If the Supreme Court declared the sky to be green, would it cease to be blue?
VIDEO: Brian Brown - Supreme Court Resistance
If the Supreme Court declared the sky to be green, would it cease to be blue?
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Jayme Metzgar: Real American Heroes - 5 Notable Americans Who Fought For Their Opponents’ Rights
The difference between disagreement and force. I live within earshot of a Civil War battlefield, where volunteers give frequent artillery demonstrations during tourist season. Throughout this past summer, the familiar blasts rattling the kitchen windows became an odd source of comfort. “I suppose we could be more divided than we are ... MORE
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courage,
force,
freedom,
honor,
individual liberty,
leaders,
morality,
patriotism,
principles
How The Sugar Industry Leverages Government Corruption
by Patrice Lee. It’s no secret that the government gives special treatment to large, established industries—often at the expense of Millennials and small business owners. And if you need proof, look no further than to the sugar industry, which right now stands as an example of cronyism at its worst. Policymakers from across the political ... MORE
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cronyism,
government,
incentives,
industry,
policy,
politics,
subsidies,
sugar
John Stossel: Bettors Beat The Pundits
Who puts their money where their mouth is? Want to know who the next president will be? Don't trust polls or pundits. Betting odds at ElectionBettingOdds.com are the best predictor of who will win any election. Pundits have a terrible track record. Last election, Newt Gingrich and Dick Morris forecast a Romney "landslide." Rush Limbaugh ... MORE
Tami Luhby: No One Stays In The Top 1% For Long
Up and down the income ladder. Made it into the Top 1%? Congrats! Just don't expect to stay there for very long. The Top 1% is often considered an exclusive, monolithic group, but folks actually rise up into it and fall out of it quite often. That's because their incomes can vary widely year to year. Some 11% of Americans will join the Top 1% for ... MORE
Child Molestation If Done By Private Individual: Ten-Year- Old Girl Gets 2-Minute TSA Patdown Over Juice Pouch
by Morgan Cook. A Capri Sun juice pouch mistakenly left in a 10-year-old San Diego girl’s carry-on handbag led a TSA agent to subject the girl to almost two minutes of frisking and extra screening that lasted about an hour, her father said. Liquids exceeding 3 ounces are not allowed in carry-on bags, for fear they might contain explosives, but the ... MORE
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BHO's Gun Control Policies Serve Same Function As Tears
by Jacob Sullum. Intentions over results. HouseAnnouncing his gun-related "executive actions" yesterday, President Obama predictably substituted emotion for logic while engaging in a familiar bait and switch. He recited a litany of horrific, headline-grabbing mass shootings while proposing policies that would have done nothing to prevent ... MORE
The Constitution, The President And Guns
by Andrew Napolitano. "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." — Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution In 2008, the Supreme Court laid to rest the once-simmering dispute over the meaning of the Second Amendment. In an opinion written by ... MORE
War On Guns: Obama Executive Order May Require Those Selling Even A Single Firearm To Become Licensed Dealers
by Stephen Gutowski. Harassing law abiding citizens is always his answer. The Obama administration announced during a conference call with reporters Monday evening that the president’s upcoming executive order may require somebody selling even a single firearm to obtain a Federal Firearms License. During the call White House Press ... MORE
Benevolence Of Capitalism Vs Paternalism Of Welfare State
by Richard M. Ebeling. We live in an era in which few can even conceive of a world without the welfare state. Who would care for the old? How would people provide for their medical needs? What would happen to the disadvantaged and needy that fell upon hard times? In fact, there were free market solutions and non-government answers to these ... MORE
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government,
poverty,
prosperity,
responsibility,
welfare state
Should Used Tea Leaves Be Probable Cause For Drug Raids?
by Justin Monticello. Former CIA employees Robert and Adlynn Harte, along with their 7- and
13-year-old children, were held at gunpoint by sheriff's deputies for
several hours as a search
for drugs was conducted in their home. The probable cause that led to
the raid? A visit to a hydroponics store for a horticultural project and
wet tea ... MORE
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Deana Chadwell: To Be, Or Not To Be Offended
NY's transgender nitwittery. New York City is proposing a $250,000 fine for using the wrong pronoun in reference to a transgendered person. Really?! How would you know which pronoun to use? Why would a he that used to be a she be upset if one slipped up and used the feminine pronoun? Accidents happen, especially where confusion abounds. ... MORE
Hillary Clinton Could Face Criminal Indictment
by Sarah Westwood. A former U.S. attorney thinks Hillary Clinton could face a criminal indictment from the FBI within the next 60 days. Joe DiGenova, a Republican U.S. attorney appointed by President Reagan, said Clinton's "biggest problem right now" is the open FBI investigation into the contents of her private emails. "They have reached a critical ... MORE
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crime,
deception,
dishonesty,
e-mail,
evidence,
FBI,
Hillary Clinton,
Loretta Lynch
You Know Less Than You Think About Guns
by Brian Doherty. "There is a gun for roughly every man, woman, and child in America," President Barack Obama proclaimed after the October mass shooting that killed 10 at Umpqua Community College in Oregon. "So how can you, with a straight face, make the argument that more guns will make us safer? We know that states with the most gun laws tend ... MORE
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Obama,
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science,
self-defense,
shooting
John W. Whitehead: Playing The Government's Game
When it comes to violence, we all lose. Yes, the government is corrupt. Yes, the system is broken. By broken, I mean it’s “dysfunctional, gridlocked, and, in general, incapable of doing what needs to be done.” Yes, the government is out of control and overreaching on almost every front. Yes, the government’s excesses—pork barrel spending, ... MORE
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DNA,
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individual liberty,
oligarchy,
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SWAT
Gun Sales Peak As Obama Demands New Gun Restrictions
by Christopher Ingraham. New federal data shows 2015 was a record-smashing year for the American firearms industry, with gun
sales appearing to hit the highest level on record. Background checks
for gun purchases and permits jumped 10 percent last year to 23.1
million, the largest number since the federal background check system ... MORE
California Town Goes Podunk; Seeks To Stymie Medical Pot
by Thaddeus Miller. As state pot policy moves forward, one city goes backwards. Medical marijuana cardholders will not be allowed to grow cannabis for their own consumption after a vote Monday while the Merced City Council figures out what cultivation and dispensaries should be permitted in the city. The council unanimously passed the ... MORE
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Thomas Sowell: Showman-In-Chief
The king of blather takes the stage again. Those who have been marveling at Donald Trump's political showmanship were given a reminder of who is the top showman of them all, when President Barack Obama went on television to make a pitch for his unilateral actions to restrict gun sales and make a more general case for tighter gun control laws. ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: Complicating The Obvious
Electronic "improvement" rears its ugly head. Engineers who design computerized products and services seem to have an almost fanatical determination to avoid using plain English. It is understandable when complicated processes require complicated operations. But when the very simplest things are designed with needless complications ... MORE
The Federal Ban On Medical Marijuana Was Not Lifted
by Jacob Sullum. Contrary to what you may have read or heard, Congress did not quietly lift the federal ban on medical marijuana. Nor did it lift the ban loudly. It did not lift the ban at all. Here is what actually happened. In December 2014, Congress approved an
omnibus spending bill that included a rider prohibiting the Justice
Department ... MORE
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federalism,
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medical marijuana,
medicine,
prohibition
Steven Greenhut: Price Controls Will Slow Drug Innovation
More bad ideas from the left coast. The California state legislature has a habit of legislating by anecdote.
Assembly members or senators may have a bad experience at a state
agency or with private industry and they write a bill to address it.
Often, legislators offer proposals based on the latest news cycle.
Ultimately there are hearings, a long vetting ... MORE
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drugs,
government,
incentives,
innovation,
price controls,
regulation
Absurdly Harsh Penalties Sparked Oregon Rancher Protest
by Jacob Sullum. As Ed Krayewski noted yesterday, the armed men who are occupying an office building at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon broke off from a demonstration protesting the sentences received by two ranchers, 73-year-old Dwight Hammond and his 46-year-old son Steven, who in 2001 and 2006 set fires on their own ... MORE
Walter E Williams: Unappreciated Tax On The Poor
High risk neighborhoods are taxing themselves. A few years ago, BET had a commentary titled "Where Are the Grocery Stores in Black Neighborhoods?" One wonders whether anyone thinks that the absence of supermarkets in predominantly black neighborhoods means that white merchants do not like dollars coming out of black hands. ... MORE
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business,
commerce,
crime,
discrimination,
incentives,
politics,
poverty,
profit,
property rights
Obama Pushing Thousands Of New Regulations In Year 8
by Timothy Noah. Nearly 4,000 regulations are squirming their way through the federal bureaucracy in the last year of Barack Obama’s presidency — many costing industry more than $100 million — in a mad dash by the White House to push through government actions affecting everything from furnaces to gun sales to Guantanamo. That ... MORE
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government,
guns,
limitations,
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Force Awakens As Asset-Forfeiture Plunder Is Threatened
by Orange County Register editorial. The Justice Department gave civil liberties advocates an early Christmas present last week when it announced that it would be suspending indefinitely its “equitable sharing” asset forfeiture program, which notoriously allowed state and local police agencies to bypass restrictions on forfeiture by partnering with ... MORE
Jesse Walker: 2015 - The Year In Fear
Exaggerating fear for political purposes. We live an age of unprecedented danger. The country is being battered by a nationwide crime wave. Subversives are waging a guerrilla war on cops. ISIS threatens the very existence of the United States, and its agents are infiltrating the homeland
through our porous southern border. Even when the ... MORE
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government,
ISIS,
Islamic state,
police,
politicians,
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shooting,
terrorism
2015 Gun Politics: Murders With Guns Are Used To Drive Gun Policy, Even Though Gun Policy Can't Prevent Them
by Brian Doherty. The politics of guns in 2015 was largely shaped by a series of
newsmaking horrible multiple-casualty murders in public places. Each one
inspired Democratic Party politicians, including President Obama and frontrunning 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton,
to call for a similar set of what they now call “common sense gun
safety” ... MORE
John Vibes: Watch Politicians Snap When Alternative Media Journalist Jan Helfeld Asks Them One Very Basic Question
Can you delegate a right that you don’t have? Jan Helfeld is a political journalist who has been traveling around and asking politicians some of the same awkward questions that work to expose the illegitimacy of their authority. His questions were extremely simple and many times ridiculed as “stupid” by the politicians that he interviewed, ... MORE
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Constitution,
integrity,
journalism,
philosophy,
politics,
principles,
reason,
thinking,
tyranny
Obama Executive Actions To Push Anti-Gun Agenda
by Juliet Eilperin. President Obama will press ahead with a set of executive actions on guns next week despite growing concerns in the United States over terrorism that have dampened some Americans’ enthusiasm for tighter firearms restrictions. The president will meet Monday with Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch to finalize a ... MORE
Little-Told Story Of How The U.S. Government Poisoned Alcohol During Prohibition With Deadly Consequences
by Deborah Blum. A reminder about public servants. It was Christmas Eve 1926, the streets aglitter with snow and lights, when the man afraid of Santa Claus stumbled into the emergency room at New York City's Bellevue Hospital. He was flushed, gasping with fear: Santa Claus, he kept telling the nurses, was just behind him, wielding a baseball bat. ... MORE
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alcohol,
authority,
deception,
dishonesty,
government,
politicians,
prohibition,
public service
The Sudden But Well-Deserved Fall Of Rahm Emanuel
by Rick Perlstein. It’s hard to remember a time when Rahm Emanuel wasn’t a Democratic Party superstar. Go back to 1991, when the thirty-two-year-old took over fund-raising for Bill Clinton. He was soon renowned for making the staff come to work on Sundays, shrieking into the phone to donors things like “Five thousand dollars is an insult! You’re a ... MORE
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