featured, Politics |
2 comments
Oct 25th, 2011 |
By Gary Gibson |
Category: Featured, Macro Economics, Politics
College is not necessary for most people. It never was. In fact, the preoccupation with college has left America bereft of its former ability to create wealth.
An unhealthy cultural myth has flourished that says everyone must go to college and get an advanced degree, even if it's something for which ...
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Tags: central bank, entrepreneurship, government, higher education, student loans, wealth creation
Posted in Featured, Macro Economics, Politics |
11 comments
Oct 5th, 2011 |
By Murry Rothbard |
Category: Economics, Featured, Macro Economics, Politics
We have heard a great deal of the "public sector," and solemn discussions abound through the land on whether or not the public sector should be increased vis-a-vis the "private sector." The very terminology is redolent of pure science, and indeed, it emerges from the supposedly scientific, if rather grubby, ...
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Tags: government, private sector, public sector
Posted in Economics, Featured, Macro Economics, Politics |
4 comments
Sep 20th, 2011 |
By Ron Paul |
Category: Economics, Politics
In January 2009, the administration claimed that if Congress passed a rush stimulus bill, the United States would be saved from economic catastrophe that was threatening to send unemployment figures above 8%. Government stimulus was the answer, and if we cared about our country, we would set aside our reservations ...
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Tags: capital investment, government, make-work, Solyndra
Posted in Economics, Politics |
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Jul 22nd, 2011 |
By Whiskey Contributor |
Category: Economics, Featured, Politics
“We have to have some more faith in the free market to produce innovation,” says Gary Shapiro, in the soon-to-be released documentary Risk!.
Faith in the free market isn’t something that the United States has a lot of right now – with government stepping in with bailouts, stimulus packages and the ...
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Tags: free market, Gary Shapiro, government, job creation, risk
Posted in Economics, Featured, Politics |
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Jun 10th, 2011 |
By Whiskey Contributor |
Category: Featured, Politics
The title of this article encompasses topics that arouse attention and criticism among persons of libertarian persuasion. The discussion of such matters usually treats each issue as though it were sui generis, independent of one another. Most of us respond as though the woman who is groped at the airport ...
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Tags: government, monopoly, the State, TSA, war, War on drugs
Posted in Featured, Politics |
6 comments
May 18th, 2011 |
By Lew Rockwell |
Category: Featured, Politics
The American pharmaceutical system is a highly controlled apparatus for restricting access to much-needed drugs and violating the rights of those who want to purchase them. This has long been true.
Vast amounts of those drugs that people should be permitted to purchase of their own free will are withheld from ...
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Tags: cartel, drugs, google, government
Posted in Featured, Politics |
8 comments
May 4th, 2011 |
By Whiskey Contributor |
Category: Featured, International, Politics
There has never been such an opportunity for the U.S. government to stage a false flag event in order to start yet another war as there is today. The set up is obvious to libertarians and some sane others, but it eludes most all Americans who are busy dancing in ...
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Tags: aggression, government, Osama bin Laden, U.S.
Posted in Featured, International, Politics |
8 comments
Apr 8th, 2011 |
By Byron King |
Category: Featured, Politics
Frightening Friday
Ah, the drumbeat of worry over shutting down our wonderful federal gummint!
Poor g-man souls... it's "scary." They might get locked out of the federal building, unable for days on end to place the yellow-tinted papers in the yellow basket, or the blue-tinted papers in the blue basket. Unable even ...
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Tags: Federal Shutdown on Friday, government
Posted in Featured, Politics |
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Apr 1st, 2011 |
By Jeffrey Tucker |
Category: Featured, Technology
Pushing Buttons Like The Jetsons
In the classic and futuristic television series from 1962 to 1963 – I admit that I adore this show and could watch every episode 100 times – people work only a few hours a day, travel at 500 miles per hour in flying cars that go ...
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Tags: government, Resource scarcity, technological advancement
Posted in Featured, Technology |
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