Venezuela Clearly on the Road to Serfdom by Ben Ramanauskas In 1944, when continental Europe was on the verge of being liberated from fascism and while much of the world suffered under the oppressive yoke of communism, the Austrian economist F.A Hayek published The Road to Serfdom. Hayek argued that the abandonment of individualism and…
By Andrew Follett Computer scientists should be more in touch with their feelings and emotions, according to a peer-reviewed study by a Purdue University academic published last week. The academic in question spent five years conducting an autoethnographic study on how introductory computer programming courses should be taught. Autoethnography is a form of “scientific” research that explores the researcher’s personal…
History Shows that Central Bank Policy Equates to Destruction by Ben Ramanauskas On September 15, 2008, the global investment bank Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy. It was—and still remains—the largest bankruptcy filing in the history of the United States and precipitated a global financial crisis that has had a devastating impact on the world economy….
Sweden’s Trademark Universal Healthcare On Its Deathbed [dropcap size=big]W[/dropcap]hen leftists fantasize about Northern Europe, the first thing they think of is the region’s enormous public spending and its overly generous welfare state. However, as with all dreams, the time is coming to wake up. Along with several other social services, Sweden’s iconic “free” healthcare system’s days are…
By Kathryn Watson House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform leaders want to know how and why Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials lost 165 firearms in three years. Panel chairman and Utah Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz and Subcommittee on National Security Chairman and Florida Republican Rep. Ron DeSantis asked for DHS inventory records and…
By Blake Neff Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign had a rude run-in with the English language Monday after its official Twitter account blasted Wall Street with a series of “adjectives” that were not adjectives. “Greed, fraud, dishonesty, arrogance,” said a Sanders tweet published Monday morning. “These are just some of the adjectives we use to…
By Lina Bryce Twenty-five-year-old Talia Jane was employed by Eat24, the food-ordering app owned by Yelp, until Friday, when her post on poverty went viral. According to BuzzFeed News, Jane moved to San Francisco to begin her job as a customer service representative at the company in August after completing her degree in English literature at California State University, Long Beach. Jane’s…
Andrew Follett The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) may have asked German car maker Volkswagen (VW) to build electric vehicles and a network of charging stations in the U.S. to atone for selling cars designed to cheat government-mandated emissions tests, according to unsourced reports in the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag. The reports state the EPA is…
Andrew Follett The Russian news website Rus2Web is spreading awareness about the country’s reliance on high oil prices by making it into a retro video game. The game explicitly states that current oil prices are too low to support Russia’s government budget, economy and the strength of the Russian ruble. Any score below $90 dollars a barrel…
Russ Read The Islamic State (ISIS) wants to turn Beliebers into believers of radical Jihad by tricking them into watching propaganda via social media. The terrorist group is using Twitter as a medium to attract pop star Justin Bieber’s 76 million followers to the ISIS cause. After uploading one its propaganda films to the…