How Gun Control Is Causing Another European Holocaust
by Pedro Gonzales. When Adolph Hitler got into power, he confiscated all the guns owned by Jewish people. Then, once they were defenseless, he sent them all to concentration camps. Now, in 2015, Jews are being slaughtered again because of their religion. And because of strict gun control laws in Europe, they are once again defenseless. ... MORENew Narcotic Painkiller Rules Put The Hurt To Veterans
by Emily Wax-Thibodeaux. Frequent appointment requirements overwhelm the VA. New federal rules that make it harder to get narcotic painkillers are taking an unexpected toll on thousands of veterans who depend on these prescription drugs to treat a wide variety of ailments, such as missing limbs and post-traumatic stress. The restrictions, ... MOREJaana Woiceshyn: ‘Sensitivity’ Versus Freedom of Speech
Weak minds fear free speech. Recently my MBA business ethics class discussed the case of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo as well as the case of the Danish Mohammed cartoons published in 2006. Somebody also brought up Sony and its movie The Interview. We had just covered the virtue of integrity: loyalty to rational principles. ... MOREWhat If The Government Fears Freedom?
by Andrew Napolitano. What if the current massive spying on Americans began with an innocent secret executive order signed by President Reagan in 1986? What if Reagan contemplated that he was only authorizing American spies to spy on foreign spies unlawfully present in the U.S.? What if Reagan knew and respected the history of the ... MOREHome Surveillance Records Cop Assaulting And Abusing Teen Without Cause; Charges Him With Resisting Arrest
Another criminal with a badge. Police in New Jersey are investigating allegations that one of their own officers roughed up and abused a teenager, and the whole thing was caught on camera. It happened Saturday night. The cop was at the teen's house and the young man ended up handcuffed in the snow in a t-shirt and no shoes. Michael doesn't want us to use ... MOREIlya Shapiro: Clearly Worded Contracts Should Be Enforced
A concept that escapes some courts. Freedom of contract—the right of individuals to manage and govern their own affairs—is a basic and necessary liberty. The appropriate role of the government in contract-law disputes is to hold parties to their word, not to enforce its own policy preferences. The New Jersey Supreme Court recently struck a ... MOREFCC Chair Appears To Be Hellbent On Internet Takeover
by Andrew Johnson. Two prominent House committee chairs are “deeply disappointed” in Federal Communications Commission chairman Tom Wheeler for refusing to testify before Congress as “the future of the Internet is at stake.” Wheeler’s refusal to go before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday comes on the eve of the FCC’s vote on ... MOREForced Blood Draws, DNA Collection and Biometric Scans
by John W. Whitehead. What country is this? Our freedoms—especially the Fourth Amendment—are being choked out by a prevailing view among government bureaucrats that they have the right to search, seize, strip, scan, spy on, probe, pat down, taser, and arrest any individual at any time and for the slightest provocation. Forced cavity ... MORE
The Whiskey Rebellion: True History And Hidden Lessons
What you weren't told about the power of the people. The standard version of the whiskey rebellion story, the one which I believed until I started reading on the topic, goes something like this…. In 1791, the Congress passed a whiskey tax. In 1792, four back-woods counties in western Pennsylvania, unable to cooperate and accept the new ... MOREJohn Stossel: Kochs And Unions
Lots of people sure hate the Koch brothers. The Kochs get death threats like this: "If I had a chance to murder a Koch brother in cold blood, I would surely take it." Jim Dean doesn't want to kill the Kochs, but he does want new laws to limit their influence. Dean's brother Howard was a Democratic presidential candidate, and Dean chairs a group ... MOREChristopher Mathias: NYC Police Commish William Bratton Says Cops Responsible For 'Worst Parts' Of Black History
Pandering attempt fails to impress. New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton acknowledged on Tuesday that police were to blame for "many of the worst parts of black history" in the United States. Yet advocates for police reform say the comments are merely lip service from an official who continues to reinforce the city's ... MORERonald Bailey: The Red Meat, Eggs, Fat And Salt Diet
Government nutrition nannies get it wrong. Progressives tend to believe that government knows best. The unfolding fiasco over government nutrition misinformation should give them pause. For years now the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been recommending that "everyone age 2 and up should consume less than 2,300 ... MOREWhy Should Non-Criminals Care About Justice Reform?
by Julie Borowski. Criminal justice reform has been a hot topic lately. It’s something that both Republicans and Democrats can find common ground on. However, I get the sense that many Americans aren’t convinced that it would benefit them personally. Most of us are probably law-obeying citizens whom would never dream of being involved in illicit ... MOREEdward Snowden's Libertarian Moment: We "Will Remove From Governments The Ability To Interfere With Rights"
by Nick Gillespie. Via
Mark
Sletten comes this thread from yesterday's
Ask Me Anything session at Reddit that featured Edward Snowden,
Oscar-winning documentarian Laura Poitras, and journalist Glenn
Greenwald. The question posed
to Snowden: What's the best way to make NSA spying an issue in the 2016
Presidential Election? It seems like while it was ... MOREPeter Schroeder: Yellen Strongly Opposes Audit Of The Fed
Keeping us peons in the dark. Janet Yellen made a lengthy case Tuesday against legislation to “Audit the Fed.” Yellen
argued that legislation offered by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) would make
the Fed less effective and, as a result, harm the U.S. economy as well. “I
want to be completely clear that I strongly oppose ‘Audit the Fed,’”
she ... MOREPolice State Update: Florida Cops Deployed Warrantless 'Stingray' Cell Phone Surveillance More Than 1,800 Times
A relentless war on personal privacy. Law enforcement officials in Florida have used ‘Stingray’ surveillance to track cell phone locations on more than 1,800 occasions, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). And they did it without obtaining warrants. The discovery was made after the ACLU fileda public records request with over ... MOREBob Livingston: Tyranny And America's Moral Decline
Pushing the collective agenda. Whenever government establishes special “rights” or “privileges” for a perceived aggrieved class (also called a minority class), it does so at the expense of the rights of others. It inevitably leads to law, logic and reason being tied into undecipherable knots, contributes to the power and collectivism of government, ... MOREMarijuana May Be Even Safer Than Previously Thought
by Christopher Ingraham. Compared to other recreational drugs -- including alcohol --
marijuana may be even safer than previously thought. And researchers may
be systematically underestimating risks associated with alcohol use. Those are the topline findings of recent research published in the journal Scientific Reports, a subsidiary ... MOREL.L. Braiser: The Law That Allows Cops To Raid Homes, Steal Money & Seize Property From The Innocent, Elderly
The state of the American police state. Thomas Williams was alone that November morning in 2013 when police raided his rural St. Joseph County home, wearing black masks, camouflage and holding guns at their sides. They broke down his front door with a battering ram. "We think you're dealing marijuana," they told Williams, a 72-year-old, retired ... MOREWalter E Williams: The Cancer Of Multiculturalism
The false premise of moral relativism. President Barack Obama surprised many at the National Prayer Breakfast when he lectured us, "Lest we get on our high horse and think this (barbarity) is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ." Obama went ... MOREObama Thanks Big Government Republican Governors Like John Kasich For Caving To Obamacare Medicaid Expansion
by Charlie Spiering. Stampede of the RINOs. Speaking to governors at the White House, President Obama pointedly praised Republican governors that caved to his Obamacare plan of expanding Medicaid. “I want to thank all the governors, Democrats and Republicans, supporters and some opponents of the ACA who have expanded Medicaid to millions ... MOREThomas Sowell: Giuliani Versus Obama
We all attempt to transform that which we love, right? The firestorm of denunciation of former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani, for having said that he did not think Barack Obama loved America, is in one sense out of all proportion to that remark — especially at a time when there are much bigger issues, including wars raging, terrorist ... MORETyler Durden: Alan Greenspan Is Warning Of A Significant Market Event; Predicts Gold To Go Measurably Higher
"Something big is going to happen." With the Federal Reserve printing trillions upon trillions of dollars to keep the economic system afloat, many investors and financial pundits have surmised that the fundamental economic problems facing the United States during the crash of 2008 have been resolved. Stocks are, after all, at historic ... MOREIn The Public Service: Cops Break Into Home And Kill 74-Year-Old Man After Relative Requests Well-Visit Check
by Elisabeth Arriero. Gastonia police sent to check on the welfare of a 74-year-old man shot and killed him in his home late Saturday after he confronted them with a gun, police said. Police were called to the home of James Howard Allen about 10 p.m. Saturday because a relative of Allen’s in Anson County was worried about his condition, Gastonia ... MOREJonah Bennett: Legal US Weed Is Killing The Drug Cartels
The free market will always defeat the black market. The growth of the U.S. marijuana industry has devastated drug cartels
in Mexico, evidenced by fewer seizures of cannabis at the border and,
according to Mexican security forces, a drop in total homicides and
domestic marijuana production rates. Mexican drug cartels ... MOREKen Silva: The Government's War On Freedom Of The Press
Transparency in the crosshairs. The U.S. plummeted to a dismal 49th place on the Reporters
Without Borders annual Press Freedom Index,
marking the country’s second lowest ranking since the list was
created in 2002 and its lowest since 2006. Other countries ranked
in the 40s and 50s include Haiti, Mongolia, and Chile. The index cited “judicial ... MOREStepen Dinan: White House That Promised Transparency Refuses To Cooperate With The Congressional IRS Probe
How to behave when the truth is not on your side. The White House told Congress
last week it refused to dig into its computers for emails that could
shed light on what kinds of private taxpayer information the IRS shares with President Obama’s top aides, assuring Congress that the IRS will address the issue — eventually. The tax agency has ... MOREObama Not Done With Unilateral Moves On Gun Control
by Michael F. Haverluck. Unloading his latest round of gun-control legislation, President
Barack Obama's executive fiat is poised to stop Americans from buying
and selling a traditional form of ammunition that has been one of the
country's favorites for generations — the .223-caliber "green-tipped"
bullet. It's commonly used in an array of rifles ... MORETransforming The Food System: Plan Aims To Tax Deserts, Monitor Activity, Impose Plant-Based Diets & Much More
by Elizabeth Harrington. Govt scheme to begin as guidelines. The federal committee responsible for nutrition guidelines is calling
for the adoption of “plant-based” diets, taxes on dessert, trained
obesity “interventionists” at worksites, and electronic monitoring of
how long Americans sit in front of the television. The Dietary Guidelines ... MORENo Consequences For Cop Who Killed Innocent Cooperative Man Standing In His Own Home With His Hands Raised
White privilege didn't protect John Geer. That's not to say he didn't have it. As a middle-class kitchen designer living in the pleasant Washington suburb of Fairfax, Va., he had nothing whatsoever in common with the impoverished black men killed by police in Missouri and Brooklyn last year. Those deaths triggered riots, marches and ... MORE
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