Earlier today, China pulled a billboard ad by Disney which stirred up the whole country.
You know, I am not going to lie but this ad is just plain goofy and wrong on so many levels.
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Posted in Sweet, Take it back on Apr 8th, 2008 1 Comment »
Yesterday the Institute for Justice had oral arguments in an economic liberty suit out of Pennsylvania. In a classic case of public choice theory, a politically-connected cartel has teamed up with bureaucrats to limit competition.
In particular, a government agency is forbidding a popular summer camp from continuing its 31-year tradition of safe whitewater rafting [...]
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Posted in Take it back on Apr 7th, 2008 1 Comment »
A hair salon entrepreneur just wanted the freedom to hold his customers hostage, yet Big Brother has crushed his liberty to do so. A sad day for maniacal crackpots everywhere.
Reuters has the story that the MSM probably tried to hide from you:
A Chinese hair salon has been shut down and fined 500,000 yuan ($71,280) [...]
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Posted in Take it back on Apr 1st, 2008 No Comments »
Yesterday I blogged about Sun-Sentinel’s terrible opinion on school vouchers. Personally, I found their opinion filled with loopholes.
However, the Miami Herald’s opinion had substance and provides examples unlike the Sun-Sentinel. However, I still disagree with them.
Here is their logic on not removing the state’s Blaine Amendment in order to get school vouchers.
The 120-year-old ”no aid” [...]
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Posted in Take it back on Mar 21st, 2008 2 Comments »
FAIR has this to say about think tanks:
The 25 most media-prominent think tanks were cited 17 percent less in 2007 than they were the year before…
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Posted in Take it back on Mar 13th, 2008 1 Comment »
A few days ago, a special state committee discussed the possibility of giving Texan high school dropouts a voucher.
That discussion went nowhere but I do need to correct the AP in their story.
They said the following:
Under a voucher program, students could attend any school their parents choose at state expense, whether the school be public [...]
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