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It goes without saying that elections are emotionally charged endeavors—everything that a candidate does is scrutinized and examined in the context of a myriad of controversial issues. The emotional component[…]
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The recent controversies over the lack of transparency of Mitt Romney’s 2012 tax returns and the existence of several offshore accounts in the Cayman Islands and Switzerland raise important questions[…]
Environment/Energy · Liberty · Media · Science
Innovation is a risky business, a venture seldom without controversy and conflict. Those who question conventionality, who challenge the status-quo, place themselves in the precarious position of disagreeing with established,[…]
America’s fixation on diversity is logical. We are a nation of immigrants, a great “melting pot” of ethnicities, nationalities and cultures, brought together by a choice to be an American[…]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · FIRE · Health Care · Politics · Taxes
As the gradual implementation of Obamacare continues and debate over the intelligence of socialized medicine mounts, the budgetary malaise of the current Medicaid system should be a red flag to[…]
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Culturally and politically, the United States and Great Britain have much in common; a shared heritage, similar economic and foreign policy goals, and a recently, a mutual proclivity toward socialized[…]
Economics · FIRE · Liberty · Politics · Regulation · Taxes
In the midst of state budgetary turmoil, it is not surprising that legislators are turning to unconstitutional regulatory measures in the pursuit of a few extra tax dollars. Arkansas, Connecticut,[…]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Environment/Energy · Politics · Science
On the orders of President Theodore Roosevelt, from December 16, 1907, to February 2, 1909, two squadrons of naval vessels circumnavigated the globe in a display of the United States’[…]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Education · Science
While the president’s October announcement of a plan to expedite Congress’s reduction of required payments on student loans from 15 percent of annual discretionary income to 10 percent might prove[…]
The recent “occupation” of Wall Street has shed light on what is becoming an unfortunate phenomenon in American society; the purposeless protest, the destructive demonstration, movements that serve only to[…]
Economics · FIRE · Legal Affairs · Politics
Though Rahm Emanuel’s 100 days in office are hardly a basis for comprehensive judgement, the mayor’s support of a new ordinance passed by City Council is disconcerting to investors, community[…]
Economics · FIRE · Legal Affairs · Politics · Taxes
While England may be in flames, and Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Ireland stand on the precipice of default, there can be no question of the US’s grave (and worsening)[…]
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Like many of the EPA’s regulatory forays, the Clean Air Act of 1963 is fundamentally well intentioned, but has been subject to so many amendments and new rules through the[…]
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It has become part of American tradition to demonize industry, always framing it in the classic “little” versus “big” or “good” versus “evil” scenario. Regardless of the role that corporations[…]
Internet/Telecom · Liberty · Media · Politics
John Stewart’s recent jokes involving 2012 Republic presidential hopeful Herman Cain have been the subject of much discussion on both Stewart’s “Daily Show” and Fox News. Stewart’s jibes were aimed[…]
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The Supreme Court’s June 27th decision to strike down a California law prohibiting the sale of violent video games to minors is a victory for both the video game industry[…]
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With the deluge of negative media coverage that has surrounded the tobacco industry for the last several decades, anyone exposed to tobacco advertising has undoubtedly seen the ubiquitous black warning[…]
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Ever since the term “nanny state” was used by British MP Iain Macleod in a column in The Spectator in 1965, it has become a regular part of the parlance[…]
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