The Obama Administration has claimed to be outraged by the shabby treatment that veterans receive at the hands of the VA. But as Ron Paul points out this week , it’s a bit unconvincing when the administration claims to care deeply about veterans while simultaneously sending American soldiers to receive third degree burns and mangled limbs in far
Well, they’re often economical for the patent holder in the short-run. But over time, a legal regime that discourages information-sharing simply closes off advances in technology. Defenders of government-granted monopolies (i.e. patents) often rely make broad claims that allegedly show that inventions would not be made were it not for patents.
Because of their privileged status as subsidized institutions protected from the marketplace, colleges and universities are not sensitive to the desires or needs of their customers. In a normal, marketplace environment, higher education institutions would seek to provide services and offend as few customers as possible, while providing maximum
Lew Rockwell writes: The Kindle version of my new book, Against the State: An Anarcho-Capitalist Manifesto , is up on Amazon, and it’s only $3.99. Its sales ranking is 39,466, not terrible given the lack of promotion until now, but I’d be grateful for your help in lowering that number! For advocates and enemies of freedom, this topic is of
“About a decade ago, the government realized it could bring income to Mexico’s poor and remote backcountry and moved aggressively to encourage foreign hunting . The federal Environment Ministry set up a program to help ranchers lease land to hunting outfitters and issue hunting permits, and it assigned enforcement officers to regulate the hunters.
A fun article from the Economist on yet another black eye (courtesy of Greenspan)for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: Building the American dreamor nightmare?
Amazingly, many who claim to be for lower taxes continue to support repealing tax breaks (and giving the government more money in the name of “fairness”). Tax breaks are good, of course, and the increasingly prevalent practice of labeling tax cuts and tax breaks as “spending” is extremely dishonest
It amazes me when Congressmen fight tooth and nail to prevent military base closings in their districts. There are usually much better uses for the land that bases occupy. Uses like, oh, say, private enterprise. In Denver, closed bases have become health care campuses, neighborhoods, and business parks
In the name of “ Growth Control :” “The most controversial proposal and the one many rural property owners consider an illegal “taking” of their land would require that native vegetation be preserved on 65 percent of each parcel. Landowners also are upset by provisions that would limit homebuilding and paving to 10 percent of the land and would
Layoff veteran aims to put outsourcing ban on Nov. ballot: “So Armstrong wants to take the message to voters. He says he and his group are 70 percent of the way toward collecting the roughly 68,000 signatures needed to get Proposal 139, “Protection of American Workers,” onto this year’s ballot. They have two weeks left. The initiative would bar
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