Our president seems ashamed to be American. A hen lays one egg and cackles an hour. A sturgeon lays 10,000 eggs and never lets out a peep. We call it “caviar.” President Obama laid at least 10,000 eggs in his U.N. speech last week, but caviar it was not. They were all rotten. At one point Obama reached probably the worst 60 seconds of his a ... MORE
Guess What Happened When The Police Went On Strike?
by Jeff Berwick. It all started over a month ago, right here in Acapulco, Mexico, when I commented to a good friend, "Have you noticed how much better traffic has been lately?" He responded, "Yes, traffic flow has been so much better... it's because the Transit Police went on strike." It turned out that was the case. The Transit Police in Acapulco ... MORE
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How Liberals Became the New Book Banners
by A. Barton Hinkle. Justice Anthony Kennedy: "Well, suppose it were an advocacy organization that had a book. Your position is that under the Constitution . . . the book itself could be prohibited." Deputy Solicitor General Malcolm Stewart: "If the book contained the functional equivalent of express advocacy."—Exchange during oral arguments over ... MORE
Andrew Napolitano: Clapper Under The Bus
The buck stops there. When President Obama attributed the rise in Iraq of the Islamic State, or ISIS, to the failures of the U.S. intelligence community earlier this week, naming and blaming directly National Intelligence Director Gen. James Clapper, he was attempting to deflect criticism of his own incompetence. He was discussing the fact ... MORE
Nick Sibilla: This Federal Program Lets Cops Seize Cash, Evade State Laws And Keep Over A Billion Dollars
Police incentives 101. John Yoder and Brad Cates, who headed the Asset Forfeiture Office at the
U.S. Department of Justice from 1983 to 1989, slammed civil forfeiture
as a “complete corruption” and “fundamentally at odds with our judicial
system and notions of fairness,” in an op-ed for The Washington Post. Thanks to civil forfeiture ... MORE
Woman Jailed 47 Days For Spahettios-Encrusted Spoon
Another drug warrior just "serving the public." An innocent woman had several months of her life destroyed when she was arrested and charged with a felony because of a spaghetti-encrusted spoon found in her possession. Ashley Gabrielle Huff, 23, had no criminal history and insisted that “there’s no way in hell” that there could have ... MORE
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Does Obama Believe He Should Have Gone To Prison?
from Students for Liberty. As President Obama has admitted since long before entering politics, he’s done his fair share of illegal drugs. In his 1995 book, Dreams From My Father, he wrote that he’d used marijuana and “maybe a little blow[1].” Despite this, he continues to oversee a federal war against others who’ve done the same. What I have in ... MORE
America’s Dirty Little Secret: Sex Trafficking Is Big Business
by John W. Whitehead. Eighteen-year-old Hannah Graham is not the first girl to vanish in America without a trace—my hometown of Charlottesville, Va., has had five women go missing over the span of five years—and it is doubtful she will be the last. I say doubtful because America is in the grip of a highly profitable, highly organized ... MORE
Small Restaurants Feel Pinch of Minimum Wage Hike
by Kevin Mooney. Bad news for mom and pop. As far as Rob Pluta is concerned, New Jersey lawmakers who say they want to help restaurant workers by raising the state’s minimum wage for tipped employees have it all wrong. If Trenton wants to help these workers, says Pluta, who owns and operates Leonardo’s II, an Italian eatery in Lawrenceville, it ... MORE
Anit-Freedom California Nannies Now Ban Plastic Bags
by Fenit Nirappil. Good news: repeal referendum already planned. Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday signed the nation's first statewide ban on single-use plastic bags at grocery and convenience stores, driven to action by pollution in streets and waterways. A national coalition of plastic bag manufacturers immediately said it would seek a voter ... MORE
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VIDEO: Nanny Of The Month - September 2014
The strained relationship of government and transparency.
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John Stossel: It's Better Now
Contrary to what you may see on television. Americans now face beheadings, gang warfare, Ebola, ISIS and a new war in Syria. It's natural to assume that the world has gotten more dangerous. But it hasn't. People believe that crime has gotten worse. But over the past two decades, murder and robbery in the U.S. are down by more than ... MORE
Cop Pulls Car Over for Nonexistent Traffic Violation, Then Tows It To Search For Evidence Of Nonexistent Crime
by Jacob Sullum. Drug war incentives strike Vermont. Last March, according to a
lawsuit filed this month by the ACLU of Vermont, a state
trooper pulled Gregory Zullo over for a nonexistent traffic
infraction, then towed his car away so it could be searched for
evidence of a nonexistent crime. Trooper Lewis Hatch stopped Zullo, a 21-year-old resident ... MORE
California Governor Approves Benefits For Illegal Aliens
by Jonah Bennett. Pass Go and collect $200. Thanks to Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown, millions of dollars of aid
will now be available to California’s illegal immigrants, in order to
help them navigate the complexities of the legal system, the Washington Post reports. Illegal immigrants have been streaming across the the southern U.S. ... MORE
Police Captain: To Avoid Cop Rape, Don't Break Any Laws
by Elizabeth Nolan Brown. In less than two months, three Oklahoma police officers have been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting women while on duty. One of the officers, state trooper Eric Roberts, was accused of raping women he pulled over for traffic violations. In the wake of this, Tulsa news station KJRH interviewed Oklahoma Highway ... MORE
Jacob Sullum: New Survey Data Deflate Two Drug Scares
The drug war is dependent on deception. Survey data released this month by the
federal government cast doubt on a couple of widely accepted
beliefs about drug use trends: 1) that the nation is in the midst
of an escalating "heroin epidemic" and 2) that loosening marijuana
prohibition encourages teenagers to smoke pot. In the National ... MORE
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Rigged Gold Price Distorts Perception of Economic Reality
by Paul Craig Roberts and Dave Kranzler. The Federal Reserve and its bullion bank agents (JP Morgan, Scotia, and HSBC) have been using naked short-selling to drive down the price of gold since September 2011. The latest containment effort began in mid-July of this year, after gold had moved higher in price from the beginning of June and ... MORE
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Jaana Woiceshyn: Business As A Moral Endeavor
The ones who make our lives better. When I tell people that I teach business ethics, I am often told that it is an oxymoron because business cannot be moral. That view is common, thanks to the wide acceptance of altruism as a moral code. The view is also mistaken, and we should be concerned because such a view hampers the ability ... MORE
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Thomas Sowell: Random Thoughts On The Passing Scene
Musings of a genius. What a non-judgmental society amounts to is that common decency is optional — which means that decency is likely to become less common. The biggest issue in this fall's election is whether the Obama administration will end when Barack Obama leaves the White House or whether it will continue on, by appointing federal ... MORE
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A Very Real Introduction To The Growing Police State
by Heather Wilhelm. A few years ago, when my husband and I lived in the Chicago area, we joined a Bible study group through our church. It was a nice, well-mannered, cordial collection of eight couples who met monthly for dinner and discussion. Upon reflection, our approach was a little unorthodox. After about five to 10 minutes of valiant ... MORE
Chef Emeril Lagasse Says Obama May Drive Him Broke
by Brian Preston. Government needs to kick it down a notch. Famed chef Emeril Lagasse says that it’s becoming all but impossible
to be a successful restaurateur in America today. The government just
gets in the way too much. Lagasse specifically singled out the current president’s policies. “It’s becoming a very challenging industry to become a ... MORE
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Walter E Williams: Will The West Defend Itself?
The barbarians at the gate. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), sometimes called ISIS or IS, is a Sunni extremist group that follows al-Qaida's anti-West ideology and sees a holy war against the West as a religious duty. With regard to nonbelievers, the Quran commands, "And kill them wherever you find them, and turn them out from ... MORE
Cynthia Walker: Common Core Is Un-Common & Not Core
Making math hard. I became a math teacher by a circuitous route. My degree is in engineering. I spent five and a half years refurbishing nuclear submarines, and then I quit work to bear, rear, and eventually homeschool our three children. As a homeschool mom, I participated in co-ops, taking turns teaching groups of homeschooled children ... MORE
Henry I. Miller: Life-Saving Drugs And Deadly Delays
Curious incentives on display. The Food and Drug Administration just granted permission for “expanded access” to an experimental medicine for Ebola. It’s OK as far as it goes, but it’s an exception to the FDA’s reluctance to approve the use of life-saving products. Safety and efficacy testing of the drug, designated TKM-Ebola, has barely ... MORE
Allan C. Brownfeld: Highway Robbery By The Police
Civil asset forfeiture. Under current law, government can take your car and everything in it, including cash, tools and electronics, even if you are not charged with any crime. Getting your property back can take many months and cost thousands of dollars in legal fees. A three-part series in the Washington Post in September showed that law enforce- ... MORE
IBD Editorial: Press Helps Obama Censor The News
It's not often that the press exposes its own bias. But a Washington Post story this week reveals both the Obama administration's attempts to censor the news and the media's complicity in that effort. For decades, news outlets have relied on pool reports from a rotating group of White House correspondents who follow the president ... MORE
Fay Voshell: The Unabombers At The EPA
The dangerous true believers. Students of recent history will remember Ted Kaczynski as the man who is responsible for three murders and sixteen bombings over a period of eighteen years. These actions were fully excusable from Kaczynski's point of view. As he dispassionately puts it, “In order to get our message before the public with some ... MORE
Damon Root: Two Jeers For Eric Holder
His real "signature achievement." In
an interview conducted yesterday with The Daily Beast,
outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder cited criminal-justice reform
as his "signature achievement" as America's top law enforcement
official. "After years of over-reliance on incarceration as a
criminal-justice strategy, we finally started to ... MORE
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Ed Krayewski: The Role of the Media in the War on Drugs
The strategic air support. The media's often called the fourth estate. Where's that come from? In the Middle Ages in Europe the first estate was the nobility, the second estate was the clergy, and the third estate was peasants, everyone else. Together the three estates constituted a feudal "realm." The king existed outside the ... MORE
VIDEO: Statism - The Most Dangerous Religion
featuring Larken Rose.
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Lisa Leff: Marijuana Legalization Effort Begins In California
One less victimless crime in Golden State? A national marijuana advocacy group took steps Wednesday to begin raising money for a campaign to legalize recreational pot use in California in 2016, a move with potential to add a dose of extra excitement to the presidential election year. The Marijuana Policy Project filed paperwork ... MORE
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USPS - Where Customer Service Is Always Last
by Katie Kieffer. Bang! Lee looked up from addressing a package while she
waited in line for service at the post office. Despite a lobby packed
with customers—without notice—a postal worker slammed down the service
window gate and went to lunch, leaving Lee and the other patrons to fend
for themselves. The U.S. Postal Service excels ... MORE
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