Senator Harry Reid is asked how he got rich on a government salary.
VIDEO: The Transparency Of Our Public Servants
Senator Harry Reid is asked how he got rich on a government salary.
This 29-Year-Old Is Choosing to End Her Own Life on Nov. 1
by Hillary White. An affirmation of self-ownership. Brittany Maynard plans on celebrating her husband's Oct. 30 birthday, and then just two days later, she will pass on quietly in her Oregon home, with a close friend and immediate family at her side. "There is not a cell in my body that is suicidal or that wants to die," she told People. "I want to live. ... MORE
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life,
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5-Year Old Girl Points Crayon at Classmate; Government School Makes Her Sign Contract Promising Not to Kill
by Robby Soave. The relentless march of government nitwittery. Stories
of public schools dishing out ridiculous punishments to students
who did absolutely nothing wrong generally fail to shock me at this
point. They have to clear a very high bar of absurdity to be even
noteworthy, given how common they are. Okay, brace ... MORE
Rules of Engagement For Resisting The Police State
by John W. Whitehead. The language of freedom is no longer the common tongue spoken by the citizenry and their government. The perils of resisting the police state grow more costly with each passing day, especially if you hope to escape with your life and property intact. The thing you must remember is that we’ve entered an age of ... MORE
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self-interest,
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NSA's Parallel Reconstruction Trumps Fourth Amendment
by Andrew Napolitano. While the political commentators in the nation's capital are wrapped up in the debate over what to do about ISIS, and as one third of the Senate and nearly all members of the House campaign for re-election, the president's spies continue to capture massive amounts of personal information about hundreds of ... MORE
Reports Suggest FCC Poised To Regulate Internet
by John Gizzi. There has been mounting evidence in the last two weeks that the Internet, one of the last unregulated venues for communication, might well be headed for federal regulation. What makes the specter of Internet regulation (or "net neutrality," as its proponents prefer to call it) all the more ominous is that it might become ... MORE
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FCC,
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Internet,
net neutrality,
regulation,
rules,
tax
Holder Resigned Over Judge's Fast & Furious Ruling
by Barbara Hollingsworth. Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton says he has “no doubt” that a Sept. 23 federal court order
requiring the Department of Justice (DOJ) to turn over an index of
documents relating to the Fast and Furious scandal by October 22
prompted the resignation of Attorney General Eric Holder two days later. “There’s no doubt ... MORE
Freedomworks A Player In The 2014 Elections
by Karin McQuillan. Matt Kibbe, the head of FreedomWorks, keeps his eye on the goal: “not a junior partnership with the Republican Party, but a hostile takeover of it.” Kibbe is a marathoner in for the long haul. FreedomWorks has seen worse times, when libertarians were shunned. Since 2009, it has become a key contributor to that mainstream ... MORE
NYPD Officers Caught On Camera 'Brutally Punching And Pistol-Whipping' Unarmed Teenager With Hands Up
by Murray Weiss. Public servants caught in the act of being themselves. Two New York City cops are facing criminal charges after they were caught in disturbing footage punching and pistol-whipping a teenage suspect who had already raised his hands to surrender. In the video obtained by DNAinfo New York, 16-year-old Kahreem Tribble is ... MORE
Embrace The Morality Of The Free Market Economy
by Matthew Boyer. The free market is the moral option when it comes to economic systems. This is something you don’t hear everyday, especially in progressive academia. But what is it about the free market that makes it superior to other potential economic models? Are capitalists truly greedy pigs, or are they self-interested humans who ... MORE
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capitalism,
economics,
free market,
liberty,
morality,
production,
value,
voluntary exchange
John Stossel - Good Intentions, Incentives And Poverty
The great conceit of central planners. Fifty years ago, President Lyndon Johnson declared "War on Poverty." It sounded great to me. I was taught at Princeton, "We're a rich country. All we have to do is tax the rich, and then use that money to create programs that will lift the poor out of poverty." Government created job-training programs for ... MORE
Judge Gives County Green Light To Sell Woman’s Home After One Property Tax Payment Was Missed By Mistake
by Matt Erspamer. A Kalamazoo County judge has sided with county officials in a dispute
where a Richland woman says her home is being seized over a property
tax mistake. FOX 17 first talked with Deborah Calley
in mid-September, when she told us she lost her home after she
accidentally missed a property tax payment of roughly $2,000 ... MORE
Jonah Goldberg: Liberals Storm California's Bedrooms
Relentless culture warriors. I have a slightly different take on California’s recent decision to regulate college sex. Don’t get me wrong: I think it’s beyond idiotic, unworkable, even borderline Orwellian. We’ll get to all that. But I also think it’s incredibly useful. You see, for years I’ve been railing and ranting about the ridiculous myth that liberalism ... MORE
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California,
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law,
rape,
regulation,
sex,
sex offenders,
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'Acting White' Remains a Barrier for Black Education
by John McWhorter. Here we go
again. A black woman has articulately battled
the idea that using standard English is "acting white" in a
video that has gone viral of late, and
Jamelle Bouie at Slate has called her out for propagating a
myth that black students devalue school. In the eighties, (black)
anthropologist John Ogbu
with Signithia ... MORE
Christian Sharia Law Sprouting Up In Indiana?
by Travis Gettys. An Indiana woman says a state trooper pulled her over this summer and asked if she had accepted Jesus Christ as her personal lord and savior. Ellen Bogan said she was stopped in August by Indiana State Trooper Brian Hamilton, who asked whether she had a home church and handed her a pamphlet asking her to “acknowledge ... MORE
Christopher Chantrill: Trust In Government Is Pathological
Need we run down the evidence? This last weekend the Sunday shows had a “trust in government” theme. Chuck Todd on "Meet the Press" asked Obama advisor Dan Pfeiffer why the government of the email-losing IRS, of no strategy on ISIS, of border mayhem could be trusted on Ebola. On Fox News Sunday Chris Wallace threw a ... MORE
How Prohibition Drives People Toward Riskier Drugs
by Jacob Sullum. Rise of the mystery high. Last week NBC News broadcast
a story about Cloud 9, "a dangerous new synthetic drug
that's been turning up at high schools." Anchorman Lester Holt
warned that Cloud 9 is "legal, unregulated and readily
available at convenience stores"; that it "has sent almost two
dozen young people to ... MORE
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drug war,
drugs,
government,
health,
incentives,
politics,
prohibition,
risk,
schools,
youth
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