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Countries splitting

Are Countries Getting Smaller?

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In the following article Ryan McMaken talks about “States,” but he uses the term in the classical sense meaning “country,” not in the way we in the United States tend to think of the term. He tells us that the number of states has almost tripled since 1945. This is due to countries splitting into smaller units. A classic example is the Soviet Union breaking up into its smaller components. Other examples are the breakup of Yugoslavia, North and South Korea, and North and South Vietnam. There is even occasional talk of Quebec splitting from the rest of Canada due to language and cultural differences. So there is definitely a trend in place toward smaller countries. Today Ryan is looking at the political consequences of smaller, more localized units of government.

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Champs Missile

U.S. Develops New “Humanitarian” Missile That Doesn’t Kill People

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Basically, CHAMP is a cruise missile which can be loaded on a B-52 bomber but it doesn’t actually explode. Instead, the CHAMP missile is launched and flies over an area emitting an electromagnetic pulse which destroys all the electronics within its target zone. This includes cameras, cellphones and computers. But more importantly it also includes military hardware like surveillance systems, artillery guidance systems, and radar systems.  depending on your perspective, it may sound crazy, dystopian, or maybe just like Sci-Fi but it is a real functional weapon. Although it was originally tested way back in 2012 this weapon is now a reality. It is called, CHAMP which stands for Counter-Electronics High Power Microwave Advanced Missile Project and the U.S. has deployed 20 of them.

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Freedom in the 50 states

How Free is Your State?

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Unlike many countries the United States is not “monolithic”. Freedom varies widely from state to state primarily because each state is the master of its own destiny. Although the Federal Government has been trying to exert more control, each state is still able to create their own laws, taxes and regulations. Each year since 2000 the CATO Institute has published its evaluation of the relative freedom of each state based on a variety of criteria including Fiscal Policy (30.4%), Regulatory Policy (34%), and  Personal Freedom (34.1%). Of course, each of these major categories is made up of a variety of sub-categories.

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Justice

Are Regulations Strangling Free Enterprise?

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To believe that regulation is unnecessary and harmful is not an idealistic and detached view. It flows necessarily from a belief in human equality. If you firmly believe all humans are equal, what is it that allows a third person to infringe with the threat of violence on the right of two people to transact freely with one another? Bouazizi and his customers were both made worse-off by both being denied the right to transact freely by government.

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FED Raises Interest Rates- ROC’s Retain Buy Signal

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At the Federal Reserve’s recent policy meeting on Wednesday, December 14th the FED raised their federal-funds target interest rate by a quarter percentage point, to range between 0.50% and 0.75%. Fed officials pointed to a strengthening economy and inflation nearing their targeted level of 2%. According to the The Wall Stree Journal “The Fed’s more

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Trump Reaches Magic Number of Delegates

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In June 2015, when real estate billionaire Donald Trump announced that he was joining the host of candidates for the Republican Nomination for President he was considered to be either a “long shot” to gain the nomination or a joke. But on Thursday May 26th, the Associated Press announced that Billionaire and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has reached the magic number of delegates necessary to clinch his party’s nomination. The development comes after a small number of unbound Republican delegates told the AP that they would support Trump at the Republican National Convention this summer.

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Money vs Justice

The More Corrupt the State, the More Numerous the Laws

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In his first inaugural address, Thomas Jefferson said the purpose of government is to “restrain men from injuring one another” and “shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement.” Americans were to live under a presumption of freedom. A recent WSJ article said, “It was our boast that in America, unlike in any other country, you could live your life as you saw fit as long as you accorded the same liberty to everyone else.” But all that has changed now.

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