Private space flight progress is on the verge of stagnation - the Federal Aviation Administration released its rules for regulating commercial space flight.
Click here to review the detriments of government intervention and the accomplishments of the free market.
NEW ORLEANS FLOODS
Natural Disasters will always occur. The question is - which system of human interaction is best able to deal with the inevitable problems?
The U.S. House approved appropriations bill H.R. 1268, with an inserted national ID provision. The Senate will more than likely pass this bill.
The members of the United States Senate will soon vote on H.R. 418, which will "establish and rapidly implement regulations for State driver's license and identification document security standards..."
Straight from the Statist Guide Book
I started this page to try to identify some of the common prepared statements that are parroted by a majority of those people who mindlessly support the State and its policies...
Bad Medicine How government interference in the vaccine market causes shortages, intellectual stagnation and death. See why regulation results in yearly flu vaccine shortages, even while there is no flu vaccine shortage at capitol.
Price gouging? As usual, statists blame increased gasoline prices on capitalism. But are current prices "inflated"? And if so, why? As always, government regulations cause shortages and higher prices of free market products.
DEADLY SHORTAGE An estimated 79,000 people are awaiting organ transplants that will potentially save their lives. The shortage of transplant organs is a direct result of the federal government ban on potential donors' profit incentive through the National Organ Transplant Act of 1984.
"The gold standard makes the money's purchasing power independent of the changing, ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This is not a defect of the gold standard; it is its main excellence."
-- Ludwig von Mises
Click here to learn about the gold standard and the government's worthless fiat money
In a Crisis, Markets More than Ever You can learn so much about human nature, the workings of society, and the functioning of markets by looking at the aftermath of a natural disaster. - Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
It's a Jungle Out There!
What We Can Learn from the Privatization of Zoos As we can see from the Pittsburgh Zoo and the National Aviary in Pittsburgh (and any number of other privately run zoological parks and aquaria), the government can successfully transfer its role to private enterprise. - Keith Wade
Anarchy in the American Amazon All said, Amazon.com is a sort of market anarchism community, where a voluntary association of buyers and sellers and like-minded writers and readers gather together to buy and sell, exchange information, develop contacts, and establish relationships. - Karen De Coster
What Keeps Us Safe? Look at the back of your computer monitor, the bottom of your table lamp, or the label on your hair dryer. Chances are you will see the symbol 'UL' with a circle around it. It stands for Underwriters Laboratories, a firm headquartered in Northbrook, Ill., and an unsung hero of the market economy. - Mark Thornton
The Problems with Government Gun Control Firearm restrictions around the world - Why these laws restrict freedom and increase violence and chaos. "Gun-control enthusiasts in the United States and western Europe have a lot to answer for on the heels of two reports last week that prove, beyond a doubt, the barbaric lunacy of ensuring citizens are defenseless against armed criminal threats."
Armed Citizen Articles During the decades the American Rifleman has published 'The Armed Citizen' column, thousands of incidents of law-abiding Americans using firearms to halt or prevent crime have appeared in the magazine. This archive contains entries from the present back to 1958. - [NRA Research Library]
The 'Plastic Gun' Hysteria Conjuring up phantom guns may be fine for Halloween, but the imaginary fears behind plastic guns keeps us from addressing the real problems. - John R. Lott, Jr.
Free Health Care? ...in some cases, patients die on the waiting list because they become too sick to tolerate a procedure. - Walter Williams
Nationalized Health Care Will Cut Costs? It Just Ain’t So! Curiously, interventionists believe consumers are (a) too ignorant to identify bad doctors on a free market, but (b) capable of voting for good politicians to improve health care. - Gene Callahan and Robert Murphy
'Universal health care'
After decades of socialized medicine, what was the end result? In its last years, the Soviet Union was one of the few countries in the world with a declining life span and a rising rate of infant mortality. - Thomas Sowell
Who Pays What? "Destroying the myth of the 'Decade of Greed.'" - Neal Boortz
What's Wrong with Taxation? In fact, taxation is a most uncivilized way of obtaining funds, given that it boils down to nothing less than extortion. - Tibor R. Machan
The Thing About Taxes "There is nothing compassionate about taxes. They are the price we pay for permitting the government to dismantle the civilization created by the market economy." - Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
Allegiance to Government Schools Those truly concerned about protecting individual dissenters from the tyranny of the majority should lobby for the removal of the word "indivisible" from the pledge. - Robert P. Murphy
De-worshipping Public Education Hard as it is to believe, the world is still chock-full of professional educators who worship the ideals of a state-sponsored, indoctrinating public school system. This system is wrought with funding boondoggles, and has proven to be an arrant failure overall, damaging millions of children in the process. - Karen De Coster
The Drug Crisis Few people are aware that before World War I, a 9-year-old girl could walk into a drug store and buy heroin. - Harry Browne
Rush Limbaugh and Oxycontin Limbaugh's possible dealers may well be highly unsavory people, but to a pain patient desperate for treatment because his doctor is too scared of the government to prescribe it, their services are as valuable as those of the people running the nonprofit cooperatives supplying medical marijuana. - David Borden
Fleeced by Anti-Drug Ads Despite the Media Campaign's consistently poor performance, lawmakers are nonetheless set to refund the anti-drug ad program with a new five-year appropriation, which includes a $90 million funding boost! - Paul Armentano
The truth about drugs and terrorism Ending the War on Drugs would take the profit out of drug-trafficking and inflict a crippling financial blow on terrorist networks. - Steve Dasbach
Time to rethink America's drug war Not only are we not winning the war on drugs, we are surrendering our constitutional liberties in the process. - Dr. Chuck Baldwin
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