Finally, a candidate without any question of loyalties. We’ve seen massive problems now with the election of state court judges from special interest groups that want to affect the election…That was the reason why we went to elections in the first place, to get rid of special interests. But now they’ve come back with money, [...]
From the time it started blowing money on abstinence-only education in 1981 (under the Reagan Administration) the US Government has spent from $4,000,000 (1982) to $214,300,000 (2008) every year funding this prohibitive lesson – and it adds up quickly (moreso with Bush policy funneling more taxpayer money in and finding ways to issue grants to [...]
Executive Summary: There is strong evidence that Henry “Hank” Paulson (former Goldman-Sachs CEO and, more recently, United States Treasury Secretary) took some initiative in the case of Lehman Brothers (the downfall of which is discussed extensively in Wall Street’s Naked Swindle at RollingStone.com) and rigging the game to the advantage of Goldman Sachs (a direct [...]
… A couple of US senators have introduced legislation to eliminate the federal tax deduction on advertising for prescription-drugs. This could affect marketing budgets and the bottom line of many BDA’s to the tune of millions, and as I say in the chapter devoted to health care advertising in my latest opus… The Ubiquitous Persuaders, [...]
Government, beyond its role of defending voluntary arrangements against force and fraud, only makes the effects of scarcity worse. It substitutes decisions by people with worse information and incentives, backed by the power of coercion, for decisions by people with better information and incentives. That is why it is actually government “solutions” that increase the [...]
Was this event conspicuously missing from anyone else’s history textbook? The federal judge assigned to the case was Julius Hoffman (no relation to Abbie – who, along with Jerry, would (un)affectionately nickname him “Julie”) – a particularly conservative seventy-four-year-old Republican millionaire with investments in the defense industry. Judge Hoffman set the scene for the circus [...]
The government of our democracy consists of self-serving elitists who strive to portray themselves as public servants. For them no distortion is too extreme to declare fact, no act of violence is too reprehensible to order; these are men who will sacrifice others for the sake of their personal gain, bleed the coffers of the [...]
Many people assume that marijuana was made illegal through some kind of process involving scientific, medical, and government hearings; that it was to protect the citizens from what was determined to be a dangerous drug. The actual story shows a much different picture. Those who voted on the legal fate of this plant never had [...]
