On Friday and Saturday nights, the line to get a bottle of wine at the liquor store in this southern Utah town can stretch out the back door. The storage area of the town’s lone liquor store is often stacked so high and so wide with cases of alcohol it’s tough to walk or push a dolly through. But it doesn’t take long for the piles to shrink and
In the past, I have mentioned the fact that one can donate to the Mises Institute by using GoodSearch.Com But, I have become aware of a new search engine that supports another great cause: SearchRonPaul.Com So, I suggest you spread your search queries around to fund the message of
A couple arrested at a rally after refusing to cover T-shirts that bore anti-President Bush slogans settled their lawsuit against the federal government for $80,000 , the American Civil Liberties Union announced Thursday. Nicole and Jeffery Rank of Corpus Christi, Texas, were handcuffed and removed from the July 4, 2004, rally at the state Capitol
C.S. Lewis’ stories of Narnia and J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” books taught Justin Marshall about free society vs. totalitarian rule. Now, he hopes new writers can capture young people’s imaginations, and he’s promoting a contest that would pay a winning writer to do just that. Marshall, who works for Midland’s Mackinac Center for Public
For a good laugh over simplistic and fallacious money management advice take a look at Ben Stein’s latest column . I think he may need some Clear Eyes eye drops to cover up what he is smoking. Of course, I like the comments that give him one-star the
Terminally ill patients do not have a constitutional right to experimental drugs not approved by regulators , a U.S. appeals court ruled on Tuesday... “The FDA’s policy of limiting access to investigational drugs is rationally related to the legitimate state interest of protecting patients, including the terminally ill, from potentially unsafe
Although not generally a vain person, I once named a law after myself: according to Woods’s Law, “whenever the private sector introduces an innovation that makes the poor better off than they would have been without it, or that offers benefits or terms that no one else is prepared to offer them, someone — in the name of helping the poor — will
As soon as 21-year-old Matt Murphy snagged the valuable piece of sports history Tuesday night, his souvenir became taxable income in the eyes of the Internal Revenue Service, according to experts. “It’s an expensive catch,” said John Barrie, a tax lawyer with Bryan Cave LLP in New York who grew up watching the Giants play at Candlestick Park.
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