An entrepreneurship major and graduate of Belmont University, Wes believes that small business, innovation, and creative thinking are required to solve problems and improve our world.
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As global commodity prices increase, including that for gold, economists and investors want to know if gold prices are accurately reflecting its value, or if gold is experiencing another bubble like the NASDAQ or housing have in recent history. The following infographic makes the case that gold is not a
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While the mainstream media agonizes over the "gotchya politics," leaving no stone unturned, one major detail of the Bain Capital story has gone unexamined: the fact that at Bain Capital, Mitt Romney profited from federal bailout money-- and that's not free enterprise. Amid the controversy following
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Andy Caffrey, a candidate for US Congress in California's 2nd Congressional District, made an unusual campaign promise in a recent interview with The Politico: if he's elected to Congress by the people of the second district, he'll smoke a marijuana cigarette right on the
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The following infographic breaks down a cost-benefit analysis of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), an important analytical method for more scientific and non-partisan government. At over $60 billion in taxpayer dollars spent, does the following record sound worth it to you?
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Reports of Ron Paul's demise have been greatly exaggerated. While a Monday email sent to reporters regarding Ron Paul's election strategy has been widely interpreted and spun as the Texas congressman's withdrawal from the Republican primary-- with The Drudge Report running the misleading headline
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Just after midnight Tuesday, on the heels of a deadline ratified by its delegates as part of the selection process, Americans Elect has failed to come up with a single independent presidential candidate for its online convention set for June, issuing a statement at 12:01 am reporting that, "
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From the Barry Goldwater years on down through the Reagan era, conservatives have believed in limited government and individual liberty. Economists like Milton Friedman have argued the inefficiency of central economic planning. Regulating the flow of immigration into a country creates economic distortions, however, just like centrally planning the quantity
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If Mitt Romney can hold back the energized Ron Paul faction's tenacious bid for a brokered convention in Tampa, he'll be free to focus his remaining energy on uniting Republican voters behind his candidacy and convincing Democratic and Independent voters, especially in key swing states, to
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Yesterday my esteemed colleague, Mike Abrams, wrote a piece recommending a ban on direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising as a remedy for prescription drug abuse in the United States. As will inevitably happen when there is a meeting of reasonable and independent minds, as we are trying to foster here at the
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1912 Textile Strike Credit: Public Domain Over at the LA Times, David Lazarus asks "Does organized labor have a future?" He notes that standards of living like job security, healthcare, and retirement funds have never been so uncertain since the Great Depression. But the solution to these problems
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What little commentary we've seen from the media on Ron Paul's silent coup presently underway in the Republican Party has focused mostly on its implications for the 2012 Republican Primary and whether Paul can hold back Romney's delegate count just long enough to ensure
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Look out California! Legalizing medicinal marijuana is no longer just for "hippies" in states out West. The Connecticut House of Representatives voted 96-51 late Wednesday to legalize medical marijuana. Despite a strongly-worded letter from Connecticut's top federal prosecutor warning that passage of the bill would contradict