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January 29, 2015

Rand Paul's Renewed Effort to Stop the Government From Stealing You Blind

Civil asset forfeiture has become one of law enforcement’s most egregious and unconstitutional practices.

January 29, 2015

Rand Paul's Libertarian Foreign Policy Has GOP Rivals Comparing Him to Obama

IPI expert referenced: Merrill Matthews | Media Hit

The war hawks paint anyone who isn’t a John McCain-style war hawk as an isolationist,” said Merrill Matthews. “That’s pure crap, but the hawks get away with it.”

January 28, 2015

The EPA Hopes To Kill The Texas Jobs Machine

If implemented, the EPA’s ozone ceiling reduction would kill off Texas jobs and handicap future economic growth—and achieve virtually nothing in return.

January 28, 2015

Obamacare Will Cost $50,000 for Each Newly Insured American

IPI expert referenced: Merrill Matthews | Media Hit

"Patient access to doctors is approaching a perfect storm of decreased physician supply, more demand for medical care, and doctors increasingly refusing to see low-paying Medicare or Medicaid patients,” explains Merrill Mathews, PhD, a healthcare policy expert at the Institute for Policy Innovation. “If the ‘promise’ of Obamacare’s access to health-care is to be kept, government will eventually have to force doctors to accept Obamacare-covered patients.”

January 28, 2015

Run, Joe, Run!

Vice President Joe Biden claims he’s still considering a presidential bid. All I can say is: Run, Joe, run. There are reasons why Joe should jump in; they may not be good reasons, but at least they’re better than Hillary’s.

January 28, 2015

Evidence Doesn't Support Fracking As Cause Of Texas Earthquakes

People understandably want answers when they feel the earth shake. But correlation is not causation.

January 27, 2015

How To Fix The Internet

Now the Obama administration is turning its attention to one of our few remaining problems: solving the puzzle of why the Internet has been such a massive disappointment.

January 23, 2015

Obama Just Gave Companies Another Reason Not To Hire Low-Income Workers

In his State of the Union address, the president challenged Congress to pass legislation that “gives every worker in America the opportunity to earn seven days of paid sick leave.” And that’s on top of forcing employers to provide health insurance and pushing for a 40 percent increase in the minimum wage.

January 22, 2015

Free Music Isn't Such A Bargain After All

On the surface, the idea of free music is great, but the future of the art form depends on how many people will continue to pay for it. Here’s why: Music piracy has cost the recording industry more than 70,000 jobs and $2 billion in lost wages to American workers. According to the Institute for Policy Innovation, piracy equals $12.5 billion in losses to the economy every year.

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