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Germany's Silent Shift: From Entrepreneurs To State Dependence Submitted by Thomas Kolbe Germany affords itself a state bureaucracy that functions like an artificial labor market placed upstream of the private sector. The flight of hundreds of thousands into the arms of the state corresponds with the shrinking number of self-employed in the country. And policymakers are actively promoting this trend. Let us begin with a piece of good news: according to a Bertelsmann survey, around 40 percent of Germans aged 15 to 25 can imagine starting a business as their personal life...

Half Of Americans Live In States Where Weed Is Legal In August 2013, the Justice Department stated in a press release that it was not going to enforce federal law prohibiting the cannabis use in states that were launching recreational cannabis programs at the time, clearing the way for state-by-state marijuana legalization in the United States. Approximately 12 years down the line, half of Americans live in states where marijuana is legal and another 105 million have access to medical marijuana. As Statista's Katharina Buchholz details below, this means that 80 percent of U.S....

Minnesota Democrats Unanimously Vote To Protect Rep. Ilhan Omar... And Dead Voters Authored by Eric Utter via AmericanThinker.com, Minnesota Senate Democrats recently voted - unaminously - against removing deceased persons from the state’s voter rolls. This tracks with the fact that almost 100% of dead people vote for Democrats, making them Democrats’ most loyal voting bloc, even surpassing that of serial killers. (This may explain why, historically, Democrat gerrymandering seems designed to encompass as many cemeteries as possible. O.K., that is just an unfounded assertion, but it seems likely, does it not?) The dead — and serial killers...