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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