by Christopher Booker. A very cold truth. When future generations try to understand how the world got carried away
around the end of the 20th century by the panic over global warming, few
things will amaze them more than the part played in stoking up the scare by
the fiddling of official temperature data. There was already much evidence ... MORE
Fay Voshell: We're All Redskins Now
Time to go on the warpath. Conservatives should be disabused of any notion that the recent revocation of the Redskins’ trademark by the US Patent Office had anything at all to do with the disparagement of Native Americans, real or perceived. On the contrary, the exercise in political correctness is not about aggrieved Native Americans. ... MORE
Colorado's Cannabis Consumption Conundrum
by Jacob Sullum. Buying pot is easy; smoking it is hard. For cannabis consumers who are accustomed to the black market's
meager selection and iffy quality, Colorado's dispensaries are a
revelation: dozens of strains, each with a distinctive bouquet,
fresh enough that you can actually smell the difference.
Denver-area budtenders, who say ... MORE
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Only 18 Confirmed US Flu Deaths In 2001. What?!
by Jon Rappoport. What happened to the "36,000 die from flu every year" bit. It’s always interesting when official agencies’ statistics come back to bite them. Hard. In December of 2005, the British Medical Journal (BMJ online) published a shocking report by Peter Dosh, which created tremors through the halls of the Centers for Disease ... MORE
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Miltary Weapons For Cops Creating US Police State
by Gary Meyer. Just who are they gearing up for? "Police stockpile military equipment" is yet another story about the militarization of local police, acquiring surplus military vehicles and other war-intended equipment, apparently to be used by SWAT teams, now deployed 50,000 times per year in too-frequent dubious or or outright ... MORE
Steve Chapman: Obama's Deficient Student Loan Plan
Another expensive vote-buying scheme. The government normally doesn't care whether you or I accumulate large bills for home improvement, a new car or exotic vacations. But Barack Obama feels no hesitation in concluding that the cost of higher education has placed "too big a debt load on too many young people." Therefore, ... MORE
R. Scott Moxley: Dispatches From The Police State
Badges do not change the identity of the evil. Perhaps we should forgive Fullerton Police Department (FPD) officers Frank Nguyen and Anthony Ciciarelli
for believing their conduct would go undetected in the wee hours of
Feb. 11, 2011. For law enforcement, it was still the golden age when
Orange County residents steadfastly believed ... MORE
Your Right To Grow, Raise, Produce, Buy, Sell, Share, Cook, Eat, And Drink What You Want Is Under Attack
by Baylen Linnekin. Earlier this week the Institute for Justice
published an important report, The Attack on Food
Freedom, as part of its National Food Freedom Initiative.
The twenty-five page report is co-authored by me and Michael
Bachmann, a Seton Hall law student. While referring to a report I co-authored as "important" may seem ... MORE
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Katie Brace: Endangered Bird Nixes 4th Of July Celebration
Another sign the country is going to the birds. The town of Duxbury has cancelled what was an annual 4th of July beach bonfire celebration. The endangered piping plover bird has moved-in and there are at least 24 nests on Duxbury Beach. There are large areas of the beach that are restricted. The town’s July 4th committee said ... MORE
Carol Roth: It's Time To Legalize Insider Trading
A subtle and sophisticated understanding. M&A (mergers and acquisitions) is on fire again, and according to a new study from professors at the Stern School of Business at NYU and McGill University, so is insider trading. The study says that up to a quarter of all M&A deals may foster some level of insider trading. As insider trading is clearly ... MORE
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Nicole Hensley: FBI Keeps Dictionary Of Internet Slang
To better track your children. You’re going to FP (face palm) when you see the FBI’s internal style guide for Internet slang. It’s more than 80 pages of definitions and acronyms — or “Twitter shorthand” — for obvious terms such as LOL and WTF. The document was acquired by the news site MuckRock
in its crusade for Freedom of Information ... MORE
Incumbents Should Be Tossed To The Curb, But Won't Be
by David Harsanyi. 90% will be re-elected. Even in the most catastrophic year for congressional incumbents, 90 percent of them will win re-election—and most of them will do so rather easily. Many of them, in fact, won't even have to run a campaign. This fact might be somewhat obscured lately, what with all the talk of the impending ... MORE
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