by John W. Whitehead. No need to wonder. Just look around you. It’s happened already. Thanks to an insidious partnership between Google and the National Security Agency (NSA) that grows more invasive and more subtle with every passing day, “we the people” have become little more than data consumer commodities to be bought, sold and paid ... MORE
Why Every American Needs to Learn This Taboo Verdict
by Kevin Mathews. Learn about Jury Nullification. Did you know that, no matter the evidence, if a jury feels a law is unjust, it is permitted to “nullify” the law rather than finding someone guilty? Basically, jury nullification is a jury’s way of saying, “By the letter of the law, the defendant is guilty, but we also disagree with that ... MORE
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Study Finds E-Cigs Help Smokers Quit Better Than Patches
by Brian Stallard. No wonder big tobacco wants them banned. New evidence has surfaced that suggests using electronic cigarettes
may actually help tobacco smokers kick their harmful habit. However,
past studies have shown just the opposite, meaning that the consensus is
still unclear even as the facts are finally coming in. A study recently ... MORE
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e-cig,
health care,
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Paul Bonneau: Evil Rationalizations For Good People
Why is it that evil proliferates? What mechanism keeps it going? Who is to blame? Why are there so many wars and occupations? Why such huge amounts of theft (“taxes”, fines, fees and “civil forfeiture”)? Why are so many nonviolent people in jail? What keeps the “War on Some Drugs” going? Why does the police state expand and expand? ... MORE
VIDEO: Fleecing Motorists "For Their Own Good"
The next pretense for government roadblocks.
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Another Week Of Government Lawlessness
by Andrew Napolitano. What if the federal government is shameless? What if it personifies the
adage of do as I say and not as I do? What if it does the very things it
prosecutes others for doing? What if it has written laws and enacted
procedures so that it can spy and kill, while it charges others with
doing just that? What if the feds recently indicted ... MORE
Ed Krayewski: The Anatomy Of An Obama Scandal
In six easy steps. The Obama administration is
riddled with scandals, from guns going missing in Mexico under
Operation Fast & Furious to the revelations about the cover up
of long wait times at Veterans Administration hospitals. In fact,
these scandals have become such a regular occurence that we can now
glean a pattern in how ... MORE
Federal Court Upholds Warrantless Entry; Gun Confiscation
by Bruce Vielmetti. Milwaukee police who forced their way into a gun rights advocate's
home without a warrant, took her for an emergency mental evaluation and
seized her gun were justified under the circumstances and protected from
her civil rights claims, a federal appeals court has ruled. Krysta Sutterfield, who twice made news ... MORE
Despite Exposure, Asset Forfeiture Racket Is Humming
by Radley Balko. Policing for profit. Despite some recent exposure in national media outlets such as the New Yorker and “PBS Frontline,” the practice of civil asset forfeiture appears to be as popular as ever. Civil asset forfeiture is the twisted policy that lets police seize any property they believe is connected to a crime (usually a drug crime). ... MORE
Sheriff Orders Background Checks On Those Speaking Out
by Ramona Giwargis. Targets those critical of his department. A handful of Merced County residents voiced outrage Tuesday over a decision by Sheriff Tom Cavallero to examine the backgrounds of three private citizens after they spoke out repeatedly at recent Board of Supervisors meetings. In a memo obtained by the Merced Sun ... MORE
John Stossel: Good News
Are you worried about the future? It's hard not to be. If you watch the news, you mostly see violence, disasters, danger. Some in my business call it "fear porn" or "pessimism porn." People like the stuff; it makes them feel alive and informed. Of course, it's our job to tell you about problems. If a plane crashes — or disappears — that's news. ... MORE
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Let's End Congress's Blanket Authorization Of Force
by Gene Healy. It may sound hard to believe, but Senate Majority
Leader Harry Reid,
D-Nev., isn't always wrong–at least when he states the obvious:
"9/11 is a long time ago," he
said Wednesday, "and it's something that needs to be
looked at again." The "it" is the post-9/11 Authorization for Use of Military
Force resolution, or AUMF, adopted three days ... MORE
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What Next: Paid 'Menstrual Leave' for Working Women?
by William Bigelow. The Huffington Post's wet dream. Slate had already tackled the issue, with writer Katy Waldman dismissing it by saying, “… don’t offer us paid period leave. We’ll just spend it all taking self-pitying Buzzfeed quizzes.” But when HuffPost Live interviewed Skepchick.org founder Rebecca Watson and Mikki Kendall, ... MORE
Special Interests More Influential Than Public Opinion
by Breanna Deutsch. New research supports what many Americans already believe – lawmakers
are influenced more by special interest groups than their constituents. Matt Grossmann, author of the new book, “Artists of the Possible: Governing Networks and American Policy Change Since 1945,” looks at the movers and shakers behind 790 ... MORE
Ira Stoll: How Raising the Minimum Wage Destroys Jobs
Making it pay to automate. For anyone who dismissed as a bunch of right-wing propaganda the
claim that a higher minimum wage and mandatory health benefits
would mean more workers replaced by computer screens, here is a
reality check. McDonald's
announced this month that it will deploy computer kiosks at
7,000 restaurants in ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: Poverty And Snow Storms
The exit route is obscured. Many years ago, in upstate New York, there was a lady who was caught
in a fierce snow storm that produced conditions called a "whiteout."
That's when the snow is falling so thick and fast that all you can see
in any direction is just sheer white. This lady wandered around in the
storm, struggling to try to get home, ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: The Height Of Utopianism
Self-righteous busybodies on the march. A political battle that is shaping up in San Francisco has implications for other communities across the country. The issue that will be on the June ballot is whether voter approval shall be required to change the height restrictions on buildings along the San Francisco waterfront. Like so many other ... MORE
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Walter E Williams: America's Budding Tyrants
A production of the government education system. From the Nazis to the Stalinists, tyrants have always started out supporting free speech, and why is easy to understand. Speech is vital for the realization of their goals of command, control and confiscation. Basic to their agenda are the tools of indoctrination, propagandizing, proselytization. ... MORE
Why Gun Owners Oppose Universal Background Checks
Building the gun owner database. Gun control groups (including the Obama White House) have been pushing hard for new laws and restrictions on firearms. One of their biggest dreams is to have what is known as a “universal background check” (UBC). The gun control groups see this as a panacea to stop violence. They believe that if they ... MORE
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Did NSA Blackmail Roberts To OK Obamacare?
The real utility of NSA. U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts may have been blackmailed to approve Obamacare after being spied on by the NSA and CIA, says Larry Klayman, the attorney who has come to be known as “the NSA slayer” for his successful legal battles against the National Security Agency. During an appearance Sunday night on Aaron ... MORE
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Kurt Schlicter: My Privilege Is Doing Just Fine
How to undermine the self-supporting. Liberals have a new word for what normal people call “success.” They
call it “privilege,” as if a happy, prosperous life is the result of
some magic process related to where your great-great-great-grandfather
came from. It’s the latest leftist argument tactic, which means it is a tactic designed to prevent ... MORE
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liberalism,
privilege,
self-interest,
success,
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workers
Frank Chodorov: What Individualism Is Not
The bottle is now labeled libertarianism. But its content is nothing new; it is what in the nineteenth century, and up to the time of Franklin Roosevelt, was called liberalism — the advocacy of limited government and a free economy. (If you think of it, you will see that there is a redundancy in this formula, for a government of limited ... MORE
WASH TIMES: Putting A Stop To Civil Asset-Forfeiture
Minnesota applies constitutional protections. When cops can help themselves to cash, cars, boats and houses of citizens who have never been charged with a crime, the system is badly broken. Minnesota has become one of the handful of states to do something to fix it. The sight of a lawman in the rear-view mirror can be a reassuring ... MORE
Zach Weissmueller: Another Drug Bust Gone Bad
Cops can’t get their story straight in killing. On a sweltering summer morning in the California desert, deputies looking for methamphetamines and bearing automatic weapons barged into the home of Eugene Mallory, an 80-year-old retired engineer living a quiet life in the small community of Littlerock. Moments later, Mallory ... MORE
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Brent Skorup: Net Neutrality Nonsense
Ignore the scare tactics. In
January, for the second time in recent years, a
federal court told the Federal Communications
Commission (FCC) that its net neutrality enforcement was
illegal, sending the agency back to the drawing board. On May 15,
the FCC proposed new rules.* Dozens of major news outlets have
trying to read the tea leaves, with ... MORE
How Much Government Has Lied To Defend The NSA
by Trevor Timm. High Court manipulated by DOJ's false statements. If you blinked this week, you might have missed the news: two Senators accused the Justice Department
of lying about NSA warrantless surveillance to the US supreme court
last year, and those falsehoods all but ensured that mass spying on
Americans would continue. ... MORE
Attracting Millennials To The Second Amendment
by Katie Kieffer. The Second Amendment is hipster. Millennials simply don’t realize how hipster. Happily, there are simple steps that the National Rifle Association can take to open the eyes of young people. According to a 2014 Pew Research study,
Millennials are no more liberal on guns than their parents or
grandparents. So, the NRA has an ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: Kangaroo Courts On Campus
Does political correctness trump justice? There seems to be a full-court press on to get colleges to "do something" about rape on campus. But there seems to be remarkably little attention paid to two crucial facts: (1) rape is a crime and (2) colleges are not qualified to be law-enforcement institutions. Why are rapists not reported to ... MORE
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Walter E Williams: A Lesson On Racial Discrimination
Open markets destroy racism. Donald Sterling, Los Angeles Clippers owner, was recorded by his mistress making some crude racist remarks. Since then, Sterling's racist comments have dominated the news, from talk radio to late-night shows. A few politicians have weighed in, with President Barack Obama congratulating the NBA for its ... MORE
J.D. Tuccille: Does Police Work Involve Special 'Bravery'?
A job less risky than cab driver. It's good to excel at your job—and if that excellence involves protecting the innocent and rescuing children, so much the better. Good stuff. But if we're going to recognize individuals who have done awesome things, is it entirely necessary to lavishly spread the praise so that their entire trade is stroked as ... MORE
Andrew Napolitano: A Dog Whistle To The Left
Government officials can legally lie. I am not a fan of former U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner. He presided over the politically conceived, patently unconstitutional and anti-free market taxpayer bailouts of banks, automakers and insurance companies in the latter part of the administration of former President George W. Bush, ... MORE
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