Democracy means unlimited majority rule. The majority may do as it pleases simply because it is the majority. Under democracy the individual is subservient to the majority, that is, the collective. Democracy is a form of collectivism. Collectivism holds that individuals exist only as a member of a group—whether a race, an economic class, or the ... MOREBrian Phillips: The Founding Fathers And Democracy
Democracy means unlimited majority rule. The majority may do as it pleases simply because it is the majority. Under democracy the individual is subservient to the majority, that is, the collective. Democracy is a form of collectivism. Collectivism holds that individuals exist only as a member of a group—whether a race, an economic class, or the ... MOREYoni Heisler: Apple Takes On The FBI In Congress: Nine Things You May Have Missed From Yesterday’s Hearing
by Yoni Heisler. The policy debate sparked by Apple’s legal battle with the FBI has galvanized the tech world and has understandably attracted worldwide attention. At the core, Apple’s battle with the FBI centers on how we should strike a balance between user privacy and the interests of national security. Yesterday, both Apple and the FBI appeared ... MOREThomas Sowell: Last Chance for America? Part II
Last Chance for America? Part I. The worst political blunder of all time, according to scientist Freeman Dyson, was the decision of the emperor of China in 1433 to cut off his country from the outside world. In the wake of that decision, China lost its position in the forefront of human achievements and fell behind, over the centuries, to become a ... MOREM.L. Nestel: Cops Wake Up Naked Woman Who Was Asleep, Order Her To Show Them A Gun, Then Proceed To Kill Her
Trigger-happy public servants. Deanne Choate was sleeping naked under the covers when a trio of cops flicked on the lights and came barreling into her bedroom with guns drawn, believing she posed a lethal threat. The police officers from Gardner, Kansas roused her awake and ordered her to show the gun her boyfriend told them she had ... MOREHere’s Why It’s All But Impossible To Fire A Fed
by Kathryn Watson. Federal workers are far more likely to be audited by the IRS or get
arrested for drunk driving than they are to be fired from the civil
service payroll for poor performance or misconduct. The odds are one-in-175 for the IRS audit and one-in-200 for the
drunk driving arrest, while the odds for a fed to be fired in a given
year are one-in ... MORETom Nichols: How the P.C. Police Propelled Donald Trump
By assailing sensible conservatives as sexists, racists ... The American left created Donald Trump. When I say “the left,” I do not mean the Democratic Party—or,
solely the Democratic Party. Rather, the pestilence that is the Trump
campaign is the result of a conglomeration of political, academic,
media, and cultural elites who for decades ... MOREAmerican Slips To 11th Place In Economic Freedom
Government is slowly squandering our heritage. A “solid C,” they call it in school. Not flunking, certainly, but also not excelling. That grade characterizes the score of 75.4 that the United States earned on the Heritage Foundations’s 2016 “Index of Economic Freedom,” which grades countries on such factors as property rights, government ... MOREJohn Charlton: Connecticut Cops Push For Armed Drones
To promote "public safety." The drone discussion has been buzzing around the state Capitol for hearings this week. Monday, a bill to ban the weaponization of drones was discussed, and on Tuesday, a bill to control the use of drones in many ways, including by law enforcement agencies, was debated. Lawmakers listened to testimony
concerning ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Hillary Clinton's False Hopes
The indictment of the nominee. Surely, Hillary Clinton hopes for the happy conclusion to the maddening string of primaries and caucuses that have exhausted her. Surely, she hopes to be the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party this year. And surely, she hopes to be elected president. These hopes are realistic probabilities in her own ... MORETrump Ditched Free Market Ideology For Nationalism
by Matthew Yglesias. And it's working. Marco Rubio's newly aggressive posture toward Donald Trump is all about delivering low-blow insults, and reflects a popular — but incorrect — notion among Republican elites that Trump's not-very-orthodox ideology is succeeding because of the force of his personality. But Trump isn't winning because he's a buffoon. If ... MOREVictor Davis Hanson: Obama - The Lamest Duck
He has neither the power to act or inspire. President Obama is boxed in a state of paralysis—more so than typical lame-duck presidents. His
hard-left politics have insidiously eroded the Democratic Party, which
has lost both houses of Congress and the vast majority of the state
legislatures, state elected offices, and governorships. ... MOREJohn Stossel: Regulating The Future
Government pretends it's the cause of progress. Then it strangles innovation. We know government understands that new technologies are important. The military invests in robots and traffic cops use radar guns. But when the rest of us use robots or fly drones, government gets eager to put rules in place before things get ... MOREGlenn Reynolds: Cash Is The Currency Of Freedom
Facilitating voluntary transactions. Former Treasury secretary Larry Summers wants to get rid of the $100 bill. But I think he has it exactly backward. I think we need to restore the $500 and $1000 bills. And the reason is that people like Larry Summers have done a horrible job. Summers wrote recently in The Washington Post that the $100 ... MOREThe Stupid Things People Do When Society Breaks Down
by Brandon Smith. A frequent mistake that many people make when considering the concept of
social or economic collapse is to imagine how people and groups will
behave tomorrow based on how people behave today. It is, though,
extremely difficult to predict human behavior in the face of terminal
chaos. What we might expect, or what ... MOREMore Defense Dollars Don't Guarantee A Better Military
by Daniel L. Davis. Everyone agrees that federal spending is out of control, yet there’s little appetite to go after bloated Pentagon budgets. Americans from the left, right, and center all too often give the military a pass because they grudgingly believe current levels of defense spending are necessary for national security. But is there such a thing as ... MOREVirginia Senate Bill Seeks To Turn Cops Into Secret Police
by Clarice Palmer. Shielding accountability. In the United States, the Fourth Estate, also known as the Fourth Power or the fourth branch of government,
has always been a popular label for the media’s role in a free society.
But in the state of Virginia, legislators want to remove that power
from the press by shielding police officers from public scrutiny. ... MORE
Walter E Williams: What Is The Fair Share Of Taxes?
Politicians exploiting the ignorant. Presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders, along with President Obama, say they want high-income earners, otherwise known as the rich, to pay their fair share of income taxes. None of these people, as well as the uninformed in the media and our campus intellectual elites, will say precisely ... MORETime For Trump Rivals To Consolidate To Save America
by Thomas Sowell. The Super Tuesday primaries may be a turning point for America — and quite possibly a turn for the worse. After seven long years of domestic disasters and increasing international dangers, the next president of the United States will need extraordinary wisdom, maturity, depth of knowledge and personal character to rescue ... MORERobert Epstein: The New Mind Control
What you don't know can hurt you. The internet has spawned subtle forms of influence that can flip elections and manipulate everything we say, think and do. Over the past century, more than a few great writers have expressed concern about humanity’s future. In The Iron Heel (1908), the American writer Jack London pictured a world in which a ... MOREA. Barton Hinkle: Donald Trump’s Authoritarian Fantasies
Trump asks voters to "believe me." But why should they? Has America ever seen a more authoritarian presidential candidate than Donald Trump? Not since FDR—who seized coal mines and department stores, dictated wages and prices, and even weighed whether he should decree when Americans could eat meat. But at least FDR had a ... MOREObama To Trash Reagan’s Restrictions On Domestic Spying
by Chriss W. Street. A tyrant's sneaky misdirection play. With the pubic distracted by the FBI battling Apple for an iPhone backdoor, President Obama is secretly working to trash President Ronald Reagan’s restrictions on the number of federal agencies that can spy on Americans and others. At a secret meeting of the United States National ... MORETed Rall: What The Apple Vs FBI Flap Is Really About
[Hint: Edward Snowden] The fight between Apple and the FBI has
been framed as an epic battle between big tech and big government.
Apple, says the Obama Administration, is siding with “its business model and public brand marketing strategy” ahead of public safety. That’s not it, says Apple CEO Tim Cook. He says his company is “a staunch ... MORENew York Judge Rules The FBI Cannot Force Apple To Unlock The iPhone Used In A Brooklyn Drug Case
Contradictory ruling to that in San Bernardino. The U.S. Justice Department cannot force Apple to provide the FBI with access to locked iPhone data in a routine Brooklyn drug case, a New York judge says. U.S. Magistrate Judge James Orenstein made the ruling on Monday. The decision follows a California magistrate judge's order requiring ... MOREA VERY Inconvenient Truth: Scientists Finally Admit Climate Models Are FAILING To Predict Global Warming
by Michael Bastasch. A group of scientists recently put out a new study confirming the
15-year “hiatus” in global warming. That study made headlines, but what
went largely unnoticed was a major admission made by the paper’s
authors: the climate models were wrong. “There is this mismatch between what the climate models are producing ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Apple's Involuntary Servitude
Liberty and safety are not in equipoise. There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all.” -Justice Antonin Scalia (1936-2016). After the San Bernardino massacre on Dec. 2, 2015, the FBI lawfully acquired the cellphone of one of the killers and ... MORECarey Wedler: Inconvenient Truths - 15 News Stories From 2015 You Should Have Heard About But Probably Didn’t
What we don't know does hurt us. In 2015, the iron fist of power clamped down on humanity, from warfare to terrorism (I repeat myself) to surveillance, police brutality, and corporate hegemony. The environment was repeatedly decimated, the health of citizens was constantly put at risk, and the justice system and media alike were perverted to ... MORE
The FBI's Big Farce To Get Inside Your Phone
by Joshua Kopstein. “The most important tech case in a decade.” Earlier this week, the U.S. government dropped a bombshell in its ongoing crusade against strong encryption: A court order demanding that Apple help the Federal Bureau of Investigation bypass the security features of an iPhone recovered from Syed Rizwan Farook, who, along with his ... MOREGovernment Subsidies Will Erode Freedom Of The Press
by Jaana Woiceshyn. Newspapers around the world are losing revenues, both subscription and advertising. As Terence Corcoran of the National Post reports,
newspaper revenues in Canada declined 35 per cent ($1 billion) from
2012 to 2014, with a significant further decrease expected also in 2015,
once all the numbers are in. Such declines, likely to ... MORE
Dozens Of Studies Libertarians Should Know About
The proof for economic freedom. Over the years I have been running ‘Being Classically Liberal,’ I have done a bit of research and come across a number of empirical research papers which I find very interesting and relevant to many current socioeconomic debates. I figured I’d share them here, so that other people can use them as resources. ... MORELizzie Dearden: Iranian Drug War Kills Every Man In Town
Ending drug the government way. Every man in an Iranian village has reportedly been executed by the government on drug charges. Shahindokht Molaverdi, the vice president for women and family
affairs, was arguing for increased provision for convicts’ families when
she made the admission. “We have a village in Sistan and Baluchestan ... MORE
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