A silent killer of liberty. I recently ran across an old Internet joke that attempts to define the term “political correctness.” The joke reads: “Political correctness is a doctrine – fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rapidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media – which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a piece of shit ... MOREGary Shapiro: Political Correctness Is Hurting America
A silent killer of liberty. I recently ran across an old Internet joke that attempts to define the term “political correctness.” The joke reads: “Political correctness is a doctrine – fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rapidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media – which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a piece of shit ... MOREJim Yardley: A Suicide Pact For Everyone
The partnership of unions and government. The U.S. Department of Labor and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) are taking action to make it easier for union bosses to force non-union plants to organize. This flies in the face of economic reality, although it does fit nicely with Obama's ideology and his re-election campaign strategy. International trade is a fact of ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Time To Tame The Federal Beast
We need a game changer. When the federal government was created, those who risked their lives and their fortunes and their scared honors to secede from England were animated by recent events. The government did not come into existence in a vacuum. Rather, those who led the Revolutionary War joined those who fought and financed it to create ... MOREDavid Harsanyi: Commerce Is The Culture War
Government wants to dictate what people buy and sell. It's always curious to watch the champions of "choice" decide what choices to champion and what choices to dismiss for the common good. If you believe that the Obama administration's decision to force Catholic institutions to pay for and offer (directly or indirectly) products the church finds ... MOREJohn Stossel: Never Trust Government Numbers
Big government rides on the wheels of deception. President Obama said in his State of the Union speech, "We've already agreed to more than $2 trillion in cuts and saving." That was reassuring. The new budget he released this week promises $4 trillion in "deficit reduction" — about half in tax increases and half in spending cuts. But like most politicians ... MORESteven Nelson: New York State Of Mind
Gun amnesty for criminals, felony charges for Marine. Ryan Jerome was arrested and charged with felony gun possession in September during a visit to New York, after unknowingly violating the state’s tough gun laws. As charges pend against the Indiana resident, real-life criminals are permitted to sell illegal weapons to the city for cash, no questions ... MORESteve Gunn: What Is Homeland Security Really Monitoring?
Government fears there is too much liberty in America. Here's some important news I wish you didn't have to read about because it might make you less likely to freely express your opinions. And when Americans no longer feel comfortable expressing opinions, our Constitution and way of life are clearly in peril. It's recently come to light that the U.S. ... MORELee DeCovnick: The Rising Fever Of Despotism
The grim reality of tyranny. Andrew McCarthy commands a well-deserved respect for his insightful and thought provoking discourse on American conservatism. And Saturday's NRO column clearly delineates what many conservatives think about the despotic nature of this administration. The sharply focused conclusion, that tyranny's deadly embrace has ... MOREJohn W. Whitehead: Dawn Of The Drones
Total surveillance state is the path to total control. “To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. It is, under ... MOREDeneen Borelli: Why Voter ID Should Matter To All Of Us
What's more important than the integrity of the ballot box? The Rev. Jesse Jackson and other establishment civil rights leaders scolded South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley earlier this year on Martin Luther King Jr. Day no less, for her state’s voter identification law. They reminded her that her Indian ancestry (Gov. Haley's parents are from Amritsar in India’s ... MORETSA Recipe For Fun: Naked Body Scanner And A Cute Girl
Females are favorite TSA targets. Female passengers say they are being targeted by TSA screeners for sexual harassment, with one Texas woman being forced to pass through a naked body scanner three times so chuckling male TSA workers in a back room could get a good look at her “cute” figure. The incident occurred at DFW International Airport ... MOREErick Erickson: Rick Santorum Is A Pro-Life Statist
What a big government conservative looks like. I’m rather tired of all the people who don’t like Romney trying to claim Rick Santorum is not a big government conservative, or not a pro-life statist. I would support him before I would support Romney too, but I have no intention of giving up ideological and intellectual consistency in the name of beating ... MOREA. Barton Hinkle: Step Away From That Cookie
The food police are prone to exaggeration. “It may be better to live under robber barons,” wrote C.S. Lewis, “than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep...but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” Now there was a fellow who ... MOREFood Cops Say 4-Year Old's Sandwich Not Healthy Enough
Little girl fed chicken nuggets instead. A North Carolina mom is irate after her four-year-old daughter returned home late last month with an uneaten lunch the mother had packed for the girl earlier that day. But she wasn’t mad because the daughter decided to go on a hunger strike. Instead, the reason the daughter didn‘t eat her lunch is because someone at ... MORE
Kenny Tan: One Step Closer To A Police State
America's military police puts liberty at stake. Unknown to many Americans, Ronald Reagan's presidency led to one of the greatest ongoing erosions of individual liberties in our history. Though it was President Nixon that declared the War on Drugs, it was under President Reagan's leadership that the United States launched a renewed offensive in the battle. ... MOREBob Confer: Let Capitalism Decide The Minimum Wage
Free market creates jobs and increases wages. For weeks now politicians in New York have debated ad nauseum Assemblyman Sheldon Silver’s proposal to increase the minimum wage in New York State by $1.25. The argument — whether to maintain the status quo or strive for $8.50 per hour — is wasteful political rhetoric in itself, for the determination ... MOREJim Harper: Government's Surveillance-Security Fantasies
A high cost in dollars and privacy for the individual. If two data points are enough to draw a trend line, the trend I’ve spotted is government seeking to use data mining where it doesn’t work. A comment in the Chronicle of Higher Education recently argued that universities should start mining data about student behavior in order to thwart incipient ... MOREBrian Phillips: Individual Rights And Government Wrongs
The right to the pursuit of happiness means just that. What does happiness mean to you? Does it mean a career that you love? Does it mean a family? Does it mean discovering a cure for some horrible disease? Does it mean building your dream house? No matter your answer, only you can determine what will bring you satisfaction, joy, and happiness ... MORE
George Melloan: Let's Return To The Gold Standard
Curing the disease of debt. The futile search for El Dorado, the city of gold, is the stuff of legends, among them a sardonic poem by Edgar Allen Poe about a knight who wasted his life in that pursuit. At first glance, the quest for something far more substantial, an international gold monetary standard, might seem equally Quixotic in today's world where those ... MOREStephen Dinan: Amish Farm Shut Down For Selling Milk
Your tax money at work. The FDA won its two-year fight to shut down an Amish farmer who was selling fresh raw milk to eager consumers in the Washington, D.C., region after a judge this month banned Daniel Allgyer from selling his milk across state lines and he told his customers he would shut down his farm altogether. The decision has enraged Mr. Allgyer's ... MOREWalter E Williams: Rising Black Social Pathology
A gross betrayal of the memory, struggle and sacrifice. The Philadelphia Inquirer's big story Feb. 4 was about how a budget crunch at the Philadelphia School District had caused the district to lay off 91 school police officers. Over the years, there's been no discussion of what has happened to our youth that makes a school police force necessary ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: The Progressive Legacy
A restoration of discredited ideas. Although Barack Obama is the first black President of the United States, he is by no means unique, except for his complexion. He follows in the footsteps of other presidents with a similar vision, the vision at the heart of the Progressive movement that flourished a hundred years ago. Many of the trends, problems and disasters of ... MORE
VIDEO: Michael Steele On Wealth Redistribution
Socratic interviewer Jan Helfeld brings the former RNC chairman to the bottom line.
Peter Berger: On Blasphemy Laws
Religious groups raise hell over words. In common usage blasphemy means words and actions which constitute an insult to God or other sacred entities. To the modern mind the term may seem obsolete, a leftover from primitive superstition. It is anything but obsolete to many people in the contemporary world. Toward the end of January two ... MORE
Declan McCullagh: No Fifth Amendment In Cyberspace
Helping to build a case against ourselves. American citizens can be ordered to decrypt their PGP-scrambled hard drives for police to peruse for incriminating files, a federal judge in Colorado ruled today in what could become a precedent-setting case. Judge Robert Blackburn ordered a Peyton, Colo. woman to decrypt the hard drive of a Toshiba laptop computer ... MOREJon Entine: Over-Regulation Fever At The White House
Don’t drink tap water. Beware the coming environmental apocalypse. It’s election season, and advocacy groups are turning up the heat on the Environmental Protection Agency. Will the Obama Administration buckle in this über-political time and give in to alarmism? The target du jour is atrazine, the American farmer’s most popular weed killer, but it’s ... MOREMark Steyn: The Church Of Obama
The president has issued his own Act of Supremacy. Announcing his support for Commissar Sebelius’s edicts on contraception, sterilization, and pharmacological abortion, that noted theologian the Most Reverend Al Sharpton explained: “If we are going to have a separation of church and state, we’re going to have a separation of church and state.” ... MORE
NRA: Obama Wants To Outlaw Guns in 2nd Term
Caution: unbridled liberalism ahead. A top official with the National Rifle Association said Friday that President Obama will move to "destroy" gun rights and "erase" the Second Amendment if he is re-elected in November. While delivering one of the liveliest and best-received speeches at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington ... MOREKen Paulson: Citizens Have A Right To Record Cops
Imagine Rodney King in the YouTube era. The beating captured on a camcorder in 1991 was seen on at least 240 TV stations around the world, impressive for pre-digital days, and served notice on law enforcement officers that cameras could capture them at their best — and worst. Today, when laughing babies can yield 42 million views. ... MORESteve Watson: Fox Business News Axes Freedom Watch
Info on how to get Napolitano's show back on. The Fox Business Channel has cancelled one of the only shows on the entire Fox News network that was in any way informative or watchable - Freedom Watch with Judge Andrew Napolitano. In a press release distributed late Thursday, the channel announced that its entire prime-time programming lineup ... MORESheldon Richman: Insuring The Uninsurable
Pitting conscience against coercion. Controversy rages over the Obama administration’s proposed (and later modified) mandate that all employers—including Catholic hospitals and universities—include free contraception in their employee health insurance policies. Catholic officials object that since their church forbids contraception, the decree ... MORE
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