How Government Poisoned The People Of Flint
by John Counts. Flint water has poisoned more than just its children. It's poisoned the citizenry's faith in government, which is supposed to provide safe drinking water, one of life's most basic essentials. Just ask Pete Nichols who was picking up bottles of water from a downtown fire station on a recent weekday. "Somebody needs to go to jail for ... MORETerence P. Jeffrey: Can The Government Force You To Fund The Agenda Of GOP -- Or That Of A Teachers Union?
In a free country, the answer is obvious. Yet in the Supreme Court last week, it was up to Justice Antonin Scalia to ask the question. "Is it OK to force somebody to contribute to a cause that he does believe in?" Scalia asked. Note: Scalia did not ask if it is OK to force somebody to contribute to a cause he does not believe in. "I wouldn't think, ... MOREAdam B. Summers: Killing The Golden Goose Of Capitalism
Be careful what you wish for. The financial world, and quite a few employees, were taken aback recently when Wal-Mart announced that it will be closing 269 of its 11,600 stores, including 154 in the U.S., although it still plans to open 300 stores worldwide in the coming year. Oakland officials “expressed shock” at Wal-Mart’s decision, according ... MOREWhat Some Think As Law-Abiding Is Really Jackass Abiding
by Paul Hein. If you were to ask people on the street, “Are you law-abiding?” the vast majority would say, some with evident pride and self-righteousness, “You bet I am!” A smaller percentage would say, after some hesitation, “Sure, I guess I am,” and a very few might grimace and say, “Only when I have to be!” Thank God for this last group! ... MORE
Americans Say Colleges Should “Punish” Offensive Speech
by Jeff Scully. The slave mentality has taken root in the USA. A total of 53 percent of Americans think colleges should punish
students that make racially offensive statements. That’s the finding
from a recent poll conducted by YouGov for the Huffington Post. Troublingly, the poll, in its five questions, never bothers to define
what the form of ... MOREMelody Gutierrez: Jerry Brown's Scheme To Grow Welfare And Fix Roads Will Cost California Taxpayers Big Time
$7 billion more to be spent on IHSS welfare expansion. Gov. Jerry Brown doubled down on his calls for fiscal prudence as he delivered a State of the State speech Thursday that recounted what California has accomplished and proposed little in the way of new policies or programs. Instead, Brown said his focus this year will be on how the state ... MORE
High Price Of Principles: Ted Cruz And Rand Paul Will Pay In Iowa For Their Failure To Pander To The Ethanol Lobby
by Alexander Bolton. Sens. Ted Cruz (Texas) and Rand Paul (Ky.) are trying to avoid an ethanol landmine in Iowa. Both Republican senators have criticized federal subsidies for ethanol, which are popular in Iowa, the state hosting the first Republican contest in the 2016 race for the White House. Iowa kingmakers in the party such as Sen. Chuck ... MOREJohn W. Whitehead: Free Speech In An Age Of Government Bullies, Corporate Censors And Compliant Citizens
Free speech is not for the faint of heart. Nor is it for those who are easily offended, readily intimidated or who need everything wrapped in a neat and tidy bow. Free speech is often messy, foul-mouthed, obscene, intolerant, undignified, insensitive, cantankerous, bawdy and volatile. Unfortunately, our appreciation for a robust freedom ... MOREIf You Support Trump, You May Be An Authoritarian
by Scott Shackford. Reason has not been shy
about pointing out Donald Trump's lack of interest in liberty and
freedom in what motivates his so-far-extremely-successful campaign for
president (check out Damon Root's cover story from our December issue). That Trump would appeal to authoritarians should come as no surprise.
His campaign is ... MOREKirsten Powers: Can Hillary Take '13 Hours' Of Truth?
Some creatures just hate the sunlight. Democratic partisans have seized on the new movie 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, which portrays the fateful night that left four Americans, including a U.S. ambassador, dead. They’ve gone on the attack against what director Michael Bay describes in the opening scene as a “true story” as ... MORE
How The Obama Administration Helped Arm El Chapo
by Keith Farrell. When the infamous Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman
was captured, he was found to be in possession of one of the rifles from
the Obama administration’s defunct Fast and Furious program. Fox reports: After the raid on Jan. 8 in the city of Los Mochis that
killed five of his men and wounded one Mexican marine, ... MOREJohn Stossel: Economic Myths
Economic ignorance sells. Hillary Clinton: "Of course we want to raise the minimum wage!" Donald Trump: If we trade with China, "they suck us dry ... take everything. We get nothing!" Bernie Sanders: "Ordinary Americans are working longer hours for lower wages." But it's not true! Politicians are so ignorant about economics. On his blog, Cafe ... MORE10 Reasons That Show Global Warming Is Not Man-Made
by Mike van Biezen. Physics Prof explains his switch to skepticism. It made sense. Knowing that CO2 is a greenhouse gas and that our industrialized world is adding a large amount of it to the atmosphere on a yearly basis, I accepted the premise that this would cause global temperatures to rise. But one day about 7 years ago, I looked ... MOREThomas Sowell: What Are Elections For?
Donald Trump and the insight of Eric Hoffer. After months of watching all sorts of political polls, we are finally just a few weeks away from actually beginning to see some voting in primary elections. Polls let people vent their emotions. But elections are held to actually accomplish something. The big question is whether the voters themselves ... MORESheldon Richman: This Is Where The State Leads
Who does the system serve, you ask? Government is more than a territorial monopoly on aggressive force. It's also the heir to a centuries-old manufactured mystique, reinforced through its schools and other institutions, regarding its sanctity and sacrosanctity. The mystique is generated by and tends to manifest itself in the dogma that ... MOREWalter E Williams: Blacks And The Confederacy
The War of 1861 was not about freeing slaves. Last July, Anthony Hervey, an outspoken black advocate for the Confederate flag, was killed in a car crash. Arlene Barnum, a surviving passenger in the vehicle, told authorities and the media that they had been forced off the road by a carload of "angry young black men" after Hervey, ... MORE
Boston Police Seek Charges Against Marijuana Advocate
by Milton J. Valencia. Boston police are seeking criminal charges against Bill Downing, one of the state’s most vocal marijuana legalization supporters, a move that his lawyer calls retaliation for his criticism of the state’s regulation of the medical marijuana industry. A magistrate judge is scheduled to consider whether to approve a complaint filed by ... MOREIt’s Far Past Time To Take Back Our Nation
by David J. D'Addabbo. Obama and his global agenda allies are using the media as a propaganda machine to create the Illusion that stricter gun control will somehow protect the people. This is of course a lie proven over and over again by unarmed citizens getting slaughtered! Governments are unlawfully regulating away all of our rights, under color of ... MORETed Cruz Wants To Return To The Gold Standard
by Ralph Benko. The LA Times’s Pulitzer Prize (for beat reporting) winning
Michael Hiltzik recently wrote a column slamming the GOP field in
general and one of the two front-runners, Ted Cruz, in particular: The worst idea in the presidential debate: a return to the gold standard. Mr. Hiltzik thereby joins with a lot of usual suspects, like Paul ... MOREU.S. Will Track Secret Buyers Of Luxury Real Estate
by Louise Story. Mission creep at Homeland Security. Concerned about illicit money flowing into luxury real estate, the Treasury Department said Wednesday that it would begin identifying and tracking secret buyers of high-end properties. The initiative will start in two of the nation’s major destinations for global wealth: Manhattan
and Miami-Dade ... MOREWhat Passes For Justice In Missouri: Brother And Sister Get More Than 15 Years Each For Growing 12 Marijuana Plants
by Teresa Ressel. Why you should learn about jury nullification. A brother and sister will be going to prison for a while for growing marijuana in their apartment. On Tuesday, Circuit Court Judge Kenneth W. Pratte sentenced 34-year-old David G. DePriest to 22 years in prison for production of marijuana, possession of more than five grams of ... MOREChoking On Zero Tolerance: Little Girl Suspended For 30 Days Because She Lent Her Inhaler To A Gasping Classmate
by Robby Soave. No good deed goes unpunished. Schrade Middle School in Garland, Texas, suspended a 12-year-old girl for several days—and has placed her in alternative schooling for the next month—because she lent her inhaler to a classmate who was having difficulty breathing. According to Fox 4 News,
Indiyah Rush was in gym ... MOREStop Expecting Rand Paul To Be Ron Paul
by Eric July. Libertarian elitism is something that truly annoys me, but it really shows itself when we have these Rand Paul vs. Ron Paul discussions during our current election cycle. Do not get me wrong, it isn’t completely absurd that someone would compare a man to his father. But if one is alluding to an expectation that Rand is supposed to be ... MOREBrad Rodu: Bootleggers, Baptists And E-cigarettes
The alliance to ban potentially live-saving devices. E-cigarette users should be concerned about proposed Food and Drug Administration regulations that may eliminate most brands of these potentially life-saving cigarette alternatives, leaving only those products marketed by large tobacco companies with the resources to complete expensive ... MOREMarkets Suffer Worst Start To Year Since Great Depression
by Marcus Leroux. The start of this year has been the worst for financial markets since the onset of the Great Depression, with stock prices slumping around the world amid mounting concern over the situation in China. A wave of selling has swept the world’s leading financial centres over the past two weeks, with the value of Britain’s ... MOREFeds Want To Lower Legal Driving Limit To One Drink
by Elizabeth Harrington. More restrictions, less freedom. The National Transportation Safety Board wants to decrease the legal driving limit to one drink, lowering the legal limit on blood-alcohol content to 0.05 “or even lower.” The agency released its “most wanted list” on Wednesday, a laundry list of policies it would like implemented ... MOREGlenn Greenwald: U.S. Radically Changes Its Story Of The Boats In Iranian Waters To An Even More Suspicious One
Government's first instinct is to lie. When news first broke of the detention of two U.S. ships in Iranian territorial waters, the U.S. media — aside from depicting it as an act of Iranian aggression
— uncritically cited the U.S. government’s explanation for what
happened. One of the boats, we were told, experienced “mechanical
failure” and thus ... MOREElizabeth Nolan Brown: Homeland Security Asking Hotel Staff To Report Lodgers That Use Too Many Condoms
Frequent minibar-restock is a no-no. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) continues to pour time and taxpayer money into convincing the American people that there's an epidemic of sex trafficking here. So bad is this alleged epidemic that ordinary crime-control measures won't work, hence the department is recruiting truck drivers ... MOREMovie Review: 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers Of Benghazi
by Kurt Loder. Haters of Hillary Clinton may be disappointed to find that there’s no
mention of the former secretary of state in Michael Bay’s new movie
about the 2012 Benghazi attack that left U.S. Libyan ambassador Chris
Stevens dead and ignited a Congressional uproar that continues to this
very moment. But Clinton’s State Department ... MOREMore Big Fat Lies From Chris Christie At The GOP Debate
by Ed Krayewski. On Sonia Sotomayor, Planned Parenthood, and Common Core. At the last Republican debate, Fox Business host Neil Cavuto asked Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.) to respond to comments attributed to an ad against Gov. Chris Christie (NJ) connected to a political action committee supporting him. It's part of the 2016 cycle debate ... MORE
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