by Kimberly Garrison. I know that I will probably get some flack for this, but I just can't hold my tongue any longer on this issue of female Marines participating in combat. I've been following this story closely for the past two years, and let's just say that this is where the egalitarian rubber meets the road. If you haven't been following the story, ... MORE
TSA Pat-Down Leads To Sex Assault Investigation
What if sexual assault by government is legal? Denver police have initiated a sexual assault investigation focused on Transportation Security Administration officers at a checkpoint at Denver International Airport. It comes after a Colorado woman filed a complaint saying the frisking she received amounted to a sexual assault. ... MORE
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Income Redistribution's Logical Conclusion Is Communism
by Jeffrey Dorfman. Income inequality is dominating the economic news cycle at the moment with multiple stories about rising income inequality, the need to raise the minimum wage, and anecdotal stories designed to make the more fortunate feel sorry for the less so. There are, however, two big problems with this narrative. First, most of the ... MORE
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This Smartphone Is Making Privacy A Priority
Lily Hay Newman on a new innovation: Blackphone. The national conversation about privacy is in high gear, and services
for things like secure messaging have been popping up everywhere to try
to meet demand. But most consumers aren't really in a position to
evaluate whether these services can actually deliver on their ... MORE
Andrew Napolitano: The Nuns and the President
Government's assault on natural rights. When the Framers were putting together the Constitution in
Philadelphia in the summer of 1787, they knew the states would not adopt
it without written guarantees that the new central government would
respect natural rights. The supporters of the Constitution promised
political leaders in the ... MORE
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ObamaCare,
politics,
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NSA Devises And Deploys Radio Pathway Into Computers
by David E. Sanger and Thom Shanker. The National Security Agency has implanted software in nearly 100,000 computers around the world that allows the United States to conduct surveillance on those machines and can also create a digital highway for launching cyberattacks. While most of the software is inserted by gaining access to ... MORE
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Civil Asset Forfeiture Means No Presumption Of Innocence
by Ken Braun. It’s easy to understand why police chiefs don’t receive hefty commissions for traffic tickets. If they did, then traffic stops for trivially small speeding violations would multiply like weeds, and eagle-eyed deputies would be on the lookout to pounce on every technical failure to signal a turn. Changing the law enforcement ... MORE
Jacob Sullum: Uncle Sam's Drinking Game
The mixology of medicine and moralism. Does your doctor nag you about your drinking? The federal government wishes he would. Last week the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC)
noted with alarm that most Americans
say they have never discussed alcohol consumption with a health
professional. Physicians' ... MORE
Roger Kimball: The Evils Of Capitalism
There is a link between limited government and prosperity. What’s the one thing everyone knows about capitalism? Why, that it started out as a mean, nasty tool of greedy industrialists. “The Industrial Revolution,” we all learned, was a terrible Moloch that devoured children, put profits before people, and though it made great fortunes ... MORE
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VIDEO: Legalize Prostitution To Fight Sex Trafficking?
Sex workers say, "yes."
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John Stossel: Bitcoin Revolution
Why Stossel chose to invest. The big online retailer Overstock.com now accepts payment in Bitcoin. That's good news for lovers of liberty because Bitcoins give us an alternative to government-controlled money. Bitcoins are a currency created by anonymous, private tech nerds, not by government. Governments don't like ... MORE
No Surprise Here: NSA Chief Denies Spying On Congress
from USA Today. The National Security Agency's director, responding to questions from independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, says the government is not spying on Congress. But
a two-page letter from Army Gen. Keith Alexander to Sanders goes on to
state that the agency can make no guarantee that representatives or ... MORE
Jerry Brito: Escape From Political Control
Buying time to secure exit paths. Frustrated with
their political prospects, many libertarians are coming to the
conclusion that instead of trying to change government, a better
strategy might be to simply sidestep it entirely. Even
self-described Democrats and Obama supporters, like startup
founder and venture capitalist Balaji ... MORE
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politics,
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Walter E Williams: Income Inequality
Let's think about fairness and justice. Democrats plan to demagogue income inequality and the wealth gap for political gain in this year's elections. Most of what's said about income inequality is stupid or, at best, ill-informed. Much to their disgrace, economists focusing on measures of income inequality bring little light to the issue. ... MORE
How Legal Pot Could Be The Next Great American Industry
The new gold rush. As legalized marijuana sales take off in Colorado, here's what a pot business model and mature marketplace might look like. Twenty states and the District of Columbia allow medical marijuana—and
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a medical marijuana plan in his
State of the State speech last week. ... MORE
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Christopher Chantrill: What Is Going On With Jobs?
Unemployment rate depends on job seekers giving up. Everyone agrees that the employment report last Friday was very bad. Unemployment went down to 6.7 percent, but that was because the Household Survey showed that 347,000 people left the labor force in December while only 144,000 found jobs. In a healthy growing ... MORE
ObamaCare's Top 12 False Premises And Broken Promises
by Peter Suderman. On November 7, President Barack Obama made a first tentative stab at an apology for the fact that, despite his often-repeated assurances to the contrary, millions of Americans were losing their health insurance plans as a result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). "I am sorry that they are finding ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: Christie, Hillary and Obama
A contrast in leadership. The first time I saw New Jersey Governor Chris Christie on television, a few years ago, my first reaction was astonishment: "A talking Republican!" It would scarcely have been more astonishing if there had been a talking giraffe. For reasons unknown, most Republican leaders seem to pay very little attention to ... MORE
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Radar Detectors for Speeding & Camera Protection
The pretense of safety and the pursuit of revenue. As budgets are still stretched states are always looking for new ways to raise additional revenue. Red Light cameras are popping up all across the country and new photo radar cameras are spreading to capture your every move on the roads. While all deployed as additional safety ... MORE
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politics,
revenue,
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The Ugly Reality of the Chris Christie Bridge Scandal
by Rachel Alexander. It came to light last week that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s administration plotted with transportation officials to create traffic gridlock in Fort Lee, N.J., after its Democratic Mayor Mark Sokolich refused to back Christie’s reelection bid. Lanes were closed for several days in September on the George Washington ... MORE
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ObamaCare And The Assault On Individual Liberty
by Peter Berkowitz. From the beginning, opponents of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act argued that its arrogation of responsibility to the federal government for administering health insurance, and consequently overseeing one-sixth of the nation’s economy, damaged the public interest and contravened sound ... MORE
Quin Hillyer: Kill The Corporate Tax To Help Workers
To increase wages and shrink the tax loopholes. It was a former top Democratic staffer on the House Budget Committee, not some Kemp-Laffer supply-sider, who first convinced me that one of the most dynamic and worthwhile tax reforms, and one of the least costly (to the federal government’s revenues), would be the complete ... MORE
Civil Forfeiture Powers Expanded In Human Trafficking Bill
Police to profit more from property seizures. Proposed legislation to tighten Pennsylvania’s law against human trafficking would also expand law enforcement’s ability to seize the assets of people simply accused of the crime. Greg Rowe is with the Pennsylvania District Attorneys Association, which helped write the measure that passed the ... MORE
Advocates Lay Groundwork For Pot Legalization In Mass.
by Joshua Miller. Advocates of marijuana legalization, emboldened by successes with ballot questions in Colorado and Washington state, are laying the groundwork for such a battle in Massachusetts in the next presidential election year. “In 2016, Massachusetts will find itself in the crosshairs for cannabis reform,” said Allen St. Pierre, ... MORE
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reform,
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Ileana Johnson Paugh: America's Expanding Police State
How free are we anymore? In the increased police state around us and the amplified NSA surveillance everywhere, citizens are feeling more and more like they are guilty until proven innocent. The police in Fairfax County, Virginia, cannot stop many people for speeding since the interstates and highways are constantly partially blocked by ... MORE
Pot Legalization Hurts Policing For Profit Practices Bigtime
by Zusha Elinson, WSJ. A drug task force in Washington's Snohomish County has historically been funded in part by cash, cars, houses and other assets seized from marijuana purveyors. But with recreational pot becoming legal in the state, this funding is going up in smoke. Snohomish's 22-officer drug-fighting operation, one of ... MORE
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civil forfeiture,
drug war,
marijuana,
police state,
pot,
revenue
Ronald Bailey: The President Is Wrong On Inequality
It is not the "defining challenge of our time." Are the rich getting richer?
Yes. Are the poor getting poorer? No. In fact, over the past 35
years most Americans got richer. Has income inequality increased in
the United States? Yes. Does it matter? Well, President Barack
Obama thinks so. In a December speech at the Center for American ... MORE
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income,
inequality,
mobility,
Obama,
poverty,
prosperity,
rich,
standard of living
Detroit Police Chief: Legal Gun Owners Can Deter Crime
by George Hunter. If more citizens were armed, criminals would think twice about attacking them, Detroit Police Chief James Craig said Thursday. Urban police chiefs are typically in favor of gun control or reluctant to discuss the issue, but Craig on Thursday was candid about how he’s changed his mind. “When we look at the good .... MORE
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guns,
law enforcement,
police,
politics,
protection,
security,
self-defense
VIDEO: Dumbest New Ban Of 2014
The winner is incandescent light bulbs (the one that casts a warm glow).
David Harsanyi: Opposing Things Without Banning Them
A case for persuasion over force. As a Denver Post columnist from 2004-11, I spent a considerable amount of time writing pieces advocating the legalization of pot. So I was happy when Colorado became one of the first to decriminalize small amounts of "recreational" marijuana. I believe that the war on drugs is a tragically ... MORE
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drug war,
force,
freedom,
government,
incentives,
law,
marijuana,
pot,
prohibition
EPA Overrides Congress, Gives Town To Indian Tribes
by Michael Bastasch. Have you heard the story of the residents of Riverton, Wyo.? One day they were Wyomingans, the next they were members of the Wind River tribes — after the Environmental Protection Agency declared the town part of the Wind River Indian Reservation, undoing a 1905 law passed by Congress and angering state ... MORE
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EPA,
government,
indian affairs,
law,
motivation,
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representation,
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