Judge Tells IRS It Can’t Hide White House Emails

by Mark Tapscott.   White House emails to the IRS about individual tax returns cannot be exempted by the embattled agency under the Freedom of Information Act, a federal judge ruled Friday. United States District Court for the District of Columbia Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled that Section 6103 of the tax code does not justify the IRS from         ... MORE

John W. Whitehead: The Raping Of America

Mile markers on the road to fascism.“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”—Martin Luther King Jr. There’s an ill will blowing across the country. The economy is tanking. The people are directionless, and politics provides no answer. And like former regimes, the militarized police have stepped up  ... MORE

Bob Knudsen: Denver Police Display Contempt For The Law As They Ignore Court Order To Stop Harassing Protesters

Police State America: Court unable to restrain cops. Prominent Colorado civil rights attorney David Lane is asking for a federal court to hold Denver Police Chief Robert White in contempt of court following the dismantling of protester tents outside of the Lindsey-Flanigan Courthouse near downtown. The dismantling occurred on August 27, two  ... MORE

A PC Guide To This Year’s Political Correctness Debates

by David Lightman.      Is it racist to call rioters thugs? Donald Trump’s war against what he calls political correctness has helped fuel his summer surge -- and spark a fierce new debate over how far politicians can go. “I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct,” Trump, the Republican presidential front-runner, said at the candidates’ ... MORE

VIDEO: Thomas Sowell - The Welfare State Vision

Donna Carol Voss: Gun Control Drives Me Crazy

Murderers and weapons will always exist.  Gun control drives me crazy. I’m willing to consider any logical argument, but gun control is so untethered from reality that it makes me hyperventilate just thinking about it. It is reality that people are killed by guns every day. The reporter and photograhper who were gunned down on live TV are only  ... MORE

Denver Concedes Distributing Jury Nullification Pamphlets Near A Courthouse Is Constitutionally Protected Speech

by Jacob Sullum.  But, it still won't drop charges against those arrested for doing so.   Yesterday a federal judge in Denver issued a preliminary injunction protecting the First Amendment rights of activists who want to distribute jury nullification pamphlets outside the Lindsey-Flanigan Courthouse. Two activists, Mark Iannicelli and Eric Brandt, did  ... MORE

VIDEO: Big Government's War Against The Little Guy

Black, Gay Reporter Murders Straight, White Journalists — Media Blame The Gun

by Ben Shapiro.     On Wednesday, America met a deeply evil human being: Vester Lee Flanagan II, also known as reporter Bryce Williams. Williams murdered two people while they were live on air on WDBJ in Virginia: reporter Alison Parker, and cameraman Adam Ward. After the murders, he went on the run – and while he was on the run,   ... MORE

Andrew Napolitano: What If Hillary Clinton Doesn't Care?

Contempt for the American people.   What if former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been pulling the wool over our eyes for years? What if, while she was secretary of state, she ran two secret wars, one in Libya and one in Syria? What if there already were wars in each of those countries, so she used those wars as covers for her own?      ... MORE

John Stossel: Ranking The Candidates

My list of best to worst possible presidents:    1. Rand Paul (R) 2. Gary Johnson (Libertarian) 3. Carly Fiorina (R) 4. Jeb Bush (R) 5. Ted Cruz (R) 6. Scott Walker (R) 7. Rick Perry (R) 8. Marco Rubio (R) 9. John Kasich (R) 10. Ben Carson (R) 11. Bobby Jindal (R) 12. Jim Webb (D) 13. George Pataki (R) 14. Donald Trump (R) 15. Lawrence Lessig (D) ... MORE

J. D. Tucille: After Silk Road, Illicit Online Marketplaces For Drugs & Weapons Are Growing, With More To Come

Voluntary exchange without permission is innovating. Well, the online marketplace for illicit goods' competitors and successors live, anyway. The original Silk Road and its operator were taken down by the United States federal government in an over-the-top campaign that featured stunningly corrupt federal agents. Beyond its    ... MORE

VIDEO: Mark Steyn - Hillary E-Mails & Amb. Chris Stevens

Rand Paul To Attack Trump Over Eminent Domain Abuse

by Robby Soave.      Donald Trump is no friend to private property owners. Vowing to recapture some of the enthusiasm his campaign has lost over the past few weeks, Sen. Rand Paul said he will focus on property issues and eminent domain abuse in order to make the case that Donald Trump is out of step with conservative Republican primary voters. ... MORE

Stop Predatory Policing: Close The Civl Forfeiture Loophole

by Chuck Devore.  Traveling with a large amount of cash can be risky in California. An owner of a food truck from Northern California traveled to Los Angeles to make a large purchase. He had $10,000 in cash with him – not unusual, given that he operated a cash-based business. Unfortunately, his $10,000 was taken – by law enforcement. His cash was seized ... MORE

VIDEO: The Fed Turned Stock Market Into a 'Hall of Mirrors'

Anti-Ridesharing Laws Are Stuck In The Past

by Jordan Richardson.   Times have certainly changed since Robert De Niro was driving cab around New York's boroughs in the move Taxi Driver. The 1976 film showcased a society focused on the Vietnam War and De Niro's obsession with a presidential campaign. But one thing has not changed since the 70s: The government is still trying to regulate  ... MORE

Joseph T. Salerno: Why Government Hates Cash

Overlords favor supervised spending.    In April it was announced that Greece was imposing a surcharge for all cash withdrawals from bank accounts to deter citizens from clearing out their accounts. So now the Greeks will have to pay one euro per 1,000 euros that they withdraw, which is one-tenth of a percent. It doesn’t seem very big, but the ... MORE

Katie Kieffer: 17 Grades for 17 Candidates: Anchor Babies

The immigration report card.  Only five GOP presidential candidates understand our Constitution and are serious about reforming our immigration system in a fair and equitable manner: Donald Trump; Sen. Ted Cruz; Sen. Rand Paul; Gov. Bobby Jindal and Rick Santorum. Last month it was the Confederate flag. This month, all the cool kids ... MORE

Indiana School Fingerprints Students For Lunch Program

by Kyle Olson.   A new method of tracking the sheep. The grumbling in New Albany cafeterias isn’t coming from students’ stomachs. It’s from parents. The southern Indiana school district is one of the latest to deploy technology which “biometric identification to match a finger scan with a personal identification number,” WAVE reports. According to a    ... MORE

VIDEO: Rand Paul - Cutting Government Spending

Kate Mather: Good News For Citizens! LAPD Urges Officers To Be Community Guardians, Not Warriors On Crime

Promoting peace officers rather than robocops.   For years, Los Angeles police officers have worked under the shadow of the department's dark past. The LAPD of the 1970s and '80s acted as a hard-charging, occupying force that raided poor neighborhoods and rounded up anyone in sight. Police stormed suspected crack houses, tearing down walls ... MORE

The Conservative Case For Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform

by Lance Lemmonds.  On his way to purchase equipment for Smoking Roosters, his fledgling BBQ restaurant, in Staunton, Va., in August 2012, Mandrel Stuart was pulled over for having tinted windows and a video playing in the back seat of his SUV. He was handcuffed and detained for two hours without having any charges filed, but found his duffle ... MORE

VIDEO: Nullified In Practice: Banning Sex Or Alcohol

‘Stop F*cking Crying', Demands Cop Holding Naked Woman And Children At Gunpoint After Raiding Wrong Apartment

by Travis Gettys.   Public masters or public servants? Police terrorized a naked woman and her children at gunpoint last week during a no-knock raid on the wrong apartment. Marianne Diaz said she was awakened about 5:30 a.m. Wednesday by SWAT officers knocking down the door to her Worcester, Massachusetts, apartment as officers wearing      ... MORE

Jacob Sullum: Where Can You Smoke Legal Pot?

Out from the shadows.     When the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol in Massachusetts unveiled the text of its 2016 legalization initiative this month, the group highlighted several features of the measure but omitted the most interesting one. The Regulation and Taxation of Marijuana Act would allow consumption of cannabis  ... MORE

Captured, Cuffed, and Jailed: A Personal Story

by Jeffrey Tucker.   A must read. It was a lovely day otherwise but, for me, most of it was spent in jail. From one minute to the next, I went from seemingly free to cuffed and captured. Anyone who has ever experienced such a thing knows exactly what I mean. If you haven’t experienced it, I hope you never do. It might be best described as a loss of      ... MORE

Claire Bernish: What Happened When Gloucester, Mass. Stopped Arresting Drug Addicts, And Offered Help Instead

Government as public servants, what a novel idea.  Situated on the coast of Massachusetts, Gloucester’s claims to fame include its status as “America’s original seaport,” as well as being the real-life location on which events in the movie The Perfect Storm (2000) were based. Now, the small town has a new reason to be the center of attention:  ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - Downsizing Government

Thomas Sowell: Immigration Excuses

A betrayal by elected officials.     One of the most lame excuses for doing nothing is that we can't do everything. Such excuses have been repeated endlessly, even by some conservatives, when it comes to illegal immigration. We can't deport millions of illegal immigrants already living in the country, some say, so the wise thing is to just learn to live  ... MORE

Walter E Williams: The Struggle For Economic Liberty

The war against Uber, Lyft and consumers.  Where public utility commissions decide who will have the right to go into the taxi business, a prospective entrant must apply for a "certificate of public convenience and necessity." Lawyers for the incumbent taxi owners, most often corporate owners or owner associations, appear at the hearing to argue that ... MORE

VIDEO: The Government's Covert War On Small Business


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Thomas Sowell: Sorting The Candidates

Finding the needle in the haystack.  Despite a nuclear Iran looming on the horizon, the media seem to be putting most of their attention on two candidates for their respective parties' presidential nominations next year. Moreover, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump each make their own party nervous. If next year's election comes down to Clinton   ... MORE

Tammy Bruce: The Real War On Women

It must be admitted. There is a war on women.  The Democrats have been screaming about this for years, and they should know. Because the war is their war on women all across the socioeconomic spectrum. Under President Obama, more women are unemployed, fewer women have started new businesses, we lost our health insurance, our doctors ... MORE

How 2016 Contenders Want To Change The Constitution

by Clare Foran.     Amending the Constitution is no easy feat. But long odds haven't stopped Democrats and Republicans alike from calling for change on the campaign trail. There have only been 27 amendments to the legendary legal document since the Founding Fathers—quite literally—put pen to paper. And that's with good reason: Even the most     ... MORE

Common Core: Who's Watching the Kids?

by Mary Anne Marcella and Cort Wrotnowski.   Common Core is about more than just a shift in educational standards.  The architects of Common Core have always planned to integrate computer technology with Common Core standards under the guise of “closing the digital divide” and “preparing our children for the 21st-century workplace.”  They   ... MORE

VIDEO: Milton Friedman - End The Drug War

Sheldon Richman: Trumps Trade Snake Oil

High import taxes won't "make America great" again. Donald Trump may think the media stenographers are out to get him, but if they were really doing their job, his head would be spinning. He doesn't know how good he has it. Or maybe he does. One need only think about the questions Trump is not asked to see what I mean. Take Trump's  ... MORE

AP: Federal Court To Hear Challenge To Jury Nullification

Free speech under assault.     A federal judge is scheduled to hear evidence in a lawsuit arguing that a Denver judge cannot bar people from telling potential jurors outside a courthouse that they have a right to ignore laws they believe are wrong. Attorney David Lane filed a lawsuit against the city and Denver police, asking a federal judge to   ... MORE

VIDEO: Rand Paul On Government Reform

Between Eye Surgeries In Haiti, Rand Paul Talks Politics

by Steve Peoples and Chery Dieu Nalio.   Mathieux Saint Fleur has been virtually blind for two decades. In less than 24 hours, he will see again. As the 75-year-old Haitian patient lies on an operating table, a U.S. eye surgeon turned politician reassures him in broken Creole that the surgery is almost over. “People need to be encouraged it’s       ... MORE

Prostitution Stings Now Suspended In Minneapolis Because The Cops Keep Having Sex With Their Arrest Targets

None of the officers will be investigated.  The Minneapolis PD has suspended all sting operations against street prostitution after courts dismissed three cases within one month due to undercover officers having sex with female suspects. Police said they are conducting a full review of their undercover investigation policies, but said none of the     ... MORE