Public servants or public masters? Let’s say you’re like most people and believe the federal government has become too large, too wasteful, too crooked and too intrusive. Now imagine the morning mail arrives from the money-bleeding U.S. Postal Service ($16 billion in the hole last year) and there’s a letter from the Internal Revenue ... MORE
David Harsanyi: Undermining Our Most Basic Right
This is what happens when you fear free speech. Perhaps these Obama administration scandals (popularly referred to as "so-called scandals" in liberal media circles) lack the explosive drama of a Watergate and the entertainment value of Bill Clinton's peccadilloes, but for those who are less obsessed with the political consequences and more ... MORE
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VIDEO: Thomas Sowell - Congressional Testimony
Thomas Sowell on affirmative action and judicial activism.
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David Beckworth: The Low-Interest-Rate Blues
The Fed continues to make deficit spending easier. One of the most insidious developments in the economic crisis has been the low-interest-rate environment. Short-term interest rates have been stuck near 0 percent for four years, while long-term interest rates have declined to historically low levels. These low interest rates have created ... MORE
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When Congress Voted Down The Fourth Amendment
by Radley Balko. Earlier this month,
President Obama nominated North Carolina Rep. Mel Watt to head up the
Federal Housing Finance Authority. Here's a fun little nugget about Watt
that has little relevance to the job he's seeking, but has lots of
relevance to the current debates over leaks, press investigations,
wiretapping, and such: Back in ... MORE
Bob Unruh: States React To Fed Agenda With Nullification
Fighting back against government overreach. On the heels of a recent
poll that said 29 percent of registered voters believe an “armed
revolution” may be needed in America to restore liberties, a second poll said Americans already have figured out a solution – reject federal laws that are unconstitutional. Now it appears on issues ranging from ... MORE
Zach Weissmueller: Who Decides How You Die?
A question of self-ownership. You may have the right to control your own life, but what about
your own death? This is a question facing several states across the
U.S., including, most recently, Vermont and Montana. While physician aid-in-dying, or assisted suicide, has been
legal in Oregon for almost two decades and legal in Washington
for ... MORE
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life,
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Andrew Napolitano: An Assault On Freedom Of The Press
Government's response to inconvenient truths. The firestorm commenced by the revelation of the execution of a search warrant on the personal email server of my Fox News colleague James Rosen continues to rage, and the conflagration engulfing the First Amendment continues to burn; and it is the Department of Justice itself that is fanning ... MORE
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Eric Holder,
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Barry Farber: Lois Lerner Is The New Chutzpa Champ
Move over Sweet Daddy Grace. Chutzpa is busting out all over. “Chutzpa” is the Yiddish word for a quality possessed by gutsy characters who bristle with unspeakable effrontery, the kind of person who could walk through a revolving door behind you and come out ahead of you. It takes chutzpa, for example, to shoot both parents and then ... MORE
Jacob Sullum: Obama Debates War On Terror With Self
President criticizes his own abuses of executive power. Last week a guy named Barack Obama gave a
speech in which he expressed appropriate concern about the
abuse of government power in the name of fighting terrorism. Too
bad he's not in a position to do anything about it. Obama, who used to teach constitutional law at the University of ... MORE
Ariel Shearer: IRS Targets Medical Marijuana In War On Pot
The tea party has company. For the past several years, the Internal Revenue Service has been systematically targeting medical marijuana establishments, relying on an obscure statute that gives the taxing agency unintended power. The IRS has been functioning as an arm of justice, employing the U.S. tax code as a weapon in the federal ... MORE
VIDEO: How To Build Your Own AK-47
Reporter Bryan Schatz went inside a "build party" where anyone can make a rifle that no cop will ever know about. Read the full story here.
Jeffrey Folks: Christie Conservatism
The president's bulky and ungainly doormat. Once again, Chris Christie has walked the Jersey Shore with President Obama, and once again he has enunciated what his brand of conservatism means. It is not, he said, an attempt to gain political advantage or advance one's ideology. Nothing so ungenerous as that. It's the opportunity ... MORE
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John Stossel: Gas Myths
Plan to drive more this summer? Annoyed by the price of gas? Complaining that oil companies rip you off? I say, shut up. Even if gas costs $4 per gallon, we should thank Big Oil. Think what they have to do to bring us gas. Oil must be sucked out of the ground, sometimes from war zones or deep beneath oceans. The drills now bend and dig sideways ... MORE
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regulation
Teacher Faces Discipline For Informing Students Of Rights
by Jacob Sullum. A
high school social studies teacher in Batavia, Illinois, faces
disciplinary action for informing students of their Fifth Amendment
rights in connection with a survey asking about illegal drug use.
The survey, ostensibly aimed at assessing the needs of students at
Batavia High School, was distributed on April 18. After picking up ... MORE
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Bill Of Rights,
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Fifth Amendment,
freedom,
punishment,
schools,
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teachers
Holder's Judge Shopping For A Fox News Subpoena
by Larry O'Connor, Breitbart News. The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza, a bulldog on the DOJ/Fox News secret subpoena story, reports that the effort by the Justice Department to obtain the controversial court order was arduous, contentious and unsuccessful until finally a third judge acquiesced. The new documents show that two judges ... MORE
Alyssa Berlin: NYC Cracks Down On Sidewalk Cafes
Just in time for summer. Forget the great outdoors. The Department of Consumer Affairs has sent notice to 17 New York
restaurants, telling them that that they will have to close their
sidewalk seating areas unless they are willing to comply with the city’s
zoning regulations. “Please be advised you have 100 business days ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: The Bullying Pulpit
Bullying by government has become the norm. We have truly entered the world of "Alice in Wonderland" when the CEO of a company that pays $16 million a day in taxes is hauled up before a Congressional subcommittee to be denounced on nationwide television for not paying more. Apple CEO Tim Cook was denounced for contributing to "a ... MORE
The IRS Fiasco Is Only The Tip Of The Iceberg.
by Henry I. Miller. You certainly hear some amazing things in congressional testimony. Lois Lerner, the head of the IRS unit that determines whether organizations receive tax-exempt status, claimed last week that she had neither done anything wrong nor lied about her involvement in the discrimination against conservative and ... MORE
A. Barton Hinkle: Obama's War On The Constitution
Where the "change" is focused. A physician’s expertise makes him capable of inflicting great harm, noted Plato a couple thousand years ago, and no one is better positioned to steal than a guard. So perhaps we should not be surprised that the most conspicuous foe of liberty and the Bill of Rights turns out to be a former professor of constitutional ... MORE
Walter E Williams: Americans Deserve The IRS
Politicians must pay for their spending. Individually, Americans do not deserve to be subservient to such a fear-mongering, intimidating and powerful agency as the Internal Revenue Service; but collectively, we do. Let's look at it. Since the 1791 ratification of our Constitution, until well into the 1920s, federal spending as a percentage of ... MORE
Jonah Goldberg: Don't Edit The First Amendment
The press forgets the inconvenient parts. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of
speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to
assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” That's the full text ... MORE
Apple Shows It Is Time To Abolish Corporate Tax
by Evan Soltas. Tim Cook, the chief executive of Apple Inc., came to the U.S. Senate
on May 21 to advocate an overhaul of the nation's corporate tax code.
Tax profits at 20 percent, Cook said, and offer no loopholes, no deductions, no complexities. The
recommendation might seem radical. It isn't. Apple might be a visionary
in consumer ... MORE
George Will: Obama Regime's War On Campus Speech
'Alice in Wonderland' coercion. Barack Obama, vowing to elevate Washington to the level of his
fastidiousness, came from Chicago, where the political machine
inoculates itself from scandals by the proliferation of them: Many
scandals mean merely cursory scrutiny of most. Now, notice the scant
attention being given to an assault on civil ... MORE
IRS Scandal Shows Importance Of Privacy Protections
by Phil Kerpen. IRS apologists are furiously trying to change the subject from the outrageous targeting of political opponents by the IRS to a policy debate over forced disclosure of contributions to groups that engage in political speech. The story is that a deluge of applications forced the IRS to cut corners and the targeting scandal was an ... MORE
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Policing For Profit Is A Civil Liberties Nightmare
by Stewart M. Powell. Federal asset forfeiture is both an effective crime-fighting tool and a civil-liberties nightmare that has victimized many innocent citizens, a Hearst investigation has found. Fifteen federal agencies have the power to seize assets. Over the past dozen years, those agencies have taken more than $20 billion in cash, ... MORE
DOJ Wanted Indefinite Tracking Of Fox Reporter's Email
A chilling effect on a once free press. U.S. prosecutors asked a judge to defer indefinitely notifying a Fox News reporter his email was being monitored in a national security probe, records indicate. Court documents unsealed this week show U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Ron Machen argued in 2010 the normal practice of ... MORE
Uncle Sam Wants You ... Under His Thumb
by Jim Yardley. It's really difficult to keep track of the many ways that the Obama administration is chipping away at the freedoms and independence that were the foundations of our nation, bequeathed to us as a birthright. Let's just summarize the more egregious behavior of our Beloved Leader and his Apostles. Fast and Furious: The ... MORE
Bill O'Reilly: Assessing Blame
Why Kerry looks at us in a daze. So there I am coaching third base for my 9-year-old son's little league team. Man on second, one out. The batter hits a ground ball to third, and the fielder promptly boots it, so I send the runner in to home plate. He's ahead of the ball -- and then, suddenly, the KID STOPS RUNNING! He's tagged out. We lose by ... MORE
Dr. Milton R. Wolf: Tyranny In Our Time
American must repudiate the political class. Americans are beginning to recognize the disturbing similarities between President Obama and the fallen Richard Nixon, but the comparison that may matter more is between Mr. Obama and King George III. “He
has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of
Officers to ... MORE
VIDEO: District Of Corruption (Movie Trailer)
June 17 - 8pm/Eastern, 6pm/Pacific on AXS TV. Channel 340 on Directv.
IRS Scandal Highlights The Dangers Of Big Government
Taxing power as a weapon. It’s hard to believe, but the current tax scandal will eventually fade away just as all Washington, D.C. scandals run their course. It’s easier to believe that the IRS will remain a loathsome and abusive agency, subject perhaps to some reforms and personnel changes that ultimately will do nothing to change its character. ... MORE
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