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CULTURE
Education at a Crossroads
Teachers’ unions have fought for years to prevent charter schools from being created.
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SCI-TECH
Certainty of Catastrophic Global Warming is a Hoax
MILAN, Italy -- On many of the walls here at the Feira Milano conference center, site of the giant United Nations meeting on climate change, Green activists have posted flamboyant posters showing a picture of Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla), with a quotation from him:...
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LAW
Today’s Software Patents Look a Lot Like Early Pharma Patents
The recent New York Times article on the high-tech industry argues that software patents and the current “smart phone war” are a disaster for innovation, and it backs this with quotes and cites from a horde of academics and judges, like Judge Richard Posner, that...
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WORLD
Fidel Castro’s Dupes
Fidel Castro worked miracles after leading the Revolution that liberated Cuba from the dictator, Batista. The statistics are there, for any fool to see. Soon after Castro came to power in 1959, he decided to eliminate illiteracy in the island nation. As he stated in...
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MARKETS
Collectivism Destroys Business
Collectivist elements spur violations of individual rights, such as taxes, highly progressive income taxation in particular, and other wealth “redistribution” schemes that discourage entrepreneurship, innovation, and wealth creation in general
In Defense of Property Rights: The Challenge to Zoning Advocates (Part 6 of 6)
Zoning proponents have presented zoning as the solution to many of the "problems" confronting Houston. At a time when the nation, and indeed much of the world, is rejecting government programs as the solution, zoning advocates endorse a massive government program as...
Eco-nomics: What Everyone Should Know About Economics and the Environment
Disagreement with the world's environmentalist wackos doesn't mean that one is for dirty air and water, against conservation and for species extinction. Dr. Richard Stroup, Montana State University professor of economics and senior associate of the Center for Free...
In Defense of Property Rights: The Effects of Zoning (Part 4 of 6)
In the months since the November 1993 zoning referendum, zoning advocates have launched a number of accusations against their opponents. Zoning opponents, pro-zoners said, were dishonest and unprincipled. They resorted to lies, misrepresentations and scare tactics to...
POLITICS
Community Reinvestment Act: ‘Reparations’ Gone Bad
The dangers of discriminating for minority home owners.
Obama’s Manipulation of Drug Companies: A Scandal, But No Surprise
The New York Times reports that a new trove of emails shows President Barack Obama’s White House agreed to help drug companies block a proposal to bring down medicine prices so they would back Obama’s healthcare plan. House Republicans obtained the three-year-old...
Faith, Family and Freedom? Scott Walker’s Win in Wisconsin
The proper purpose of government is not faith and it is not family. It is the protection of individual rights.
Why the Neediest Are Also the Greediest
A reader asked: Why is it that the people who are the most UNAPPRECIATIVE are also the ones who want EVERYTHING? Great question! The answer is: The neediest are the greediest. Actually, "greed" is not always bad. Greed can mean a zest for life, an ambition to create...