More skepticism of government needed. Big Brother is watching Americans’ every move and violating their civil rights at every turn as the country becomes a militarized police state, participants at a libertarian-minded gathering in Las Vegas said Thursday. Panelists at FreedomFest offered plenty of real-world examples to illustrate their ... MORE
Laura Myers: Big Brother Looms Large At FreedomFest
More skepticism of government needed. Big Brother is watching Americans’ every move and violating their civil rights at every turn as the country becomes a militarized police state, participants at a libertarian-minded gathering in Las Vegas said Thursday. Panelists at FreedomFest offered plenty of real-world examples to illustrate their ... MORE
Debra J. Saunders: The War on Drugs, San Francisco-Style
Banning chewing tobacco simply because they can. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had out-of-towners tell me they think San Francisco is a breathtakingly beautiful city — so why is it that City Hall hasn’t done more about baseball pitchers chewing tobacco at city ballparks? No, wait. I can tell you. I’ve never heard that. ... MORERadley Balko: Video Saves Man From Lying Cops And Prosecutors, But No Consequences For The Culprits
An all too familiar pattern of no gov't accountability. The latest example of cellphone video vindicating someone from false charges is a doozy. It comes from Washington Parish, La., and WWL TV. One of the worst days of Douglas Dendinger’s life began with him handing an envelope to a police officer. In
order to help out his family and earn a ... MOREFed Court Rubber Stamps Continued NSA Spying For Now
by Dustin Volz. A federal court has again renewed an order allowing the National Security Agency to continue its bulk collection of Americans' phone records, a decision that comes more than a year after President Obama pledged to end the controversial program. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court approved this week a government request to ... MORE
Net Neutrality Is A Triumph of the Ruling Class
by Jeffrey Tucker. A triumph of “free expression and democratic principles”? How stupid do they think we are? It’s been painful to watch the gradual tightening of government
control in the name of net neutrality. The Federal Communications
Commission’s decision to rewrite the rules and declare the Internet as a
public utility seals the ... MORE
Taxes & Restrictions Posing As Federal Dietary Guidelines
by Baylen Linnekin. Last week the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC),
which meets every five years to help set federal dietary policies,
issued its
final recommendations. The recommendations of the committee, first established in 1990, "provide the basis for federal food and nutrition policy and education initiatives." So just what ... MORE
Luke Hilgemann: More Regulations Equals Less Business
Going into business gets tougher and tougher. The health of the American economy can easily be measured by the
health of American businesses — especially the rate at which people like
you and me start new ones. This simple metric shows whether the spirit
of innovation and entrepreneurship is alive in well in our country. It has been for ... MOREHow Gun Control Is Causing Another European Holocaust
by Pedro Gonzales. When Adolph Hitler got into power, he confiscated all the guns owned by Jewish people. Then, once they were defenseless, he sent them all to concentration camps. Now, in 2015, Jews are being slaughtered again because of their religion. And because of strict gun control laws in Europe, they are once again defenseless. ... MORENew Narcotic Painkiller Rules Put The Hurt To Veterans
by Emily Wax-Thibodeaux. Frequent appointment requirements overwhelm the VA. New federal rules that make it harder to get narcotic painkillers are taking an unexpected toll on thousands of veterans who depend on these prescription drugs to treat a wide variety of ailments, such as missing limbs and post-traumatic stress. The restrictions, ... MOREJaana Woiceshyn: ‘Sensitivity’ Versus Freedom of Speech
Weak minds fear free speech. Recently my MBA business ethics class discussed the case of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo as well as the case of the Danish Mohammed cartoons published in 2006. Somebody also brought up Sony and its movie The Interview. We had just covered the virtue of integrity: loyalty to rational principles. ... MOREWhat If The Government Fears Freedom?
by Andrew Napolitano. What if the current massive spying on Americans began with an innocent secret executive order signed by President Reagan in 1986? What if Reagan contemplated that he was only authorizing American spies to spy on foreign spies unlawfully present in the U.S.? What if Reagan knew and respected the history of the ... MORE
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