February 8th, 2010 by peterSchiffnews@gmail.com
By Peter Schiff
February 5, 2010
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With today’s unexpected decline in December payrolls, the cry for more job-related stimulus will grow even louder. But the sad truth is that any new stimulus or jobs bills will ultimately swell the ranks of the unemployed, thereby raising calls for an even bigger federal effort. If we are not careful, government regulations, subsidies, and spending, all designed to fight unemployment, could push the labor market into a death spiral.
Regulation acts like a tax on job creation. By subjecting employers to all sorts of extra expenses when they hire people, regulations increase the cost of employment far beyond the wages employers actually pay their workers. In fact, some regulations are specifically tied to the number of workers employed. This provides some employers with a strong incentive to stay small and not hire.
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February 8th, 2010 by Campaign For Liberty Blog
By Matt Hawes
Dr. Paul will be interviewed on The Rachel Maddow Show tonight around 9:23 pm eastern.
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February 8th, 2010 by peterSchiffnews@gmail.com
In Fear the Boom and Bust, John Maynard Keynes and F. A. Hayek, two of the great economists of the 20th century, come back to life to attend an economics conference on the economic crisis. Before the conference begins, and at the insistence of Lord Keynes, they go out for a night on the town and sing about why there’s a “boom and bust” cycle in modern economies and good reason to fear it.
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February 8th, 2010 by kurt
Google’s ad during yesterday’s Superbowl explained in less than a minute how the story of someone’s life can be pieced together from their search queries. Using only the search terms and user’s clicks of the search results, Google told the story of a user who seeks love while studying abroad in Paris, finds it, moves to Paris, marries and has a child.
The poignant story, along with Google’s suite of search stories, masterfully illustrate how some of the most intimate information in our lives–from planning a trip to political activism–are routinely and vividly expressed in our interactions with Google, and highlights the need for that information to have strong protections.
The Superbowl ad was Google’s first foray into national television advertising, and its great that Google used this opportunity to illustrate the importance of search privacy to one of the world’s largest audiences. Now that Google has shown how personal its records of user interaction are, it should follow through and protect that information from involuntary disclosure by anonymizing search queries. Microsoft’s Bing is anonymizing this information after six months by deleting the entire Internet Protocol (”IP”) address associated with your search queries. Google can and should anonymize search queries in the same way after six months or less.
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February 8th, 2010 by William Teach
Via Breitbart, the breaking news is that John Murtha (D-Pa) has passed away at the age of 77. RIP, and God speed, John.
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February 8th, 2010 by Campaign For Liberty Blog
By Matt Hawes
Reason TV takes a look at how prices have come down over time and quality has improved in the Lasik eye surgery market due to less government interference.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E29LD98ruo
It’s time to try true reforms, as called for in our Operation Health Freedom plan, to put consumers back in control of their health care decisions.
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February 8th, 2010 by Campaign For Liberty Blog
By Matt Hawes
According to the U.K.’s Guardian:
Barack Obama will make a fresh push this month to get his troubled health reform package through Congress by holding a meeting with both Democrats and Republicans aimed at finding common ground.
The half-day of discussion, to be held at Blair House opposite the White House, is to be carried live on television to counter public criticism that too many deals in Washington are made behind closed doors….
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The discussion should be interesting to watch, if nothing else but for the ways both Obama and congressional leaders try to get around saying what they actually think while on camera.
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February 8th, 2010 by Campaign For Liberty Blog
By Matt Hawes
Tonight, Dr. Paul will appear on Fox Business’ America’s Nightly Scoreboard with David Asman (always a good interview). The show begins at 7 pm eastern.
Update:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiF_35rFQj8 (Thanks to Minnesota Chris!)
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February 8th, 2010 by Warner Todd Huston
-By Warner Todd Huston
One would think that a teacher that had 30 some years ago allegedly impregnated a 16-year-old student, a few years later sexually accosted two 12-year-old students, and was accused of molesting yet another student four years after that, would be out on his ear never to teach or be allowed around children [...]
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February 8th, 2010 by Warner Todd Huston
-By Warner Todd Huston
Marvel Comic’s Captain America is the mightiest soldier with the super powerful secret soldier formula that makes him a super man. Sadly, this muscle bound hero that took on the whole Nazi army during WWII seems to be afraid of those American people who’ve joined the Tea Party movement. Not only is [...]
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