By Emiliano Antunez
For decades, many have pontificated on the evils of gun violence in the United States. Recently, Fareed Zakaria host of CNNs GPS (Global Public Square) on his show and in his Washington Post column took another shot at gun control (pun intended), pointing to the number of gun homicides in the U.S. and arguing for what he believes to be the obvious solution, stringent gun control (aka confiscation).
Fareed quoted the website shootingtracker.com (first time I’ve heard of it) as a source for some of his gun homicides statistics. I won’t dive into arguing whose statistics are right, but I will point out some very well documented historical facts that make it statistically clear that allowing private ownership of guns actually makes the “average” citizen safer and less likely to become a homicide statistic. Continue reading
The Price of Liberty 
Libertarian Commentary on the News, 04 August 2015, #15-31B: Politicians – liars
By Nathan Barton
Once more, the squatter at 1600 PA is lying. The Blaze reports on the grand announcement of the Clean Power Plants Initiative, which is supported to be the “most important step” ever taken on climate change. The rhetoric was intense and passionate, telling us that we are all going to die and destroy the planet if we don’t cut our carbon emissions, but trying to sooth people. He (well, his toadies) claim that the shutting down of major coal-fired plants and massively-expensive rebuilds on those that are allowed to remain, with deadlines of 2022 and 2030, will “save” households $85/year in electrical bills, by uping the “renewable energy” sources target to 28% of all electricity. But, as with ObummerCare, the real numbers are probably closer to a 40-50% INCREASE in monthly and annual power bills for most of us. That of course, doesn’t matter: if we don’t stop emitting carbon dioxide, New York City will be the New Venice and Arizona will have beach front property… according to the madmen running the agencies for this guy and his backers. Continue reading →