The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) took effect on February 11th. The Act requires that any new product made primarily for children under the [...]
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The Environment, Rights & Prosperity - Not Mutually Exclusive
If asked, most folks would express concern for environmental issues. We want to leave the world better off than how we found it, but what [...]
Read the rest of this entry »When is Safe Too Safe?
Safety is a guiding factor for many of our actions and for good reason: We value our life. But is there such a thing as [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Obama to Subsidize Father of 30?
According to Obama’s presidential campaign website, he and Biden will “increase the supply of affordable housing . . . raise the minimum wage . . [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Castro Denounces Government Handouts
Raul Castro told his fellow Cubans on Saturday that “government handouts discourage Cubans from being more productive” and pointed blame at the “system of subsidies [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Canada’s Rights-Stifling Human Rights Commission
In 1977 the Canadian government created the Human Rights Commission to “to settle complaints of discrimination in employment and in the provision of services within [...]
Read the rest of this entry »War in North America Has Claimed 5,000+ Vicitims This Year
In 2008 thus far almost twice as many people have been killed in Mexico as a result of drug prohibition as died in the World [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Innocents Die in the Drug War
So says the title of an article in today’s Wall Street Journal about Veronica Bowers, a Christian missionary killed in Peru due to a failed [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Obama’s Fatal Conceit
Still two months out from taking office, Obama and his team are already making the case for a $700+ billion stimulus for the economy. A [...]
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