The Rising Tide

Stop the Porn Tax!

If this doesn’t get the armchair activists away from their keyboards and into the streets, I don’t know what will. Among the many new taxes Governor Paterson is proposing is a tax on Internet porn. Okay, not just porn, but a tax on all Internet downloads. But honestly, what else is there that’s really worth downloading besides

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Everyone needs to be an economist

If only everyone were an actual economist, or at the very least understood the basics, perhaps we wouldn’t be in the insane financial crisis of this global magnitude we’re in now. Of course, that is a huge “IF” considering economics is viewed as one of the most boring sciences which most people confuse with financial witchcraft or some biased political agenda.

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Snap, Crackle and Pot

That toke Michael Phelps took may turn out to be the world’s most expensive, as Kellogg’s has dropped its sponsorship deal with the Olympic champion. Radley Balko, as he is wont to do, masterfully exposes the cereal company’s sheer hypocrisy: This would be the same company that for decades has been encouraging children to start the day

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Davos Debate not over

It takes one to know one who has lived under the oppressive rule of an actual communist regime, and all its freedom restricting mandates based on collectivist ideologies, to recognize an eerily similar movement when branded with the same “morally imperatives” and one world government agenda they’ve heard before.

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