Must Reads For The Week 1/2/16

Go GMO’s! Farmaceuticals Coming, at economicpolicyjournal.com. Isn’t animal husbandry and cross pollination of the past the same thing as genetic modification?

Crony Corporation Payments To Bill Clinton For “Speaking Fees“, at economicpolicyjournal.com. These payments were paid by companies around the time they had business with Hillary Clinton’s State Department. Is this a bribe, or protection money?

NYC Crazy Alert: ‘Misgendering’ A Transsexual Could Cost A $250,000 Fine, at tammybruce.com. Once again I ask why do we allow these people to get away with such foolishness?

Milton Friedman Should Higher Education Be Subsidized? Game, set, match Milton Friedman. HT libertypenblog.blogspot.com.

Restaurant Owners Beg Gov. Cuomo To Hold Off On Raising Tipped Workers Minimum Wage Again, at economicpolicyjournal.com. Price fixing by Government will hurt the very people the government wants to help.

How Tocqueville Schooled Bernie Sanders 200 Years Ago, at the federalist.com. Sanders proposed a return to Roosevelt’s New Deal and Johnson’s Great Society. Seriously! We don’t have to return to policies that we have never gotten away from. In fact we have expanded these programs.

Free Market Progress, at economicpolicyjournal.com. The government hasn’t figured out a way to intervene in the computer industry. This is why computers are improving at a lower cost.

Female Meteorologists All Over The Country Are Wearing The Exact Same $23 Dress, at economicpolicyjournal.com. No conspiracy her it’s just the power of social media.

The Formlessness of Progressivism, by Yonathan Amselem, at mised.org. Progressives have turned any desired good or need into a right. If the progressives were in favor of the second amendment. They would require every citizen to own a gun and if someone couldn’t afford a gun the government would subsidize the purchase.

PC Is About Control, Not Etiquette, by Jeff Deist, at mises.org. Excerpt from the article: “Political correctness is the conscious, designed manipulation of language intended to change the way people speak. write, think, feel, and act, in furtherance of an agenda.” Reject political correctness when it rears it’s ugly head.

Open Carry Comes To Texas: Why The Lone Star State Will Be Safer in 2016, by John R. Lott, at foxnews.com. Incentives matter to criminals.

Murray Rothbard On Alan Greenspan, at econoicpolicyjournal.com. Watch this short video.

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