Marijuana legalization has proven that the most violent cartels cannot resist the powerful forces of market economics. Thanks to new market competition, Mexican drug cartels are beginning to experience serious losses on their operations. The effects will continue to diminish their business as marijuana prohibition is slowly repealed. Unfortunately for cartels, economics is not a…
Methinks the ladies doth protest too much Patricia Arquette interrupted her own Oscar speech to belch out some economic ignorance about the gender wage gap. Arquette decried the inequality in the rate of wages between men and women, reading the same old tired feminist sob story that women make less than man. But the reality is that…
By Blake Neff Published: February 20, 2015 John Maynard Keynes, the namesake of Keynesian economics and among the most influential economists in history, was on a heavy regimen of mind-altering drugs when he negotiated with the United States to create the modern economic order, according to a British journalist and economic historian. “It’s a little-known…
Even for the Time, Wilson was Caught Saying Very Racist Things by Josh Guckert #1. “The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.” This quote from Woodrow Wilson’s 1901 work,…
By Blake Neff Published: February 21, 2015 Barnard College, the all-women college affiliated with Columbia University, is considering slashing its foreign-language and science requirements while requiring students to complete a new requirement on “diversity,” the Columbia Spectator wrote Friday. Barnard is conducting an ongoing review of its core curriculum, which is expected to be fully implemented…
By: Drew Rush Cory Massimino of Students for Liberty wrote about what he considers an important need within the libertarian community: safe spaces. He calls them “areas designed for marginalized people to feel free from… intolerant social norms, bigoted harassment, and general persecution…” I think this is a great idea, except that I would change…
Earlier this month, Top Right News reported the story of Detroit’s James Robertson, who walked 21 miles every day to get to and from work. The 56-year-old factory worker makes $10.55 per hour making plastic parts in a factory. He walked the commute because his car had broken down 10 years earlier and he did…
#1. “We need to reduce extreme consumption to achieve a point of equilibrium between supply and a fair price. I trust in the hardworking majority of this country.” Aww, that’s the socialist mindset for you. We need less people eating and acquiring the goods and services they need to live their daily lives. The problems of…
Why Not Write A Law Requiring People to Lock Their Doors? In the northeastern United States, it has thus far been a particularly brutal winter. It has gotten so bad that this past week, some schools in Ohio (as well as across the region) were closed on all five regular school days because of safety…
The attack on the doughnut shop guy was the last straw COCONUT CREEK, FL – A police dog has been removed from the force after biting two people in three months, one a police officer and the other a doughnut shop employee. Renzo, the Belgian Malinois K9, recently bit an officer while tracking a suspect….