Hey, America is *exceptional. That means U.S.A. government employees can murder whoever they feel like. Everybody knows that: Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Alpine, said he probably killed “hundreds of civilians” while serving as an artillery officer in Fallujah. ... “I was an...
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News Roundup 5/30/19
by Kyle Anzalone | May 30, 2019 | News Roundup
Nuclear Weapons A US intelligence official said Russia possibly has the capabilities to violate the ban on testing nuclear weapons and is probably not adhering to the 'zero-yield' standard. An international nuclear watchdog group does not back the statement. [Link] A...
5/24/19 Gareth Porter on the Iran ‘Threat’
by Scott Horton | May 29, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Gareth Porter explains the latest propaganda being used to drive a possible war with Iran. President Trump appears to have bought into the story that Iran wants to develop, and possibly use, nuclear weapons, but at least his ignorance, says Porter, is better than the...
News Roundup 5/29/19
by Kyle Anzalone | May 29, 2019 | News Roundup
US News A federal judge rules its legal for Americans to record police secretly. [Link] Curt Mills explains the war in the White House over Iran policy. [Link] Facebook sharply increased the amount of its content censored in Vietnam. The censorship was done in...
Time to End the Postal Monopoly
by Laurence Vance | May 28, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
After blaming the billions of dollars a year in losses by the United States Post Office (USPS) on its failure to charge Amazon enough to deliver its packages — “making Amazon richer and the Post Office dumber and poorer” — Donald Trump, on April 12, 2018, signed...
Congress Fiddles While Trump Lurches Toward War on Iran
by Ron Paul | May 28, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
Congress, and particularly the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives, seems determined to see the end of the Trump Administration before the 2020 vote. Although House Speaker Pelosi claims she is not seeking impeachment, she’s accusing the president of...
Frontline Documentary “One Day in Gaza” pulled from PBS
by Steven Woskow | May 26, 2019 | Blog
Alison Weir, the Director of If Americans Knew reports at Unz Reveiw that PBS stations around the country have pulled a Frontline documentary on the violence in Gaza. PBS stations around the U.S. were scheduled to show a riveting new Frontline documentary, “One Day in...
A Civil Libertarian Observer’s Public Report:
by A.G. House | May 25, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
The U.S. House Of Representatives Homeland Security Committee Hearing On Domestic Terrorism, 7 May 2019 https://youtu.be/BxRJs99A1wc https://homeland.house.gov/about/committee-membership CHAIRMAN: Rep. Bernie G. Thompson (D) Mississippi 2nd District 3:16, Opening...
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Black Youth Unemployment Before Democrats Started “Helping”
Although most people are familiar with more recent statistics on black youth unemployment, not many are aware of the black/white statistics for earlier periods. Table 3.2 (below) shows that in 1948, the two were roughly equal. For that year, blacks aged sixteen to...
Political Discrimination vs. Market Discrimination – Walter E. Williams
Gross racial discrimination alone has never been sufficient to prevent blacks from earning a living and bettering themselves by working as skilled or unskilled craftsmen and as business owners, accumulating considerable wealth. The fact that whites sought out blacks...
GDP is a Scam, Here’s How to Measure Wealth
https://youtu.be/mYfH_9arsRk In 1981, the cheapest IBM personal computer cost $4,459 (in 2018 U.S. dollars), or 210 hours of labor. An Insignia tablet and keyboard combo cost $120 in 2018, or 5.6 hours of labor. - Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know, CATO...
The Democratic Policy Which Keeps Poor People Poor – Walter E. Williams
To criticize occupational licensing laws is not to argue that information about the quality of a licensee's services is not important to consumers. However, it is by no means clear that licensing is the most effective way to provide that information. Indeed, licensing...
How Economic Regulation Hurts the Poor – Walter E. Williams
In the name of protecting public health, California requires that an individual who seeks to perform any kind of hairstyling service must complete nine months (1,600 hours) of classes at a state-approved cosmetology school, at a tuition cost of at least $5,000, before...
My Body My Choice: Abolish Occupational Licensing
The most immediate effect of licensing is to restrict the number of practitioners because of the higher entry costs involved in meeting the qualifications of the activity. Some licenses, as in the cases of cosmeticians and barbers, require many months of schooling....
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