The hard questions need to be answered. What if President Obama secretly agreed with others in the government in 2011 to provide arms to rebels in Libya and Syria? What if the scheme called for American arms merchants to sell serious American military hardware to the government of Qatar, which would and did transfer it to rebel ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: Gun Control Laws Protect Criminals
Criminals like their victims disarmed. The gun control controversy is only the latest of many issues to be debated almost solely in terms of fixed preconceptions, with little or no examination of hard facts. Media discussions of gun control are dominated by two factors: the National Rifle Association and the Second Amendment. But the over-riding ... MORE
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Rand Paul Wants To "Blow Up the Tax Code and Start Over"
by Nick Gillespie. Stop providing the details of your life to IRS. Libertarianish Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky has announced the outlines of an income tax plan that will, in his words, "blow up the tax code and start over." In the Wall Street Journal, Paul writes:I am announcing an over $2 trillion tax cut that would repeal the ... MORE
The 'Simple' Rules For Fighting Federal Asset Forfeiture
by Scott Shackford. Why most don't bother to try. The Heritage Foundation, as part of a multipartisan effort to help educate Americans about our abuse-prone police civil asset forfeiture system, has produced a lovely pamphlet explaining how the whole racket works, complete with an illustrated story. Reason, along with the American Civil Liberties ... MORE
California Property Values Fall As Water Shut-offs Begin
by Mike Adams. Water shut-offs have now begun in California, where government-ordered restrictions are starting to leave large communities high and dry. As CBS News is now reporting, the Mountain House community of 15,000 residents will run out of water in just a matter of days. "The community's sole source of water, the Byron-Bethany ... MORE
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F.D.A. Sets 2018 Deadline To Rid Foods Of Trans Fats
by Sabrina Tavernise. The option reducers are at work again. The Food and Drug Administration
on Tuesday gave the food industry three years to eliminate
artery-clogging artificial trans fats from the food supply, a
long-awaited step that capped years of effort by consumer groups and is
expected to save thousands of lives a year. Trans
fats — ... MORE
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25 Things We Did As Kids That Now Get Someone Arrested
by Daisy Luther. With all of the ridiculous new regulations, coddling, and societal mores that seem to be the norm these days, it’s a miracle those of us over 30 survived our childhoods. Here’s the problem with all of this babying: it creates a society of weenies. There won’t be more more rebels because this generation has been frightened into ... MORE
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Keith Weiner: They’re Coming To Take Away Your Cash
Do banks serve you or politicians? The stories are all over the Internet. Governments are forcing us into a cashless society. Supposedly the pretext is terrorism, and the real reason is to take more control. No doubt more power appeals to politicians, and banning cash seems like the next step after mandatory reporting of cash transactions. ... MORE
Giving Government 'Backdoor' Access To Encrypted Data Threatens Both Personal Privacy And National Security
How domestic spying makes us less safe. The "Crypto Wars" are here again, which means federal officials are doing all they can to limit the technological tools that keep our personal data secure. President Obama and leaders from the National Security Agency (NSA), FBI, and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have been pressuring ... MORE
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Obama's Next ‘Executive Actions’ On Global Warming
by Michael Bastasch. IRS to be deployed. President Barack Obama is preparing to unleash a series of “executive
actions” aimed at boosting the green energy industry as part of the
president’s global warming agenda. Obama is launching a “Clean Energy Impact Investment Center” at the
Energy Department to “make information about energy and ... MORE
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John Stossel: The Anti-Science Left
Putting politics above science. This year is the 10th anniversary of a book called "The Republican War on Science." I could just as easily write a book called "The Democratic War on Science." The conflict conservatives have with science is mostly caused by religion. Some religious conservatives reject evolution, and some oppose stem cell ... MORE
Policing For Profit? It's All The Rage
by Marc A. Scaringi. In Philadelphia, authorities forcibly seize a family's home and evict a mother and father after their teenage son is accused of selling $40 worth of drugs outside the home. Similarly, a woman, who is disabled and caring for her three children, brother and sister, is threatened with the loss of her home after her ... MORE
Jeb Argues Persuasively Why He Shouldn't Be Nominated
from American Thinker. Jeb Bush really wowed me with his announcement speech for President. For one thing, it was in English, and I didn't even have to press one to hear it that way. For another, Bush made a strong, passionate argument explaining why he should not be the nominee of the Republican Party, and I for one was totally ... MORE
Ira Stoll: Hillary's Move To Buy The Youth Vote
Dangerous student loan rhetoric. Hillary Clinton’s big campaign rally over the weekend offered a hint of how she’s going to handle a trillion-dollar question—what to do about demands by Senator Elizabeth Warren and the remnants of the “Occupy” movement for forgiveness of student loan debt. “I believe that success isn’t measured by how ... MORE
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McDonald’s Response To $15 An Hour Minimum Wage
by Farley Elliott. It seems that most of the online restaurant platforms looking to deliver us into the future are primarily aimed at just getting the world to interact less and less in person. Food delivery and personal meal apps are all the rage — and allow anyone to just sit at home in soiled sweatpants forever — as are reservation systems and payment ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: Micro-totalitarianism
Small people have small ways. The political left has come up with a new buzzword: "micro-aggression." Professors at the University of California at Berkeley have been officially warned against saying such things as "America is the land of opportunity." Why? Because this is considered to be an act of "micro-aggression" against minorities ... MORE
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Teenagers Are Losing Confidence In The American Dream
by Joe Pinsker. As government grows, the private economy shrinks. In 1996, when asked a series of questions about the brightness of her future, one high-school senior in an unnamed Midwestern state said, “There’s been extraordinary examples of people that have been poor and stuff that have risen to the top just from their personal hard work … not ... MORE
Susan Stamper Brown: Let's Ditch Political Correctness
It is just tyranny with happy face. Political correctness is a contradiction of reality and distortion of morality that necessitates relentless government intervention devised by those who seek to control our lives. These self-appointed Speech Sheriffs warn us that words spoken outside the imaginary perimeters they've set are judgmental, ... MORE
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Why Buying Drugs Online Is Safer Than On The Street
by Christopher Ingraham. If only reason were a consideration. "There's no way Silk Road could be reasonably expected to reduce
violence," Federal District Court Judge Katherine Forrest said at the
recent sentencing hearing for Ross Ulbricht, the convicted founder of
the Silk Road online drug market. Going into sentencing, Ulbricht's ... MORE
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7 Bad Laws Undone By Good Jurors
A proud tradition of doing right when the law is wrong. What is Jury Nullification? You won’t find it defined in your dictionary or described in your encyclopedia. You weren’t taught about it in school, and indeed it is even considered a crime to tell other people about it in some circumstances. Imagine that for a moment – it is a crime to ... MORE
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No One Owes You Anything
Harry Browne's christmas gift to his 9-year-old. Every once in a while you come across something that really sticks with you. You read the article, and it wrenches your mind in a direction that you are unfamiliar with. It leads to an “ah-ha!” moment. A few weeks ago, I came across one of these. Harry Browne, former Libertarian Party ... MORE
Walter E Williams: Culture and Social Pathology
"Greatest generation" failed to transmit moral values. A civilized society's first line of defense is not the law, police and courts but customs, traditions, rules of etiquette and moral values. These behavioral norms — mostly transmitted by example, word of mouth and religious teachings — represent a body of wisdom distilled over the ages ... MORE
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Steve Chapman: San Francisco Vs Soft Drinks
Politicians want to be your conservators. Its for your own good of course. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has something it wants to say: Fizzy sugar water can make you fat and rot your teeth. 'll pause while you pick yourself off the floor, where you landed in shock at this blinding revelation. Until now, you have probably been pouring ... MORE
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Pope Reveals God Cannot Stop Climate Change By Himself
by Gregg Zoroya. Holy man declares moral imperative to reduce greenhouse gases. Scientists weary after years of often vicious opposition by doubters of their climate-change findings see this year as crucial to the planet's future because of a religious document expected from Pope Francis on Thursday. The rare encyclical, or teaching letter, ... MORE
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There’s No Evidence Of A ‘New Nationwide Crime Wave’
by Radley Balko. Last week in the Wall Street Journal,
Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute posited that we are in
the throes of a “new nationwide crime wave.” She blamed the chorus of
police reform advocates and critics of police brutality since the
Ferguson protest last summer. She claimed the criticism and efforts to
hold police ... MORE
New York Democrats Begin To Realize Minimum Wage Means Maximum Unemployment For Low-Skill Workers
by Novell Rose. It is not about politics, it is about math. It happened in Seattle — pay goes up, business goes down. As Western Journalism reported about the city’s $15-per-hour minimum wage law, an article in Seattle Magazine raised the red flag about the red ink a number of local restaurants would be facing because of the increasing labor ... MORE
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F.J. Rocca: Eric Hoffer's Wisdom
He loved America's fundamental unit, the individual. May 21st marked the 32nd anniversary of the death of American philosophic icon, Eric Hoffer. Although his biography is somewhat murky, there are facts of which we can be certain. Eric Hoffer was a self-educated, deeply sentient observer of not only the American civilization but of mankind in ... MORE
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individualism,
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welfare state,
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Police Raid A Marijuana Dispensary, Destroy Equipment, Eat Pot Brownies, And Joke About Assaulting Amputee
by Ed Krayewski. Public service is a noble pursuit. Cops in Santa Ana, California, donned ski masks to break and enter into a local medical marijuana dispensary, raiding it with guns drawn in a May 27 police action. They then proceeded to remove surveillance cameras and recording equipment, but they didn't remove it all. Video from a camera ... MORE
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government,
law enforcement,
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Brendan O'Neill: The Illiberal Persecution Of Tim Hunt
PC continues to run amok. If you were in any doubt that a dark cloud of illiberalism has descended over the Western academy, then the case of Tim Hunt should put you straight. Hunt is a British biochemist. A really good one. In 2001 he won the
Nobel Prize for his breakthrough work on cells. He's a fellow of the Royal Society
in London, founded in ... MORE
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liberalism,
political correctness,
politics,
science,
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Poll: Americans Prefer Neighborhoods That Allow Guns
by Joe Perticone. Americans know what they want — Americans want guns. That’s right. According to the latest poll by Rasmussen Reports, American voters “overwhelmingly” prefer to live in neighborhoods with high gun ownership, as opposed to areas that don’t allow firearms. The polling shows 68 percent of Americans “would feel safer” ... MORE
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