Monday, April 14
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Mike Powers is the guest editor today. |
"With
all due respect, sir, if you are truly interested in promoting the ideas
of free markets—which I hope you are, considering that we do not have
free markets in this country at present and not many high profile scribes
such as yourself to defend the free market ideal—you’ll need something
a bit sturdier on which to hang your free market hat than 'a solution
the community can live with'.”
The
Income Tax: Root of All Evil
"The income tax, by transferring the property of earners to the State, has disintegrated the moral fiber of Americans to such a degree that they do not even recognize the fact." By Frank Chodorov.
Hoover’s
Attack on Laissez-Faire
“If
government wishes to alleviate, rather than aggravate, a depression, its only
valid course is laissez-faire – to leave the economy alone.”
By
“The
Should
the US End Aid to Israel?
“By
providing massive funding to
Steve
Kroft reports on widespread corruption in
Bush
Approved Meetings on Interrogation Techniques
“Bush
also said in an interview with ABC News that he approved of the meetings,
which were held as the
Israel
Accused of Psychological Torture
“In
one case, the group said, Israeli agents convinced a suspect his wife had also
been arrested and tortured, driving him to attempt suicide. In another, they
detained a couple for an extended period, tortured them physically, and
withheld information about their two young children to try to break them.”
Aren’t you glad that your
tax dollars are supporting this behavior?
World
Bank Head Urges Action on Food Costs
“(Zoellick)
called on governments to rapidly carry out commitments to provide the U.N.
World Food Program with $500 million in emergency aid.”
Ironically, governments
are largely responsible for high food prices due to market distortions in
the form of subsides, tariffs, and trade barriers.
Taxpayers
Fund Bill Clinton’s Spending
“His $420,000 phone bill and $3.2 million office rent tab both nearly surpassed the totals rung up for those purposes by Bush, Carter and the late former presidents Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan combined.” Politicians are attracted to spending other people’s money like winged insects to animal excrement.
1,300
Iraqis Fired for Refusing to Fight
“Iraqi
police, army members dismissed after deserting in the face of
Higher
Cigarette Taxes Could Promote Smuggling
“The
big cigarette tax increases that many states are instituting to balance their
out-of-whack budgets are raising fears that the trend will make black-market
smokes more profitable and lead to more cigarette smuggling.”
Confiscatory tax policies allow governments to manufacture ‘crimes’
where there are none.
Immigration
Technicality Snares Refugee
“Lino
Nakwa, a Transylvanian student, could be deported to
NYC
Cop Tied to More Bank Robberies
“Torres,
already charged in an armed bank heist that netted $113,000 in
Toronto
Police Chief Calls for Forced DNA Samples
From anyone charged with a crime, with or without permission from the accused.
Patrick
Moore, a cofounder of Greenpeace, is an unlikely critic of the environmental
movement.
I’m
definitely in the minority on this one.
Doubt
Cast on Global Warming-Hurricane Link
"The
new work suggests that, even in a dramatically warming world, hurricane
frequency and intensity may not substantially rise during the next two
centuries."
Going
Green Makes Neighbor See Red
A photo blog.