Recent Posts Tagged With 'free markets'

• New year, new opportunities

  Posted on Friday January 1st, 2010 at 18:39 in news, individual rights, free speech, limited government, free markets, indoctrinate u, academic resources, intellectual takeout

  It is my pleasure to announce that I have joined Intellectual Takeout as vice president of research and education. IT, a Minnesota-based nonprofit, provides academic resources for libertarian and conservative-minded students and lay persons. College ...

• Drug Prohibition is Immoral

  Posted on Thursday March 6th, 2008 at 22:46 in individual rights, free will, free markets

  Jacob Sullum reports on the Atlasphere that: The Bureau of Justice Statistics reports that drug offenders account for about 25 percent of local jail inmates, 21 percent of state prisoners and 55 percent of federal prisoners. Since 1980 the number o...

• Smoky Business

  Posted on Saturday January 5th, 2008 at 20:39 in individual rights, free markets

  I took the liberty of a small break after a crazy semester and the time to prepare for the coming, also crazy, one. Hence, my posting was a bit sparse these past few weeks. But all should return to normal rather soon. In the meantime, I shall briefly...

• Obesity’s Easiest Fix

  Posted on Monday November 19th, 2007 at 12:56 in free markets

  In response to recent minimum wage hike discussions, US Congressman Bill Sali introduced the Obesity Reduction and Health Promotion Act. The bill proposes to reduce gravity by 10%, thus reducing the weight of all Americans. As a freshman Congressman...

• Reason.TV

  Posted on Thursday October 4th, 2007 at 16:21 in project, preview, a, good, access, password, drew, checked, entering, carey, free markets, sizzle

  I checked out the Drew Carey Project. You can access a preview by entering the password “sizzle” (although it is only good until 10/8/07). I didn’t realize Drew Carey was a free market guy. So I poked around to find who else big and...

• Unhealthy Wisconsin

  Posted on Friday August 24th, 2007 at 23:17 in Healthy, comments, Legislature, care, wisconsin, john, state, john stossel, passing, free markets, socialized medicine, healthy wisconsin

  John Stossel comments on the Wisconsin’s State Legislature passing “Healthy Wisconsin” which will give “free” health care to everyone in the state. As usual, he is right on the money. Although I am not sure if the progre...

• RE: Sicko

  Posted on Tuesday July 10th, 2007 at 15:27 in offers, documentary, market, cure, individual rights, a, great, higher education, and, Film Projects, documentaries, michael moore

  Free Market Cure offers good documentaries on the wrongness and evil that is socialized medicine. They do a decent job at exposing the misleading use (surprise!) of statistics on the collectivist/altruist side. I also particularly love this cartoon o...

• “Monopolies” on Charity

  Posted on Tuesday July 3rd, 2007 at 19:21 in Technologies, charity, market, free market, destruction, innovative, clinton, a, hillary, crying, felt, businesses

  Bill Gates is facing another antitrust case, this time regarding his charitable foundation. Apparently, it’s influence in the philanthropy sector has become so great that government entities like FEMA (we all recall how FEMA saved the day durin...