The Scandal Of Fiddled Global Warming Data

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

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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

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