Are Libertarians Too Anti-Pollution?
March 23, 2019 – Ryan McMaken …… Contrary to the myth that libertarians favor limitless pollution by capitalists, libertarian legal regimes would often put polluters out of business.
Minimum Wage Hikes Increase Crime, National Bureau of Economic Research Study Finds
March 22, 2019 – Ryan Bourne …… When the government raises the minimum wage, this also increases property crime arrests among 16-24-year-olds — the group for whom the minimum wage is most likely to bite.
‘Captive State’ Probes Depths of Despair Under Oppression
March 21, 2019 – Samuel Staley …… The movie ‘Captive State’ challenges the view that citizens should simply accept their fate and the rule of their officials rather than live freely, even when they live in a democracy.
Guaranteed Income Versus Prohibited Income
March 20, 2019 – Lee Friday …… Welfare programs and wealth taxes: the government’s pretense of transferring a little bit of wealth from the rich to the poor is a smokescreen for the massive amount of wealth surreptitiously flowing in the opposite direction.
The Horrific Long-Term Consequences of Regime Change
March 18, 2019 – Jacob Hornberger …… The Guatemalan legislature is contemplating granting a blanket amnesty to military officials who participated in the rein of terror that the Guatemalan national-security establishment – supported by the U.S. national-security establishment – inflicted on the Guatemalan people for a period of some 36 years.
Resurgent Thomas Sowell Weighs In on Socialism, Venezuela
March 15, 2019 – K. Lloyd Billingsley …… We must “test ideas against facts. Socialism is a wonderful sounding idea. It’s only as a reality that it’s disastrous.”
Lawmakers Want to Give Voting Rights to Teens They Treat Like Toddlers with Compulsory Schooling Laws
March 14, 2019 – Kerry McDonald …… Lowering the voting age while forcing these same teens to spend additional years in mandatory schooling environments, cut-off from authentic, inter-generational community interactions, is nothing more than a political ploy.
New Cases of Armed Citizens Stopping Criminals in February
March 13, 2019 – Amy Swearer, Peyton Smith …… Every year, Americans use their firearms in defense of themselves or others between 500,000 and 2 million times. Very few of these defensive gun uses receive national publicity — if they receive publicity at all.
Imagine if the Media Had as Much Sympathy for Small Business Owners as it Does for Federal Employees
March 12, 2019 – Ryan McMaken …… If the media cared much about the plight of small business owners, we’d see many more stories about how government regulations, taxes, and mandates make life more difficult for both owners and their employees.
Rights and Non-Rights: A Simple Way to Distinguish the Two
March 11, 2019 – Lawrence Reed …… It is readily apparent today that people hold widely different views on what a right is, how many we have, where rights come from, or why we have any in the first place.