The Cato Institute. Interview with African Economics Expert: "For God's Sake, Please. Mr. Shikwati, the G8 summit at Gleneagles is about to beef up the development aid for Africa... Shikwati: ... for God's sake, please just stop. SPIEGEL: Stop? The industrialized nations of the West want to eliminate hunger and poverty. Shikwati: Such intentions have been damaging our continent for the past 40 years. SPIEGEL: Do you have an explanation for this paradox? Shikwati: Huge bureaucracies are financed (with the aid money), corruption and complacency are promoted, Africans are taught to be beggars and not to be independent. SPIEGEL: Even in a country like Kenya, people are starving to death each year. Shikwati: But it has to be the Kenyans themselves who help these people. SPIEGEL: ... corn that predominantly comes from highly-subsidized European and American farmers ... Shikwati: ... and at some point, this corn ends up in the harbor of Mombasa.
SPIEGEL: If the World Food Program didn't do anything, the people would starve. Shikwati: I don't think so. Shikwati: Of course. The Paranoid States Of America: 12-Year-Old Girl Arrested For Do. File this under “Seriously Fucked Up”: While most of America has been hiding under the covers afraid they might have to confront the ghost of Joe Stack, shooing him away by pretending he was something else–”He was a Tea Bagger!” /”He was a liberal!” /”No he was a psychopath!” –anything to avoid seriously talking about how profound and how widely popular his suicide-dive-bombing was…here’s a story that’s a little easier to chew on.
It comes to you live from Kiddie Land, where there’s a war on pitting thousands of police and the full force of the law Surging against pre-pubescent doodlers, food-throwers, and tardy students. Earlier this month, at a New York junior high school, a 12-year-old girl named Alexa Gonzalez pulled out a green magic marker during class, and doodled, “I love my friends Abby and Faith.” The teacher sent her to the principal, who promptly called the “Zero Tolerance” police. Alexa is a much better person for it, as reported on CNN: That’s fine for teachers. FODEMAN: Obamacare's doctorless world. In rural areas of the country, obtaining a doctor’s appointment is practically mission impossible. Even in cities such as Boston and Manhattan, it can be very difficult for patients to attain the medical care they badly need, particularly for Medicare and Medicaid patients.
From New York’s Upper East Side to the heartland to San Francisco’s Haight Ashbury, a striking physician shortage exists in this country. The reasons for the dearth of doctors are complex, but one thing is certain: The “health care reform” that President Obama ardently pushed down the public’s throat and recently signed into law will not increase the scant supply of doctors. In fact, it will make the problem worse. There is a huge investment in both time and money before one is qualified to practice medicine. It is true that in every profession one must pay one’s dues, so to speak. It takes tremendous sacrifice to become a physician. Obamacare is brutal for physicians, and the detriment transcends dollars and cents.
Print A Radical Solution to End the Drug War: Legalize <i>Everyt. We've heard a lot about the terrible death toll Mexico has suffered during the drug war — over 11,000 souls so far. This helps to account for the startling lack of controversy that greeted last week's news that Mexico had suddenly decriminalized drugs — not just marijuana but also cocaine, LSD, and heroin. In place of the outrage and threats that U.S. officials expressed when Mexico tried to decriminalize in 2006 was a mild statement, from our new drug czar, that we are going to take a "wait and see" approach. Still, we've heard nothing about the American death toll. Isn't that strange? So far as I can tell, nobody has even tried to come up with a number. Until now. I've done some rough math, and this is what I found: To repeat, that's 6,487 dead Americans. I'm basing these numbers on an interview with a high-ranking former narcotics officer named Neill Franklin.
Franklin's turning point came in October of 2000. That got Franklin thinking. I took his advice. "Yes. Really? The Founding Fathers Rejected Democracy. By Harold Pease Get the New Book Today! The Founding Fathers universally rejected democracy and hoped that posterity would never turn the United States into one. The word they used was “Republic,†which is not synonymous with “Democracy.†The word “Democracy†is not in the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution, or the Bill of Rights. Even the Pledge of Allegiance is “to the Republic for which it stands.†Benjamin Franklin defined democracy as “two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.†So why did they reject Democracy? Because it is inherently flawed with the “share the wealth†philosophy, which only works as long as there is someone else’s money to share.
Fraser Tyler, author of The Decline and Fall of the Athenian Republic authored more than 200 years ago said it best. “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. Dr. About the author.