by John W. Whitehead. How many children, old people, and law-abiding citizens have to be injured, terrorized or killed before we call a halt to the growing rash of police violence that is wracking the country? How many family pets have to be gunned down in cold blood by marauding SWAT teams before we declare such tactics off ... MORE
Edward Morrissey: Americans Are Giving Up on Obama
Relentless incompetence too glaring to ignore. Over the last several months, the American public has had a hard and clear look at the executive talent inside the White House, and has begun to despair for real leadership and competence. When leadership fails, people stop following. It appears in the sixth year of the Barack Obama ... MORE
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dishonesty,
failure,
Obama,
ObamaCare,
performance,
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VIDEO: Should Our School System Be Privatized?
Milton Friedman, Thomas Sowell, William F Buckley Jr.
Greg Young: Legally, The Police Do Not Have To Protect You – But You Will Go To Jail For Not Assisting Them
Public servants or public masters? Just a little while ago, there was a video going around that showed an officer being beaten by a citizen in a fight. The police chief said he was disappointed and surprised that people stood by and let it happen. On the other hand, the video of the guy (who was severely injured) that stopped a knife-wielding ... MORE
Can President Obama Faithfully Enforce the Laws?
by Andrew Napolitano. On the same weekend that the Secretary of Veterans Affairs resigned amidst the scandal of veterans dying before the government's doctors could treat them in government hospitals, on the heels of another revelation of NSA unconstitutional spying in which federal agents have been seizing the digital images of our ... MORE
Why Seattle Is Wounding Itself With That Minimum Wage
by Steve Forbes. Seattle is enacting a $15-an-hour minimum wage, which will destroy jobs, especially for young people, and bankrupt numerous small businesses that operate on tight profit margins. It will drive companies to substitute machines for labor. For example, expect more fast fooderies to put in automated kiosks to process ... MORE
Matthew Harwood: How The Castle Crumbled
“A man’s home is his castle,” the old English saying goes. Since the American Revolution, Americans’ homes have been considered sanctified space. Under the Castle Doctrine, first expressed in English common law, a person’s home — whether it’s a shack or a McMansion — is a protected space that no one can breach without the consent ... MORE
Richard Rahn: How Fracking Saved Obama
The only thing keeping economy afloat. Without fracking of oil and gas deposits, there would have been no economic growth in the U.S. over the past five years. Yet the oil and gas industry has been a favorite whipping boy of the environmental zealots both inside and outside of the administration. Without those brilliant entrepreneurs and ... MORE
Jason Snead: Civil Forfeiture Backfires On Former Sheriff
Former legalized theft advocate changes tune. Sometimes, justice prevails. In January, 21-year-old Sylvia Solano slammed her 2003 BMW
into a brick wall. By the time cops arrived, she and her passenger—both
uninjured—were sitting atop the obstinate barrier, clearly intoxicated.
A breathalyzer confirmed she had a blood alcohol ... MORE
Jacob Sullum: How Cops Became Baby Burners
Horrific collateral damage from the drug war. When Alecia Phonesavanh heard her 19-month-old son, Bounkham,
screaming, she
thought he was simply frightened by the armed men who had burst
into the house in the middle of the night. Then she saw the charred
remains of the portable playpen where the toddler had been
sleeping, and ... MORE
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prohibition,
SWAT,
victimless crimes
U.S. Marshals Seize Local Cops’ Cell Phone Tracking Files in Extraordinary Attempt to Keep Information From Public
by Nathan Freed Wessler. A run-of-the-mill public records request about cell phone
surveillance submitted to a local police department in Florida has
unearthed blatant violations of open government laws, including an
incredible seizure of state records by the U.S. Marshals Service, which
is part of the Justice Department. ... MORE
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cell phones,
deception,
dishonesty,
FOIA,
government,
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warrantless search
John Stossel: Popular Nonsense
Repeat a lie often enough and it will be believed. "Young people are exploited!" "Income mobility is down!" "Poor people are locked into poverty!" Those are samples of popular nonsense peddled today. Leftist economist Thomas Piketty's book "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" has been No. 1 on best-seller lists for weeks (with 400 ... MORE
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capitalism,
economics,
government,
income,
inequality,
invest,
mobility,
poverty,
tax,
wages
Seattle Ignites Robot Revolution With $15 Minimum Wage
by Scott Shackford. Our labor participation rate is
terrible
and our
economy shrank by 1 percent in the first quarter of the year.
So it's the perfect time to raise the minimum wage to a degree
unseen in America before, right? That's what Seattle has done. Yesterday the Seattle City Council
unanimously voted to raise the city's minimum wage ... MORE
Rand Paul Is Right to Oppose Targeted Killing Of Americans
by Chris Edelson. Secret law has no place in a constitutional democracy. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has quite rightly called on the Obama administration to publicly disclose its legal justifications for the claimed power to order the killing, without trial or hearing, of U.S. citizens abroad who are suspected of being terrorist leaders planning attacks ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: The Ambassador And The Post Office
A lesson about capitalism. At one time, people in India had to get on a waiting list to buy Hindustan Motors' Ambassador automobile, even though it was an obvious copy of Britain's Morris Oxford of some decades earlier. The reason was simple: the Indian government would not allow cars to be imported to compete with it. The fact that the ... MORE
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capitalism,
central planning,
control,
government,
incentives,
post office,
production,
taxpayer
Powerful New Painkiller Gives Drug Warriors A Headache
by Tom Wilemon. Government's noble war to free you from pain relief. A powerful new pain medication approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that easily can be manipulated by abusers has officials in Tennessee and other states worried. Called
Zohydro, it’s an extended-release form of hydrocodone that comes in a
capsule ... MORE
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discovery,
drugs,
government,
health,
medicine,
painkillers,
regulation,
research,
restrictions
John W. Whitehead: A War on America’s Military Veterans
Waged with SWAT teams, surveillance and neglect. Just in time for Memorial Day, we’re once again being treated to a generous serving of praise and grandstanding by politicians and corporations eager to go on record as being supportive of our veterans. Patriotic platitudes aside, however, America has done a deplorable job of caring ... MORE
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patriotism,
police state,
sacrifice,
surveillance,
suspicion,
SWAT,
tactics,
VA hospitals,
veterans
Obama Just Found A Way to Make College Cost More
by Shikha Dalmia. University presidents are crying a river over the Obama plan to create a federal scorecard to rate colleges. But their tears might be the only good thing to come out of this plan. Otherwise, it's simply a welfare scheme for students masquerading as college accountability that won't do diddly to make college more ... MORE
4-Year Old's Drawing Sends Dad To Jail
Canada's political correctness continues running amok. It was a kindergarten class piece of art that Jessie Sansone probably won’t want to hang on the refrigerator anytime soon. After Jesse Sansone’s 4-year-old daughter
drew a picture of a gun, cops handcuffed the clueless father and dragged
him off to jail. It was there that the dad ... MORE
8 Ridiculous Laws That Stop People From Helping Others
by Nick Sibilla. No good deed goes unpunished. Dr. Elizabeth Gohl was a dentist in the U.S.
Navy for five years, where she performed hundreds of teeth extractions
on sailors. She left the Navy and moved to Arkansas, where she wanted to
extract teeth for free at a charity event. But the state said no. Even though she is a licensed dentist and an orthodontist, a bizarre law kept her from volunteering. Arkansas is just one of eight states that ban orthodontists from performing basic dental services, like cleaning or removing teeth. The law also ... MORE
Jury Nullification: If The Law Is Bullshi*t, You Must Acquit
Why not go for justice? You and I have the power to end Nixon's failed War on Drugs once-and-for-all. In fact, it's our constitutional right to do so. Imagine for a second that you've been selected as a juror for the trial of someone like Jacob Lavoro, the 19-year-old Austin, Texas man currently facing anywhere from five years to life in prison for ... MORE
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history,
individual liberty,
juror,
jury nullification,
justice,
prohibition,
punishment
VIDEO: John Stossel - Risky Business
Is the American dream dead?
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government,
ideas,
innovation,
jobs,
Obama,
red tape,
regulation,
rules
Barry Farber: How Can 40% Of Us Approve This Failure?
Pope ought to declare Obama's numbers a miracle. To my knowledge, some of the following points have never been the subject of a column before. Does that indicate I own a warped curiosity, or, much more to my liking, have I been kissed by flames of originality? Even though he’s not running for president any more (some fear he’ll find ... MORE
Sign Regulations And The Threat To Free Speech
by S.M. Oliva. In 2006, auto shop owner Wayne Weatherbee decided to expand his business by purchasing a vacant lot that had once held another auto shop dating back to the 1940s. But zoning officials in the city of Clermont, Florida, determined that Weatherbee's plans for the lot clashed with the city's aesthetic agenda and zoning regulations, ... MORE
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bullying,
free speech,
government,
politics,
property rights,
regulation,
restrictions,
zoning
VIDEO: Could U.S. Citizens Pass A Citizenship Test?
A video more about the dumbing down of America than the citizenship test.
School Districts Are Paying To Data Mine Your Children
by Stephanie Simon. The NSA has nothing on the ed tech startup known as Knewton. The data analytics firm has peered into the brains of more than 4 million students across the country. By monitoring every mouse click, every keystroke, every split-second hesitation as children work through digital textbooks, Knewton is able to find out not ... MORE
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data mining,
government,
monitor,
police state,
policy,
privacy,
technology,
tracking
Sheriff In Burned Baby Raid Tries To Dodge Responsibility
by Ed Krayewski. Looks to blame target of warrant for their deeds. CNN has
updates on the story of the Georgia SWAT team that
threw a flash bang while executing a no-knock warrant that
severely burned a nineteen-month-old baby. Habersham County Sheriff
Joey Terrell says the deputies involved are "devastated" and that ... MORE
When Drug Warriors Burn A Baby, Who's The Terrorist?
by Jacob Sullum. Habersham
County, Georgia, Sheriff Joey Terrell feels bad that his deputies
horribly burned a toddler by tossing a "distraction device"
(a.k.a. a "flash bang" grenade) into the playpen where he was
sleeping during a drug raid on Wednesday morning. "The baby didn't
deserve this," Terrell concedes in
an interview with ... MORE
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brutality,
drug war,
government,
law enforcement,
police state,
politics,
raids,
SWAT,
violence
I, Dinner — A Capitalism Lesson Over Burgers And A Beer
by Todd Skelton. A learning moment. Each week, I take my little family out to dinner in a neighborhood
restaurant. It’s nothing fancy, just your standard pub fare. On one
such outing, my kids started grilling me about which charities we
support. I ask what’s behind these questions and it turns out the kids
had been learning about charitable giving ... MORE
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capitalism,
charity,
economics,
entrepreneur,
self-interest,
virtue,
voluntary exchange,
workers
Science: E-Cigs Could Save Hundreds Of Millions Of Lives
As U.S. politicians try to ban the device ... A group of 53 leading scientists has warned the World Health
Organization not to classify e-cigarettes as tobacco products, arguing
that doing so would jeopardize a major opportunity to slash disease and
deaths caused by smoking. The UN agency, which is currently assessing its position on the
matter, ... MORE
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e-cig,
government,
regulation,
restrictions,
science,
smoking,
value,
vaping,
warning
American Soldiers Did Not Die Defending Our Freedom
by Jacob Hornberger. An indoctrination proclamation. I was at the Washington Nationals baseball game last week. Whenever I attend a Nats game, there is an air of militarism surrounding the game, but attending on Memorial Day helps to remind us what a truly militarized society America has become. After all, what in the world does baseball, a quite ... MORE
VIDEO: Nanny Of The Month - May 2014
Busybodies minding YOUR own business.
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government,
individual liberty,
nanny state,
privacy,
regulation,
restrictions,
sex
Matt Welch: When the Left Turned Against Free Speech
The demise of the Free Speech Movement. On March 4, in a designated "free-speech zone" at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), associate professor of feminist studies Mireille Miller-Young walked over to a 16-year-old anti-abortion protester named Thrin Short and demanded that Short take down a graphic sign ... MORE
Judge Napolitano's Lesson On Edward Snowden's Action
On the courage of a patriot. Judge Andrew Napolitano reacted this morning to the NBC News interview
with NSA leaker Edward Snowden, who showed no remorse for breaking U.S.
law to leak a trove of classified documents outlining the NSA's massive
surveillance program. "There have been times throughout American history where what is right ... MORE
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