Feb

20

Antitrust Laws and Regulation: A Boon to Monopolies

February 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Above is a worthy discussion about the anti-consumer / pro big and connected business fraud that is anti-monopoly legislation with Ron Paul. While the video is some 25 years old, the content is perfectly valid today (if not also a testament to the consistency of Ron Paul since then).
A great myth perpetuated by [...]

Feb

11

“Euros Accepted” in New York City, by Supermodels

February 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Late last year Gisele Bundchen made Bloomberg News (and the Financial newswire, generally) by rejecting dollars in favor of Euros and other currency for her modeling contracts. Then rapper JayZ became famous for featuring fingers flipping through the “bling” of stacks of Euros — instead of the customary dollars — [...]

Feb

10

Caliguiri Whoop de Doo…

February 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment

I read with some humor David Caliguiri’s Opinion 250 response to Chad Herman’s comments in the Post Gazette from last week. (For those who don’t know, the PG is running its Opinion 250 to encourage ideas about Pittsburgh’s future at its 250th anniversary…)
Caliguiri’s intends to build on Herman’s comments — which meander around the [...]

Feb

3

Alarming Police State Behavior in Ohio

February 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment

This is downright scary. It all starts at the voting booth. Stop the police state mentality. The war on drugs. The war on this or that.
Of course, if you want to have troops in 100 nations, and you want to dictate to the rest of the world how they should live, you [...]

Jan

3

Who Owns Arlen Specter?

January 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment

We were just perusing opensecrets.org to get a better idea of campaign finance reporting. While we think such laws tend to overlook the real problem (far too many collectivized rights and property / taxes are up for sale each election much like an auction, hence politics will remain corrupted), it is interesting to at [...]

Oct

9

Government Invented Jobs and Industries Need to Go

October 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Let’s say I had a business that employed people digging ditches, only to fill them right back up? Would you care? Probably not. But if I added that my contracts came directly from the government, you might change your mind. And, you probably wouldn’t mind if politicians decided to [...]

Oct

5

A Return to Liberty and Freedom

October 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Recently we posted on how democracy has washed away the crucial limits once placed on government in order to protect personal freedom and liberty, and that the U.S. was never intended to be a democracy. Here’s Ron Paul talking like a founding father. Note his record of voting at the end of the [...]

Jun

12

Who Keeps Government Authority Honest?

June 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment

An interesting article was forwarded to me from a buddy about an 18-year-old facing upwards of 7 years in jail for video taping the police during a traffic stop in Carlisle, PA. Yes, apparently filming what transpires at such times falls under the Federal (Thanks to Dave P for catching) PA wiretapping laws [...]

May

23

County Smoking Ban Fails, But for Wrong Reasons…

May 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment

The Allegheny County smoking ban failed to pass legal muster, but not because it presumed to tell private property owners what legal activities they can and cannot allow on their own property. Rather, it failed because of a disagreement over which government body is allowed to usurp such rights form private property owners. [...]

May

17

GOP Tries to Silence Its Own Candidate Ron Paul

May 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment

The chairman of the Michigan Republican Party said Wednesday that he will try to bar Republican Congressman Ron Paul (TX) from future GOP presidential debates because of remarks the Texas congressman made that suggested the Sept. 11 attacks were in response to U.S. foreign policy in the regions. Gee. So much for the Big [...]

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