Historical PBS interview with Milton Friedman, recipient of the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize for economic science. A classic clip in which he discusses minimizing the role of government in order to create political and social freedom. picked by hypnotode 3 years ago

Top accountant hired by Irish government to introduce accountable system for politicians' expense claims resigns because politicians resist reform of existing expense claims without proof.

Taxpayer pays for:

Hire hat for politician's wife: €400.

Hire limo in Heathrow to go from one terminal to another: €500.

And so on. picked by murtysanchez 3 months ago

Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, many government documents that would normally never be seen by the public are now freely available. Government Attic offers up a very large and diverse set of documents from military secrets to FCC complaints about your favorite show and much more. Makes for some interesting browsing. picked by 2manyusernames 5 months ago

Freedom of Speech is one of America's greatest rights. Sadly it is a very rare freedom. Many countries - even countries you'd expect to be freedom-lovers say no to free speech. Oh you have the right to say nice sweet things, but you can't say anything mean or negative, anything that might hurt a group's feelings.

wasn't going to post this, but it fit in with the salon owner article picked by 2manyusernames 1 year ago

Thinking different matters. Something I learned at W1K. The last thing I will probably do for Ron Paul is to give him my vote on April 22, because I promised myself that. I have voted in ten Presidential elections, fairly unenthusiastically. This time I will most likely go with Obama. My heart will ache a little, that, for the most part, the public has not gotten the message, and will vote for an... read full post picked by siennablue 2 years ago

Utterly missing in this election season is a serious focus on limited or constitutional government. The Democrats, generally speaking, want more government, not less, so their neglect of the issue is to be expected. But the Republican dereliction is more troubling. It represents a falling away from the standards of Ronald Reagan’s conservatism—a decline already reflected in the “... read full post picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago

“And I called them because (my goverment disability check) wasn’t there and they said, ‘You’re dead,’ and I said, ‘No, I’m not dead.’ And they kept trying to tell me I was dead but I’m not.”

Typical government response. Unless the theme pic is a posed corpse (with pancakes), she IS alive! picked by Moe 2 years ago

The three parties who failed to win our last election seven weeks ago are attempting to seize power from the Conservative government that won the election. Unless the government is suspended, the new coalition government could be in power as soon as Monday. picked by chinook 12 months ago

Packages containing 10,000 yen (40 pound) bills have been found this week in men's toilets at government offices throughout Japan, baffling officials as to why and who would do them such service. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago