Smoking Stupidity | Cato Institute

Smoking Stupidity | Cato Institute: "The research evidence about adolescent smoking is full of powerful explanations for why some kids smoke and others do not. None relate to the legal age for buying cigarettes."

Works of art that will mark hurricane evacuation points arriving in New Orleans | Fox News

Works of art that will mark hurricane evacuation points arriving in New Orleans | Fox News: "More than a dozen sculptures that will be used to call attention to evacuation points around New Orleans are arriving in the city."

That sounds like a good way to help people remember those locations.

Passing resolutions in a political party

Currently political party resolutions only require greater than 50% support to pass, so some resolutions may have many people who oppose them. How can political parties expect our elected officials to follow all of the party resolutions when many party members might oppose each of the resolutions and support for all resolutions could technically be much less than 50%?

Should resolutions require a super-majority in order to pass?

Illegal Immigrration solutions

The two major solutions to illegal immigrations (amnesty and securing borders) both seem to be band-aids that don't address the causes of the problem. I think the fact that legal immigration is so hard is a huge factor in illegal immigration.

There is a plaque on the Statue of Liberty that says "Give me your tired, your poor/Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free" and before 1921 we didn't restrict the number of people who could immigrate but now we have an arbitrary limit per area.

We should first ensure that there are minimal hurdles to legal immigration. That will greatly reduce illegal immigration and allow us to focus our border security efforts on the real bad people. It will also give a great incentive to current illegal immigrants to go back and come through the legal path.

Tim Carney on the Real Lessons of Boston - Campaign for Liberty

Tim Carney on the Real Lessons of Boston - Campaign for Liberty: "the “what are you hiding?” question should be thrown at the government instead. Why would you want to avoid asking the public or a business for video, or asking a judge for a warrant, unless you were seeking information for improper purposes?"