Government Rules Deny Drug To Dying ChildThe FDA's rules and regulations all but outright forbid drug companies from giving their drugs to dying children, yet CNN wrote up a propaganda piece attacking a drug company for "denying their drug to a dying child."
Fortunately, the top commenter cut right through the propaganda and debunked the entire story.
Perhaps CNN will soon join other establishment media outlets and ba... (more)
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We Are In FAR Worse Shape Than We Were Just Prior To The Last Great Financial CrisisNone of the problems that caused the last financial crisis have been fixed. In fact, they have all gotten worse. The total amount of debt in the world has grown by more than 40 percent since 2007, the too big to fail banks have gotten 37 percent larger, and the colossal derivatives bubble has spiraled so far out of control that the only thing left to do is to watch the spectacular crash landing that is inevitably coming. Unfortunately, most people do not know the information that I am about t... (more)
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Harvey Weinstein Demands More Tax Subsidies, SOPA-Style Copyright SchemeFrom Variety.com:
Harvey Weinstein, appearing at the UCLA Entertainment Symposium in interview with Ken Ziffren, Los Angeles’ newly appointed film czar, called for California to expand its production tax incentives.
“There’s no reason for us not to shoot ... (more)
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Weather or Not?Everyone agrees that the winter just now winding down (hopefully) has been brutal for most Americans. And while it's easy to conclude that the Polar Vortex has been responsible for an excess of school shutdowns and ice related traffic snarls, it's much harder to conclude that it's responsible for the economic vortex that appears to have swallowed the American economy over the past three months. But this hasn't stopped economists, Fed officials, and media analysts from making this unequivocal ass... (more)
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IRS Poll Shows Majority Of Americans Pay Taxes Out Of FearSixty percent of Americans told pollsters fear of an audit influences their decision to pay taxes to the IRS. Note, only fifty-three percent of Americans pay federal income taxes.
See how CBNC managed to spin this as a positive:
The IRS Oversight Board's annual taxpayer survey finds that 86 percent of Americans thinks it's not at all ac ... (more)
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Duke University Student Says She Became Porn Actress Because Tuition Is So Expensive
Porn star Belle Knox said she turned to porn because college tuition towards her women's studies degree was some 60k a year.
I have to say, I am SHOCKED and OUTRAGED this young woman would THROW HER LIFE away...
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Getty Images Makes Pictures Free To UsePretty amazing change, they used to be despicable copyright trolls. |
US Government Will Continue Interfering With Apple Pricing DecisionsA federal court has ruled that a US Department of Justice "monitor" will remain inside Apple Computer to supervise all the company's pricing decisions.
The "monitor," Michael Bromwich, was appointed when Apple lost an anti-trust case involving E-books. He bills for his time at $1,100 an hour and charged $138,432 for his first two weeks of "work."
Apple has filed an appeal which labels Bromwich's appointment "unprecedented and unconstitutional." This “monitor” is a p... (more)
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"Doing my online econ homework. I knew it wasn't the 'right' answer but I had to try." [Pic]
"The prompt is "the federal government's nutritional guidelines urge adults to eat at least 5 cups of fruits and vegetables each day." then it asks a question about externalities and then "the government should...", Although the two questions are not directly related. And the correct answer is D." - From parkowl via r/Libertarian.
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WhatsApp With That?Two pieces of business news announced this week provide a convenient frame through which to view our dysfunctional and distorted economy. The first (which has attracted tremendous attention), is Facebook's blockbuster $19 billion acquisition of instant messaging provider WhatsApp. The second (which few have noticed) is the horrific earnings report issued by Texas-based retail chain Conn's. While these two developments don't seem to have much in common, together they shed some very unflattering l... (more)
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Does Anybody Remember the Crash of 2008? Benjamin Franklin observed that “Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.” That warning about the prohibitive price of persistent foolishness has been lost on millions of Americans who are eagerly taking on catastrophic levels of personal and institutional debt.
A little more than five years ago, ... (more)
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No, Robots Won't Take All Our Jobs Away
Economist George Reisman joins Tom Woods to explode the "robots will take all our jobs" argument.
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Colorado's New Cannabis EconomyWhat would have happened if one or two states had somehow managed to legalize alcohol during prohibition? Most likely, those states would have become centers of entrepreneurship with retail outlets, medicines, and innovation in equipment, machinery, and other forms of capital related to alcohol-related industries.
With the recent legalization of recreational cannabis use in both Washington state and Colorado, we're able to see a similar experiment in action.
While t... (more)
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