by Yael Chanoff. People who get their information exclusively from mainstream media sources may be surprised at the lack of enthusiasm on the left for President Barack Obama in this crucial election. But that’s probably because they weren’t exposed to the full online furor sparked by Obama’s continuation of his predecessor’s overreaching approach ... MORETop Underreported Story: The Expanding Police State
by Yael Chanoff. People who get their information exclusively from mainstream media sources may be surprised at the lack of enthusiasm on the left for President Barack Obama in this crucial election. But that’s probably because they weren’t exposed to the full online furor sparked by Obama’s continuation of his predecessor’s overreaching approach ... MOREMan Arrested For Telling Citizens Of Their Jury Rights
Police seek to ban jury nullification information. A Pennsylvania man said he will pursue legal action against the Burlington County Sheriff’s Department and individual officers for his arrest Wednesday while handing out fliers about jury rights outside the county complex. Fernando Antonio Salguero and five others were handing out pamphlets from ... MORE
Caroline May: Welfare Now Costs $1,030,000,000,000
Welfare is now the single largest national expenditure. The government spent approximately $1.03 trillion on 83 means-tested
federal welfare programs in fiscal year 2011 alone — a price tag that
makes welfare that year the government’s largest expenditure, according
to new data released by the Republican side of the Senate Budget
Committee. ... MOREBrendan O'Neill: Britain's High-Tech Thought Police
Bloggers, tweeters and t-shrit wearers targeted. What country has just sentenced a man to eight months in prison
for wearing an anti-police t-shirt, and another man to three months
in prison for telling an “abhorrent” joke on Facebook? Iran,
perhaps? China? No, it’s Britain. Something has gone horribly wrong in Britain in ... MORE
VIDEO: Did Mitt Romney Violate The Constitution?
MSNBC political commentator asserts Mitt is getting our founding document wrong.
Obama's Energy Policy Led To Higher Gas Prices
by Dave Juday. At Tuesday night’s debate, President Obama said gas prices were under two dollars per gallon when he took office because the “economy was on the verge of collapse.” And that if Mitt Romney were elected he “could bring down gas prices, because with his policies we might be back in the same mess.” The inference of President Obama’s ... MOREJohn Aglialoro: Rand's Fight For The Rational Mind
Stop wasting time with the irrational. In three weeks we will be voting in, what many consider, the most important election of our lifetime, the 2012 Presidential election. If you’re reading this article, chances are you’ve already made up your mind whom you’ll be voting for. Good. But, what about your friends and family who haven’t? Are you going to take ... MORECheck Out The Drastic Price Increases On These 21 Items
It's not just gas! Tuesday’s presidential debate touched on some massive economic issues
that are affecting all Americans. The immense increase in gas prices was
a crucial part of the discussion, but have other everyday products seen
a drastic increased in price over the same time period? According to
Blaze research on data provided by the ... MORECalifornia's Bankrupt Energy Economy Is Obama's Model
by Larry Bell. Beware of the warning that “where California goes, so goes the nation”, particularly when it comes from EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson. Speaking in October, 2009 at the Governor’s Global Climate Summit in Los Angeles, she touted the fact that climate change regulations involving national fuel economy and greenhouse gas ... MORE
John Stossel: Bad Rules
Licensing individual liberty. We take free speech for granted in America, unlike elsewhere. The
furor over that anti-Muslim video is the latest reminder of that. But freedom of speech is never safe, even here. Many colleges now
impose "civility codes." Civility is nice, but enforcing a "civility
rule" against offensive speech would put an end to lots ... MOREJohn Whitehead: Breeding Grounds For Compliant Citizens
Where American schools excel. “[P]ublic school reform is now justified in the dehumanizing language of national security, which increasingly legitimates the transformation of schools into adjuncts of the surveillance and police state… students are increasingly subjected to disciplinary apparatuses which limit their capacity for critical ... MOREAnother State Considers ObamaCare Nullification
by Mike Maharrey. Since the Supreme Court rendered its opinion on the constitutionality of a mandatory federal health care system last summer, many Americans consider the matter settled. But others recognize that despite the pronouncement of five robed federal employees, the Constitution still does not delegate Congress the power to create and run a health ... MORESF Gate: Most Expired Drugs Work Fine
Most expired drugs remain potent for decades. Thinking about going through your medicine cabinet and throwing out all your expired prescriptions? That might not be necessary, according to a UCSF-led study. Researchers analyzed eight prescription drugs with 15 active ingredients that expired between 28 and 40 years ago and found ... MORERoss Kaminsky: Malala Versus Sandra
What a nation of plunderers we have become. Malala Yousafzai can't speak for herself, and it remains to be
seen whether she ever will again. For the crime of going to school
-- and blogging about it -- she was shot in the head by a Taliban
assassin while in her school bus. Yousafzai, now 14, knew the risk she was taking when at the age
of 11 and ... MOREThomas Sowell: Random Thoughts On The Passing Scene
Observations from a keen eye. Not since the days of slavery have there been so many people who feel entitled to what other people have produced as there are in the modern welfare state, whether in Western Europe or on this side of the Atlantic. Economist Edward Lazear has cut through all of Barack Obama's claims about "creating jobs" with ... MOREAP: Marijuana Backers Courting Conservatives
What happened to the clamor for 'states' rights? It's not all hippies backing November's marijuana legalization votes in Colorado, Oregon and Washington. Appealing
to Western individualism and a mistrust of federal government,
activists have lined up some prominent conservatives, from one-time
presidential hopefuls Tom Tancredo ... MOREKevin D. Williamson: The Last Radicals
Homeschoolers occupy the curriculum. There is exactly one authentically radical social movement of any real significance in the United States, and it is not Occupy, the Tea Party, or the Ron Paul faction. It is homeschoolers, who, by the simple act of instructing their children at home, pose an intellectual, moral, and political challenge to the ... MOREVIDEO: How Cops Legally Steal Innocent People's Money
Civil forfeiture provides incentive for government abuse.
Matt Cover: Obama Bailout Claim Off By $24 Billion
Obama: "got back every dime." CBO: lost $24 billion. President Barack Obama said on Thursday that “we got back every dime we used to rescue the financial system." According to the Congressional Budget Office, however, the government will lose about $24 billion on the bailout. “We got back every dime we used to rescue the financial system, but ... MORERon Paul: Keeping Up Statistical Appearances
Could the real unemployment be 22 percent? Last week, supporters of the current administration rejoiced over job
numbers released by the Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS). For the
first time since the administration came to power, the official
unemployment number fell below 8%. Keynesian cheerleaders all claimed
the ... MOREShikha Dalmia: ObamaCare's Rationing By Another Name
About the Independent Payment Advisory Board. The stunning post-debate reversal in Mitt Romney’s fortunes may
not last through the elections. But win or lose, he’ll do the
country a big favor if he continues to expose the Independent
Payment Advisory Board—the beloved center-piece of Obamacare—for
what it is: An effort to give an ... MOREKatie Kieffer: Dagny Taggart Goes To War
The battle for freedom. Dagny Taggart is not just the entrepreneurial heroine of Ayn Rand’s magnum opus novel, Atlas Shrugged. She is the inspiration of real women everywhere who are taking up her shield and fighting her battle for freedom using the weapons of entrepreneurship, education and free speech. The media continually talks about the ... MOREWalter E Williams: Poverty Nonsense
Bad decisions can be hazardous to your economic health. Here's a recent statement frequently suggested by leftist academics, think tank researchers and policymakers: "People were not just struggling because of their personal deficiencies. There were structural factors at play. People weren't poor because they made bad decisions. They were poor ... MOREZack Fulkerson: Privacy Under Attack
TSA and police drag 4th Amendment through the mud. The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America reads: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, ... MOREMike Riggs: How Asset Forfeiture Helps Police Departments
Provides funds to buy drugs and prostitutes for cops. Former Romulus Police Chief Michael St. Andre, his wife, and five Romulus detectives pled not guilty last week to using asset forfeiture funds aquired during narcotics and prostitution investigations to buy...narcotics and prostitutes. The Detroit Free Press
reported ... MOREWilliam Sullivan: Social Justice Is A Proven Failure
... and so is Obama. There is a reason that Obama's ideological policy efforts have failed America. It is because they, like his ideology, are not American. No, I am not suggesting that he wasn't born here or that he's not an American citizen. I am stating with absolute certainty that his core ideology is predicated upon anything but liberty. And since ... MORE
The Unstoppable March Toward National Bankruptcy
by Mark Henderson. The opening line of the Beatles’ iconic “Sergeant Pepper’s” album is echoing in my thought: “It was 20 years ago today…” Well, not quite to the day, but 20 years ago I published an article titled, “$4 Trillion and Counting.” In it, I despaired at the rapid increase in the national debt from its first-ever crossing of the $1 trillion ... MORE
Business Insider: Rand's Dystopian Masterpiece
SEE ATLAS SHRUGGED II TRAILER HERE In a Leningrad University classroom in the early 1920s, as the professor drones on about orthodox Marxist theory, a young woman with an intense gaze is writing furiously in her notebook. The woman is Alisa Rosenbaum, later to be famous as Ayn Rand, and her jottings do not concern the relationship between ... MOREAndrew B. Wilson: Sleepless In St. Louis
Entrepreneur/super-mom fears an Obama victory. No one would mistake my sister Dodie -- a super-mom (sometimes tiger mom) and entrepreneur -- for a hand-wringing pessimist. Intrepid and resourceful, she always rises to the moment -- like the "unsinkable" Molly Brown in the musical about the Titanic. But now (even after the smack-down ... MORESteven Greenhut: California's Crony Capitalism Problem
Jerry Brown and the redevelopment scam. In much of the country, the mere mention of the name, Jerry Brown, signifies the otherworldly nature of California politics. Many people in other states have come up to me and said something to this effect: “You Californians are so weird that, in tough economic times, you re-elected that retread ... MOREZorianna Kit: Brad Pitt Blasts US 'War On Drugs'
Actor joins call for policy rethink. Brad Pitt has thrown his weight behind a documentary that blasts America's 40-year war on drugs as a failure, calling policies that imprison huge numbers of drug-users a "charade" in urgent need of a rethink. The Hollywood actor came aboard recently as an
executive producer of filmmaker Eugene Jarecki's ... MORE
SWAT Team Sets Child Ablaze In Mistaken Drug Raid
No-knock cops lob grenade into 12-year-old's bedroom. The child was asleep in her upstairs bedroom when a stranger lobbed an incendiary grenade into her home at about 6:00 a.m. October 9.
Within seconds the 12-year-old girl had suffered first- and
second-degree burns. Her father, who had been awakened by an insistent
pounding on ... MORE
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