$150 million given voluntarily to the arts by individual donors via Kickstarter. $146 million taken from taxpayers and distributed by the National Endowment for the Arts. It looks like individuals can do a better job at funding the arts than government. Plus, it is done via a far more democratic process – individual donors giving [...]
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Good News
“GASTONIA, N.C. (CBS Charlotte/AP) — The principal of a Gaston County school where a 9-year-old boy was suspended for sexual harassment submitted his resignation Tuesday, saying he wasn’t given a chance to apologize.” Common sense strikes back? Thank goodness! Finally, some pushback to the seemingly ever increasing madness in our public schools. “School officials offered [...]
Signs of hope concerning Iran
I’m sure everyone has seen this already, but it certainly seems like someone is attacking it to Iran’s nuclear program. Thank goodness for Israel or whomever else is carrying out these sabotage attacks. Michael Ledeen believes these are inside jobs by Iranians opposed to the current government. A second Iranian nuclear facility has exploded, as diplomatic tensions rise [...]
30,000-pound bunker busters
From Defense.org: Rogue states with nascent nuclear weapon programs (cough, Iran, cough), consider yourselves on notice. The Air Force has started taking delivery of Massive Ordnance Penetrators. Yup, the 30,000-pound bunker busters, known as MOPs, designed to penetrate 30 stories of reinforced concrete. I count this as a sign of hope. What Iran might do [...]
Economic freedom slowly returning to to Cuba.
Some good news out of Cuba via the BBC: Cuba has approved a law allowing individuals to buy and sell homes for the first time since the early days of the revolution, official media say. and “Many people have lived and live with the fear of losing their homes because they acquired them in an illegal way. [...]
Strawberries protect stomach from alcohol.
Good to know. Actual news you can use. In an experiment on rats, European researchers have proved that eating strawberries reduces the harm that alcohol can cause to the stomach mucous membrane. Published in the open access journal Plos One, the study may contribute to improving the treatment of stomach ulcers. via Instapundit
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Joseph of Future Policies
Sadly, our future just doesn’t seem as bright as it used to, but we can change that. Policies that increase economic freedom and individual rights can expand prosperity while helping to spur innovation.
“The bigger the government the smaller the citizen.” – Dennis Prager.
That statement is true – just as its inverse is true. The smaller the government the bigger the citizen. Big Freedom is what I’m advocating – the freedom to choose you own path in life, to choose what’s best for yourself and your family.
A brighter future can be ours, but only if we do not surrender our rights and freedom to faceless bureaucrats.
Small government = Big Freedom!