The stand off between rancher Cliven Bundy and the Bureau of Land Management could have been avoided. The pencil pushers at BLM shouldn’t be in the real estate business. “Essentially, they run a giant socialist enterprise in trying to centrally plan vast lands and resources. The decisions the agency makes are often infuriating to Westerners […]
Archives for April 2014
Thomas Picketty Wants a U.S. Tax Rate of 80% on Incomes over $500,000
Shocking as it may sound, that is what the Left’s new idol, French economist Thomas Piketty, proposes to alleviate the growing inequality in capitalist economies. As Cato Institute’s Michael Tanner argues, instead of attacking capital and capitalism, let’s make more capitalists. What we need to do is lift the bottom up rather than bring the […]
Is the Russian Federation under Attack?
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov deals with the question here at Al Jazeera America. “If we are attacked, we would certainly respond,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with Russia Today, a Kremlin-funded satellite channel. “Russian citizens being attacked is an attack against the Russian Federation.” Lavrov made explicit reference to Russia’s […]
Rand Paul Knows the War on Drugs Is a Loser
Rand Paul is visiting a broad group of voters not normally associated with the Republican party. The big question here is will the leadership of the Republican party move away from the War Dogs’ big government policies of the Bush/Cheney/Rove/McCain/Romney era to a libertarian-based, small government, nonintervention-based template intended by our Founders? NPR reports on […]
A (Former) Obama Supporter: the Administration Is “Gutless” and “Dirty”
It’s bad enough for President Obama that three Democrat senators up for reelection (Mary Landrieu, LA; Mark Pryor, AR; Mark Begich, AK) are calling the latest delay in the Keystone XL Pipeline project an act of cowardice. But Terry O’Sullivan, head of Laborers’ International Union, who twice endorsed Barack Obama, gave a bitter public statement […]
Putin Thumbing His Nose at Obama
Russia hasn’t lived up to its agreement on Ukraine, a measure of disrespect to President Obama. The Wall Street Journal reports here. U.S. President Barack Obama said Russia hasn’t abided by either the spirit or the letter of an agreement to de-escalate tensions in Ukraine, and he warned that the U.S. is prepared to impose additional costs. […]
Vermont First State to Force GMO Labeling
The Wall Street Journal reports on Vermont becoming the first state to require labeling for foods containing GMOs. The movement against genetically modified crops scored a signal victory Wednesday, as the Vermont legislature passed a bill that would make it the first state to require food makers to label products made with the technology. The […]
VIDEO: Military Stealth Spec-Ops Motorcycle
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Fox’s Allison Barrie explains the required capabilities of the motorcycle here. Commercially available motorcycles don’t make sense for the military. For starters, they tend to use gasoline, and most American and NATO military machines use JP-8, a formulation of jet fuel similar to kerosene and diesel fuel. DARPA wants […]
World to End?
My friend Cato Institute’s Richard Rahn writes that my heading would have resulted in more people reading his vital essay. Richard is correct, so I have borrowed the headline on his behalf. You may be shocked by what you will read here. “The Arctic Ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer, and in some […]
The Future of Pension Reform
Rhode Island General Treasurer Gina Raimondo’s public pension reforms were a template for other states around the country. Now the changes are being derailed in court. The Wall Street Journal examines Raimondo’s current situation here . In February, Ms. Raimondo and Governor Lincoln Chafee announced a deal with labor leaders to avert a trial. The […]
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