Matt Welch: Kiss Your Financial Privacy Goodbye
Politicians destroy right to confidential banking. It started, as so many bad things do, with Richard Nixon. In 1970, in the midst of a national panic over crime and illegal drugs, the man whose presidency would later become synonymous with official criminality signed the Bank Secrecy Act, which compelled all U.S. financial institutions ... MORE
Doug Bandow: Will Federalism Trump the Drug War?
After last week’s voting it just might. Americans are angry with their politicians but nuanced in their political opinions. Voters in Alaska simultaneously ousted their Democratic Senator and legalized the use of marijuana. Floridians gave 505,000 more votes medical use of pot than they did in re-electing Republican Gov. Rick Scott. Which makes ... MORE
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John W. Whitehead: The Devil's Bargain
In return for your liberty, I will give you ... It’s no coincidence that during the same week in which the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in Yates v. United States, a case in which a Florida fisherman is being threatened with 20 years’ jail time for throwing fish that were too small back into the water, Florida police arrested a 90-year-old ... MORE
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Gruber Lets Obama's Socialist Cat Out Of The Bag
by Ken Blackwell & Bob Morrison. Not since the Kermit Gosnell murder trial has the mainstream press labored so diligently to ignore a hot story. Rush Limbaugh delights in calling them “the drive-by media,” but in the case of Kermit Gosnell’s trial for the negligent death of a poor young woman and for killing many infants born alive, the liberal ... MORE
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Walter E Williams: Obama Vs Us
Check your premises. Suppose you saw a person driving his car on the wrong side of a highway, against the traffic. Would you call him a stupid and/or incompetent driver? You say, "Williams, what kind of question is that? Of course he's one or the other!" I'd say, "Hold your horses. What are his intentions?" If the driver's intentions are to cause highway ... MORE
Travis Gettys: Police Expert Says War On Terror Turned Our Cops Into Occupying Armies — And We’re The Enemy
Terrorists and politicians morph liberty to slavery. The war on terror has essentially turned police into occupying armies in some American communities, said a police and criminology expert. Thomas Nolan, an associate professor of criminology at Merrimack College and former senior policy analyst with the Department of Homeland ... MORE
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Woman Calls 911 For Medical Help, Gets Beaten By Police
by John Vibes. Last month, an epileptic woman from California was attacked by police and arrested after she called 911 to report that she was having seizures and needed medical attention. When police arrived on the scene, Andrea Starr was still having seizures and was unable to respond to their commands. Not understanding that the woman ... MORE
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Thomas Sowell: A Legacy Of Liberalism
"Legacy of slavery" not the issue. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said there were "phrases that serve as an excuse for not thinking." One of these phrases that substitute for thought today is one that depicts the current problems of blacks in America as "a legacy of slavery." New York Times writer Nicholas Kristof asserts that ... MORE
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More Federal Agencies Are Using Undercover Operations
by Eric Lichtblau and Willilam M. Arkin. The federal government has significantly expanded undercover operations in recent years, with officers from at least 40 agencies posing as business people, welfare recipients, political protesters and even doctors or ministers to ferret out wrongdoing, records and interviews show. At the Supreme Court, ... MORE
Massive Spying Of Americans' Cellphones From The Air
by Ronald Bailey. The Wall Street Journal has a terrific article, "Americans' Cellphones Targeted in Secret U.S. Spy Program," that details how U.S. Marshals Service aircraft deploy "dirtbox" technology to spy on millions of Americans' cellphones from above. The dirtbox technology (so named as an acronym for the company that makes the devices, ... MORE
Why You Should Keep Cash Under Your Mattress
by Stirling Watts. Rampant civil forfeiture abuse. Mrs. Lady’s Mexican Food has been owned and operated for 38 years by Carole Hinders. Carole has always preferred to accept only cash payments, so frequent bank deposits were necessary in order to avoid having too much cash on hand at her restaurant. One day in August 2013, the IRS unexpectedly ... MORE
FDA Regulatory Expansion Jeopardizes Public Health
Anti-cancer device in the crosshairs. In August, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has proposed expanding its regulatory authority over tobacco products
to include cigars, pipe tobacco, hookah tobacco, electronic cigarettes
(e-cigarettes), and dissolvable products and gels. Currently, cigars are
the most popular item in this group, but ... MORE
Cops Raid Teenagers’ Party, Kill Girl Who Tried To Escape
Deputy faces no charges after shooting girl 4 times. More proof the government is not us. Police charged into a darkened field trying to arrest teenagers for consuming alcohol without government permission, and killed a young woman in the process. The deadly raid occurred in the early morning hours of Saturday, April 26th, ... MORE
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Nick Gillespie: Americans Trust Government Less and Less
Because we know more and more about it. Fifty years ago, FBI operatives sent Martin Luther King, Jr. was has come to be known as the "suicide letter," an anonymous note suggesting the civil rights leader should off himself before his private sex life was made public. The information about King's extramarital assignations was gathered ... MORE
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