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Creating a Fairness Doctrine for the Internet Is a Really Bad Idea

June 28, 2019 by Lee Friday

June 28, 2019 – Gary Galles …… Any serious consideration of the realities surrounding the Fairness Doctrine makes it clear that extending government regulation to social media in a similar fashion would produce abusive, ham-handed results.

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Is the Government Really Accountable to the People?

September 20, 2020June 27, 2019 by Lee Friday

June 27, 2019 – Lee Friday …… Peace and prosperity is diminished for taxpaying citizens because politicians and bureaucrats are not “accountable” for their actions in any meaningful sense of the word.

Categories Democracy, Elections, A Closer Look, Freedom, Mainstream Media Leave a comment

Inequality Has Surged Since 1989, and Life Has Become Much Easier

June 26, 2019 by Lee Friday

June 26, 2019 – John Tamny …… We would all be better off if the wealth of the 1% was growing at an even faster rate.

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Minimum Wage Myths

June 25, 2019 by Lee Friday

June 25, 2019 – Paul Boyce …… The minimum wage is just a short-term solution, but it creates a drag on long-term growth.

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Raising a Great Man: Four Child-Rearing Practices Used by Ben Franklin’s Father

June 24, 2019 by Lee Friday

June 24, 2019 – Annie Holmquist …… In his autobiography, Benjamin Franklin recounted that his father used several practices to launch his son toward effective adulthood.

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Why Bans on Plastic Bags and Straws Are Annoying and Overrated

June 23, 2019 by Lee Friday

June 23, 2019 – Jarrett Stepman …… Studies have found that “environmentally-friendly” reusable bags create few green benefits and are rather unsanitary.

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Why the Amorality of Markets Is Preferable to the Immorality of Coercion

June 20, 2019 by Lee Friday

June 20, 2019 – Gary Galles …… Liberty and voluntary relationships evoke the best in individuals and, therefore, society. So why do some people insist on using government coercion to impose their unattainable utopian visions on us?

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Free Market Capitalism as the Antidote to the World’s Ills

June 19, 2019 by Lee Friday

June 19, 2019 – Richard Ebeling …… Liberal capitalism enables a degree of peace, harmony and respectful tolerance of the choices and ways of honest living for everyone in society to which nothing else compares.

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Decentralize the Drug War — On the Way to Abolishing It

June 18, 2019 by Lee Friday

June 18, 2019 – José Niño …… Victories against the drug war have all come first at the local level, and only then does the national government slowly back off its drive to dictate to Americans what they can eat or smoke.

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Iran: America’s Latest Drive for War

June 17, 2019 by Lee Friday

June 17, 2019 – Ryan McMaken …… The US government wants us all to pay and sacrifice for yet another war. And it’s using all the usual old tricks to try and have its way.

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