January 9, 2018

Jeff Sessions goes to pot on marijuana policy

fromAmericanSpectator: An attorney general at odds with his own president, Republican public opinion, and federalism.

The Government is Not Us     The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange

Thousands of Americans’ electronics illegally searched at border

fromDailyBell: Imagine the helplessness of having your phone taken by an Agent, and searched without your consent. No suspicion of any crime. No probable cause. Just some thug using brute force to violate your privacy.

Government is Watching Every Move You Make

In another blow to Obama’s legacy, food stamp recipients plunge under Trump

fromDownTrend: Adding to the growing list of accomplishments that can be credited to the POTUS, food stamp use has taken a big drop since Barack Obama left the White House.

Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market   The Welfare State: Promoting Dependency

Seattle soda tax prompts price increases, small business pain

fromReason: Similar taxes in other cities have led to lost jobs and without bringing in the expected revenue.

Economic Policy: Statism Versus The Free Market

CNN reporter: Talk of Oprah Winfrey for president shows Democrats have ‘thin bench’ for 2020

fromTheFreeBeacon: Bernie, Pocahantas and Biden are the best they have.

Politics and Other Official Acts of Corruption

A tale of two Americas: Where the rich get richer and the poor go to jail

fromRutherfordInstitute: Jeff Sessions has made a concerted effort to expand the police state’s power to search, strip, seize, raid, steal from, arrest and jail Americans for any infraction, no matter how insignificant.

The Government is Not Us     The War on Unapproved Voluntary Exchange

Politicians are Dividing Americans into Two Classes: Those Who Work for a Living and Those Who Vote for a Living

by James Bovard.      Success of a vote-buying scheme. In Iraq and Afghanistan, US military officers routinely handed bundles of cash to local residents to buy influence and undermine resistance to the American occupation. Such payments came in especially handy after US troops inadvertently killed innocent civilians or sheep. Billions of dollars  ... MORE

40 Percent Of Americans On Food Stamps Are Obese

by Chuck Ross.  A new study from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) finds that Americans receiving food stamps are more likely to be overweight and obese than those who do not receive assistance. The USDA analyzed data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) for the years between 2007 and 2010 and found that   ... MORE

Let’s Be Two Americas: The Case for Federalism

by Robert Tracinski.     There has been some haggling in Congress recently over a proposal to convert a couple of big chunks of federal spending—Medicaid and food stamps—into block grants to the states, which would be given more control over the programs. This proposal suggests a much broader answer to our current political conflicts, toward  ... MORE

65% of Children Live in Federally Aided Households

by Terence P Jeffrey. The Census Bureau reported in a study released this week that 65 percent of American children lived in households taking aid from one or more federal program as of the fall of 2011. "Almost two-thirds (65 percent) of children," said the Census Bureau, "lived in households that participated in at least one or more of the      ...  MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - The Wasted War On Poverty

Have Entitlements Become More Attractive Than Work?

A new food stamp pattern. The food stamp program (more formally, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP) is intended to help low-income Americans with their food bills. Traditionally, the number of Americans receiving SNAP benefits rises during poor economic times and falls during good ones. But that is not what is       ... MORE

VIDEO: Ray Stevens - Come To The USA

VIDEO: How The Government Punishes The Working Poor

F-Stamp Recipients Outnumber Full-Time Women Workers

by Terence P. Jeffrey.    Another victory for hope and change. People participating in the food stamp program outnumbered the women who worked full-time, year-round in the United States in 2012, according to data from the Department of Agriculture and the Census Bureau. In the average month of 2012, according to the Department of     ... MORE

Wynton Hall: Seven Devastating Economic Facts

Hope and change made everything worse.         U.S. economic conditions in 2014 continue to languish, as millions of Americans remain jobless. Seven economic facts underscore America’s increasingly dire economic outlook. 1. A Record 91.8 Million Americans Are No Longer in the Workforce The latest Labor Department figures reveal that a    ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - Welfare State Incentives

L. Brent Bozell: Only Propaganda Is 'Good Journalism'?

Why the waterfall of liberal bias keeps flowing.     Why are liberals in so much denial about liberal bias in the news? Why do they think they're bending over backward to be "objective" doing that which Republicans see as partisan activism? Daniel Froomkin of the Huffington Post — formerly of The Washington Post — suggests an answer.  ... MORE

Paul Roderick Gregory: The Problem Is Obesity, Not Hunger

Thoughts on the food stamps debate.       Throughout history, politicians have fabricated crises to justify their own solution to the crisis they themselves dreamed up. History is strewn with non-existent crises – the population bomb, global cooling, resource depletion,  freon destroying the ozone layer, and so on  – that threaten        ... MORE

Sheldon H. Danziger: The Mismeasure Of Poverty

We are officially losers in the war on poverty.      THE Census Bureau reported yesterday that the poverty rate in America held stable between 2011 and 2012, at about 15 percent. According to the official measure, poverty today is higher than it was in 1973, when it reached a historical low of 11.1 percent.  To many, this dismaying fact     ... MORE       

VIDEO: Fox News - Creating Dependency

VIDEO: Farm Bill Is 80% Food Stamps

VIDEO: Federal Food Stamp Spending Since 1950

Government's Food Stamp Outreach For Illegal Aliens

Sneak passed go and collect $200.   The Department of Agriculture, via the Mexican government, assures potentially ineligible immigrants that they can still apply for food stamps on behalf of their eligible children without giving information about their immigration status, according to documents released Thursday by Judicial Watch. The Daily Caller   ... MORE

Caroline May: Pimping Food Stamps To Seniors

Food stamp recruiter must enroll 150 per month. A Florida food stamp recruiter is tasked with enrolling at least 150 senior citizens in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program a month, The Washington Post reports in a profile about SNAP outreach. Following 56 year old recruiter Dillie Nerios perform her task, to appeal to seniors to get them   ... MORE