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Guns Prevent Thousands of Crimes Every Day, Research Shows

by Lawrence W. Reed

The Center for Disease Control, in a report ordered by President Obama in 2012 following the Sandy Hook Massacre, estimated that the number of crimes prevented by guns could be as high as three million annually, or some 8,200 every day. And there is plenty more evidence showing that guns keep Americans safe. 

HOW MANY LIVES ARE ACTUALLY SAVED BY GUN OWNERSHIP?
 
Milton Friedman Was Right on Corporate Guidance, and "Woke" CEOs Ignore Him at Shareholder Peril

by Jon L. Pritchett, Ed Tiryakian

The resources these CEOs propose to spend in the pursuit of social good are not their own. Those resources are capital invested by shareholders; not by the growing category of “stakeholders” these modern CEOs seem so intent on pleasing.

IT IS THE FIDUCIARY RESPONSIBILITY OF THE DIRECTORS TO PROTECT SUCH ASSETS…AND MAYBE EVEN THE ENTIRE FREE MARKET SYSTEM, TOO.
 
I Was a Physician at a Federally Qualified Health Center. Here's Why I No Longer Believe Government Health Care Can Work

by Rebekah Bernard

Imagine an America where this is the only option for physicians.

WHEN DOCTORS ARE MISERABLE, PATIENTS SUFFER.
 
7 Quotes That Reveal the Racist Origins of Minimum Wage Laws

by Jon Miltimore

Early progressives understood quite well that minimum wage laws cause job losses. They simply saw it as a social benefit, not a social ill. Those denied work by minimum wage laws could more easily be segregated, sterilized, and put in asylums, many reasoned.

PROGRESSIVE ECONOMISTS AND INTELLECTUALS SAW THESE JOB LOSSES AS A EUGENIC SERVICE TO THE LARGER POPULATION.
 
Gun Rights Don’t Depend on Statistics

by Tim Hsiao

We can use statistics to strengthen our case for gun rights, but they cannot be the pillar on which it rests.

THE ULTIMATE FOUNDATION FOR GUN RIGHTS IS NOT, HAS NEVER BEEN, AND CANNOT EVER BE STATISTICS. WE CAN USE STATISTICS TO STRENGTHEN OUR CASE FOR GUN RIGHTS, BUT THEY CANNOT BE THE PILLAR ON WHICH EVERYTHING RESTS.
 
Africa Doesn't Need More Development Aid, It Needs More Capitalism

by Dr. Rainer Zitelmann

Development aid has a nice moral ring to it, but does it really achieve what its proponents hope it will?

HUNGER AND POVERTY ARE NOT FOUGHT THROUGH DEVELOPMENT AID BUT THROUGH ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND CAPITALISM.
 
Kids Ordered to Pay Sales Tax at Children’s Expo Receive a Sad Lesson in Entrepreneurship

by Brittany Hunter

Hundreds of child entrepreneurs in one state are receiving a crash course in runaway taxation from officials who slapped them with tax forms and ordered them to pay up to the State Tax Commission.

KIDS PARTICIPATING IN UTAH'S CHILDREN’S ENTREPRENEUR MARKET ARE BEING ORDERED BY GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS TO PAY SALES TAX ON THEIR SMALL BUSINESSES. BUT ONE ACTIVIST SAYS CHILDREN ARE EXEMPT FROM SUCH TAXES.
 
This Mystery YouTuber Will Teach You More about the Soviet Union Than Your Professors

by Bill Wirtz

Your teachers gave you dates and names of long-dead politicians, and all you know about communism is that your conservative uncle uses it to describe every policy he doesn't like. However, there is an English YouTuber who will open your eyes to the reality of the impact the Soviet Union had on many places in Europe.

THE ENGLISH YOUTUBER BALD AND BANKRUPT, USING A SMALL GOPRO AND SMARTPHONE, PROVIDES MILLIONS OF VIEWERS WITH AN IN-DEPTH LOOK AT EASTERN EUROPE.
 
Steve Jobs’s Unveiling of the iPhone Holds a Timeless Economic Lesson

by Barry Brownstein

It is no shortcoming of Steve Jobs that he could not foresee the advances made possible by the iPhone.

THE CASE FOR LIBERTY IS HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT IN OUR PHONES AND A MILLION OTHER THINGS OUR LIVES DEPEND ON.
 
Are College Rankings Just a Sham?

by Jonathan Wai

Schools may want to take as much credit as they can for the education and opportunities they give students. But what, if anything, do all these college rankings really reveal about the quality and value of a particular college? Very little, it turns out.

A COLLEGE’S SUCCESS MAY BE LESS ABOUT THE QUALITY OF ITS INSTRUCTION AND MORE ABOUT THE TALENT IT CAN RECRUIT.
 
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