Stop What You Are Doing And Defund ObamaCare Now
Sign the petition. On October 1st, millions of Americans will be required to enroll in Obamacare and could lose access to their doctors and be forced to pay higher premiums and higher taxes. But there's still time to stop it. Republicans in Congress can stop Obamacare if they refuse to fund it. Sign the petition and tell Congress: Don't Fund ... MORE
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Our Government Says You Are A Potential Terrorist
by Gary DeMar. If you dig long and deep enough it's amazing what can be uncovered when it comes to who our government considers to be a potential terrorist. You don't even have to use the Freedom of Information Act to hunt down the stuff to reveal what some government officials think of ordinary American citizens. The folks at The ... MORE
Paul Armentano: Marijuana Legalization Is Inevitable
And it is time for the Feds to admit it. Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy is demanding Congressional hearings in September to address the growing divide between state and federal marijuana laws. With twenty states now having legalized the medical use of cannabis — and two additional states having legalized non-medical marijuana ... MORE
Aristotle's Thoughts On Tyranny Proving True In America
by Simon Black. Nearly 2,400 years ago, Aristotle wrote one of the defining works of political philosophy in a book entitled Politics. It’s still incredibly relevant today, particularly what he writes about tyranny. The ancient Greeks used the word ‘turannos’, which referred to an illegitimate ruler who governs without regard for the law or ... MORE
Unaware Young People Will Be Biggest ObamaCare Losers
by Scott W. Atlas, M.D. It is a universal truism that the youth will determine our future, and this younger generation has already made its mark. With a massive voter turnout, they played a major role in electing Barack Obama in 2008, when he won two-thirds of the vote among those younger than age 30. And President Obama then capitalized ... MORE
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How To Disappear When Someone's Spying On You
by Robert Krulwich. Whenever your cellphone is on, "They" know where you are, and I mean all the Theys — the spooks, the merchants, the drone pilots, the private detectives, probably even the Chinese. If you want your privacy, says artist/designer , you can go to the back of your phone, pry out the battery and break the connection, ... MORE
Obama's Assurances About NSA Surveillance Ring Hollow
by Jacob Sullum. Last Friday, in an interview with CNN, President Obama
acknowledged that "the capabilities of the NSA are scary to
people." The challenge for him, he
explained at a press conference earlier this month, is "how do
I make the American people more comfortable" with the National
Security Agency's routine collection of ... MORE
Peter Suderman: 8 Reasons Not To Go To War In Syria
Is the U.S. on the march to war
in Syria? Over the past week, the stage has been set for yet
another military intervention in the Middle East. Calls for U.S.
action in Syria have grown louder following reports of a chemical
weapon attack in Damascus said to have been carried out with the
knowledge and approval of President Bassar al-Assad’s ... MORE
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Tibor R. Machan: Coping With Smoking
Smoking regs should not undermine individual rights. Laws forbidding business proprietors from permitting smoking in their offices, cinemas, aircraft, stores, etc. are now legion. But such government-mandated prohibitions ignore the rights of those who don’t mind smoking as well as those who wish to live in a tolerant society. ... MORE
Wash Times: Administration Moves To Crush School Choice
Race card brings smile to teachers' union. The White House
has taken Louisiana’s poorest schoolchildren and crushed their hopes
for a better future. Citing rules meant to end racism, the Justice Department
last week asked a federal judge in New Orleans to slam shut the door on
minority kids, ensuring they remain trapped in failing schools. ... MORE
Why Whiskey Was Money And Bitcoins Might Be
by Brian Lasorsa. Currency is a crossroads for many free market advocates. Monetarists, including Nobel laureate Milton Friedman, have long argued in favor of central banks stabilizing price levels. They say the institution would provide a sense of comfort to debtors and creditors wary of inflation. Constitutionalists, albeit embracing a general ... MORE
John Stossel: Trains To Nowhere
When Democrats and Republicans agree, I get nervous. It often means that they agree to grab my wallet. Both parties now agree that we don't have extra budget money lying around, but both say government does need to spend more on "infrastructure." Even conservatives want more spent on roads and mass transit. ... MORE
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Thomas Sowell: A Truly Great Phony
Obama's greatness finally recognized. Many years ago, I was a member of a committee that was recommending to whom grant money should be awarded. Since I knew one of the applicants, I asked if this meant that I should recuse myself from voting on his application. "No," the chairman said. "I know him too — and he is one of the ... MORE
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Harvard Study Reveal Gun Control Counterproductive
The counterintuitive truth: more guns means less murder. Once again, a study from an organization that you would never accuse of being “gun-loving” or “right-wing” seems to disprove the myth that the availability of handguns increases murder rates. In fact, it doesn’t. The Harvard study attempts to answer the question of whether or ... MORE
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Peter Suderman: The Obamacare Lobbying Bonanza
$3.55 billion to lobby Obamacare. Back in 2006, when President Obama was still a
Senator, he
spoke at a summit on lobbying reform. His remarks were quite
critical of Republicans, noting that “we’ve seen the number of
registered lobbyists in Washinton double since George Bush came
into office.” He condemned the practice of letting ... MORE
Dems Seek Huge Taxes On Citizens' Right To Self-Defense
by Perry Chiaramonte. A pair of Democratic lawmakers are proposing steep new taxes on handguns and ammunition, and tying the revenues to programs aimed at preventing gun violence. Called the “Gun Violence Prevention and Safe Communities Act," the bill sponsored by William Pascrell, D-N.J., and Danny Davis, D-Ill., would nearly ... MORE
How Obamacare Makes Identity Theft More Likely
by Patrick Morrisey. It seems as if every day brings a new Obamacare disaster—missed deadlines, soaring costs, unintelligible bureaucratic requirements. Now add the risk of potential rampant identity theft to the list. Last week, the Obama Administration doled out tens of millions of dollars to “community groups” across the country, with ... MORE
15 Stupid Things Liberals Call Racism Since Obama Elected
by John Hawkins. Bizarrely, racism in America is no longer mainly about race. Sure, race is involved in a peripheral manner, but racism has mainly become an excuse, a dodge, a way to escape responsibility. When a black liberal is criticized, he cries racism. When liberalism fails, liberals cry racism. When the Democrat Party gets in trouble, liberals ... MORE
"Most Serious Attacks On Free Speech We've Ever Seen"
Josh Levy on the NSA' state surveillance programs. August 24, 2013 "Information Clearing House - The NSA's state surveillance programs are anti-democratic and unconstitutional. They could be the most serious attacks on free speech we’ve ever seen. On Sunday, U.K. intelligence officers held Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald’s ... MORE
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Radley Balko: Great Moments In Drug War Propaganda
A retrospective. Yes, so America and its allies may have failed in the 100-year war on (some) drugs. We may have spent well over a trillion dollars, imprisoned tens of thousands of nonviolent offenders, caused who knows how much violence and who knows how many deaths in collateral damage, and wreaked havoc on the Bill of Rights. ... MORE
Walter E Williams: Re-education At George Mason
All cultures are NOT equal. This week begins my 34th year serving on George Mason University's distinguished economics faculty. You might imagine my surprise when I received a letter from its Office of Equity and Diversity Services notifying me that I was required to "complete the in-person Equal Opportunity and Prevention of ... MORE
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equality,
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Nick Gillespie: Clueless Crusade Against E-Cigaretters
The attempt to ban the alternative to cancer sticks. H.L. Mencken famously defined puritanism as “the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” He might have been describing contemporary anti-smoking activists, that dour band of fuss-budgets constantly on the prowl for new ways to make life slightly ... MORE
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Michael Tanner: Why Get Off Welfare?
Being poor doesn't mean you're stupid. Contrary to stereotypes, there is no evidence that people on welfare are lazy. Indeed, surveys of welfare recipients consistently show their desire for a job. But there is also evidence that many are reluctant to accept available employment opportunities. Despite work requirements ... MORE
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vote-buying,
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A. Barton Hinkle: ObamaCare Buyers' Remorse
GOP should let the president repeal it for them. Maybe congressional Republicans should quit trying to repeal Obamacare and let the president do it for them. Republicans have now held 40 – or is it 41, or 42? better check your watch – votes to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and are squabbling over the best way to defund it. This is just ... MORE
Founding Fathers Would Not Be Welcome In Today's Miltary
DoD: Concern for individual liberty makes one an extremist. Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch recently obtained a Department of Defense training manual
which lists people who embrace “individual liberties” and honor
“states’ rights,” among other characteristics, as potential “extremists”
who are likely to be ... MORE
Edward Moyer: NSA Admits Deliberate Privacy Violations
Engaged in "willful violations" of legal restrictions. The bubbling pot of confusion and concern over possible NSA spying on Americans -- and possible double-talk by US officials -- just got a little more stirred up. Despite earlier statements that have characterized domestic data-gathering by the National Security Agency as ... MORE
Feds Seize Property Of Landlord Following California Law
Federal policing for profit runs roughshod over rights. In a city that hosts a pot expo, Tony Jalali thought renting space to medical marijuana outlets was perfectly legal. Guess again. Marijuana policy, like immigration policy, is something the country just can't seem to get right. For the latest evidence of how confusing pot laws can be, just ... MORE
Warnings About Speed Traps Can Get You In Trouble
Government's reacts as moneymaker is threatened. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is using the case of a Missouri man to challenge a municipal law — one of dozens, if not hundreds of similar laws throughout the United States — that punishes motorists who flash their headlights at oncoming drivers to alert them to a police ... MORE
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California Lawmakers Continue To Erode Property Rights
by Steven Greenhut. California’s 1940s-era urban-renewal policy, “redevelopment,” is coming back — only less so in some ways but more so in others. California’s redevelopment law was designed to revive inner-city neighborhoods by giving city planners extra powers to invest tax dollars and direct development decisions in areas that were .... MORE
Airbnb And Its Enemies: Who's Afraid Of A $10-A-Night-Sofa
by Jim Epstein. Lauren and Rob, who moved to New York City to make it in
showbiz, rent a one-bedroom apartment on Manhattan's Upper West
Side that costs $2,250 per month. Lacking a regular
paycheck, the two performers make ends meet by hawking
short-term stays on their living-room couch for $65 a night.
Travelers find them through ... MORE
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