Terrorism isn't the primary threat to our freedom. In the aftermath of 9/11, President George W. Bush guided the Patriot Act through Congress, unilaterally expanded surveillance of Americans, amplified executive detention authority and took other dramatic measures that shifted the balance between liberty and ... MOREAnthony Gregory: The War On Terror Is A War On Freedom
Terrorism isn't the primary threat to our freedom. In the aftermath of 9/11, President George W. Bush guided the Patriot Act through Congress, unilaterally expanded surveillance of Americans, amplified executive detention authority and took other dramatic measures that shifted the balance between liberty and ... MOREGovernment Keeps Track Of Everywhere You're Driving
On the deployment of automated scanners. Chances are, your local or state police departments have photographs of your car in their files, noting where you were driving on a particular day, even if you never did anything wrong. Using automated scanners, law enforcement agencies across the country have amassed millions of digital ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Double Jeopardy
Prosecutors display antipathy for Constitution. While the country processes the racial politics-inspired prosecution of George Zimmerman, which came to a conclusion last week, and as the calls to try him in federal court for the same events for which he was acquitted in a state court become louder each day, a case in upstate New York ... MORE
Freedom Does Not Equal Polygamy And Heroin
by Shikha Dalmia. Cultural conservatives can’t be too happy about the country’s growing tolerance for gay marriage and legal marijuana, both of which a slim majority now supports. This erosion of traditional moral codes, they fear, will put America on the highway to Gomorrah. But removing government from the business of ... MOREVIDEO: Don't Cops Have Better Things To Do
Men in blue work hard to keep us safe from bikini baristas.
Larry Elder: What Does It Take For America To Wake Up?
The results are in. Someone did an experiment to test an old tale — that a frog placed in a pot of cool water, which is then slowly and continuously heated, will be boiled to death. By contrast, if thrown directly into scalding hot water, the frog jumps out. But it turns out that, no, once the water got hot enough, the critter hopped out ... MOREDid Zimmerman Prosecutor Try Reverse Jury Nullification?
Asked jury to disregard lack of evidence. Zimmerman was acquitted of murder and manslaughter for shooting Trayvon Martin. (Details of the case can be read here.) The scary part is that one of the prosecutors, John Guy, in his rebuttal to the defense's closing arguments asked the jurors to disregard the lack of evidence and the lack ... MOREBrent Bozell: America, Forever Racist?
Racism has great utility for the left. The central criticism of the George Zimmerman trial is that there was one. It was simply impossible to convict him of anything beyond a reasonable doubt. The central criticism of the coverage of this trial was that there was any. How did this story merit consideration as national news? Why was the death of ... MORE
74% Of Small Business Will Fire Workers, Cut Hours
Paul Bedard on the effects of ObamaCare. Despite the administration's controversial decision to delay forcing companies to join Obamacare for a year, three-quarters of small businesses are still making plans to duck the costly law by firing workers, reducing hours of full-time staff, or shift many to part-time, according to a sobering survey ... MOREJohn Stossel: Strangling Life
There are now 175,000 pages' worth of federal laws. Local governments add more. I'm not so cynical that I think politicians pass laws just to control us. Someone always thinks: "This law is needed. This will protect people." But the cumulative effect of so many rules is to strangle life. Yet lawyers like George Washington Law professor John ... MORE
Banning Advice Columnists In The Name Of Licensing
Brian Doherty on the high cost of free speech. The state of Kentucky believes that writing a newspaper column is not protected by the First Amendment. On May 7, Kentucky’s office of attorney general sent a letter to
newspaper advice columnist John
Rosemond. The letter ordered him to sign a consent decree that
he would stop ... MOREGOP To Obama: If You Can Delay Health Care, So Can We
by Anita Kumar. Republicans will make another move Wednesday to damage the national health care law they derisively call Obamacare. This time, they’re being aided by the champion of the measure, President Barack Obama. With Obama’s recent move to postpone one part of the law as an opening, the Republican-ruled House of ... MORE
Deroy Murdock: Fracking - Clean And Green
Contrary to rumors, it’s environmentally friendly. The only thing deeper than a natural-gas well is the ignorance of the anti-fracking crowd. Fracking — formally called hydraulic fracturing — involves briefly pumping water, sand, and chemicals into shale formations far below Earth’s surface and the aquifers that irrigate crops and quench ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: Is This Still America?
There are no winners in the trial of George Zimmerman. The only question is whether the damage that has been done has been transient or irreparable. Legally speaking, Zimmerman has won his freedom. But he can still be sued in a civil case, and he will probably never be safe to live his life in peace, as he could have before ... MOREAsset Forfeiture, The Cash Cow Of The Drug War
by Lucy Steigerwald. During a July 9 traffic stop in Meridian, Mississippi, police found $360,000 stashed in a secret compartment in the car. Though that’s perhaps an eyebrow-raising amount of money, readers of that linked article might notice something odd—the driver was let go, but the money was kept by the cops. The unnamed individual ... MOREJonathon Moseley: Right Of Self-Defense 1, Obama 0
Creepy crackers are not the problem. Destroying the Second Amendment and the people's right of self-defense was the real goal of the George Zimmerman prosecution. Liberals hoped to scare gun owners, regardless of the eventual verdict. Traumatizing and intimidating people from using a firearm to defend themselves were what this case ... MOREWalter E Williams: What Egyptians Need
Starting with private property rights. What Egyptian citizens must recognize is that political liberty thrives best where there's a large measure of economic liberty. The Egyptian people are not the problem; it's the environment they're forced to live in. Why is it that Egyptians do well in the U.S. but not Egypt? We could make the the same ... MORE
Veronique de Rugy: Yes, We Do -- Have A Debt Problem
The president tries to downplay the continuing crisis. In mid-May, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) revised its previous estimate of the federal government’s 2013 deficit downward by 24 percent. The fiscal year (which ends on September 30) will feature red ink of merely $642 billion, down from the $1 trillion-plus of the ... MOREKurt Loder: How Privacy Died
"Terms and conditions may apply." Whatever happened to the Fourth Amendment? You know, that bulwark of our right to privacy? Its protections against government intrusion and coercion aren't exactly dead — not yet — but they're going fast. Because we can't seem to stop giving them away. It's useful to have all the bad news about this ... MOREJohn Hudson: U.S. Repeals Propaganda Ban
Government-made news to be spread to Americans. For decades, a so-called anti-propaganda law prevented the U.S. government's mammoth broadcasting arm from delivering programming to American audiences. But on July 2, that came silently to an end with the implementation of a new reform passed in January. The result: ... MORERonald Bailey: Seven Surprising Truths About The World
A lot of the bad news you think you know is wrong. Did you know that the incidence of cancer in the United States has been declining for nearly 20 years? That the spread of pornography correlates with a decline in rape? That average IQs are going up substantially all around the world? These are just some of the truths that are well-known ... MORERyan Gorman: Mississippi Cops Legally Steal $360,000
Even though no crime was committed. Police in Mississippi have confiscated almost $365,000 found hidden in the secret compartment of a car. Pulled over July 9 during a routine traffic stop on Interstate 20/59 in Meridian, officers suspected the car was being used for criminal activity and asked for permission to search the car. ... MOREWashington D. C. To Consider Legalizing Marijuana
by Susan L. Ruth. Washington D.C. is considering making marijuana legal in the nation’s capital. A bill was introduced on Wednesday, July 10, 2013 that would virtually eliminate all criminal penalties for minor marijuana offenses. The “Simple Possession of Small Quantities of Marijuana Decriminalization Amendment Act” was introduced by ... MOREFRACKNATION: Journalist Searches For the Fracking Truth
by John F. McManus. More intensely than almost any other nation, we Americans are dependent on energy — to run businesses, heat and light homes and buildings, power the many forms of transportation we frequently take for granted, and more. Worry over recent years that the world is running out of energy, especially the sources known ... MOREWilliam Tucker: Press Goes Crackers Over Fracking
Latest in the smear campaign against fracking. If you want to see how the press acts like a bunch of hysterical ninnies, just look at the way an article in Science about earthquakes and underground wastewater storage pools has been distorted into a national alarm about fracking. By the time you read this, you will have already read the headline ... MOREThe Ethics Of Sacrifice, The Politics Of Slavery
by Boyd Richard Boyd. Bad political ideas come from bad ethical ideas, which are originally spread by the words of bad philosophers. Progressives and their Utopian counterparts throughout history have pushed a corrupt and inverted morality on the world, causing man to act as his own destroyer. It is from an ... MORESteven Greenhut: Journalism Is An Act, Not A Profession
Great journalism can come from average citizens. Watching some recent debates about who is a “real journalist” and who isn’t has been a source of amusement for me given that being a real journalist has not always been that great of an honor. When I told Mom I was getting a job in journalism, she was miffed that her son would waste ... MORERoger L. Simon: Obama Big Loser In Zimmerman Trial
No accident race relations are going backwards. Forget the over-zealous prosecutors and the repellent state attorney Angela Corey (who should be immediately disbarred or, my wife said sarcastically, elevated to director of Homeland Security) and even the unfortunate Trayvon Martin family (although it is certainly hard to forget ... MOREPhil Gramm Ignores Fair Tax, Offers Plan For GOP Decline
by Louis Woodhill. The July 10 edition of The Wall Street Journal contained an op-ed
by former Texas Senator Phil Gramm entitled, “A GOP Game Plan for Tax
Reform”. Unfortunately, his article could be more accurately named, “A
GOP Game Plan for Losing the Next Two Elections.” Senator Gramm is a great guy who has made important ... MOREJohn Ransom: Chevy Volt Heads For Fiery Crash
Another failure of central planning. The good news for GM these days is that no one has been consumed in a fiery death due to engine compartment fires since the Chevy Volt was discovered to spontaneous combust after accidents shortly after production began. The bad news for the company is that while Chevy Volt sales in ... MOREObama Siezes Control Of All American Communications
In the name of security, of course. President Barack Obama quietly signed his name to an Executive Order on Friday, allowing the White House to control all private communications in the country in the name of national security. President Obama released his latest Executive Order on Friday, July 5, a 2,205-word statement offered ... MORE
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