SACRAMENTO – Restaurant owner Gary Honeycutt says a push in California’s Legislature to ban the plastic foam containers he uses to serve up takeout meals could cost him thousands of dollars in an industry where profit margins are razor thin. via Calif. could be first state to ban foam containers – Boston.com. TAL Commentary: If [...]
Archive | August, 2011
Cool New Video and RSS Feeds at SNO
At Survival News Online, our goal is to help you prepare for any emergency or survival situation. We’re always providing more information about survival and emergency preparedness and making it easier to find it, or more interesting to watch. With this in mind, we’ve recently added some cool new features to make your browsing experience [...]
Protecting Endangered Species Without Stealing Liberty
COEUR d’ALENE – A man charged with unlawfully shooting and killing a grizzly bear had so many supporters at his arraignment Tuesday in federal court that the judge had to move the hearing to a larger courtroom. Even there, every seat was taken as his family, friends and neighbors, young and old, squeezed in. via [...]
The Best Home Defense Weapon, Hands-Down
Whether it’s a rifle, handgun, or shotgun, someone will argue for its advantage over the others. But I’m pretty sure I’ve found what is indisputably the best — a machinegun.
It's the Debt, Stupid
Switzerland, the nation that hasn’t gone to war with a foreign power since Napoleon, is reluctantly debating a generational taboo: ceding monetary independence to win a battle over its runaway currency. Swiss National Bank Vice President Thomas Jordan said the central bank is assessing “a whole range of options” to prevent the franc, which reached [...]
Police Brutality is a Feature of State Security Production
View more videos at: http://nbcchicago.com. Whenever the government has a monopoly on a good or service, it will behave like any other monopolist: It will maximize cost, minimize quality, and maximize demand. The Ayala Brothers can tell you about the poor quality of police services provided in Chicago. They say they worked there, but the [...]
Monsanto Isn't The Problem — The Government Is
Oh, Monsanto, you sly dog.You keep trying to make us believe you are “committed to sustainable agriculture” with your canny advertisments on American Public Media, even as you force-feed farmers your lab-grown Frankenseeds that expire every year which are, let’s be honest, opposite of sustainable. Read the rest of the article via Monsanto’s 5 Most [...]
Child Labor Laws Don't Help Children
Nearly two years after ABC News cameras uncovered young children toiling away in Michigan’s blueberry fields, federal investigators have found yet another disturbing example of illegal use of child labor in the berry industry. Three southwest Washington strawberry growers were fined $73,000 last week after the U.S. Department of Labor found children between the ages [...]
Steve Wynn on the Economy
Here’s a great interview of Steve Wynn. He discusses the stupidity of government policy and the destructive national debt. Also, he has the simplest explanation for how and why Obamacare will fail.
Obama Administration Exempting Schools From Federal Law’s Testing Mandate | CNSnews.com
(AP) – State and local education officials have been begging the federal government for relief from student testing mandates in the federal No Child Left Behind law, but school starts soon and Congress still hasn’t answered the call. Education Secretary Arne Duncan says he will announce a new waiver system Monday to give schools a [...]
