Colleges offer their students a taste of reality by simulating the political atmosphere of society with the presence of student government associations (SGAs). The election process alone succeeds in mimicking the cutthroat environment of campaign promises, schmoozing constituencies, and mindless pride. Rather than encouraging students to be
The Jesuit Volunteer Corps (JVC) has joined up with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) to launch a nationwide boycott of Yum Brands Inc. Yum Brands is the owner of many successful fast food chains including; Kentucky Fried Chicken, Pizza Hut, A&W Root Beer, and Taco Bell. Taco Bell is where CIW seems to have their beef with Yum Brands.
It is time to take prisons seriously. The United States incarcerates more people than any country in the world today and throughout history. The financial costs are tremendous and rising. One in every one hundred Americans is jailed within this so-called land of the free. Many have committed no violent crimes. Not a few are in for supposed
The Free Market 24, no. 9 (September 2004) Colleges offer their students a taste of reality by simulating the political atmosphere of society with the presence of student government associations (SGAs). The election process succeeds in mimicking many aspects of real political campaigns: the cutthroat environment of campaign promises combined
Taco Bell has been fending off the political tactics of the Immokalee Migrant Worker Coalition for some time now. The CIW has been trying to wage boycotts and launch smear campaigns alleging Taco Bell’s responsibility in regards to low farmworker wages in South Florida. Free market commentary has been done by myself ( here and here ) and Art
Gunther von Hagens accepts donations by willing participants to create his bazaar artform. What can we say about self ownership? Check out how to go about donating your body after death at the Body Worlds website
It turns out that France’s spectacular new Millau bridge, the tallest and surely the most beautiful ever built, was financed without taxes and at a fraction of the price taxpayers might have otherwise forked over. This SFChron article tries to come to terms with the price difference between this private brdige ($522 million) and the Bay Bridge ($5
Area Man Killed In Committee : NEW YORK—K&L Advertising executive Nathan Lohaus was killed in committee Monday, his life voted down by an 11-3 margin at the 2 p.m. departmental meeting. “We threw Nathan out there and discussed him at length, but in the end we decided he just wasn’t viable,” K&L creative director Marcus Somers said. “We had a lot
This post is per the request of Mr. Adam Martin... Imagine Star Wars but Han Solo was the main character instead of Luke Skywalker. Though it’s not a full length film yet, “Firefly” may deserve a strong place on the listing of films of libery . The series has strong libertarian threads running through each episode. Here are some select quotes:
Walter Block’s recent thread “I blew my chance to be on the payroll with everyone else!” reminded me of a scene out of the recent Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. The context of the scene is as follows. The wizarding world is in a state of unrest as the evil wizard Lord Voldemort has returned and begun a subversive movement of Death Eaters
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