by Betsy McCaughey. Obama says too many seniors getting hip and knee replacements. Everybody knows if you don’t pay to repair your car, you limit its life. The same is true with people. We need medical care to avoid becoming clunkers. For a half-century, Medicare has enabled seniors to get that care. But now the Obama administration is pressuring ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: The Fact-Free Left: Part II
Intentions trump results, every time. There is no way to know what is going on in someone else's mind. But sometimes their behavior tells you more than their words. The political left's great claim to authenticity and honor is that what they advocate is for the benefit of the less fortunate. But how could we test that? T.S. Eliot once said, ... MORE
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Costs From Regulations Pile Up, Hurt Small Business Profits
by Joyce M. Rosenberg. Govt's war on capitalism. It's getting more expensive to be an employer and small business owners say that's making it harder for them to make money. The health care law, minimum wage
increases and paid sick leave laws in some states and cities are
increasing costs. Small companies also face the prospect of higher
overtime ... MORE
Jacob Sullum: Federal Grand Jury Charges Georgia Cop With Lying To Justify Drug Raid That Multilated A Toddler
Cop tossed flash-bang grenade into playpen. Today John Horn, the acting U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, announced
that a federal grand jury has approved an indictment charging former
Habersham County Deputy Sheriff Nikki Autry with lying when she applied
for the search warrant authorizing a May 2014 drug raid that ... MORE
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Zach Weissmueller: You Have a Right to Buy and Sell Sex. Now, Will the Courts Protect It By Legalizing Prostitution?
See video. "Our hope in the lawsuit is to have the anti-prostitution law overturned
as unconstitutional and invalidated in the state of California," says
Maxine Doogan, a former sex worker and president of the Erotic Service
Provider Legal, Education, and Research Project (ESPLER), a group that has filed a lawsuit against California's attorney general ... MORE
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John Stossel - The War On Uber
Hillary attacks Uber to protect taxi cartels. Hillary Clinton gave a speech warning that the new "sharing economy" of businesses such as the ride-hailing company Uber is "raising hard questions about workplace protections." Democrats hate what labor unions hate, and a taxi drivers' union hates Uber, too. Its NYC website proclaims, "Uber ... MORE
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Walter E Williams: Historical Ignorance II - The Real Lincoln
We call the war of 1861 the Civil War. But is that right? A civil war
is a struggle between two or more entities trying to take over the
central government. Confederate President Jefferson Davis no more sought
to take over Washington, D.C., than George Washington sought to take
over London in 1776. Both wars, those of 1776 and 1861, ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: The Fact-Free Left
Somebody wants poverty and dependence. The outrage over another multiple murder of American military personnel on American soil by another Islamic extremist has been exacerbated by the fact that these military people had been ordered to be unarmed — and therefore sitting ducks. Millions of American civilians have also been forbidden ... MORE
Code Of Silence: Officer Fired, Framed & Threatened For Exposing Fellow Officer Who Ripped A Man’s Eyeball Out
by Matt Agorist. It is no question that if fellow officers blow the whistle on their peers for breaking the law, they will be shunned, and their careers will be over. The blue code of silence, as our friend and former Baltimore cop, Joe Crystal has shown us, is not to be broken. Crystal attempted to expose an officer who beat a handcuffed man ... MORE
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Hope And Change Update: 6.6 Million Americans Had To Pay ObamaCare's Individual Mandate Tax For 2014
The one promise kept. More Americans paid ObamaCare's individual mandate tax for 2014 than previously estimated, according to a new report from the Internal Revenue Service's National Taxpayer Advocate. In January, the Treasury Department projected that up to 6 million households would be subject to the tax because they did not ... MORE
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Ronald Bailey: Chipotle Treats Customers Like Idiots
Trying to profit from bogus GMO fears. In April, the high-class Mexican food chain Chipotle announced that it was going GMO-free. That is, the company would no longer use ingredients derived from modern biotech crops. Chipotle says it sells "food with integrity." The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines integrity as "the quality of being ... MORE
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Rand Paul Says No More Tax Dollars To Planned Parenthood
by Robert Herriman. After the release of the chilling and quite gruesome Center for Medical Progress video earlier this week (see full video and transcript below) , which exposed Planned Parenthood’s ghoulish side gig from their already abhorrent abortion numbers of selling fetal organs and tissue, many in the Congress reacted negatively to it. ... MORE
We Are All Terror Suspects Under The FBI’s Program
by Thomas S. Neuberger. What Big Brother is looking for. If you engage in any of the following activities, you could be on a terrorism watch list: Make suspicious comments regarding anti‑US, radical theology, vague or cryptic warnings that suggest or appear to endorse the use of violence in support of a cause. Make unusual comments ... MORE
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EPA Power Grab Incites States To Consider Nullification
by Kyle Maichle. Resisting a claim to every last drop of water in the nation. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has in recent years imposed numerous new regulatory rules strangling the freedoms of businesses and property owners. Latching on to every possible excuse for regulating economic activities by citing microscopic effects on ... MORE
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EPA,
government,
property rights,
regulation,
restrictions
Man Spends 3 Months In Jail For Possession Of Vitamins
Overzealous drug warriors thought they were contraband. A man spent nearly three months in jail on felony drug possession
charges after police searched him during a traffic stop and found
vitamin supplements. Joseph Burrell, 31, was pulled over by police in November 2014 when
he was observed allegedly driving without his ... MORE
How Student Loans Create Demand For Useless Degrees
by Josh Grossman. Last week, former Secretary of Education and US Senator Lamar Alexander wrote in the Wall Street Journal
that a college degree is both affordable and an excellent investment.
He repeated the usual talking point about how a college degree increases
lifetime earnings by a million dollars, “on average.” That part about
averages is ... MORE
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economics,
education,
incentives,
loans,
student debt,
students
Maria Boynton: Atlanta NAACP Says “They Can Sand Blast Lee, Jefferson Davis, And Jackson” Off Stone Mountain
Ethnic grievance industry pushes for history rewrite. The Atlanta Chapter of the NAACP is calling for the removal of the Confederacy from Stone Mountain Park. Local chapter president Richard Rose says, “It is time for Georgia and other Southern states to end the glorification of slavery and white supremacy, paid for and maintained, with ... MORE
Davvid Harsanyi: Gun Control - The Killer’s Best Friend
They seem to prefer unarmed victims. Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez is suspected of murdering four unarmed Marines in Chattanooga and wounding others. As I write this, we still don’t know how Abdulazeez obtained his gun or what his motivations were—though, we can take an educated guess on the latter. What we do know is that ... MORE
Peter Ferrara: President Obama’s Nuclear Surrender
Iran to get nuclear weapons, while America loses them. Remember President Obama’s Obamacare promise that if you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan? That turned out to be you can keep your health care plan if Obama likes your health care plan, as millions of Americans lost their health care plans they ... MORE
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War On GMOs: The Food Is Safe, The Rhetoric Is Dangerous
Is genetically engineered food dangerous? Many people seem to think it is. In the past five years, companies have submitted more than 27,000 products to the Non-GMO Project, which certifies goods that are free of genetically modified organisms. Last year, sales of such products nearly tripled. Whole Foods will soon require labels on all ... MORE
Video Shows Cop Slamming Handcuffed Teenage Girl Onto Floor, Knocking Her Teeth Out And Causing Head Injuries
Cop defends self from sassy young girl's verbal abuse. Police brutality allegations were prompted when a police officer slammed a teen’s face onto a hospital floor. The young woman suffered significant injuries, including trauma to the head, face, jaw, and teeth. She also sustained concussion, migraine headaches, cognitive and ... MORE
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VIDEO: Public Servants On Film - Cops Illegally Enter Home, Then Arrests Naked Woman In Front Of Young Daughter
Offending cop decides to retire to cushy pension.
Police Violence Activist Found Dead In Jail Cell After Being Pulled Over For Not Signaling A Lane Change in Texas
by Ed Krayewski. Earlier this month, 28-year-old Sandra Bland was pulled over
for allegedly failing to signal a lane change by a Texas Department of
Public Safety trooper near the Prairie View A&M campus. She had
driven there from her home in Naperville, Illinois, for a new job at her
alma mater. Police accused her of being combative during ... MORE
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law enforcement,
motivation,
police,
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Mimi Walters: A Fix To California's Man-Made Drought
Politicians can start prioritizing the people. This year marks California’s fourth consecutive year of drought. To break it down, nearly 99 percent of California is in “moderate drought,” 71 percent is in “extreme drought,” and approximately 47 percent is in “exceptional drought” – the most severe category. In California alone, over ... MORE
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