Theft-by-Government Continues Through Eminent Domain
by A. Barton Hinkle. Three years ago Virginia residents passed
a constitutional amendment to limit legalized theft through
eminent-domain abuse. The amendment required that property be taken only
for a genuinely public purpose. No longer could governments take one
person's land and give it to somebody else for economic development. ... MORE
Will Our Freedoms Survive Another Presidential Election?
by John W. Whitehead. Who needs bread and circuses when you have the assortment of clowns and contortionists that are running for the White House? Truly, politics in America has been reduced to a three-ring circus
complete with carnival barkers, acrobats, contortionists, jugglers,
lion tamers, animal trainers, tight rope walkers, freaks, strong men, ... MORE
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banking,
cronyism,
freedom,
government,
individual liberty,
politicians,
presidency,
vote-buying
Richard Martin & Michael Reilly: The Problem With Biofuels
An expensive political boondoggle. Last week the U.S. Navy, with its accustomed pomp and fanfare, launched its first carrier strike group powered partly by biofuel—in this case, a blend made primarily from beef fat. The biofueled warships form a central element of the Navy’s Great Green Fleet program to draw half of its power from clean ... MORE
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biofuels,
crony capitalism,
energy,
ethanol,
government,
mandates,
policy,
politics,
subsidies
Trump Tramples Conservative Belief In Property Rights
a Washington Examiner editorial. Margaret Thatcher, when she was British Prime Minister, used a simple formula to describe the economic freedoms due to a properly free people: "A man's right to work as he will, to spend what he earns, to own property, to have the state as servant and not as master." This was, in her view, "the British inheritance." ... MORE
Andrew Napolitano: Hillary Clinton's Nightmare
What if the FBI cannot be handled? Hillary Clinton's nightmare is not the sudden resurgence of Bernie Sanders. It is the fidelity to the rule of law of the FBI. The recent revelations of the receipt by Clinton of a Special Access Program email, as well as cut and pasted summaries of state secrets on her server and on her BlackBerry nearly ... MORE
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corruption,
e-mail,
FBI,
government,
Hillary Clinton,
scandal,
secrecy,
security
Why Government Should Not Regulate The App Economy
by Iain Murray. In Damon Runyon’s Broadway stories (and in the musical Guys and Dolls),
a gambler named Nathan Detroit hosts New York’s oldest established
floating crap game, presaging three functions of today’s app revolution.
Thinking of the app market in such nontechnological terms shows us what
is really happening today and lays bare the ... MORE
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choice,
economics,
free market,
freedom,
government,
incentives,
individual liberty,
regulation
Forecast Of Distrust With A Chance Of Revolution
by Glenn Reynolds. When Americans have more faith in the military than the political class, democracy is in trouble. According to a recent Associated Press poll, the public lacks confidence in government. And by “lacks confidence,” I mean “really lacks confidence.” Specifically, “More than 6 in 10 respondents expressed only slight confidence — or ... MORE
Jacob Sullum: Corny Crony Capitalism In Iowa
Only 2 candidates won't pander to ethanol lobby. The "report card" from America's Renewable Future, a biofuel industry group, is not complicated. If you are a presidential candidate participating in Monday's Iowa caucuses and you support "the commonsense, bipartisan Renewable Fuel Standard," you get a "good rating," symbolized by a fuel ... MORE
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agriculture,
campaign,
cronyism,
ethanol,
libertarian,
politics,
Rand Paul,
subsidies,
Ted Cruz
Jury Nullification Anyone? - Planned Parenthood-Linked Prosecutor Fuels Bias Charges Against Pro-Life Activists
by Valerie Richardson. Pro-life groups cried foul over Monday’s criminal indictments against two Center for Medical Progress investigators because a prosecutor in the Harris County District Attorney’s office is also a Planned Parenthood board member. Lila Rose, founder of the pro-life group Live Action, called for a special prosecutor to review ... MORE
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abortion,
cronyism,
government,
grand jury,
journalism,
jury nullification,
justice,
prosecute
NY Values: Big Apple To Make It Legal To Pee In Public
by Sylvia Van Peebles. Of all the things one could think of that New York City needs more of, public urination doesn't immediately come to mind. But New York's City Council,
which is so far left it almost collides with the right, is about to
make it happen thanks to it's Speaker, a Puerto Rican nationalist who
supports terrorists and rejects the ... MORE
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arrest,
behavior,
Democrats,
government,
health,
NY,
politicians,
politics,
standards,
values
John Stossel: Running On Empty
Using tax dollars to buy votes in Iowa. Cars run on fuel. Politicians run on votes, and they'll do almost anything to get them. That includes supporting mandates that force us to use ethanol, a fuel made from corn that Iowa farmers grow. They support ethanol because Iowa is the first state to vote on presidential candidates. Candidates ... MORE
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cronyism,
Donald Trump,
ethanol,
politicians,
politics,
Rand Paul,
Republican,
subsidies,
Ted Cruz
Oops Again? A Key Server Accidentally Gets Wiped By IRS
by Steve Sherman. It would be comical if it wasn't so corrupt. Another server has been “inadvertently” wiped of all of its key data at the IRS. What is it over there? Does Lois Lerner come in and give “tutorials” on server wiping? The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) saidFriday it erased a hard drive belonging to a former agency Senior official after a ... MORE
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bureaucracy,
computer,
corruption,
cronyism,
GOP,
IRS,
scandal,
secrecy,
transparency,
tyranny
Americans Hate The U.S. Government More Than Ever
By Aimee Picchi. The reasons continue to grow. A handful of industries are those "love to hate" types of businesses, such as cable-television companies and Internet service providers. The federal government has joined the ranks of the bottom-of-the-barrel industries, according to a new survey from the American Customer Satisfaction Index. ... MORE
The Congressional Budget Office Foresees A $30 Trillion Debt As A Result Of Looming Tax Hikes And Obamacare
by Stephen Dinan. The federal government will be flirting with $30 trillion in debt within a decade, the Congressional Budget Office
reported Monday, blaming an aging population, new spending and tax cuts
approved on Capitol Hill, and the growing burden from Obamacare for
erasing the progress Washington had made over the past few years. ... MORE
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debt,
economics,
federal,
government,
ObamaCare,
spending,
tax rates,
unfunded liabilities
Thomas Sowell: Do Emotions Trump Facts?
More hope and change may be coming. Those of us who like to believe that human beings are rational can sometimes have a hard time trying to explain what is going on in politics. It is still a puzzle to me how millions of patriotic Americans could have voted in 2008 for a man who for 20 years — TWENTY YEARS — was a follower of a preacher who ... MORE
Mike Hume: Should Anything Be ‘Beyond A Joke’?
Intolerant conformism is no laughing matter. Comedy, it seems, is no laughing matter these days, caught up in one controversy after another over the acceptable limits of humor. Last week it was the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo that was in the firing line again, accused of racism by everybody from the Queen of Jordan to ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: The Demand For Villains
Racism is a convenient rationale. The latest tempest in a teapot controversy is over a lack of black nominees for this year's Academy Awards in Hollywood. The assumption seems to be that different groups would be proportionally represented if somebody were not doing somebody else wrong. That assumption carries great weight in far more ... MORE
How Long Could The U.S. Go Without Electricity?
by A. Barton Hinkle. The power is still out, and things are getting scary. The house is so cold you can see your own breath. Some of the food in the refrigerator is good, but there's no way to cook it. The water is still running, barely, but it smells bad and tastes worse. The grocery store is open, but it's only taking cash—which you can't get, because the ... MORE
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disaster,
electricity,
food,
Homeland Security,
industry,
power grid,
standard of living,
water
"The Libertarian Case For School Choice"
by Nick Gillespie. Reason is proud to once again be involved with National School Choice Week, which celebrates school choice broadly defined. Over the next week or so, over 16,000 events in every state in the country will champion the growth and variety of programs that bring more options to more students and parents (and teachers, too). ... MORE
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children,
choice,
education,
libertarian,
parents,
school choice,
students,
vouchers
Jury-Nullification Activist Delivers In-Your-Face Defense
by Bob Unruh. A Michigan man charged with felony
obstruction of justice and jury tampering for handing out a leaflet on
jury nullification in front of a courthouse contends the local
prosecutor’s objection to the contents of his material doesn’t make his
actions a crime. Keith Wood, a former pastor, was arrested Nov. 24 on the orders of Mecosta ... MORE
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government,
individual liberty,
information,
judges,
jury nullification,
justice,
law,
resistance
Daniel Holtzclaw And The Limits Of “Community Policing”
by Victoria M. Massie. At the sentencing last week of Daniel Holtzclaw — the 29-year-old former Oklahoma City police officer convicted on 18 counts of rape and sexual assault of African-American women in the neighborhood he was assigned to patrol — District Attorney David Prater told the media: “I think people need to realize that this is not a ” ... MORE
The Shoes Are Raining Down In Hillary’s E-Mail Mess
by NY Post Editorial Board. It’s easy to see why some feel numbed by the Hillary Clinton e-mail scandal. Damning new “shoes” are dropping . . . well, fast and furious, to cite yet another administration outrage (see below). Fox News, which last week disclosed that messages on Clinton’s private server went beyond even Top Secret classification, ... MORE
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classified,
corruption,
Democrats,
e-mail,
FBI,
government,
Hillary Clinton,
secrecy,
security
Walter E Williams: Education Insanity
The problem is not money. Some credit Albert Einstein, others credit Benjamin Franklin, with the observation that "the definition of insanity is doing the same thing year after year and expecting different results." Whomever we credit, he was absolutely right. A perfect example of that insanity is education in general and particularly black ... MORE
Pentagon Holds Gala Celebrating 25 Years Of Bombing Iraq
cut from the Onion. Bringing together the many civilian leaders and military strategists who helped them reach such a historic milestone, Pentagon officials held a lavish black-tie gala Sunday at which, sources said, they commemorated 25 years of the United States bombing Iraq. Hundreds of active-duty and retired military officers, high- ... MORE
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Bill Clinton,
bombings,
Bush,
disaster,
foreign policy,
government,
Iraq,
Obama,
terrorism,
war
Taxpayers And Property Rights Win In Rams Move To LA
by Raymond J Nhan. Eminent domain and public funded statia. Recent news of the Los Angeles Rams is a win-win-win for the NFL and
taxpayers in Los Angeles and St. Louis. Though citizens of the Gateway
City may feel differently right now, they just avoided a massive waste
of taxpayer funds and a series of eminent domain abuses. And the ... MORE
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eminent domain,
football,
government,
politics,
private,
property rights,
subsidies,
taxpayer
Oakland’s Minimum Wage Is Up, Wal-Mart Is Out
by Leah Jessen. How that workin' out for ya? A minimum wage of $12.55 an hour in Oakland, Calif., may be the culprit for a Wal-Mart store’s closure. Last Friday, Wal-Mart announced it will close 269 stores globally—including 154 locations in the United States—impacting about 10,000 associates here at home. “The minimum wage in the city of ... MORE
Flint Lead Poisoning: The Anatomy Of Government Failure
by Shikha Dalmia. In the simple morality tale that is modern mainstream liberalism, government spending leads to good things and cutting government spending leads to bad things. So when news broke that
Flint, Michigan’s, water system was laced with lead and may have
poisoned up to 2 percent
of city residents, including 23 children, they ... MORE
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accountability,
bureaucracy,
environment,
EPA,
government,
performance,
poison,
politics,
water
Wall Street Journal: American Tax Dollars For The Mullahs
Tehran gets more cash while its U.S. victims get nothing. Ali Khamenei congratulated Iran’s diplomats on Tuesday for making the “front of arrogance and bullying”—that would be the U.S.—retreat. Iran’s Supreme Leader has good reason to be happy. Having preserved the core of his nuclear capabilities, his regime is now on the receiving ... MORE
5 Ways We Know Al Gore Ran A Global Warming Racket
from Investor's Business Daily. Fraud: Ten years ago Monday, Al Gore said we had only a decade left to save the planet from global warming. But Earth has been doing just fine. Why do we listen to this man? While preening at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2006 during the premiere of his “An Inconvenient Truth” fib-umentary, Gore ... MORE
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climate,
climate change,
deception,
dishonesty,
environment,
global warming,
movie,
politics
Lawsuit Challenges Obama’s Move To Restrict Gun Sales
by Natalie Johnson. More abuse of executive action. A conservative lawyer and activist has filed the first federal court challenge to President Barack Obama’s executive actions to restrict firearm ownership, arguing that the president’s moves violate the Constitution. Larry Klayman, a former U.S. Justice Department lawyer who heads the ... MORE
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