The July/August issue of the Freeman Magazine, interviewed Oliver Porter, the creator and implementer of the public-private partnership model in Sandy Springs, Georgia titled, “The Man Who Outsourced the Government“. Are Public-Private Partnerships Crony? Public-private partnerships are, as the interview describes, when government contracts all of it’s basic services to private industry other…
Recently, the Fiscal Times released a story titled “What the Hell Happened to Jon Corzine?” The article goes on to explain that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission had filed civil charges against Corzine for his ties to the collapsed trading firm, MF Global. The charges describe that Corzine was responsible for the misuse of client’s money, to…
Liberty has always been a matter of maturity. It is much easier to remain immature, as a child, and rely on government to care for you. Once this government has been given the green light to provide for its citizens, it will also begin to think for them. It is no coincidence that our Founders were…
This is amazing. Having lived in Berlin Germany for over 10 years, I find this shocking. I have never heard of this happening. My in-laws never spoke of it either. Apparently, the Allies were also guilty of crimes against humanity. Click here to learn more about the Rhine Meadows camps….
Having family in tornado stricken Oklahoma is an uneasy trial this time of year. With the recent Shawnee and Moore, OK tornadoes reminded us in Georgia how precious our family relationships really are. Both my wife and I have had first hand experience with tornadoes and their lasting devastation. As the media reports on the…
There has never been in the history of this country a time when Americans were dropping dead due to starvation. The only exception would be the Jamestown colony of 1607. Those that advocate for a socialist solution for the condition of hunger need only to look back through history at this country’s first attempt at…
The debate over whether Bitcoin is a money or not has cooled down quite a bit. But it’s still worth understanding what all the fuss was about. To do that, we first need to understand what constitutes a money.
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