Anti-gun Group to Boycott Starbucks on St. Valentine’s Day
Elliot Fineman (left), CEO of the National Gun Victims Action Council (NGAC) announced last Monday that its members will boycott Starbucks starting on St. Valentine’s Day to protest the...
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Greeks About to Learn the True Cost of Obtaining Bailouts
Greece’s Finance Minister, Evangelos Venizelos, rejected the German idea of imposing a eurozone “overseer” as part of the agreement to keep bailout funds flowing to his country. ...
Obama Ignores Challenge to His Presidential Eligibility in Georgia
After two hours of hearing from plaintiffs challenging Barack Obama’s eligibility to run for the office of President in 2012, Judge Michael Malihi for the Office of State Administrative...
Drones: Another Tool of the Surveillance State
Evidence that New York City is considering using drones to keep an eye on its citizens is growing, according to Don Dahler of New York’s CBS Channel 2. Dahler...
Judge Rules Americans Can Be Forced to Decrypt Their Laptop Computers
Judge Robert Blackburn (left) of the U.S. District Court of Colorado ruled on Monday that a defendant must decrypt her laptop computer so that prosecutors can open the files...
MIT’s Online Threat to the Higher Education Cartel
Just before Christmas the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced a small improvement to its 2,100 free online courses: The free online service will now grant, for a modest...
World Economic Forum in Switzerland: Global Elites Celebrating Hypocrisy
Global elites — many of the 2,500 of them billionaires — are spending a few days in Davos, Switzerland, attending the World Economic Forum (WEF), a group founded in...
Keynesian Economists Agree: China to Have “Hard Landing”
Mainstream economist Robert Samuelson admitted last week that the case for the ending of the economic boom in China has some substance. Keynesian economist Paul Krugman also confirmed that...
The Beauty of Private Property — from China?
A farmer in the communist collective of Xiaogang, a small village in eastern China, was starving, along with his family and his neighbors. At one of the political indoctrination...
Unemployment Numbers, Regime Uncertainty, and Regulatory Surge
Last Friday’s unemployment numbers, on the surface at least, appeared to reflect a growing, albeit slowly, economy. The number of new unemployment claims for the week ending January 14th dropped...
New York’s Long-Distance Body Scanners Challenge 4th Amendment
New York Police Commissioner Joe Kelly (left) is considering the latest in technology — Terahertz Imaging Detection (TID) — to be mounted on police cars and allowing them to roam...
Constitutional Authority House Rule XII Largely Ignored
All new legislation offered by members of the House of Representatives since January 3, 2011 is required to include, under House Rule XII, a reference to the constitutional authority...
SOPA, PIPA Blackouts Are Working
After months of discussion between and among 1,800 contributors to Wikipedia, the online information source, it decided to “go black" on Wednesday to protest the dangers in two bills...
Could Hungary Break the Back of the EU?
The European Commission (EC) on Tuesday threatened to take legal action against Hungary unless it revised its brand new constitution to allow the country’s central bank to operate without interference...
Another $1 Billion Wont Help Buffalo, New York
When New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that Buffalo was going to receive $1 billion over the next five years to raise the city from its near-poverty level,...