Legalize and Unregulate E-Cigs and Cigarettes

Survey results over the past decade have indicated that the “use of electronic cigarettes by American teenagers continues to rise, even as their use of conventional cigarettes continues to fall”. At the same time, critics of electronic cigarettes have called for greater regulation of the e-cigs industry to address this trend and supplement current anti-tobacco consumption efforts. However, these opponents fail to realize that there is no evidence...

Offtopic: Millennials in the federal workforce

A recent article by the Washington Post interested me and it explains how millennials are being scared away from federal jobs. Millennials are generally considered people who are born between the early 1980s and the late 1990s. As the baby-boomer generation retires millennials are expected to take their place, but figures show that the percent of federal workers under the age of 30 has been slowly declining since 2011. In 2013, employees under...

Lift the U.S. Embargo on Cuba For Freedom and Prosperity to Cubans

On Wednesday, President Obama authorized the reinstatement of full diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Cuba and the opening of a U.S. embassy in Havana.  Republicans have mistakenly criticized the move as impeding freedom and democracy in Cuba for decades to come. One of them, Senator Marco Rubio, castigated Obama’s decision, claiming “[W]hat the president is saying, by recognizing Cuba's government is that in the 21st century being...

Decline in oil price: Implications on renewable resources

Crude Oil Price History. Mactrotrends.net Financial Investment in Clean Energy The decrease in oil prices may have huge impacts on green technology says an article by The Independent. Green energy technology such as solar and wind can no longer rely on a sharp increase in oil prices in the 2020s and 2030s. The economic argument for green technology banked on the idea that renewable resources would gradually become less expensive as fossil...

Abolish University Speech Codes

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The Washington Post – Andrew Napolitano - Racial sensitivity and militarization of police make an explosive brew

Napolitano is completely right when he says, “The city of Ferguson, Missouri, is now burned into our consciousness in a way that few other places are.” What people don’t realize is that civil disturbances with the police have been occurring in America for decades. How many people associate LA with Rodney King instead of Hollywood or Newark with John Weerd Smith compared to the number of people that associate Ferguson with Michael Brown...

Reason Magazine - Bobby Suave - Listen Up, Liberals: Make Everything Illegal, Create More Eric Garners

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The Foolishness of the New FDA Labeling Requirements

This past Tuesday, the FDA finalized new regulations, obligated by the Affordable Care Act, that mandates the display of calorie counts on menus and vending machine labels and covers food and beverages, including alcohol, as well as businesses like “’movie theaters, sports stadiums, amusement parks, bowling alleys and miniature golf courses that serve prepared foods.’  Moreover, the new rules “would apply to any restaurant or other establishment...

New Ozone Rules: Maybe Not So Good?

The National Weather Service’s air quality index for ozone reports that 60 - 75 ppb is “moderate” while 0 - 59 ppb is “Good”. The EPA(Environmental Protection Agency) has recently proposed to strengthen air quality regulations so that ground-level ozone levels are between 65-70 parts per billion(ppb) down from the current 75 ppb set in 2008. The EPA predicts that this will prevent up to a potential 960,000 child deaths from asthma. The agency also...

Money in the air!! I don’t care!

Tom Steyer, a billionare hedge fund manager, reportedly spent $57 million of his own money on this November’s midterm elections to elect democrats. You would expect money = win, but things didn’t exactly turn out that way. Of the 7 democrats that Steyer and his group, NextGen Climate, spent a total of $85 million on, only 3 won. This sounds like a tremendous lost of money to a poor little soul like me, but apparently the money was “incredibly well...

Open Borders - For Prosperity and for the Future of America

On Thursday, President Obama revealed a comprehensive executive order on immigration policy, "offering temporary legal status to millions of illegal immigrants, along with an indefinite reprieve from deportation."  Currently, there are 11.4 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States and both political parties agree that the immigration system is broken and needs major overhaul.  However, conservatives...

Environment v. $$$$ Round 2: The Keystone XL Pipeline

The expansion of the Keystone Pipeline system that runs from Alberta, Canada to Oklahoma has been a controversial topic in the U.S. since its completion in 2010. Obama has opposed it multiple times especially its job projections. But lets look at the environmental concerns that many critiques are worried about. 1. Crude Oil from Albert has been reported to leave a bigger carbon footprint than conventional oil. The Time article states that...