A Special New Years Day Radio Show 01/01/2013

Uncooperative Radio Show Notes: New Years Day: 01/01/1213

Poll: Majority of Americans Have a Favorable Opinion of the NRA

Fifty-four percent of Americans said they have a favorable opinion of the NRA, while 38 percent have an unfavorable opinion, according to a USA Today/Gallup Poll conducted Dec. 19-22.

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/poll-majority-americans-have-favorable-opinion-nra

China requiring people to visit their aged parents

Visit your parents. That's an order.

So says China, whose national legislature on Friday amended its law on the elderly to require that adult children visit their aged parents "often" — or risk being sued by them.

http://news.msn.com/world/china-requiring-people-to-visit-their-aged-parents

Death of Tea Party appears exaggerated, members in House appear to hold key fiscal vote

The Tea Party has had an up-and-down political ride since the movement helped Republicans take control of the House in 2010, but those elected in the midterm elections still appear to wield considerable power in the fiscal negotiations.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/12/29/death-tea-party-appears-exaggerated-members-in-house-appear-to-hold-key-fiscal/

The Story of the Mises Institute

The Mises Institute comes at both economic scholarship and applied political philosophy from a very different perspective. It believes that "policy analysis" without principle is mere flim-flam and ad-hocery—murky political conclusions resting on foundations of sand.

http://mises.org/daily/6324/The-Story-of-the-Mises-Institute