It's big government's favorite (bad) argument. When Edward Snowden revealed that the federal government, in direct defiance of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution, was unlawfully and unconstitutionally spying on all Americans who use telephones, text messaging or emails to communicate with other persons, he ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Giving Up Liberty For Security
It's big government's favorite (bad) argument. When Edward Snowden revealed that the federal government, in direct defiance of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution, was unlawfully and unconstitutionally spying on all Americans who use telephones, text messaging or emails to communicate with other persons, he ... MOREBlack America's True Nemesis Is Not George Zimmerman
by Lloyd Marcus. In the midst of all the racial hullabaloo stirred up by so-called advocates for black empowerment after the Zimmerman trail, guess who is really being harmed? Answer: black America. All of you black pastors, black politicians, and black celebs who have joined Sharpton and the MSM's lynch mob to "get Zimmerman" ... MOREVIDEO: Walter E Williams - The Cruel Alternative
Choosing between losing a sense of morality or losing respect for the law.
Tax Bracket Chart: California's War On The Working Class
9.3% state income tax on $47,000 of earnings. Technically, you don't have just one "tax bracket" - you pay all of the California marginal tax rates from the lowest tax bracket to the tax bracket in which you earned your last dollar. For comparison purposes, however, your California tax bracket is the tax bracket in which your last ... MOREMark Jaycox: Bill Curtailing NSA Spying Loses In Congress
See who voted against your privacy - CLICK HERE. The US House of Representatives came within a few votes of passing a novel amendment that attempted to strike out funding for the highly contentious NSA calling records surveillance program. Under this program, the NSA acquires the records of who you called, when you ... MORERonald Bailey: Freedom Is Good For You
Science provides the evidence. Economic freedom is, as Martha Stewart might say, a good thing. That’s not just my bias as a libertarian: I’ve got science on my side. In a new study published in Contemporary Economic Policy, two of the authors of the annual Economic Freedom of the World Index set out to see how other researchers were ... MORERace Relations Plummet During The Obama Regime
Racial division a calling card of liberalism. Public attitudes about race relations have plummeted since the historic election of President Barack Obama, according to a new poll from NBC News and the Wall Street Journal. Only 52 percent of whites and 38 percent of blacks have a favorable opinion of race relations in the country, ... MOREBrent Bozell: Insulating Obama From His Corrupt IRS
It helps when the media ignores the issue. President Obama is announcing for the umpteenth time he's going to "pivot" to fixing the economy — as if that's ever worked before, since it is he who broke it. That said, Obama will pivot to tiddlywinks if that's what it takes to get out from under his mountain of scandals. On the White House ... MOREDaniel Hannan: Statism Is Turning America Into Detroit
Ayn Rand's Starnesville comes to life. Look at this description of Detroit from today’s Observer: What isn’t dumped is stolen. Factories and homes have
largely been stripped of anything of value, so thieves now target cars’
catalytic converters. Illiteracy runs at around 47%; half the adults in
some areas are unemployed. In many ... MORE
Diane Stafford: Obesity's Becomes Concern For Employers
Fat employees get extra rights. Ignore an obese employee’s request for a larger desk chair and prepare to be sued for violating disability accommodations law. Don’t hire an overweight woman because she doesn’t fit your corporate sales image and face a possible discrimination lawsuit. Call your employee “Fatty” instead of his ... MOREJoseph Farah: Drones, Drones Everywhere
Government eyes will be your constant companion. I don’t know what’s more threatening to liberty and privacy – the National Security Agency’s monstrous eavesdropping efforts and satellite surveillance on American citizens or the plans for massive expansion by local, state and federal governments of spying on us from ... MORERich Tucker: The Right Kind Of Federalism
Americans should be free to choose. Regular elections are a critical feature of American democracy. If
you don’t like the way your town, state, or federal government is
headed, you know you’ll have a chance to change leadership at the ballot
box. Of course, if your state is slowing you up with high tax rates and
slow growth, there’s no ... MOREGrasping for Dignity in the Era of the American Police State
by John W. Whitehead. During a routine traffic stop, Leila Tarantino was allegedly subjected to two roadside strip searches in plain view of passing traffic, while her two children—ages 1 and 4—waited inside her car. During the second strip search, presumably in an effort to ferret out drugs, a female officer “forcibly removed” a tampon from ... MOREBrae Jaeger: Your Place In The Database
Don't think for a moment you're not important. Regarding the American surveillance state, it seems that the truth comes out a little at a time. We learned about the FBI's Carnivore in the 1990s, which the copied internet data of people whom the agency deemed "reasonably suspicious." In September 2001, we saw the worst attacks on ... MOREJohn Stossel: Stalled Motor City
The laws of economics must be racist. MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry — the same TV commentator who said Americans need to stop raising kids as if they belong to individual families — had an extraordinary explanation for why the city of Detroit sought to declare bankruptcy last week: not enough government. "This is what it looks like when ... MOREThomas Sowell: Random Thoughts From Wise Thinkers
Not-so-common sense. "We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish." (F.A. Hayek) "Many respectable writers agree that if a man reasonably believes that he is in immediate danger of death or grievous bodily harm from his assailant he may stand his ground and that if he kills him he has not ... MOREMike Flynn: Congress To Vote On NSA Spying
Is the GOP listening to the American people? The House is considering the Defense Appropriations bill and conservatives in the House are insisting on votes dealing with National Security Agency (NSA) spying, aid to the military government in Egypt and aid to Syrian opposition groups. According to Politico,
Rep. Justin Amash ... MOREDuckDuckGo, PRISM And The New Business Of Privacy
by Ricardo Bilton. One the most valuable things in the world right now is your data. For Facebook and Google, your data is a window into your soul, your interests, and your buying habits. It’s how they can convince advertisers that giving them money makes sense. It’s how they’ve gotten rich. But the rise of data companies has also given birth to more ... MOREShikha Dalmia: Why Detroit Won't Have A Second Act
Crony capitalism and regulations crush entrepreneurs. “I once thought that there were no second acts in American lives, but there was certainly to be a second act to New York's boom days,” F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote. It’s a good thing he wasn’t talking about Detroit. Until the city’s politicos treat its humble entrepreneurs with ... MOREShould The 3rd Amendment Prevent Government Spying?
by Glenn Harlan Reynolds. So a couple of weeks ago, I wrote about
a Third Amendment case from Nevada in which a family's home was
literally seized and occupied by police seeking a vantage point over
their neighbor's home. That case falls pretty much within the literal
language of the Constitution's Third Amendment, which provides:
"No ... MOREIf A Person Cannot Stand His Ground, What Can He Do?
Get beat up would be one choice. If you have no opportunity to retreat, you can stand your ground. If that is "bad law," please provide, Mr. Holder, the "good law." Are we to pull out a rule book if we are pinned to the ground, or may we defend ourselves against someone who is in the process of rearranging your brain cells against the ... MOREWalter E Williams: Profiling
Understanding probability is useful. Police Capt. Louis Renault, played by Claude Rains in the 1942 movie "Casablanca," in the wake of the shooting of a Nazi officer, ordered his men to "round up the usual suspects." Was Renault engaging in some sort of profiling? He may have been, but what is profiling? Let's look at it. We can think of ... MORETSA: Pay More And We Will Grope You Less
Purchase exemption from warrantless airport searches. The government is expanding the ways airline passengers can enroll in an expedited screening program that allows travelers to leave on their shoes, light outerwear and belts and keep laptop computers in cases at security checkpoints. Under the Transportation Security Administration's ... MOREPeter Schiff: Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman Tragedy
When facts collide with preconceptions. The Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman tragedy has become one of those transcendent events that dominates the national discourse and throws light on dimly lit aspects of our society. Obviously, the case touches most closely on issues of race relations, media culture, and the ... MORESamuel Darrett: Avoid Judicial Intimidation
You can judge both the facts and the law. While many opinions have been expressed about the jury acquitting Zimmerman, there is one aspect of the trial that has not been fully delineated, namely the judge's instruction to the jury. What the judge tells the jury usually determines the verdict. Sad to say many jurors, who are unaware of why ... MOREObamaCare Database Worse Than NSA Snooping
by James S. Robbins. Would you trust thousands of low-level Federal bureaucrats and contractors with one-touch access to your private financial and medical information? Under Obamacare you won’t have any choice. As the Obamacare train-wreck begins to gather steam, there is increasing concern in Congress over something called the ... MOREDaniel J. Flynn: The Real Creepy-Ass Crackers
A society of exhibitionists invites a government of voyeurs. If Americans were honest, we would change our national anthem from Francis Scott Key’s “Star Spangled Banner” to Rockwell’s 1984 hit “Somebody’s Watching Me.” The lyric “can the people on TV see me” surely fits America 2013 better than a dated 1814 reference to “the land of the free.” ... MORETSA Conducts Searches On Valet-Parked Cars At Airport
More warrantless searches from the feds. The Transportation Security Administration is directing valet attendants to search parked cars for explosives at a New York airport, according to a report by local television station News10NBC. Traveler Laurie Iacuzza recently flew out of Greater Rochester International Airport and upon returning ... MOREFederal Judge Questions Government Drone Program
by Kevin Johnson. A federal judge expressed deep reservations Friday about the authority of the government to carry out targeted killings of Americans in counterterrorism drone strikes abroad and appeared to reject a Justice Department argument that the courts had no role in one of the most controversial parts of the nation's ... MOREObama Puts His Daddy Hat On, Again
by M. Catherine Evans. Since when is it a president's place to advise people in their personal moral and spiritual journey? For five years, he's been preaching to white people on how they should act. Yesterday, President Obama piped up once again on how the Trayvon Martin tragedy should move us all to be a little less racist. Predictably, he ... MOREBen O'Neill: Internet Fascism And The Surveillance State
It's not about keeping us safe. What is the purpose of telecommunication and internet surveillance? The NSA presents its surveillance operations as being directed toward security issues, claiming that the programs are needed to counter terrorist attacks. Bald assertions of plots foiled are intended to bolster this claim. However, ... MORE
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