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Obamacare Repeal or Obamacare 2.0?

by Ron Paul | Mar 20, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles

This Thursday, the House of Representatives will vote on a Republican bill that supposedly repeals Obamacare. However, the bill retains Obamacare’s most destructive features. That is not to say this legislation is entirely without merit. For example, the bill expands...

The Truth about Losing “Healthcare”

by Craig Cantoni | Mar 15, 2017 | Blog

Media reports say that 20 million Americans will lose their “healthcare” under the Republican plan to replace ObamaCare, as if healthcare is like a cellphone, wallet, or item of clothing unintentionally left somewhere or stolen by someone. Such confusion about...

Major Blow to Obamacare Mandate

by Peter Suderman | Feb 15, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles

IRS Won't Reject Tax Returns That Don't Answer Health Insurance Question The tax agency has stopped requiring individual filers to indicate whether they maintained health coverage or paid the mandate penalty as required under the law How much difference does a single...

Would you like the $9,400 CT scan or the $450 CT scan?

by M. Todd Rice, MD | Feb 12, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles

We're not all careful. Some of us ride motorcycles on the highway,… recklessly. A nephew ended up at a Level I trauma center in Houston, Texas, in March of 2016 as a result. He was patched up and lived to ride another day. Ten months later, his dad gets the final...

Obama Economists’ Bad Obamacare Economics

by John Graham | Jan 16, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles

President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) has issued its valedictory report on the state of Obamacare. The gist of its argument is that Obamacare is doing fine, on the verge of overcoming its growing pains since 2014. Critics (like me) who suspect the 25...

The Pleasure of Being Treated as a Profit Instead of a Cost

by Craig Cantoni | Jan 13, 2017 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism

A recent day began with me taking my wife’s new car to a Scottsdale dealer to have a spare tire and mounting bracket installed in the trunk. The car didn’t come with a spare tire because the manufacturer had to cut weight in order to meet federal mileage standards....

How Unions Used Licensing to Crush Ethnic Barbershops

by Ryan McMaken | Dec 22, 2016 | Featured Articles, Justice

For far too long, historians who wrote on inter-racial and inter-ethnic relations focused almost exclusively on the victimization of various groups while ignoring the entrepreneurship and mutual aid that took place within those same ethnic groups. Fortunately, the...

Maybe America is Simply Too Big

by Eli Dourado | Nov 15, 2016 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism

In the aftermath of the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States, many of us are searching for an explanation for what happened. “Why are our politics so divisive? This is not the America I know!” This is a worthy question, but I don’t think anyone...

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“The Bullshit Becomes Reality…”

Leo examines the internet version of Enver Hoxha's scintillating multi-volume memoirs. Wokepedia should be avoided at all costs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Zu0PVaBj7Q

Light Tank Cancelled Due to Obesity Issues

If you haven't seen The Pentagon Wars, take the time to see one of the only depictions on film of exactly how the Pentagon acquires systems that don't work. The film discussed the insane process of replacing the aging infantry fighting vehicles (IFV) in the US Army in...

The Art

I am an artist therefore anything, I produce is art. Or, Anything I produce is accepted as art, therefore I am an artist. I pondered both outcomes, as I walked through the art gallery in the city. A combination of native works, landscapes that captured an Australia...