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Archives for April 2014

Is Texas Winning the Competition Among States?

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The competition among states is heating up, and Texas is playing a leading role. It seems like every few days there are new reports of businesses moving to The Lone Star State. This week Toyota announced it will consolidate its North American operations in California, Kentucky and New York by moving most of them to […]

GOP: Adapt or Die

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Sen. Rand Paul spoke with the Boston Herald prior to his talk at Harvard University. The Herald reports: National Republicans — still smarting from Democratic drubbings in the last two presidential contests — face a stark scenario of “evolve, adapt or die” as they plot their next campaign to take back the Oval Office in […]

Does Aspirin Help Prevent Heart Attacks and Strokes?

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Here NNT.com’s David H. Newman, M.D has the surprising findings for you. Narrative: Aspirin blocks the action of platelets, reducing clots and ostensibly lowering the risk of heart attacks, strokes, and deaths. This review examined and summarized the magnitude of benefits from daily aspirin when compared to placebo for ‘secondary prevention’, i.e. among patients who have […]

EPA Destroying California Agriculture

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At Cato Institute, its energy and environment research promotes policies that help safeguard the environment, but not at the expense of economic liberty. As Cato’s Patrick J. Michaels points out, the environmental machine—its bureaucrats and activists—are legally empowered to do things that no Congress could think of doing. Like mandating that autos reach fuel economies […]

William Buckley: Neocons Overrate the Reach of U.S. Power and Influence

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Senator Rand Paul exposes the flawed foreign policy approach of the neocons with particular emphasis on the thinking of William Buckley. In a 2005 interview with Joseph Rago for the Wall Street Journal, Buckley said of conservatives who want to spread democracy, “The reality of the situation is that missions abroad to effect regime change in countries without […]

Rand Paul Soars to the Front for Libertarians

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Senator Rand Paul offers the clear best-bet option for small government, anti-intervention-oriented Americans. The New York Times reports on Sen. Paul’s efforts here. Frayda Levin, a New Jersey libertarian activist and former small-business owner, is a woman of many passions: promoting liberty, ending marijuana prohibition and opposing her state’s recent minimum-wage increase. But Ms. Levin has added another […]

Misery Index

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Steve H. Hanke, a Senior Fellow and Director of the Troubled Currencies Project at the Cato Institute, breaks-down the misery index. Read more here for the misery index on a global scale.  The Great Recession grinds on. And as it does, politicians of all stripes ask, usually behind closed doors, “Just how miserable are our citizens?” The […]

War Dogs Barking

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Obama Should take the Ukraine military option off the table, Pat Buchanan explains here. What we must recognize is that, Beltway bluster about U.S. troops in the Baltic and warships in the Black Sea aside, the United States is not going to war with Russia over Ukraine, or Estonia. For we cannot defend Estonia either. […]

The Obamacare Effect: Small Business Curbs Hiring

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The WSJ explains the impact of Obama’s signature achievement on small business hiring. As James Freeman points out, O’Care’s broken incentives almost ensure that low-wage workers will have a harder time raising their incomes. A new survey demonstrates the Affordable Care Act’s negative impact on employment. According to the Journal, “nearly half of small-business owners […]