Thursday, January 15
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Cheryl Cline is the guest editor today. |
MUST READ Column by Glen Allport.
Good
News for Liberty Buffs: Americans Don't Trust the Feds
“A
recent Public Strategies Inc./Politico poll shows that Americans don't trust
the federal government, and their level of trust continues to decline.”
Freedom in the World 2009 Survey Release
Freedom
House finds that “2008 marked the third consecutive year in which global
freedom suffered a decline. This setback was most pronounced in Sub-Saharan
Africa and the non-Baltic former
Court
Says Evidence Is Valid Despite Police Error
“The
Supreme Court said Wednesday that evidence obtained after illegal searches or
arrests based on simple police mistakes may be used to prosecute criminal
defendants.”
The
Dread Scourge of Unlicensed Christmas Desserts
The
Superfluous Man on how regulation hurts small entrepreneurs the most.
Bioethicists
Save Organ Donation by Tweaking the Definition of Death
According
to Wired.com, “[m]aking cardiac cessation the measure of death would
drastically curtail modern organ donation,” already hamstrung by the federal
ban on free-market incentives. It’s
easier to redefine death than to legally sell an organ in the
Garry
Reed writes: “Last September the
state of
Percentage
of Kids Solicited Online Drops, Harvard Report Says
And
most of those sexual solicitations are between minors.
Andrew
Carroll Arrested For Holding a Plant
A
young man risks arrest to demonstrate the absurdity of victimless
“crimes.”
Bailouts,
Double Standards and Hypocrisy
“What
we need is the genuine article: a free market without special privileges
or artificial scarcity, without subsidies and corporate welfare, and without
market entry barriers and other protections against competition. Of
course, if we had that kind of free market, there wouldn’t even be a General
Motors.”
Ronald Bailey thinks “Americans are not really any better at resisting the claims of authority than other people,” but that our “institutions of freedom” help keep us from establishing our own gulags.
Police Crack China Baby Sale Gang
A
rise in human trafficking is just one unintended consequence of the state
control of reproduction: “The
problem is exacerbated by strict birth control policies, which limit many
couples to only one child.”
The Paycheck Fairness Act: Equal Pay Baloney from the Press
“The
[Paycheck Fairness Act] would pressure employers to pay employees in
predominantly-female jobs with pleasant working conditions the same as
employees in predominantly-male jobs with unpleasant working conditions.”
“[A]ll
too many people still have this Mars/Venus view of male/female
relations...where the two genders are at fundamental odds with one another,
and while they may need to temporarily set these differences aside for
sex/procreation/matrimony, it is first and foremost A War, at least a cold
one.”
Audience Atomization Overcome: Why the Internet Weakens the Authority of the Press
“In the age of mass media, the press was able to define the sphere of legitimate debate with relative ease because the people on the receiving end were atomized— meaning they were connected ‘up’ to Big Media but not across to each other. But today one of the biggest factors changing our world is the falling cost for like-minded people to locate each other, share information, trade impressions and realize their number.”
“[M]ilitary
force – at least the large-scale application of military force – is
usually not the appropriate response to terrorism. In fact, a disproportionate
response is exactly what terrorists are hoping to elicit as a way to garner
sympathy and support for their cause.”
Inauguration
to Be Screened in Theaters
We
Cannot Allow Obama to Be the Torturer-Elect
Perhaps we should take away the popcorn.
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