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Brady Center Ordered to Pay FFLs’ $200,000+ Attorney’s Fees.

Good…

In striking this blow to the Brady Center, the court chided the lawsuit as being nothing more than a political ruse and an opportunity for the Center to propagandize the public and stigmatize online retailers.

From a guest post by Angel, from the Lonely Libertarian, on theburningplatform.com:

When I went to school, we had the option to take “electives” including Home Economics (cooking, sewing, budgeting, finances, etc.), auto mechanics (basics of car maintenance), building trades (seriously, if you own a home, you need this), agriculture (care and processing of farm animals and crops). We were all encouraged to take advantage of “real life education”. I took a semester of auto mechanics, a semester of building trades and a semester of home Ec. I can do most auto repairs, run basic wiring and plumbing, replace lighting and plumbing fixtures, frame, drywall, cook, can, budget, and figure taxes (I’ve never paid to have my taxes done and I’ve never been audited…yet.)

While I had a pretty well-rounded high school education, most of the credit goes to my folks. Mom and Poppy never discouraged me from seeking knowledge…

The problem with the hyper-expansion of international organizations the last few decades is that it’s almost impossible to keep track of all the things they’re doing to “improve” planet earth and its citizens’ lives. Here’s the latest bad idea from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which has had a string of them, from Mark Nestman on a guest post at theburningplatform.com:

Leave it to bureaucrats to decide that while some competition is good, too much is bad. In a nutshell, that’s what the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) ongoing campaign against lower taxes is all about. And now, they’re taking it to a whole new level.

Back in 1998, the OECD’s Committee on Fiscal Affairs (CFA) released a report outlining what it perceived as a dangerous trend: more and more countries were reducing taxes. The OECD called this trend “harmful tax competition.” It was dangerous…