Fascism is coming with the promise of a better world. Last Thursday, Mozilla, the company that's home to the web browser Firefox, forced the resignation of CEO Brendan Eich. What, precisely, had Eich done wrong? Back in 2008, Eich had donated $1,000 to the Proposition 8 effort backing traditional marriage in California. Dating websit ... MORE
Where Is The Outrage Over Corporate Welfare?
by David Brunori. I recently read the February 24 Good Jobs First report, “Subsidizing the Corporate One Percent,”
by Philip Mattera, a respected thought leader in our business. It says
that three-quarters of all state economic development subsidies went to
just 965 corporations since the beginning of the study in 1976. The Fortune 500 ... MORE
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Don't Forget To Tingle At Benefits Of Capitalism
by Rich Tucker. In his classic baseball book “Ball Four,” Jim Bouton writes that as a child he longed to be able to run, just once, across the beautiful outfield grass. Yet as an adult and a major league ballplayer, he takes being on the field for granted. “Sometimes I forget to tingle,” he writes. In our capitalist system, we're all forgetting to tingle. ... MORE
NSA Admits to Wrongdoing—What Now?
by Andrew Napolitano. Who is it that protects and defends the Constitution? Last week, National Intelligence Director Gen. James R. Clapper sent a brief letter to Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, in which he admitted that agents of the National Security Agency (NSA) have been reading innocent ... MORE
Steve Chapman: A Democratic Dilemma On Legalizing Pot
Should they attack the GOP's achilles heel. Legalizing marijuana is an issue made to order for the Democratic
Party. A majority of Americans now supports the idea, and so do two out
of three Democrats. Two states have done it, and several more may vote
on it in 2016. The party could put the issue to use against Republicans, who have ... MORE
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Joe Atkins: The Police State That Was Mississippi
An ugly history repeats itself. They wanted to know about your
phone calls, your conversations, your meetings with others, your
political leanings, your opinions, your friends, your confidantes, your
extracurricular activities, your religious beliefs, your sexual habits. Armed
with such information, they knew how to deal with you if they ... MORE
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Jacob Sullum: Free Speech Vs. The Collective
Stephen Breyer's dangerous rationalization. Last week the Supreme Court
overturned federal limits on the total amounts that one person
may contribute to candidates and political committees during a
single election cycle. "The Government may no more restrict how
many candidates or causes a donor may support than it may tell a ... MORE
Joachim Hagopian: The Militarization Of Police State USA
You are sleeping in the middle of the night. The next thing you know you are suddenly jarred awake with the loud thud of your front door crashing down from a battering ram. What seems about a dozen or more armed men in full armor suits looking just like soldiers in an Afghanistan raid, all carrying assault weapons are invading your home. ... MORE
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Lisa Crivelli: The New Faces Of Marijuana
Nothing short of a miracle treatment for epilepsy. Two years ago, Charlotte Figi was losing a lifelong battle to epilepsy. Her parents were using a hospice program at home because she wasn’t eating, had chronic pneumonia, and couldn’t swallow water. At the age of five, Charlotte was suffering up to 50 seizures a day. Two years ago, ... MORE
Star Parker: Incumbents Fear Too Much Free Speech
It could introduce corruption into the political system! The Supreme Court’s decision last week in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, eliminating the total limit that an individual can contribute in an election cycle to candidates and party committees, amounts to a shot of adrenaline to American democracy. The principle ... MORE
President Pinocchio On ObamaCare Advertising
"We didn't make it hard sell," he said. New Congressional estimates show the Obama administration is requesting another $774 million for Obamacare “outreach” and advertising in the 2015 budget. This is on top of the estimated $684 million they spent this year and the $52 million they spent on high-profile ads with athletes and ... MORE
Can Bobby Jindal's Health Plan Get GOP Back On Track?
by Peter Suderman. Could be a turning point for Republicans. Before conservative policy wonks can win any policy victories,
they’ll need to overhaul the Republican Party. For an idea of what
that might look like and the challenges any transformation will
entail, they should look to one of the party’s wonkiest
politicians, Louisiana ... MORE
Taxes More Than Food, Housing, Clothing Combined
by Caroline May. No wonder tax freedom day falls later this year. The day when the nation collectively has made enough money to pay its total tax burden for the year is three days later this year, according to a new report. According to a report released Monday by the Tax Foundation, this year Tax Freedom Day falls 111 days into 2014, on April 21. ... MORE
John Dietrich: The Poverty Hoax
Do the poor need Democrats, or is it vice-versa? A major concern of progressives is their supposed interest in the fate of the poor. They purport to be the champions of the poor. But the truth is that they need the poor more than the poor need them, in a symbiotic relationship. As much as 75% of the money allocated to the ... MORE
ObamaCare Has Meant Wildly Skyrocketing Premiums
by Sarah Hurtubise. The high cost of affordable care. Americans have recently been hit with some of the largest premium
increases in years, according to a Morgan Stanley survey of insurance
brokers. The investment bank’s April survey of 148 brokers found that this quarter, the average premium increase
for customers renewing an insurance ... MORE
Maryland Lawmakers Decriminalize Marijuana
by Erin Cox and Michael Dresser. Possession of small amounts of marijuana will no longer be a crime in Maryland under a law passed Monday and sent to Gov. Martin O'Malley for his expected signature. Adults caught with less than 10 grams of pot will get a citation that will be treated like traffic ticket and pay a fine, but they could no longer be sent to ... MORE
A. Barton Hinkle: The Case For Knife Rights
Big government overreach claims new class of victims. A certain fellow—we’ll call him Fred—broke the law a while ago. He didn’t mean to. He didn’t even know he was doing it. Nevertheless, had he been caught he could have gone to jail—for a year. Fred lives in Virginia. Last fall he went on a camping trip. Not knowing what the terrain ... MORE
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John Stossel: Taxing Life Away
It's tax time. I'm too scared to do my taxes. I'm sure I'll get something wrong and my enemies in government will persecute — no, I mean prosecute — me. So I hired Bob. Bob's my accountant. I like Bob, but I don't like that I have to have an accountant. I don't want to spend time keeping records and talking to Bob about boring things I ... MORE
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Walter E. Williams: How To Assist Evil
Enhancing governments power to tyrannize. "Engineering Evil" is a documentary recently shown on the Military History channel. It's a story of Nazi Germany's murder campaign before and during World War II. According to some estimates, 16 million Jews and other people died at the hands of Nazis. Though the Holocaust ranks high among the ... MORE
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Inside the Corrupt Reality of Government In California
by Steven Greenhut. Incandescent hypocrisy. The only mild complaint against the
critically acclaimed TV series Breaking Bad is
that the premise is a stretch. It’s hard to imagine a
straight-laced high-school chemistry teacher, after being diagnosed
with lung cancer and struggling with money problems, becoming a
kingpin in the crystal-meth underworld. ... MORE
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Marijuana Legalization Could Bring Unexpected Benefits
by Jacob Sullum. Why more pot may mean safer roads. The anti-pot group Project SAM claims drug test data show that marijuana legalization in Washington, approved by voters in that state at the end of 2012, already has made the roads more dangerous. The group notes with alarm that the percentage of people arrested for driving under the ... MORE
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Thomas Sowell: A Halo For Selfishness
Free speech not popular in some quarters. The recent Supreme Court decision over-ruling some Federal Election
Commission restrictions on political campaign contributions has provoked
angry reactions on the left. That is what often happens whenever the
High Court rules that the First Amendment means what it says — free
speech for ... MORE
VIDEO: Should Marijuana Be Legal?
Frank Luntz queries a national television focus group.
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How Excessive Regulation Victimizes Average Americans
by James Gattuso and Diane Katz. In his State of the Union address earlier this year, President Obama vowed to wield his executive powers when faced with congressional resistance to his legislative agenda: “America does not stand still – and neither will I. So wherever and whenever I can take steps without legislation … that’s what I .... MORE
Alex Gimarc: EPA Studies And Preordained Conclusions
Suspicions confirmed. With great fanfare the Environmental Protection Agency announced January that their “assessment” of potential mining impacts on salmon ecosystems of Bristol Bay, Alaska had discovered unacceptable risks to salmon and their habitat (various drainages in the region). The agency stated that they ... MORE
When Secrecy And Surveillance Trump Rule Of Law
by John W. Whitehead. 'Just salute and follow orders.' Question: How can you tell when a politician is lying? Answer: When he’s moving his lips. If that didn’t generate a chuckle, how about: Q: Why is honesty in politics like oxygen? A: The higher you go, the scarcer it gets. Then there’s President Obama’s gaffe on the Tonight Show: “We ... MORE
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Matthew Fenney: Rand Paul Is Making War Hawks Nervous
At odds with the GOP, in accord with Americans. GOP hawks are reportedly nervous about the potential level of
support Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) could enjoy if he decides to run for
president in 2016. On Monday Zeke J. Miller wrote in TIME
about how several prominent Republican donors at the Republican
Jewish Coalition suggested ... MORE
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NSA's Warrantless Searches On Americans
by Spencer Ackerman and James Ball. US intelligence chiefs have confirmed that the National Security
Agency has used a "back door" in surveillance law to perform warrantless
searches on Americans’ communications. The NSA's collection programs are ostensibly targeted at foreigners, but in August the Guardian revealed a secret rule ... MORE
Nick Sibilla: The Shame of “Equitable Sharing”
The policing for profit scheme. When voters in Colorado and Washington state approved legalizing
marijuana in 2012, those votes undermined an abusive—and
profitable—police practice: civil forfeiture. Unlike with criminal
forfeiture, under civil forfeiture
people do not have to be convicted of or even charged with a crime to
permanently ... MORE
Jeffrey Dorfman: Get Ready For REAL ObamaCare Disasters
As people start to use it. We have finally (almost, sort of) reached the end of Obamacare signups. The White House is claiming over seven million people have signed up with several million more now on the Medicaid rolls. Democrats are desperate to find a success somewhere in the Obamacare narrative, so reaching seven ... MORE
Uber Faces Backlash From The New Luddites
by Steven Greenhut. Many people are familiar with "Luddites," those
early 19th century British textile workers who vandalized modern
looms and other innovative, time-saving machinery that they feared
would put them out of business – or reduce the value of their
work. I’m not the first writer to notice the resemblance between the
original Luddite ... MORE
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