Mental Health and Corruption

In a recent case, a young man in Netherlands has been tied to the wall in a mental hospital for days as a result of voices telling him to physically attack people. Resulting from this has been discussion about practices in mental health system. Perhaps it is time to...

Court Accountability and Court Corruption

When America's founders created a government of checks and balances, they did so out of consideration that government has an inherent capacity to become corrupt and tyrannical, and that imposing accountability to the public and separation of powers was the only way to...

Information scandal continues in BC

So, what is what? What information is meant to be public and what private.  What are we supposed to have access to? At least this is a start. Maybe, now the British Columbia government can finally make up their mind about the private and public information collected...

Wikipedia Launches Page Controls To Check Facts

Wikipedia is changing how members contribute to online articles. The current system allows anyone to write and edit articles without revision, but will in the future require articles about people and certain organizations to be checked by an editor before they get published. ...

Stupid property owners

The taxes that property owners hate most are the ones that hurt them least and are most likely to be spent for their benefit, writes Gavin R. Putland.–April, 2009–"Land and taxes In any tax jurisdiction, the supply of land is fixed. From the viewpoint of the...