Posted tagged ‘Toy Gun Control’

Must Reads For The Week 2/8/14

February 8, 2014
The pen is mightier than the sword...

The pen is mightier than the sword… (Photo credit: mbshane)

11-Year-Old Boy Suspended Under “Dangerous Weapons” Policy For Voluntarily Turning In A Non-Firing Toy Gun, at economicpolicyjournal.com. Are these school officials examples of  “smart people” with no common sense, “smart people” with an agenda, or stupid people

Where The Hell Is Germany’s Gold? by Paul Rosenberg, at economicpolicyjournal.com. The Fed won’t let the Bundesbank (Germany’s central blank) see the gold the Bundesbank has stored in the vault at the Federal Reserve. Is the gold gone, or has it been used as collateral for thousands of loans through rehypothecation. Rehypothecation is similar to a grain warehouse storing peoples soybeans for a receipt (a promise) which can be redeemed on demand, and then selling thousands of receipts on the same soybeans. There are not enough soybeans to fulfill the promise of redemption created by the counterfeit certificates issued by the grain warehouse. Rehypothecation is a version of fractional reserve banking

Schoolteacher Cheating, by Walter E. Williams, at jewiehworldreview.com. It isn’t hard to believe that, yes, even teachers act in their own self interest. Excerpt from the article, “Jerry Jordan, president of the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers, identifies the problem as district officials focusing too heavily on test scores to judge teacher performance, and they’ve converted low-performing schools to charters run by independent groups that typically hire nonunion teachers.”  Students are being sacrificed on the altar of teachers unions.

An Overselling Of Global Warming, by Mark J. Perry, at aei-ideas.org. It isn’t hard to believe that, yes, even scientists act in their own self interest. Excerpt from the article, “Science changed dramatically in the 1970s, when the reward structure in the profession began to revolve around the acquisition of massive amounts of taxpayer funding that was external to the normal budgets of the universities and federal laboratories. In climate science, this meant portraying the issue in dire terms, often in alliance with environmental advocacy organizations. Predictably, scientists (and their institutions) became addicted to the wealth, fame, and travel in the front of the airplane (quoting Garth Paltridge, one of the world’s most respected atmospheric scientists):” Tax payers being sacrificed on the altar of Global warming.

Julie Borowski Video: The Minimum Wage Hurts The People It Is Suppose To Help, by Mark J. Perry, at aei-ideas.org. I’ve written about the minimum wage in these articles, Income Inequality Part II: Increase The Minimum Wage, and Minimum Wage Jobs Create Unemployment.

Censorship By Example: Payback For Dinesh D’Souza, by Edward Cline, at capitalismmagazine.com. I found this at libertypenblog.blogspot.com. Bureaucrats and leaders using Government power to silence people who disagree or criticize them is nothing new. Our second President John Adams used the Alien and Sedition Acts to silence critics. What do you think the IRS targeting Tea Party and Liberty groups was about? When you are losing the argument on the facts you have to find another way to win, and using force is effective, ask the mafia.

Justice Scalia On WWII Camps: “..Kidding Yourself If You Think The Same Will Not Happen Again“, by Jay Syrmopoulos, at benswann.com. In the words of F. A. Hayek, “…The battle for freedom must be won over and over again…”

I saw this at theburningplatform.com.

Michael Ramirez Cartoon

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Must Reads For The Week 9/28/13

September 28, 2013
The pen is mightier than the sword...

The pen is mightier than the sword… (Photo credit: mbshane)

Bob Shiller Warns “I Am Worried About Bubbles” In Housing, at zerohedge.com. A little late to the party. Read a previous post about this written in May,  A Housing Recovery, Or Just Another Bubble.

Students Faces Possible Year-Long Suspension From School For Playing With Toy Guns At Home, at benswann.com. When will we stand up and say enough of this insanity. They anti gun nuts are trying brainwash a whole generation of school age kids into thinking guns, even toy guns are evil, and that anyone who has a gun as an outcast.

Maryland Parent Arrested For Challenging Common Core, at benswann.com. How dare the peasants question the ruling aristocracy. As Government intervention grows, it needs more force to quell dissent, and intimidate dissenters.

Republicans Now Leading The Push To Tax The Internet, at tammybruce.com. When you look at their track record, do you really believe big Government establishment Republicans want to repeal Obamacare?

Cyprus-Style Wealth Confiscation Is Starting All Over The World, at zerohedge.com. The countries retirement savings is a huge pile of money that is being eyeballed by Government.

Obama Administration Committing $320 Million to aid Bankrupt Detroit, by Erika Johnsen, at hotair.com. This is a too big to fail city. Do you want to bet that California will be a too big to fail state?

The Late, Great Middle Class, by Victor Davis Hanson, at victorhanson.com, The number of people who receive transfer payments from the Government, whether administrators of the redistribution state of those who receive the payments, is growing , while the number of people funding the administrative state is shrinking.