John W. Whitehead: Freedom Or The Slaughterhouse?
The American Police State from A to Z. For those whose minds have been short-circuited into believing the candy-coated propaganda peddled by the politicians, here is an A-to-Z, back-to-the-basics primer of what life in the United States of America is really all about. A is for the AMERICAN POLICE STATE. As I point out in my book ... MORE
How Presidential Debates Have Rigged The Election
by Alexandra Shapiro. Suppose Congress passed a law that said only Democrats and Republicans can ever be president of the United States. You don’t need to be a lawyer to know this would be unconstitutional — and completely antithetical to what a democracy is supposed to be about. In our form of government, people get to choose their leaders. ... MOREHow Bad Are Things For The People Of Greece?
by Lucy Rodgers & Nassos Stylianou. Big government debt is crushing the people. The people of Greece are facing further years of economic hardship following a Eurozone agreement over the terms of a third bailout. The deal included more tax rises and spending cuts, despite the Syriza government coming to power promising to end what it ... MOREAnd You Thought Civil Asset Forfeiture Was Bad Enough…
by Trevor Burrus. Remember Megaupload.com? It was once the 13th most popular website on the internet, with more than 82 million unique visitors and a billion total page views during its seven-year operation. The site allowed people to store files on the cloud for later use — and some users inevitably stored copyrighted TV shows, films, songs, ... MORE
Brad Schrade: Cops Shot Unarmed Georgia Woman In Head, Admired Their Marksmanship & Prevented First Aid After
After all, she was suspected of drug use. At high noon on June 18, 2010, Caroline Small, a petite 35-year-old woman and mother of two, sat behind the wheel of her beat-up Buick Century with nowhere to turn. Police vehicles flanked her on two sides, a shallow ditch was on another and a utility pole blocked her rear bumper. Unarmed but ... MOREMichael Accad: While Medical Bureaucrats Continue To Proliferate, Doctors And Nurses Are Becoming More Scarce
The dynamics of government health care. In contrast to the expected shortage of tens of thousands of physicians, there appears to be an abundance of health care administrators. Economists and physician-activists at Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) have invoked the below graph and the administrative bloat it shows as ... MOREProgress Through State Violence Or Smaller Government?
by John Stossel. Obamacare! The War on Drugs! A War on Poverty! Prohibition! The idea that government will bring social progress isn't new. Europe's monarchs believed in big government long before there was a Soviet Union or a welfare state. Eighteenth-century philosopher Voltaire praised "enlightened" monarchs like Prussia's Frederick the ... MORE
Milo Yiannopoulos: In Defense Of Ayn Rand
The monster under the progressive bed. Liberals are constantly begging for more female authors and female lead characters in literature, but one woman author and philosopher remains stubbornly absent from progressive reading lists. Her name is Ayn Rand, and she is responsible for a theory called objectivism, which holds that reality exists ... MOREThe Pope Should Conceal His Economic Ignorance
by Pat Buchanan. Leave the socialist rants to Bernie Sanders. Arriving in La Paz, Pope Francis was presented by Bolivian President Evo Morales with a wooden crucifix carved in the form of a hammer and sickle, the symbol of Lenin, Stalin, Mao and Fidel. Had Pope John Paul II been handed that crucifix, he might have cracked it over Evo's head. ... MOREThe FBI Wants The Key to Your Data: Is Gov't-Resistant Encryption An Intolerable Threat To Public Safety?
by Jacob Sullum. Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week, FBI Director James Comey argued that data should never be transmitted or stored in a way that frustrates government snooping. Comey warned that encryption is a boon to criminals and therefore must be designed so that law enforcement agencies can decode it ... MORE
Higher Minimum Wage Leads To Price Rises And Job Losses
by Tim Worstall. We have been trying to tell people for some time now that raising the minimum wage just isn’t this costless exercise that so many seem to think it is. Raising that minimum wage means a pretty large amount of money flowing to one specific group of people in the economy. Which, given that we’ve not created any new money here, ... MOREStarbucks Announces New Effort To Break Law
by Roger Clegg. A plan to adopt racial hiring practices. According to the Wall Street Journal, “Starbucks Corp. is
teaming up with more than a dozen companies in a commitment to increase
hiring of young, minority workers over the next three years.” It’s
unclear from the article exactly how race and ethnicity are to be used
in the hiring process. ... MOREMartin Armstrong: The End Of Freedom Of Speech In Spain
'1984' comes to Europe, next stop ... Spain has shown that it is fully on board with the Brussels authoritarian direction of ending democracy. Those in power have simply convinced themselves that the people do not understand what is good for them so they must impose their will upon the people but raw force. How does this differ in any ... MOREThe Causes Of The Greek Economic Crisis – And The Cure
by Jaana Woiceshyn. New headlines and news stories about Greece’s looming economic collapse
appear daily. This weekend, the National Post has a series of articles
on the theme “Greece on the brink.” Some point the finger at the
country’s political leadership: “The negotiation game: Greece’s debt crisis a case study in the art of brinksmanship.” ... MOREThomas Sowell: Is The Civil War Over?
Ethnic grievance industry focused on the past. In the wake of the recent murders in a South Carolina church, the killer's hope of igniting a race war produced the opposite effect. Blacks and whites in South Carolina came together to condemn his act and the race hate behind it. Some saw in the decision to remove the Confederate flag from ... MORETMZ: Macy's Fires Trump, Then Takes It In The Shorts
Gutless political correctness costs chain store. Macy's is paying the price for sacking Donald Trump, because we've learned thousands of customers are cutting up their Macy's credit card in protest. Sources connected to the department store tell TMZ, Macy's has
received complaints from approximately 30,000 customers since ... MOREGov't Spent $3.5 Million To Study Why Lesbians Are So Fat
by Elizabeth Harrington. The dreaded low self-esteem rears its ugly head. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has now spent over $3.5 million to determine why the majority of lesbians are obese. The project, now entering its fifth year, received another grant worth $658,485 this summer. The total funding for the research is now $3,531,925. ... MOREThe State Of Free Speech In America: Panicked Shopper Sees Nazi And Confederate Geer At Flea Market, Calls 911
by Mary Ellen Godin. Not yet a crime. Local police received a complaint when a shopper discovered Nazi and Confederate merchandise at a popular flea market last weekend, according to Chief William Wright. An officer responded to the Redwood Flea Market on South Turnpike Road Sunday to investigate the report and found Nazi and ... MOREFeds Can Read Every Email You Opened Without A Warrant
by Zack Whittaker. It's no longer a surprise that the government is reading your
emails. What you might not know is that it can readily read most of your
email without a warrant. Any email or social networking message you've opened that's more than six months old can also be accessed by every law enforcement official in government
-- ... MOREWalter E Williams: Historical Ignorance
Principals have always held the right to fire agents. The victors of war write its history in order to cast themselves in the most favorable light. That explains the considerable historical ignorance about our war of 1861 and panic over the Confederate flag. To create better understanding, we have to start a bit before the 1787 ... MOREFast Food Restaurant Responds To Minimum Wage Hike
by Kaitlyn Schallhorn. Some raise prices, others layoff workers. As San Francisco is set to raise its minimum wage to $15 over the next few years, Chipotle raised the price of its food. According to Investors Business Daily, Chipotle in San Francisco raised its prices as much as 14.4 percent as the Golden Gate City raised its minimum wage by 14 percent. ... MORE
110 Year-Old Case Still Inspires Supreme Court Debates
by George Will. What potential nominees should be asked. Today's most interesting debate about governance concerns a 110-year-old Supreme Court decision. Two participants in this debate are the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and a justice on the Supreme Court of Texas. The latter is trouncing the former. In his same-sex ... MOREGustavo Arellano: Drop That Snack!
LA's war against people eating what they want. In 1985, legendary food critic Ruth Reichl wrote an essay for the Los Angeles Times that sounded ludicrous then and just pathetic today. She was reviewing Border Grill, a nouveau Mexican restaurant in Los Angeles' ever-hip Melrose district run by Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger—nowadays ... MORESupreme Court May Curb Power Of Public Employee Unions
by Michael Hiltzik. The author thinks this is bad news. To all those who detected a shift toward progressive thinking in the Supreme Court's rulings last week protecting the Affordable Care Act and legalizing gay marriage: You should stop celebrating now. That's because the court has taken up a case that poses a mortal threat to the cause of collective ... MOREUS Gov't’s Reported Number Of Wiretaps Only One Third Of Those Reported By AT&T, Verizon, Sprint And T-Mobile
by David Kravets. Somebody is lying. The government published its latest Wiretap Report on July 1. The
headline finding was that encryption wasn't foiling federal and state
law enforcement officials, despite a growing chorus of people suggesting
that we're all gonna die unless the tech sector builds backdoor access into their products to ... MOREThe $15 Minimum Wage Would Cost 300,000 Jobs
by Tim Worstall. There’s an absolutely fascinating little piece of information in George Osborne’s budget over in my native UK. For it gives us a firm calculation of the number of job losses that will come from a rise in the minimum wage in that country. And we can adapt that estimate to the United States and the effect of the $15 an hour that is ... MOREDonald Trump Raises Uncomfortable Truths
by David Paulin. Increasingly, law-enforcement authorities classify Hispanic criminals as “white.” Donald Trump enjoyed a surge in the polls after his allegedly "racist" remarks about how all that diversity from South of the Border is not all it's cracked up to be. The brash real-estate tycoon and TV star has struck a nerve, saying things that America's ... MOREWhy Should Government Demand Wage Rates Rather Than Let Individuals Be Free To Pursue Their Own Interests?
by Chuck Barnard. We should all be free to work for a business based on our personal criteria, including the wage they pay. What right do any of these progressives have to tell someone who would agree to work for another individual for a mutually agreed-upon wage that they can’t? How do they have the right to say to someone they must work for a ... MORESo-Called Public Servants Won't Take No For An Answer
Ah, the census worker. An East Dallas woman is outraged after she claims one U.S. Census worker showed up at her door for a housing survey and would not take “no” for an answer. Sonia Platz said the worker went as far as to camp out in her yard as she waited for Platz to change her mind. “She’s ringing the bell, knocking on the door. And I’m like, ... MORERichard Berman: Manufacturing A Food Scare
Marketing to the uninformed. The wisdom of crowds is a concept that has remarkable predictability. Often, the dispersed knowledge of millions of people making informed decisions is more reliable than the informed bias of policy activists. When it comes to the latest food scare, antibiotics and resistant
bacteria, polling shows the public ... MORE
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