by John W. Whitehead. Imagine living in a country where armed soldiers crash through doors to arrest and imprison citizens merely for criticizing government officials. Imagine that in this very same country, you’re watched all the time, and if you look even a little bit suspicious, the police stop and frisk you or pull you over to search you ... MOREDo Americans Still Choose Freedom Over Slavery?
by John W. Whitehead. Imagine living in a country where armed soldiers crash through doors to arrest and imprison citizens merely for criticizing government officials. Imagine that in this very same country, you’re watched all the time, and if you look even a little bit suspicious, the police stop and frisk you or pull you over to search you ... MOREThis Independence Day, America Again Has a Monarch
by Andrew Napolitano. After a brief holiday last week, I returned to some heavy reading courtesy of the federal government. Some of the materials that I read were gratifying, and one was terrifying. In one week, the Supreme Court told the police that if they want to examine the contents of our cellphones, whether at traffic stops or serious ... MORE
6 Months of Legal Pot In Colorado: More Money, Less Crime
by Laura Pegram. Bad news for drug warriors. With the passage of Amendment 64 in November 2012, Colorado made history and became one of the first two states to approve legal regulation of the cultivation, manufacture and sale of marijuana for adults 21 and over. Colorado has become a proving ground to demonstrate the positive impacts ... MORE
Cal Thomas: America's DNA: 'The Federalist Papers'
Reclaiming the promise of America. There are many ways to lose freedom -- conquering armies, surrendering without a fight. Unfortunately, we are currently surrendering our freedom, not to a foreign power, but to our own government. The growth, reach, and cost of big government is happening before our eyes and eroding ... MORERobert Taylor: 5 Loners & Introverts Who Changed History
Mencken-Rand-Tesla-Mises-Solzhenitsyn. In a time dominated by flashes of celebrity, screaming talking heads on
TV, and cities that don’t sleep, introverts and loners have few places
to fit in. But as Laurie Helgoe argues in Psychology Today, those that are slightly uncomfortable with a noisy culture often have the biggest impact on society. ... MORENick Gillespie: The Shittiest President Since World War II
The survey says: The
folks at Quinniapiac College have just released a new poll that
must surely be making the rounds of the White House bunker. After
talking to about 1,500 registered voters nationwide, Quinniapic
finds that one-third of Americans rate Barack Obama as the worst
president since 1945. Another 28 percent say George W. ... MOREThomas Sowell: America's Birthday
What are we celebrating? Birthdays are supposed to be times for celebration and gift-giving. But America's upcoming birthday on the Fourth of July is a time when the gift most needed is an urgent warning about the dangers of losing the things that have made this country America — and have long made "America" a ringing word of ... MOREThousands Of Americans Subject To Warrantless Searches
by Kristian Foden-Vencil. The U.S. Intelligence community has informed Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden that it has searched the information of thousands of Americans as part of its foreign surveillance efforts. The searches happen when the government targets a foreigner and Americans get swept up. Wyden says that means e-mails, phone calls ... MOREJ.D. Tucille: Americans Feel Less Free—And They're Right!
Government is the problem. Over the past eight years, the share of Americans
who feel satisfied with the amount of freedom in their lives has
plummeted from 91 percent to 79 percent, according to a Gallup
survey. That may explain earlier polling that found widespread
perception that the
government itself is the largest problem facing ... MOREJohn Stossel - "Crapitalism!"
The game of political power. There's capitalism, and then there's "crapitalism" — crony capitalism. Capitalism is great because it lets entrepreneurs raise money so they can scale up and get their products and services to more people. If there is free competition, innovators with the best ideas raise the most money, and the best and cheapest ... MORELaw Review: Loss Of Assets Shines Light On Civil Forfeiture
by Chris Mondics. Police have incentive to legally steal. At once tidy and stalwart, but pockmarked, too, with its share of boarded-up homes, Elizabeth Young's neighborhood in the Cobbs Creek section of West Philadelphia is the epitome of urban grit. No one would mistake this tough patch of the city for a hotbed of real estate action. ... MOREWalter E Williams: Economic Freedom
Another thing Obama fails to understand. A couple of years ago, President Barack Obama, speaking on the economy, told an audience in Osawatomie, Kansas: "'The market will take care of everything,' they tell us. ... But here's the problem: It doesn't work. It has never worked. ... I mean, understand, it's not as if we haven't tried this theory." ... MOREWhat Americans Need to Know About the History of Spying
Spying has always been used to crush dissent. Americans are told that we live in a “post-9/11 reality” that requires mass surveillance. But the NSA was already conducting mass surveillance prior to 9/11 … including surveillance on the 9/11 hijackers. And top security experts – including the highest-level government officials and the ... MORESteve Watson: Police State USA 2014 - Oregon Celebrates Independence Day… With ‘No Refusal’ Blood Checkpoints
And you thought police protect individual liberty? During Independence Day weekend, a time to celebrate US freedom and
unalienable rights, Americans in Oregon will be subjected to a “blitz”
of ‘no-refusal’ blood-draw checkpoints, as part of a disturbing trend
that now extends nationwide. Local news station KVAL reports that ... MOREThomas Sowell: A Lame Duck Country?
Constitutional contempt for all to see. Pundits are pointing to President Barack Obama's recent decline in public opinion polls, and saying that he may now become another "lame duck" president, unable to accomplish much during his final term in office. That has happened to other presidents. But it is extremely unlikely to happen to this ... MOREReport Show Police Using Asset Seizure To Bolster Budgets
by Katie Rucke. The police department's license to steal. The rights afforded to people by the U.S. Constitution do not extend to their property. This means that when a law enforcement official suspects that someone’s property — including his or her car, money, home or gun — was involved in a crime, the official can seize that property and ... MORECops Defend Needless Murder Of Homeowner's Dog
by Ryan Gorman and Jill Reilly. Unbelievable video from the pet owner. Dramatic video has emerged of the moment the owner of a dog shot dead by a policeman searching for a missing boy confronted cops over the killing. Sean Kendall, 27, berated the officers only minutes after his dog was shot in the head last week by a Salt Lake City ... MORECharles Krauthammer: Government By Fiat
The Constitution means nothing to the current regime. The Supreme Court this week admonished the Environmental Protection Agency for overreaching in regulating greenhouse gases. The Clean Air Act covers polluters that emit 250 tons per year (or in some cases, 100 tons). This standard makes no sense if applied to greenhouse gases. ... MOREThe Free State Project: A Libertarian Testing Ground
by Kashmir Hill. Long before billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel dreamed up the idea of a floating libertarian island nation, a 24-year-old Yale grad student named Jason Sorens proposed
a far more down-to-earth experiment for those who wanted to live the
limited government lifestyle: that a critical mass of “freedom-loving
people… ... MOREWalter E Williams: The Education Establishment's Success
Pigeons make for easy prey. Many view America's education as a failure, but in at least one important way, it's been a success — a success in dumbing down the nation so that we fall easy prey to charlatans, hustlers and quacks. You say, "Williams, that's insulting! Explain yourself." OK, let's start with a question or two. Are you for or against ... MOREJohn Stossel: Omission Control
The American Pravda. Reporter Sharyl Attkisson's story sounds familiar to me: A major network got tired of her reports criticizing government. She no longer works there. The CBS correspondent reported on Fast and Furious, the shifting explanation for the Benghazi, Libya, attacks and the bungled rollout of the Obamacare website. ... MOREMeet The 7 IRS Employees Whose Computers ‘Crashed’
by Patrick Howley. A coverup with transparency. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is currently claiming that seven different IRS officials experienced computer crashes that erased their emails and made it impossible for the IRS to cooperate with congressional investigations into the IRS targeting matter. The wave of computer crashes ... MOREGet A Warrant!: John Roberts Gives The Cops A Benchslap
by Damon Root. High Court decides police must obey the Fourth Amendment. The
Fourth Amendment protects our "persons, houses, papers, and
effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures." Today, in the
case of
Riley v. California, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled
unanimously that this constitutional protection extends to ... MORESupreme Court Marches in Lockstep with the Police State
by John W. Whitehead. The U.S. Supreme Court was intended to be an institution established to
intervene and protect the people against the government and its agents
when they overstep their bounds. Yet as I point out in my book A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State,
Americans can no longer rely on the courts to ... MORENanny Uses California Law To Assist In Home Invasion
by James Nye. California today, America tomorrow. The first few weeks she was awesome,' said Bracamonte to ABC News about her squatter. 'She would come places with us, help out the kids. She was really great.' But overnight things changed for the stay at home mother and her electrical contractor husband. 'All of a sudden she ... MORE
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