The House could make implementation difficult. With the defeat of Mitt Romney, Obamacare dodged a presidential repeal bullet, but serious threats to the sweeping reform of healthcare remain. In fact, given that the most important piece of domestic legislation in nearly fifty years was enacted on a party-line vote, it should not be surprising that as ... MORE
Preacher Fights City's Warrantless Search Requirement
by Bob Unruh. A Pennsylvania preacher is taking a fight over his city’s demand for a warrantless search of his residence to the U.S. Supreme Court, contending the requirement forces him to choose between two fundamental civil rights. The appeal has been filed by the Rutherford Institute on behalf of street preacher and evangelist Michael ... MORE
Glenn Garvin: States' Rights? They Aren't Just For Racists
The people's esistance to federal tyranny. Trying to lend one of his 2008 campaign speeches a little literary heft, Barack Obama borrowed a phrase from William Faulkner: “The past isn’t dead and buried. In fact, it isn’t even past.” Four years later, the president may be considering himself, however ruefully, a prophet. For it looks like much of his second ... MORE
George Neumayr: Enlightened Bribery
What Lincoln and Obama share in common. "A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul," said the English writer George Bernard Shaw. Mitt Romney would agree. His post-election analysis of Obama's success at bribing voters ran along the same lines. "What the president's campaign did was focus on ... MORE
John Stossel: About That Fiscal Cliff
It's less frightening than the bankruptcy cliff. Yikes, we're headed toward a fiscal cliff! It will crush the
economy! Or so the media and politicians tell us. The "cliff" is a series of tax increases and budget cuts that automatically go into effect Jan. 1 unless Congress acts. Will Congress act? It will! I see the future: The politicians will meet ... MORE
TSA Exposes Breast Of Congressman's Teen Relative
by Jim Kane. A TSA screener exposed the breasts of the teen grandniece of a member of the House of Representatives, before she boarded a plane at LAX for a trip with her church group. Texas Rep. Ralph Hall's grandniece was apparently subjected to frontal nudity during the intrusive "pat-down" she received from an airport thug. ... MORE
Wayne Crews: Regulation In The Obama Administration
However you slice, it's a turkey. President Barack Obama will pardon a plump Thanksgiving turkey this week. Presentation of a turkey is a 65 year old ritual, courtesy of the National Turkey Federation and the American Egg Board. Before the first President Bush’s decision to pardon, they’d often as not just eat the thing. A reprieve for a fat and ... MORE
Jacob Sullum: Drug Dealing And Legal Stealing
Is motel owner responsible for the behavior of guests? At the Cosmopolitan, a luxury
hotel and casino in Las Vegas, "just the right amount of wrong" is
the naughty fun you get for $200 a night. At the $57-a-night Motel
Caswell in Tewksbury, Massachusetts, just the right amount of wrong
is what the federal government says it needs to take the business ... MORE
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Michael J. Hurd: Magical Thinking Won't Stop The Layoffs
It's about mind, reality and ethics. Associated Press and FoxNews.com reports: Medical supply giant Stryker is the latest company to announce job cuts in anticipation of coming costs associated with Obamacare, even though the man who inherited a fortune from the company’s founder is a fan. The company will cut 1,170 jobs, or ... MORE
Diane Dimond: America's War On Drugs Sputters To An End
A positive appraisal. I'm going to make a bold prediction. America's War on Drugs is now officially over. Oh, no one in Washington is going to make any sort of announcement to confirm this but take it from me -- our four-decades-old drug war strategy is now formally kaput. To be entirely honest, it has been sputtering along for years now accomplishing little and ... MORE
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Paul Driessen: Global Warming Hysteria Will Kill Jobs
Fracking myths threaten U.S. economy. Horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing have boosted shale gas production from zero a few years ago to 10 percent of all U.S. energy supplies in 2012, observes energy analyst Daniel Yergin. It has increased U.S. oil production 25 percent since 2008 despite more federal land and resource withdrawals, ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: Hotels And Hassles
Few things can make you appreciate home like a hotel.
This includes not only low-budget, bare bones hotels but also sweepingly
large and ornate luxury hotels. What many hotels seem to have in
common are needless hassles. Since most people who stay in hotels do so while traveling, and stay
only a few days in a given hotel, you might ... MORE
Mark Mitchell: Is The TSA Killing Us?
More take to the dangerous roads to avoid TSA hassle. As we enter into the busiest travel time of the year, long lines at airport security are among the many peeves travelers will encounter. Some who seek to avoid the inconvenience of air travel will pack up their cars and hit the road. According to AAA, more Americans will be traveling ... MORE
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Thomas Sowell - Killing The Goose
Incentives for destruction. Killing the goose that lays the golden egg is one of those old fairy
tales for children which has a heavy message that a lot of adults should
listen to. The labor unions which have driven the makers of Twinkies
into bankruptcy, potentially destroying 18,500 jobs, could have learned
a lot from that old children's fairy tale. ... MORE
State By State, A Nullification Domino Effect
by Joel Poindexter. Throughout the Cold War, the prevailing fear of United States government was the domino effect. Simply put, if even one country fell to communism, it could start a chain reaction that would quickly consume the remainder of the free world in a totalitarian dragnet. This led to a doctrine of containment, wherein the U.S. government would ... MORE
Veronique De Rugy: Republicans Are Military Keynesians
When it's defense, Republicans believe in spending. In September, Mitt Romney launched a series of TV commercials promising to protect and create jobs by preventing the military spending cuts mandated in a bipartisan 2011 deficit reduction agreement. “Here in Virginia,” one ad says, “we’re not better off under President Obama. His defense ... MORE
Walter E Williams - Democracy And Majority Rule
Constitutional ignorance exploited. President Barack Obama narrowly defeated Gov. Mitt Romney in the popular vote 51 percent to 48 percent. In the all-important Electoral College, the difference was larger, with Obama winning 303 electoral votes and Romney 206. Let's not think so much about the election's outcome but instead ask: What's so good about democracy ... MORE
Warren Beatty: Why The Secession Petitions?
The states are not so united. President Barack Hussein Obama is not the first president to be faced with secession. The most famous secession that resulted in the Civil War was, first and foremost, about economics. Today we are witnessing the same reason cited for the various secession petitions -- economics. Derrick Belcher, who started the Alabama secession ... MORE
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Marlo Lewis: The EPA vs. State Economies
Driving up the price of corn. On Friday, the Environmental Protection Agency rejected petitions from the governors of Georgia, Texas, Arkansas, Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico, and North Carolina to suspend the biofuel-blending requirements established by the federal renewable fuel standard (RFS) program. This program requires refiners to blend increasing ... MORE
Gary North: An Anomaly In American History
Ron Paul's farewell address. On Wednesday, November 14, Ron Paul delivered his final speech at the podium of the United States House of Representatives. It was covered by C-SPAN live, and was later posted on C-SPAN's site. It was soon posted on YouTube, and from there was posted on numerous sites. Within hours, various media outlets began to ... MORE
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D.J. Garth: The Secession Obsession
Why so many are more than hoping for change. As of the 13th of November, there are 70,983 signatures on a petition asking the Obama administration to allow Texas to peacefully secede from the union. For an updated tally, you can check the We the People page of the White House website. Personally, I don't quite think it is sane to be talking ... MORE
David Catron: The States Last Stand Against ObamaCare
Battling a lawless federal government. Last July, I wrote that the states still had the power to kill Obamacare, despite the Supreme Court's gross dereliction of duty in Florida v. HHS. My point was that the insurance exchanges required by PPACA are the key to its success or failure, and that the law grants the states enormous power in the way they are ... MORE
Katie Kieffer: Counting Your Blessings, Backwards
Ten, nine, eight … what do you appreciate? When life seems crazy or hopeless, count your blessings backwards—that is, find something to be thankful for in the midst of darkness. It is reverse psychology for adults. Think of the most onerous regulation or politician in your life and find one reason you are thankful for this trial. For example, ... MORE
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OC Register: Welfare, In Its Many Forms, Mushrooms
Welfare incentives have been wildly successful. The United States spent $61,000-plus last year supporting welfare programs for each household in poverty, according to U.S. Census, Office of Management and Budget and Congressional Research Services data. If the money had been handed directly to those families, they would have arrived in the middle ... MORE
How's That ObamaCare Waiver Workin' Out For Ya?
by Michelle Malkin. Exactly two years ago this week, the Obama administration announced it had issued more than 100 waivers en masse to a select group of companies, unions and other health insurance providers seeking relief from the onerous federal health care law. The Obamacare waiver winner's club now totals 2,000. Where are they now? ... MORE
Peter Morici: Of The Fiscal Cliff And Into The Abyss
A fast track to chaos. Efforts to avert the fiscal cliff offer great drama, but won't solve Washington's budget woes and could precipitate another recession or worse. The Budget Act of 2011 requires the president and Congress to agree on a nine-year $1.2 trillion deficit reduction program, or annual defense and nonentitlement ... MORE
SF Gate: Petraeus Scandal Reveals Threat To Privacy
Where did the checks on government go? All Americans who regard privacy as a fundamental right should be unnerved by the breadth and the detail of a search through personal correspondence in the scandal that brought down CIA Director David Petraeus. For a moment, put aside the question of whether Petraeus and Gen. John Allen, the top ... MORE
FEMA: Welfare Masquerading As Disaster Relief
by Shikha Dalmia. Hurricane
Sandy hadn't even touched down when liberals started blowing
kisses to FEMA, or
Federal Emergency Management Agency, the federal disaster relief
agency. A New York Times editorial declared that the impending
storm proved that the country needs FEMA-style "Big Government"
solutions more than ever. Salon, New ... MORE
Art Carden: Price Gouging In A Picture
What can we say about price gouging? In open defiance of what everyone learns in an introductory economics class about the laws of supply and demand, politicians in New York and New Jersey (and elsewhere, no doubt) are vigorously enforcing their laws against “price gouging” and implementing alternative rationing mechanisms like even-odd ... MORE
Citizens In All 50 States File Petitions To Secede From U.S.
by Jason Linkins. As you may have heard, residents in most of these United States have
used the "We The People" online petition tool -- previously best known
as the primary method that weed enthusiasts used to communicate with high-ranking members of the White House staff -- to file requests to secede from country in the wake of the ... MORE
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