Time to End the Postal Monopoly – The Future of Freedom Foundation

Saturday, June 8, 2019

It turns out that commercial package delivery for e-commerce retailers such as Amazon was actually profitable for the USPS. Revenue from delivering packages increased in 2018. The problem is that revenue from first-class mail, which is still the biggest source of the USPS’s revenue, continues to decline even as labor costs continue to increase. In 2018, labor costs accounted for 76 percent of overall operating costs, and especially the pension and health benefits provided to each of the USPS’s retired government employees.

Lost in all of this is the real problem with the Post Office, specifically the postal monopoly and, to a larger extent, the fact that the federal government is involved in the postal business.

Source: Time to End the Postal Monopoly – The Future of Freedom Foundation

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Have to blame Ben Franklin for this mess.  He was the advocate for a Post Office.  He did OK with fire insurance, bifocals, and a lot of other things.  But he really did realize what boondoggle this would become!

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D-Day – CartoonsForUs

Thursday, June 6, 2019

Source: D-Day – CartoonsForUs

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Pretty much sums it up.  Sadly.  Decades of political failures made this sacrifice inevitable.  Hopefully, but not likely, the human race will smarten up.

Dona Nobis Pacem

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The Peasants’ Revolt

Wednesday, June 5, 2019

In 2016, James Delingpole commented that toffs hate Brexit because it’s the Peasants’ Revolt. For non-British readers, the word “toff” is a shortened form of “toffee-nosed,” a slang term for the rich or upper class. But more important is the reference to the Peasant Revolt of 1381, which is little-known on the western side of the Atlantic.

Source: The Peasants’ Revolt

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However, we should take this time to recognize that Brexit was a twenty-first century form of the Peasants’ Revolt – a time when the population had the government running scared but made the mistake of accepting the continued leadership of those who created the problem in the first place.

Whatever country we are from, we should be reminded that, no matter how reasonable or conciliatory this may seem, putting the fox back in the henhouse is never the answer.

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Seems like that’s a recurring mistake that “We, The Sheeple” make — thinking that an agreement will solve the problem.

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Non-diversity and the spelling bee :: Jeff Jacoby

Wednesday, June 5, 2019

Is that a problem? Should we be lamenting the lack of diversity in the top ranks of competitive student spellers? Ought Scripps and ESPN (which broadcasts the annual spelling bee) manipulate the rules — the way Harvard, for example, has manipulated its admissions standards — to ensure that more non-Asians make it to the final rounds? . . .

Source: Non-diversity and the spelling bee :: Jeff Jacoby

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“Equality of Opportunity”; not “Equality of Results”!

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L. Neil Smith‘s The Libertarian Enterprise: working to fulfill the promise of the American Revolution since 1995

Wednesday, June 5, 2019

“Government healthcare is the first step to cyanide showers.”

Source: L. Neil Smith‘s The Libertarian Enterprise: working to fulfill the promise of the American Revolution since 1995

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That seems accurate!

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Dem Rep Illustrates Standard Anti-Gun Stupidity Following Virginia Beach

Tuesday, June 4, 2019

AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite Anti-gun politicians have a standard script they tend to follow in the wake of a mass shooting. It seems that no matter what gun control bill they’re advancing, that is the key to averting the mass shooting.

Source: Dem Rep Illustrates Standard Anti-Gun Stupidity Following Virginia Beach

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It’s not about lives to them, but legislation. Unless Nadler is a complete and total moron–a fact I’m not willing to rule out completely–he knows there’s not any information to suggest that HR8 would have made any difference in this shooting. None whatsoever. He just hopes that the voters are too freaking stupid to catch this fact.

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I often wonder about politicians and bureaucrats, who push their agendas and pet projects regardless of their applicability to the situation at hand.  I think we need a special adjective to describe this behavior and I can’t think of one that applies.

Maybe you the reader can help?

It’s worst than “dishonest”.  It’s worse than “despicable”.  It’s worse than “deplorable”.

Argh!

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Attkisson: 10 Questions I’d Ask Robert Mueller (If I Were Allowed) | Zero Hedge

Tuesday, June 4, 2019

Does it concern you that the FBI claimed “collection tool failure” in stating that 19,000 text messages between former FBI employees Lisa Page and Peter Strozk had been deleted and were unavailable for review by the Department of Justice (DOJ) inspector general? Is it worth investigating how the inspector general was able to recover the messages, when the FBI said it could not? Does the FBI lack the technical expertise, or the will? Isn’t it a serious issue that should be addressed, either way?

Source: Attkisson: 10 Questions I’d Ask Robert Mueller (If I Were Allowed) | Zero Hedge

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If this IT guy was on Wall Street, he’d have been fired on the spot!

That’s only because having that person “drawn and quartered” is permitted.

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Gunsmith uses 19th Century technology to fight ridiculous gun laws

Monday, June 3, 2019

To comply with California’s ridiculously ineffective SB 880 gun law, AR-15 owners must use a fixed magazine. With this configuration, shooters must disassemble the firearm in order to load a second magazine. Gunsmiths across the country have been developing new concepts to sidestep these backwards laws. Mean Arms went the other direction and looked to […]

Source: Gunsmith uses 19th Century technology to fight ridiculous gun laws

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Meet the MA Loader, a detachable polymer loading device that attaches to the weapon’s ejection port. What’s basically a 10-round stripper clip in a plastic guide lets the shooter rapidly feed fresh rounds into the fixed magazine. After the MA Loader is removed the bolt slams shut and chambers the first round.

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I love when the “free market” satisfies demand and frustrates the Gooferment’s politicians and bureaucrats efforts.

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EconomicPolicyJournal.com: Solving the Homeless Situation in American Cities

Monday, June 3, 2019

Finally, I would eliminate government schools, which in the inner cities does nothing but destroy minds and spirit–and distorts the thinking of youth in all other non-inner city schools.I am, more and more, beginning to think that government schools are the most dangerous institutions in America. I would end government-funded “education” of all kinds, including for all public schools and for all voucher programs.

Source: EconomicPolicyJournal.com: Solving the Homeless Situation in American Cities

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Good luck with that.  I agree completely.  But the Gooferment Skrules are politically controlled by powerful unions that have the politicians and bureaucrats on a leash.  And, they are the closest thing to a national religion we have.

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Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions – Reason.com

Monday, June 3, 2019

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  • The DEA classifies marijuana as a drug with no accepted medical use, akin to LSD and ecstasy (among others). But many turn to it for medical reasons, as do plaintiffs (a group of children and adults suffering from life-threatening medical problems), who sue the DEA to challenge its classification. Second Circuit (over a dissent): Alas, we cannot hear the case until you first ask the DEA to review it. But because the DEA is notoriously slow in reviewing classifications (petitions average nine years each), we will retain jurisdiction of this case so we can ensure speedy review.

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Where is the treasure? Where are the assets? Where’s the loot?

Source: Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions – Reason.com

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Sounds like typical Gooferment bureaucrat “barbara streisand”!

The phrase “no accepted medical use” rings hollow when so many are using it as side-effect free pain reliever?

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