A North Carolina elementary school is apparently receiving a lot of complaints over one of its latest actions: strip searching. According to a report from CBS Charlotte, what happened was that a teacher was searching for a missing $20 bill and the fifth-grader was accused of having the bill. Instead of notifying the child’s parents, […]
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Friedrich Hayek: Why intellectuals drift towards socialism
After watching this brief clip of Friedrich Hayek appear on William F. Buckley’s “Firing Line,” I recollected the various quotes by Thomas Sowell that argued against the so-called intellectuals in our society that have caused much of our problems. If you’ve never read anything by Sowell, I highly recommend checking out this page of his […]
Will the ‘regulatory cliff’ cause another economic collapse in the U.S.?
It seems the entire talk is over the fiscal cliff, but some Republicans in Washington and several business groups are discussing the upcoming “regulatory cliff” that many say could be just as damaging to the United States economy. This new report from the Associated Press notes that the White House and federal agencies have put […]
Are politicians ignorant of freedom, liberty and free markets?
Earlier this year, I happened to interview Jan Helfeld, a journalist who uses the Socratic method when he interviews United States politicians and media personalities. Each interview that he has done has been both entertaining and thought-provoking because he usually frustrates the interviewee due to the fact that they have just contradict their own answer. […]
Peter Schiff: Avoiding the fiscal cliff means throwing U.S. dollar over currency cliff
Peter Schiff, president of Euro Pacific Capital and former 2010 Republican presidential candidate, made another appearance on the Fox Business Network (FBN) on Monday where he discussed the real fiscal cliff, which isn’t the one being discussed ad nauseam in the mainstream media and in Washington between President Barack Obama and the Republican leadership. According […]