The Boston Globe has endorsed Alan Khazei for the Democratic primary next week to run in the special election in January to replace the late Sen. Ted Kennedy. The Globe describes Khazei as “the prime mover behind national-service policies,” i.e. he’s an AmeriCorps hack, I mean, activist. AmeriCorps is one of President Obama’s favorite organizations, [...]
Obama’s Medical Monopoly, by Scott Lazarowitz November 28, 2009 © American Thinker 2009 If there’s anything worse than a private-sector monopoly, it’s a government-run monopoly. The difference is that in the private sector, everyone is free to compete and remove the monopolist’s monopoly status, while a government monopoly forbids competition and compels the citizenry to [...]
Well, after all the Town Hall meetings and Tea Parties, and the 2009 elections in New Jersey, NY and Virginia, it’s time for a break from political annoyances–NOT! In Massachusetts, the Special Election to find a hack to replace the late Senator Kennedy is in just two months, and the party primaries are in just [...]
–Fred Barnes: Why Obama Isn’t Changing Washington ….Mr. Obama also decried the prominent role played by lobbyists. “Lobbyists aren’t just a part of the system in Washington, they’re part of the problem,” Mr. Obama said in a May 2008 campaign speech. I was reminded of this last statement by a recent headline on the front [...]
Sue Blevins and Robin Kaigh at Christian Science Monitor have this article about how we will lose any right to privacy with passage of this 2,074 page health care reform monstrosity. ….Bill text: “Sec. 1104. Administrative Simplification…. (4) Requirements for Financial and Administrative Transactions. – (A) In General. – The standards and associated operating rules [...]
It is immoral for the state to forcibly confiscate privately owned wealth and property. That’s theft. If it is against civil society’s general rules of behavior for private citizens to forcibly take another citizen’s private wealth or property, then the same guidelines for common civility and respect for rights to life, liberty and property should [...]
–Wendy McElroy on the Suggested Use of Tasers On Genitals –Walter Williams on Why Nazis’ Slaughter Acknowledged But Not Communists‘ –Roger Hedgecock on Government’s Frauds
Two Florida state senators have proposed that Florida abandon the Federal Medicaid program, and devise a state program for low-income residents. The reason, say the senators, is because the health care reform proposals in Washington will add so many new Medicaid enrollees in Florida, it will greatly add to the state’s financial burden. Perhaps this [...]
One of the biggest hindrances to the economic progress of ordinary Americans has been the control by the state over money. The general belief that the state should control the production and distribution of money has been a self-destructive ideology. There is a conflict between “central bank” control and private citizens’ economic growth and financial [...]
I try to not be too pessimistic about everything, regardless of all the crimes that “public officials” are perpetrating against us. A few months back, I wrote this post: Recently, there have been criticisms by people in the news media of conservatives’ “listening tour,” with the pundits bringing up the old creation vs. evolution debate. [...]
Jeffrey Tucker: If You Believe In IP, How Do You Teach Others?
Sheldon Richman: Health-Care “Reform”: It’s All About Power