from Pew Research. We should be worried about the 19%. A year ahead of the presidential election,
the American public is deeply cynical about government, politics and
the nation’s elected leaders in a way that has become quite familiar. Currently, just 19% say they can trust the government always or most of the time, among the lowest ... MOREBeyond Distrust: How Americans View Their Government
from Pew Research. We should be worried about the 19%. A year ahead of the presidential election,
the American public is deeply cynical about government, politics and
the nation’s elected leaders in a way that has become quite familiar. Currently, just 19% say they can trust the government always or most of the time, among the lowest ... MOREThomas Sowell: Moral Hazard
Incentives matter. One of the things that makes it tough to figure out how much has to be charged for insurance is that people behave differently when they are insured from the way they behave when they are not insured. In other words, if one person out of 10,000 has his car set on fire, and it costs an average of $10,000 to restore the car to its ... MOREGovernments Want To Ban FanDuel And DraftKings, Yet Lotteries Are Among The Worst Ripoffs In Gambling
by A. Barton Hinkle. More incandescent hypocrisy from the ruling class. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (D) did New York a huge favor earlier this month when he declared fantasy sports leagues a form of illegal gambling and ordered two of their principal organizers, DraftKings and FanDuel, to stop taking bets from state residents. ... MOREThomas Sowell: Political Translations
Sugar-coating empty words. It is amazing how many different ways the same thing can be said,
creating totally different impressions. For example, when President
Barack Obama says that defeating ISIS is going to take a long time, how
is that different from saying that he is going to do very little, very
slowly? It is saying the same thing in ... MOREJason Snead: Why Police In Many States Can Seize Your Property Without Proving You’re Guilty Of A Crime
Politicians use cops to legally hold up citizens. Civil asset forfeiture is a growing problem throughout the nation,
driven by a profit incentive that encourages property seizures by law
enforcement authorities even under dubious circumstances. That is the inescapable conclusion of the second iteration of Policing for Profit: ... MOREFeds Collect Record 2015 Tax Haul: $19,346 Per Worker
by Michael Lotfi. Gov't overspent by nearly $530 billion anyway. According to a monthly treasury statement, through the first eleven months of fiscal year 2015 (Oct. 1, 2014 – end of August), the United States federal government has collected a record-breaking haul in tax revenue. In total, the feds have collected over $2.8 trillion so far, which ... MORENY Post: ObamaCare’s Imploding Even Without Repeal
Maybe the politicos should have read the bill. It’s looking like ObamaCare won’t survive even if Congress can’t manage to repeal it. The nation’s largest health insurer, UnitedHealth Group, said last week that it’s losing too much — $425 million — from policies sold on the health exchanges, and may have to pull out by 2017. The company ... MOREStephen Moore: The Grievance Generation
Whiny college students protest hurt feelings. Remember the campus unrest in the 1960s? Whether you agreed with the
students or not, they were protesting about things of great consequence —
like civil rights, or the military draft, or the Vietnam War. They had
chants like “hell no, we won’t go.” Those were the good old days. Now
we are ... MOREGreat News! Americans Don’t Care About Climate Change
by David Harsanyi. Sanity returns. There is a preventable calamity out there, purportedly the root
cause of nearly all wars, refugee crises, sickness, misogyny, terrorism,
hunger, poverty, and everything else troubling mankind these days. The
world is perpetually on the precipice of catastrophe—despite much evidence to the contrary — if we ... MOREWalter E Williams: The True Test Of Free Speech
Are most Americans hostile to liberty? Recent events at the University of Missouri, Yale University and some other colleges demonstrate an ongoing ignorance and/or contempt for the principles of free speech. So let's examine some of those principles by asking: What is the true test of one's commitment to free speech? Contrary to ... MOREPaul Joseph Watson: Obama's Compassion Toward ISIS
Obama Gave ISIS 45 minute warning before bombing. The Obama White House is giving ISIS a 45 minute warning before bombing their oil tankers by dropping leaflets advising potential jihadists to flee before air strikes in Syria. “Get out of your trucks now, and run away from them. Warning: air strikes are coming. Oil trucks will be ... MOREThe Cops Now Steal More Property Than The Burglars
The incentives of civil asset forfeiture. For decades now, federal government and their cohorts in law enforcement have been carrying out theft of the citizenry on a massive scale. We’re not talking about taxes, but an insidious power known as Civil Asset Forfeiture (CAF). The 1980’s-era laws were designed to drain resources from powerful ... MOREA Threat To Freedom Of Speech At The Supreme Court
by George Will. Never has American freedom of speech been attacked so flagrantly, promiscuously and on so many fronts. The most egregious examples come from campuses and Congress. On campuses, censorship proliferates as political advocacy is confined to designated spaces. In Congress, 54 Democratic senators voted last year to amend ... MORE
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