by Kurt Nimmo. Constitutionalists figure prominently on the target list. A new FBI initiative based on Britain’s “anti-terror” mass surveillance program instructs high schools across America to inform on students who express “anti-government” and “anarchist” political beliefs. “High school students are ideal targets for recruitment by violent extremists ... MOREFBI Demands High Schools Rat Out “Anti-Gov't” Students
by Kurt Nimmo. Constitutionalists figure prominently on the target list. A new FBI initiative based on Britain’s “anti-terror” mass surveillance program instructs high schools across America to inform on students who express “anti-government” and “anarchist” political beliefs. “High school students are ideal targets for recruitment by violent extremists ... MOREObamaCare: WORSE Than A Complete Waste Of Money
by John Hinderaker. The findings of NPR and Harvard. National Public Radio collaborated with Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to survey Americans’ recent experience with health care. As to the Affordable Care Act, the survey’s findings are damning. They suggest that Obamacare has been ... MOREJ.D. Tuccille: Voting Third Party Isn’t Just A Serious Choice
It’s THE serious choice. This year, the likely presidential candidates of the major political
parties are two of the less savory individuals ever to run for office in
a country whose Wikipedia entry doesn't feature periods of military
rule. The Republicans seem poised to give us a crony capitalist who admires authoritarian foreign governments, views ... MORESamuel Gibbs: If FBI Wins Case Against Apple, Feds Could Force Apple To Turn iPhones Into Surveillance Devices
Turning our property against us. If the FBI wins in its case against Apple to help it unlock the San Bernardino killer’s iPhone 5C,
it won’t be long before the government forces Apple to turn on users’
iPhone cameras and microphones to spy on them, according to the
company’s head of services Eddy Cue. The FBI has demanded that Apple creates ... MOREDaniel Gelernter: Liberals Want Your Car Keys
Can computerized cars drive better than we can? The cover story of Time’s March 7 issue makes “the increasingly compelling case for why you shouldn’t be allowed to drive,” claiming that computerized cars are (or, it is hoped, will be) safer drivers than humans, and so the logical thing is to ban humans from driving altogether. The plan is ... MOREGov’t Regulations Weigh On Gloomy Small-Business Owners
an Investor's Business Daily editorial. Red Tape: Two new surveys of small-business owners show they’re “treading water,” and the government isn’t throwing them any lifelines. Instead, it’s weighing them down with more and more costly and burdensome regulations. Optimism about economic conditions last month hit a two-year low ... MORE“National Purposes” Versus Individual Rights
by Richard M. Ebeling. With the seventieth anniversary last year of the end of the Second World War, a number of commentators have focused on the presumed “unity” of America seven decades ago to “win the war” against global tyranny and international aggression by Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. Individuals put aside their individual personal ... MOREJohn W. Whitehead: Just Shut Up And Vote - The Futility Of Representative Government In an Age Of Robber Barons
Fighting back with common ground. Despite the fact that we’ve been burned before, most Americans continue to allow themselves to be bamboozled into casting their votes for one candidate or another, believing that this time they mean what they say, this time they really care about the citizenry, this time will be different. Of course, ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: What If The FBI Is Onto Hillary Clinton?
And the Democrats are not. What if Hillary Clinton is in legal hot water and she knows it but won't admit it? What if she has decided to go on the offensive and make her case that she did nothing unlawful with her emails that contained state secrets? What if the essence of her defense is that other secretaries of state used non-secure email devices ... MORECongress Pisses Down Our Backs And Tells Us It's Raining
by Daniel J. Mitchell. Another budget deal good for Washington and bad for America. Advocates of smaller government are justifiably upset by the pork-filled spending bill enacted in December. With goodies for countless special interests, it was more "ominous" than "omnibus." But that wasn't the biggest fiscal hit Congress inflicted on America in ... MOREWoman Arrested For Protecting Dog From Cop Acquitted
by Jacob Sullum. Last week a West Virginia woman who stood between her dog and a state trooper intent on killing him was acquitted
of obstructing an officer by a jury in Wood County. It took jurors just
half an hour to acquit 23-year-old Tiffanie Hupp after they watched the
video of the incident that Hupp's husband, Ryan, shot with his cellphone. ... MORE
John Stossel: Libertarian Lite
Lighten up, truth can be scary. In this year's Republican presidential primaries, Sen. Rand Paul got little traction. In 2012, his father failed. That year, the Libertarian Party candidate, former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, got just 1 percent of the vote. We libertarians must be doing something wrong. Maybe our anti-government message is too ... MORERay Williams: The Cult Of Ignorance In The United States: Anti-Intellectualism And The "Dumbing Down" Of America
The rise of the idiot in America. There is a growing and disturbing trend of anti-intellectual elitism in
American culture. It's the dismissal of science, the arts, and
humanities and their replacement by entertainment, self-righteousness,
ignorance, and deliberate gullibility. Susan Jacoby, author of The Age of American Unreason, says in an article ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: Desperate Tactics
Why Ted? It is desperation time for the Republican party establishment. Its extremely well financed favorite — Jeb Bush — never got anywhere with the voters in the primaries, and has already been forced out of the contest. This should at least cause some second thoughts — or perhaps first thoughts — by people who keep repeating that money buys ... MORERobert Evans: A Cautionary Tale Of Socialism
My wealthy country became a dystopia overnight. We like apocalypse fantasies because a part of us thinks it would be kind of fun. No bills to pay, no job to drag yourself to -- life goes back to basics. You don't watch The Hunger Games and really think about what it would be like to have a toothache or yeast infection you can't treat. And you ... MORELegal Pot Causes Drug Cartel Revenues To Plummet
by Oscar Pascual. free market 1 black market 0. Marijuana legalization may have accomplished what the War on Drugs has failed to do — put the squeeze on Mexican drug cartel activity. The U.S. Border Patrol has released 2015 data
showing that the number of marijuana seizures throughout the southwest
U.S./Mexico border has fallen to the ... MOREThomas Sowell: Random Thoughts On The Passing Scene
Sparks of brilliance! The presidential election prospects for the Democrats are so bad this
year that only the Republicans can save them — as Republicans have
saved them before. Will a Supreme Court without a single Protestant justice rule that an
"under-representation" of any group is evidence of discrimination? Here is a trick question: What ... MOREOregon Legislature Repeals Laws Of Supply & Demand
It is not likely to work out well. Like the apocryphal story
of the state legislature that passed a law dictating that pi equals 3,
the Oregon state legislature has passed two laws that pretend the laws
of supply & demand don’t exist. The difference is that, in reality,
no state legislature ever did pass a law saying that pi equals 3, but
Oregon’s ... MOREDisconnect Between Public Comments & Private Thoughts
by Jay Jamison. Trump is like jury nullification. Once a criminal case is handed to the jury, the outcome is no longer under the control of the authorities and professionals who conducted the trial. Jury nullification is a term that describes a verdict that runs counter to the law, the evidence or even the instructions of the presiding judge. During a trial, ... MOREWalter E Williams: The Seen And The Unseen
Why Congress should get out of the miracle business. Claude Frederic Bastiat (1801-50) — a French classical liberal theorist, political economist and member of the French National Assembly — wrote an influential essay titled "That Which Is Seen and That Which Is Not Seen." Bastiat argued that when making laws or economic decisions, ... MOREHow The Media Is Lying To You About Economic Recovery
from the Daily Bell. "The missing piece from the economic recovery has finally materialized. Median household income, adjusted for inflation, is now higher than it was before the recession that began at the end of 2007, according to new data published by Sentier Research." –Yahoo So incomes are rising again. Presumably, this is supposed to mean ... MORERebecca Perring: Did Germany Just Ban Sausages? Pork Banned In Cafes And Schools To 'Not Offend Refugees'
Muslims 1 Bratwurst 0. An increasing number of public canteens, child daycare centres and schools have stopped serving sausages, bacon and ham over religious considerations. Now members of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU party are fighting to keep pork on the menu, insisting the consumption of pork is part of German culture. Daniel Günther, ... MOREProtesting Donald Trump Is Now A Federal Crime
by Anthony L. Fisher. The state of free speech in America. The Orwellian-named "free speech zones" on college campus and political rallies are nothing new to regular readers of Reason, and suppressing political dissent with the brute force of government has been a feature of the American system since shortly after 9/11/01, when the ... MORE
Free Speech Is Very Threatened On Campus
by Conor Friedersdorf. At a recent Intelligence Squared debate,
an audience filled an auditorium at Yale University to weigh the timely
proposition, “Free speech is threatened on campus.” The debate
concerned higher education generally, not just the host institution. And
at the event’s conclusion, having heard arguments on both sides ... MORENew Hampshire Committee Approves Jury Nullification Bill
Because justice is a result, not just a process. A New Hampshire House committee has approved a bill that would make
jury nullification an official aspect of the state legal system. A coalition of nine representatives introduced House Bill 1270 (HB1270)
in January. The legislation would allow a defendant or defense attorney
to request that the court ... MOREDemand Congress Back Down On Privacy Intrusion
by Ron Paul. The FBI tells us that its demand for a back door into the iPhone is all about fighting terrorism, and that it is essential to break in just this one time to find out more about the San Bernardino attack last December. But the truth is they had long sought a way to break Apple’s iPhone encryption and, like 9/11 and the Patriot Act, a mass ... MOREKatie Kieffer: Apple Is On Your Side
Somebody has to protect individual liberty. Obama’s order for Apple to let him hack your iPhone is not about
fighting terror—it’s about iPhone dominion. This is the equivalent of
gun control except in the tech sector. Terrorism is one of the top two
issues concerning Americans, including Millennials. You deserve to know
why and how Obama’s ... MORE
DC Cop Raids Are Undeterred By Lack Of Probable Cause
from the Washington Post. Government's domestic terrorists. Sallie Taylor was sitting in her apartment in Northeast Washington one evening in January 2015 watching “Bible Talk” when her clock fell off the wall and broke. She turned and looked up. Nine D.C. police officers smashed through her door, a shotgun was pointed at her face and she ... MOREIt’s Actually Easy To Force People To Be Evil
by Annalee Newitz. We've known for a long time that people will do terrible things under orders—like hurt strangers. But why are we so easily persuaded to do things we wouldn't otherwise choose, even when nobody is holding guns to our heads? A new scientific experiment sheds light on this ancient ethical question. University College London neuroscientist ... MORERobby Soave: PC Hysteria Claims Another Professor
Students demand an end to academic freedom. The movement to purge all offensive speech from American college campuses has claimed another scalp. Andrea Quenette, an assistant communications professor, was chased out of her own classroom—not because she was a bad teacher, but because her students said she wasn’t agreeing with them ... MORE
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