By Catherine Alles For years, I’ve imagined how great it would be to own an electric car. Instead of spending almost 40 bucks every week or so on gas, I could just drop by my local outpost and charge my car while I buy organic vegetables. Wouldn’t that be great? Not only for myself but also for the environment? Maybe not. Although electric cars are a step in the right … [Read more...] about Electric Cars Aren’t Nearly as Green as People Think
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“National Security” and other Thought-Stopping Clichés
By Justin Murray I was browsing the news recently and came across an interesting headline. It read “ U.S. Orders Chinese Company to Sell Grindr App ”. My first through was that the Federal Government was, once again, narrowly defining a monopoly to a ridiculous degree and decided this Chinese company was somehow monopolizing the swipe left/right mobile phone dating scene … [Read more...] about “National Security” and other Thought-Stopping Clichés
The Reasons Behind The Relentless Ideological Onslaught Against Free Markets
By Brandon Smith I sometimes think that the free market concept is treated like The Hunchback of Notre-Dame’s Quasimodo in the long novel of global economic history. It is considered ugly and undesirable by most people who judge it at a mere glance without bothering to understand it. It is a bogeyman; a scapegoat for numerous societal problems that it has nothing to do with. … [Read more...] about The Reasons Behind The Relentless Ideological Onslaught Against Free Markets