Democrats have made a living playing blacks. Joe Biden's comment "They gon' put y'all back in chains" has shone a light on a truth the Democratic Party and its adjutants in the media have suppressed for over half a century. That is that the party's electoral victories have been built upon the suppression of the aspirations of many of the ... MORERoger D. Luchs: Hope And Chains
Democrats have made a living playing blacks. Joe Biden's comment "They gon' put y'all back in chains" has shone a light on a truth the Democratic Party and its adjutants in the media have suppressed for over half a century. That is that the party's electoral victories have been built upon the suppression of the aspirations of many of the ... MORETed Nugent: Mitt Romney Was Right About The 47%
Americans are too dependent on Fedzilla. Mitt Romney
hit the bull’s-eye with his comments regarding the 47 percent of
Americans who do not have any skin in the game as it pertains to paying
federal income tax. Facts are facts. Mr. Romney is not backing down. Good. The truth is the truth and it’s long past time someone said it. As I’ve written ... MOREShawne K. Wickham: 'Nullify' To Be Common Refrain In NH
Juries powers acknowledged in the Granite State. Criminal defense attorneys predict New Hampshire jurors routinely will be told they have the right to find someone innocent even if the state proves its case because New Hampshire has passed what appears to be the nation's first “jury nullification” law. Earlier this month, a Belknap County ... MORESenators Join Suit Over Obama's Constitutional Powers
by Stephen Dinan. Republican senators on Wednesday joined a lawsuit arguing President Obama violated the Constitution when he used his recess appointment powers earlier this year to fill several controversial posts. The move intensifies a simmering separation-of-powers battle over Mr. Obama’s executive powers, which Republicans say he has abused during ... MORE
John Stossel - Strangulation By Union
Chicago Teachers 1 School Children 0. The Chicago teachers strike is over, but the public didn't win. Schools will still transfer bad teachers to other schools because it's nearly impossible to fire them. When bad teachers go from school to school, principals call it "the dance of the lemons." It would be funny if those teachers didn't slowly wreck ... MOREMoorad Choudhry: In Defense Of The Free Market
The freedom to choose. I don’t imagine that too many of you would have heard of Easterhouse, a
Manchester band from the 1980s that recorded some electrifying songs
with a strong political content on the (also Manchester-based) Rough
Trade label. They were never on Top of the Pops or MTV. I saw them live a
couple of times, let's put it ... MOREJacob Sullum: The Marijuana Rebellion
Prohibition under attack. By the time the 21st Amendment ended national alcohol
prohibition in December 1933, more than a dozen states had already
opted out. Maryland never passed its own version of the Volstead
Act, while New York repealed its alcohol prohibition law in 1923.
Eleven other states eliminated their statutes by ... MORE
America Being Transformed Into A Giant Surveillance Grid
19 signs. You are being watched. The control freaks that hold power in the United States have become absolutely obsessed with surveillance. They are constantly attempting to convince the American people that we are all "safer" when virtually everything that we do is watched, monitored, tracked and recorded. Our country is being systematically transformed ... MOREDWI Checkpoints Work, But Are They Constitutional?
by Erin Schultz. Last week, we asked a few local bar owners how DWI task force checkpoints affected their business over
the summer, and reader reaction to the piece ranged from vehement
support of the checkpoints to questioning if they are Constitutional or
not. Here are a few comments generated from the issue. Feel free to chime ... MOREMatt Welch: Obama's Weak Endorsement Of Free Speech
Shame on "those who slander the prophet of Islam." Today, President Barack Obama
delivered four pretty good paragraphs to the United Nations about
the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, and the
underlying principles of free speech and
tolerance-of-minority-viewpoints it reflects. In the
as-prepared transcript ... MOREChristopher J. Conover: Study Finds US Slips In Freedom
Overspending, overregulation impedes freedom. Health care policy can be tricky to navigate. One reason stems from the difficulty of measuring its intangibles — differences in the quality of life, for example, or the social value of extending life for a few days. A new report from Canada's Fraser Institute has does the hard work of putting a number on a ... MORECyberbullying Law Threatens Student Speech In N.C.
by John K. Ross. This summer, prompted
by complaints from teachers, North Carolina legislators passed a
law
criminalizing student-on-teacher cyberbullying. The measure creates
a Class 2 misdemeanor—on par with simple assault or resisting
arrest and punishable by up to 60 days in jail or a $1,000 fine—for
students who use computers with ... MORE
Julian Sanchez: Our Dishonest Debate Over NSA Spying
Secret FISA court rules the Fourth Amendment be damned. The House of Representatives recently signed off on another five years of sweeping warrantless surveillance by the National Security Agency, voting by a wide margin to extend the controversial FISA Amendments Act of 2008. But the debate on the House floor showed that the law’s ... MOREThomas Sowell: Obama Vs. Obama
Obama 2 pulls the curtain on Obama 1. Many voters will be comparing Mitt Romney with Barack Obama between now
and election day. But what might be even more revealing would be
comparing Obama with Obama. There is a big contrast between Obama based
on his rhetoric ("Obama 1") and Obama based on his record ("Obama 2"). ... MOREEyder Peralta: 2012 SAT Reading Scores Lowest In 40 Years
Based on 1.7 million test scores. NPR's Claudio Sanchez brings us this bit of bad academic news: The class of 2012 scored the lowest average SAT reading score since 1972. A bit of good news is that math scores were up. Claudio filed this report for our Newscast unit: "Writing, too, is down nine points since the SAT introduced a writing section in 2006. ... MOREJuror Says Religion Not A Factor In Nullification Decision
A system coming down on peaceful men isn't right. It wasn’t Douglas Darrell’s Rastafarian religion that persuaded a Belknap County Superior Court jury to acquit him of growing marijuana recently, according to a woman who served on that jury. “It was the fact that the system was coming down on a peaceful man, and it wasn’t right,” ... MOREE Spitzer: We Must Defend Even The Ugliest Free Speech
-- Especially when there are riots. At the annual meeting of the U.N. General Assembly this week, plenty of voices will be heard, including that of the hateful president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and not one of those voices will be censored. Rarely has the value of free speech been so threatened. The arc of the unfortunate story is now well-told: ... MOREIra Stoll: Obama's Fact-Challenged Tax Claim
Where are the “fact-checkers” when you need them? On CBS News’s “60 Minutes” Sunday night, President
Obama said,
“Taxes are lower on families than they've been probably in the last
50 years. So I haven't raised taxes.” As of Monday morning, neither the Washington Post’s
Pinocchio-awarding Fact-Checker,
nor the Annenberg Public Policy ... MORE
Katie Kieffer: Economics Of Peace
Freedom allows wealth; wealth allows freedom. How would a free market entrepreneur approach Afghan foreign policy? After all, our politicians seem incompetent on foreign policy given the soaring suicide rate among active duty U.S. military personnel, increasing insider attacks against NATO troops by our Afghan “allies” and numerous civilian ... MOREWalter E Williams - Understanding Economics
Here's a question: If there's a disaster, a war, a severe drought or
some other calamity that restricts future supplies of a commodity — such
as oil, coffee or corn — what is the intelligent thing for people to do
right away? If you said "use less now and try to produce more," you'd
be absolutely correct. That's not rocket science, but ... MOREStanley Kurtz: California's Dangerous Proposition 31
The revolution will not be publicized. We are two months away from fundamentally transforming the State of
California, and barely anyone knows it. With a five to six point lead
in the latest poll, Proposition 31 has a solid shot at passage. The
measure is meant to bail out California’s failing cities by creating
regional super-governments empowered to raid ... MOREWisconsin Raw Milk Advocates Hope For Jury Nullification
Citizens look for tyranny protection. Supporters of a Wisconsin dairy farmer facing a criminal trial for
selling raw milk hope they can turn up interest in jury nullification
among residents of Sauk County who might be seated to hear his case. As Rick Barrett reports in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, a
Washington-based group defending the ... MORE
VIDEO: Heavy-handed Cops Detain Citizens At Gunpoint
Cops pull innocent women and children from their cars for warrantless searches.
Robert Knight: Appeasement Trumps First Amendment
Submitting to mob censure whips up violence. I was driving into Washington the other day when a radio clip of Hillary Rodham Clinton got my attention. The secretary of state was emoting hotly, using terms such as “disgusting” and “reprehensible.” At first, I thought Bill Clinton
might have released a candid memoir, but I soon realized that the ... MORENick Hankoff: NDAA And Its Nullification
Insisting the Constitution be followed. Once the US Constitution is rendered unenforcebale, America becomes a mere wish. A republic of a free people ceases to exist except as delusion. The 2012 National Defense Authorization Act, with its billions in wel(war)fare and military kidnapping powers against Americans on their own soil, marks a sign of the ... MORESteve Chapman: Teachers' Strike Shows Need For Choice
An impediment to innovation, efficiencies and standards. On Monday, Sept. 10, the first day the Chicago Teachers Union
was out on strike, 350,000 public-school students—and their
parents—were left high and dry. But for 52,000 other youngsters
enrolled in public schools, it was just another day of learning.
They attend charter schools, of which ... MOREAvik Roy: AARP Made $2.8 Billion Selling Out Seniors
Why the AARP supported MediCare cuts. As you know if you’ve been reading this blog, Obamacare cuts $716 billion from Medicare in order to pay for its expansion of coverage to low-income Americans. It’s one of the reasons why seniors are more opposed to the new health law than any other age group. So why is it that the group that purports to ... MOREGovernment Dependency Rises, Number Of Taxpayers Fall
Rx for disaster: More spending, but fewer paying. The leak of a video featuring former Governor Mitt Romney (R-MA) has sparked debate about government dependency and the number of people in the United States who do not pay federal income tax. In the video, Romney refers to “47 percent” of Americans and says that they are “dependent ... MOREAbby Simmons: Jury Nullification In Minnesota?
Jury refuses to convict raw milk distributor. A soft-spoken Minnesota farmer was cleared of violating state laws
for distributing raw milk Thursday, a verdict advocates for such foods
called their first major legal victory. After a three-day trial and more than four hours of
deliberation, a Hennepin County jury found Alvin Schlangen ... MOREVIDEO: Robert P. Murphy - Econ Moment QE3
Information is power. This is an important video that all citizens need to watch.
Mark Steyn: Bowing To The Mob
So much for freedom of speech. I see the Obama campaign has redesigned the
American flag, and very attractive it is too. Replacing the 50 stars of a
federal republic is the single “O” logo symbolizing the great gaping
maw of spendaholic centralization. And where the stripes used to be are a
handful of red daubs, eerily mimicking the bloody ... MOREJacob Sullum: Bloomberg's Big Beverage Ban
Paternalistic precedent won't make anyone thinner. Everyone expected that New York City’s Board of Health, all 11
members of which were appointed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, would
rubber-stamp his proposed 16-ounce cap on servings of
sugar-sweetened soft drinks. But at a meeting in June, several
board members zeroed in on the most ... MORE
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