Tax Dollars Spent To Organize Anti-Zimmerman Rallies

Look what Judicial Watch happened to find.     A conservative watchdog group accused the Justice Department of helping manage the "pressure campaign" last year against George Zimmerman in the wake of the Trayvon Martin shooting, citing documents that show an obscure agency spent thousands assisting local demonstrations.  The   ... MORE

Victor Davis Hanson: Hate Thought

Self-appointed liberal referees will decide.   When do insensitive words destroy reputations? It all depends. Celebrity chef Paula Deen was dropped by her TV network, her publisher and many of her corporate partners after she testified in a legal deposition that she used the N-word some 30 years ago. The deposition was filed in a lawsuit against  ... MORE

VIDEO: Thomas Sowell - The Reality Of Multiculturalism

John Stossel - Overseas Meddling

You pay taxes?      You contributed to the $2 billion your government gave Egypt this year. And last year. And every year — for 30 years. Most of it went to Egypt's military. How's that worked out? Now our government will "cautiously" support anti-government rebels in Syria, even though some are openly allied with al-Qaida. Years before, we paid to     ... MORE

Arizona Sheriff Ordered To Return Seized Marijuana

Cops not allowed to confiscate medicine.   The Arizona Supreme Court is letting stand a lower court's ruling that the Yuma County sheriff must return marijuana seized from a woman with a California medical marijuana authorization honored by Arizona. The justices without comment on Monday declined to review a January ruling by the  ... MORE

VIDEO: Monetary Cocaine - How The Fed Steals Savings

Why The White House Is Panicking About ObamaCare

by John Goodman.     Actors. Actresses. NFL football players. Baseball players. Librarians. Mayors. City councilmen. Members of AARP. The Obama administration is looking far and wide, leaving no stone unturned in a relentless search for…well…for help. Help with what? Help with getting people to enroll in health insurance plans this fall.      ... MORE

Lawsuit: Civil Asset Forfeiture Violates 5th Amendment

An attempt to thwart legalized theft by police.     Nelly Moreira was not there the night D.C. police seized her car. But every day for seven months she felt the loss as she commuted by bus to two jobs, all the while making payments on a 2005 Honda Accord she wasn’t sure she’d ever see again. Officers took the vehicle in March 2012, after pulling    ... MORE

Reason Magazine's 45 Enemies Of Freedom

Tyrants, despots, crackpots and crony capitalists.     In 2003, to celebrate 35 years of publishing a monthly magazine dedicated to Free Minds and Free Markets, reason named “35 Heroes of Freedom”—innovators, economists, singers, anti-communists, pornographers, professional athletes, and even the occasional politician who   ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: Who Is Racist?

Just how old is Thomas Sowell?    I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white. Apparently other Americans also recognize that the sources of racism are different today from what they were in the past. According to a recent Rasmussen poll, 31 percent of blacks think that most blacks are racists,     ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - "Austerity"

Andrew Napolitano: Above The Law

How do we reign in a runaway government?      Fidelity to the rule of law is the centerpiece of a free society. It means that no one is beneath the protection of the law and no one is absolved of the obligation to comply with it. The government may not make a person or a class of persons exempt from constitutional protections, as it     ... MORE

D.W. MacKenzie: Mythology Of The Minimum Wage

The economic case for a living wage is unfounded.      Once again politicians and pundits are calling for increases in the legal minimum wage. Their reasons are familiar. Market wages are supposedly immoral. People need to earn a "living wage." If the minimum wage went up at least to $7, or better still to near $10 an hour, millions would be ... MORE

VIDEO: 3 Reasons To Fix Social Security Now!

Thomas Sowell: The Mindset Of The Left (Part IV)

The vision of government minding the sheeple.    At the heart of the left's vision of the world is the implicit assumption that high-minded third parties like themselves can make better decisions for other people than those people can make for themselves. That arbitrary and unsubstantiated assumption underlies a wide spectrum of laws  ... MORE

Jacob Sullum: Why Zimmerman Should Be Acquitted

Emotion should not obscure the evidence.     On a rainy night in February 2012 at a gated townhouse complex in Sanford, Florida, George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin stared at each other, and both perceived a threat. What followed is the focus of a murder trial that hinges on specific facts rather than the overarching, frequently        ... MORE

Kristen Gwynne: Four Shady Ways Police Make Drug Busts

And why the war on drugs is a war on you.       On Wednesday, the city of Berkeley filed a claim against the federal government’s move to file asset forfeiture against the landlord of Berkeley’s largest medical marijuana dispensary. The tactic, which threatens landlords with the state’s ability to seize their property, has been used many times  ... MORE

An Egyptian Explains Their Situation To Americans

from Bret Baier's blog.     "In a Nutshell... A lot of my dear American friends sill ask me what on earth really happened in egypt, for their benefit, and anyone else on earth genuinely trying to make heads or tails of us "crazy Egyptians" ; here's exactly what happened in egypt over the past 12 months, but expressed in 'American" terms...      ... MORE

VIDEO: The Cost Of The War On Drugs

Byron Acohido: Privacy Tools Can Curtail PRSIM Tracking

Surf in a "Cocoon." Powerful privacy tools you can use to curtail how big tech companies — and sometimes the federal government — track your every step on the Internet have been available for years. Thanks to whistle-blower Edward Snowden these privacy tools have emerged from the fringes of the Internet into the limelight. "It's not just the   ... MORE

A. Barton Hinkle: Time To Train Officers Not To Kill Dogs

A cop shot a dog the other day. Again.      Maybe you’ve seen the video -- it was all over the Internet, complete with the dog's grisly death spasms. Hawthorne, Calif., resident Leon Rosby was using his cellphone to record a standoff between police officers and armed robbers. At the end of the standoff, officers headed Rosby’s way. He put his dog,   ... MORE

VIDEO: Thomas Sowell - An Epidemic Of Irresponsibility

College Girls, Bottled Water & The American Police State

by John Whitehead.     What do college girls and bottled water have to do with the emerging American police state? Quite a bit, it seems. Public outcry has gone viral over an incident in which a college student was targeted and terrorized by Alcohol Beverage Control agents (ABC) after she purchased sparkling water at a grocery store. The girl  ... MORE

IRS Pays Over 200 Employees To Work Full-Time For Union

by Eliana Johnson.    The Internal Revenue Service pays over 200 full-time employees not to conduct audits or process tax returns but to work for a federal employees’ union, according to documents released by the agency in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by the advocacy group Americans for Limited Government. Forty-three  ... MORE

Real Americans Don't Trust The Government

by Jonathon Moseley. "Question Authority" was a dominant political theme in the '60s and 70s We're talking about the 1760s and the 1770s, of course -- the American Revolution. Well, sure, the 1960s and the 1970s, too. But our country was founded on the idea "Question Authority" while opposing the King of England in the 1760s and 1770s.        ... MORE

Katie Kieffer: Agency Girls Gone Wild

Too dirty to clean up their acts?      Agency girls are going wild. Obama’s leading ladies make students partying on the beach look like amateurs. Misbehavin’ is a resume booster in Washington, D.C. But not the kind of misbehaving that you might think. There are no wet t-shirt contests. It’s a buttoned-up misbehavin’—personified by      ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - IRS Selective Targeting

Ronald Bailey: The Top 5 Lies About Fracking

A campaign of deception.      Gasland Part II, the sequel to director/activist Josh Fox's earlier anti-fracking docudrama Gasland, will run on HBO next Monday. It appears to have rounded up the usual corporate villains and appealing victims of profit-hungry capitalist skullduggery, rather than telling the more substantial story: that  ... MORE

Walter E Williams: Black Education Tragedy

A dysfunctional system on trial.   As if more evidence were needed about the tragedy of black education, Rachel Jeantel, a witness for the prosecution in the George Zimmerman murder trial, put a face on it for the nation to see. Some of that evidence unfolded when Zimmerman's defense attorney asked 19-year-old Jeantel to read a letter    ... MORE

VIDEO: The Government's Trickle Down Economics

J.D. Tuccille: Court Secretly Expands NSA Power

Surveillance rules loosened.    I have, oh-so-cynically, referred to the court set up under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act as a "phony baloney" court that grants rubber-stamp approval to virtually every snooping request that comes its way. Of course, I base that subjective assessment on the fact that, in 11 years, the court has denied    ... MORE

Julian Hattem: EPA Set To Deploy Host Of New Regulations

Administration to unveil new obstacles to job growth. The Obama administration is looking forward to a host of new environmental regulations that go far beyond the president's plans to issue new standards for greenhouse gas emissions from new and existing power plants. The new regulations, previewed in the administration's  ... MORE

U.S. Postal Service Is Tracking All Mail Sent Within Country

Just like the NSA's PRISM spying.     Federal officials have been tracking all mail sent through the United States Postal Service for well over a decade, but have been monitoring select pieces of mail for over a century. Using a pair of systems that snap images of envelopes and catalogue them into batches, the federal government tracks all  ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: The Mindset Of The Left: Part IV

The visions of the anointed.    At the heart of the left's vision of the world is the implicit assumption that high-minded third parties like themselves can make better decisions for other people than those people can make for themselves. That arbitrary and unsubstantiated assumption underlies a wide spectrum of laws and policies over the years,  ... MORE

VIDEO: Walter E Williams - The Morality Of Redistribution

Why Many Young People Will Opt Out Of ObamaCare

by Kelli Kennedy.     Dan Lopez rarely gets sick and hasn't been to a doctor in 10 years, so buying health insurance feels like a waste of money. Even after the federal health overhaul takes full effect next year, the 24-year-old said he will probably decide to pay the $100 penalty for those who skirt the law's requirement that all Americans purchase     ... MORE

Mayors Unanimously Call On Feds To Butt Out Of Pot Issue

In Las Vegas, mayors go rogue on legalization.        The 180 elected officials attending the annual meeting of the U.S. conference of mayors in Sin City unanimously adopted a resolution urging the federal government to let states and localities make their own marijuana policy. The bipartisan sponsors—including, along with the usual        ... MORE

VIDEO: The Faith Of The Founding Fathers

U.S. State Dept Spends $630,000 On Facebook "Likes"

Your tax dollars at work.   The US State Department was Wednesday under fire for spending $630,000 over two years to win millions of "likes" on its Facebook pages at a time of severe government austerity measures. A scathing report by the department's independent watchdog took the coordinators of its social media outreach policy to task saying  ... MORE

Women Sue Drug Warriors Over Roadside Cavity Searches

Public servants just protecting the citizens?  The two women who are suing after they were subjected to a humiliating and invasive cavity search on a Texas roadside on Memorial Day last year have spoken out about their ordeal. Brandy Hamilton, 26, and Alexandria Randle, 24, told reporters how they were ordered out of their vehicle, not      ... MORE