Thomas Sowell: Football and Fallacies
This is a football story with both political and legal implications.
It was fourth down in a National Football League game, and the
punting team came onto the field. The other team went into their
formation to defend against the punt. Then somebody noticed that the man
set to kick the punt was black. ... MORE
Why The Veterans Administration Doesn’t Work
But many others are not doing nearly as well, ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: The Left and the Masses
The greatest moral claim of the political left is that they are for the masses in general and the poor in particular.
That is also their greatest fraud. It even fools many leftists themselves.
... MORE
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🌟Jim Cardoza: Why Hillary Clinton is Flashing a Devilish Smile
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The Welfare State: Promoting Dependency
Latest Update: October 17, 2016
THOMAS SOWELL: The Left and the Masses
VIDEO: Nathaniel Branden - The Entitlement Mentality
Gov't dependency a 'narcotic' enabling racial tensions
Sex, drugs and freedom: Why we fail to fix homelessness
VIDEO: Thomas Sowell - Legacy of the Welfare State
THOMAS SOWELL: Is Personal Responsibility Obsolete? Part II
THOMAS SOWELL: Is Personal Responsibility Obsolete?
THOMAS SOWELL: The Left and the Masses
VIDEO: Nathaniel Branden - The Entitlement Mentality
Gov't dependency a 'narcotic' enabling racial tensions
Sex, drugs and freedom: Why we fail to fix homelessness
VIDEO: Thomas Sowell - Legacy of the Welfare State
THOMAS SOWELL: Is Personal Responsibility Obsolete? Part II
THOMAS SOWELL: Is Personal Responsibility Obsolete?
Walter E Williams: Transgenderism Can Be Helpful
North Carolina's legislative body passed the Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act, which mandates a statewide policy banning individuals from using public bathrooms that do not correspond to their biological sex, as opposed to their opinion of their sex. That means people must use bathrooms and other public facilities where occupants can be in various ... MORE
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Exposed: FBI Director James Comey’s Clinton Foundation Connection
FBI DIRECTOR DISCOVERED ON THE TAKE FROM THE CLINTON FOUNDATION
A review of FBI Director James Comey’s professional history and relationships shows that the Obama cabinet leader — now under fire for his handling of the investigation of Hillary Clinton — is deeply entrenched in the big-money cronyism culture of Washington, D.C. His personal and professional relationships — all undisclosed as he announced the Bureau would not prosecute Clinton — reinforce bipartisan concerns that he may have politicized the criminal probe.
... MORE
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Hillary Clinton Health Update: Now Her Eyes Are Going Crazy
As Hillary Clinton’s health continues to be an issue in the final weeks of this year’s presidential contest, there is suddenly a focus on the Democrat’s “mysterious” eye movements during a speech Monday in Philadelphia.
“Hillary’s eyes appeared not in-sync with one another, as the left eye looked to be cock-eyed and displaced, especially as she looked towards the left,” noted John Binder of the American Mirror. The ocular phenomenon even prompted the popular Drudge Report to splash a banner headline reading, “Unfocused.” It featured a black-and-white still shot from Clinton’s appearance. Clinton’s speech in Philadelphia came the same day two doctors told WND the Democratic Party nominee is suffering a serious neurological disease that should disqualify her from being president. ... MORE
“Hillary’s eyes appeared not in-sync with one another, as the left eye looked to be cock-eyed and displaced, especially as she looked towards the left,” noted John Binder of the American Mirror. The ocular phenomenon even prompted the popular Drudge Report to splash a banner headline reading, “Unfocused.” It featured a black-and-white still shot from Clinton’s appearance. Clinton’s speech in Philadelphia came the same day two doctors told WND the Democratic Party nominee is suffering a serious neurological disease that should disqualify her from being president. ... MORE
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Here’s Why Abolishing the Police is Not a Crazy Idea
Are police necessary? Although this existential question often produces a knee-jerk ‘of course they are, who would protect us?’ a growing call for the abolition of police — and working examples to back it up — deserves more than scornful dismissal, particularly amid epidemic-level violence by agents of the state.
Police are under no obligation to protect the public they putatively serve — a series of state and Supreme Court decisions stretching back more than three decades indisputably establish this fact — so the lingering question, ‘who will protect us?’ is of no consequence to the case for dismantling every police department in the nation.
Police are under no obligation to protect the public they putatively serve — a series of state and Supreme Court decisions stretching back more than three decades indisputably establish this fact — so the lingering question, ‘who will protect us?’ is of no consequence to the case for dismantling every police department in the nation.
On the
contrary, police kill, maim, intimidate, harass, and generally brutalize
the citizenry with alarming frequency — and rarely face consequences
beyond a paid vacation farcically termed ‘administrative leave’ for doing so.
Rather than fight and solve violent crimes, police act as little more than heavily militarized code-enforcers, or as David Graeber of the London School of Economics aptly terms, “bureaucrats with weapons” — protecting us from broken tail lights, missing front license plates, and imperfect lane changes more often than from robbery, homicide, and rape. ... MORE
Rather than fight and solve violent crimes, police act as little more than heavily militarized code-enforcers, or as David Graeber of the London School of Economics aptly terms, “bureaucrats with weapons” — protecting us from broken tail lights, missing front license plates, and imperfect lane changes more often than from robbery, homicide, and rape. ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: Old Lies
We expect to hear a lot of lies during an election year, and this year is certainly no exception. What is surprising is how old some of these lies are, and how often they have been shown to be lies, years ago or even decades ago. ... MORE
Walter E Williams - Compensating Differences
What economists call an ability to make "compensating differences" is a valuable tool in everyone's arsenal. If people are prohibited from doing so, they are always worse off. You say, "Williams, I never heard of compensating differences.
What are they?" Jimmy Soul's 1963 hit song, "If You Wanna Be Happy," explained the concept of compensating differences. His lyrics went: "If you want to be happy for the rest of your life, never make a pretty woman your wife. So from my personal point of view, get an ugly girl to marry you." His point was that an ugly woman would treat you better. But more importantly, a less attractive woman's willingness to compensate for her differences enables her to effectively compete with a pretty woman. ... MORE
Government Eyes Are Watching Every Move You Make
by John W. Whitehead. Government eyes are watching you. They see your every move: what you read, how much you spend, where
you go, with whom you interact, when you wake up in the morning, what
you’re watching on television and reading on the internet. Every move you make is being monitored, mined for data, crunched, and
tabulated in ... MORE
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Licensing Laws Shut Young People Out Of The Job Market
by Ben Casselman. Young people entering the job market have always faced challenges: a lack of skills and experience, limited professional networks, unfamiliarity with workplace culture and expectations. But increasingly, they are also facing another obstacle: legal requirements that can shut off avenues to jobs before they even get the chance ... MORE
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Limits To President Obama's Executive Order Authority
by Andrew Napolitano. In 2014, President Barack Obama signed 12 executive orders directing various agencies in the departments of State, Justice and Homeland Security to refrain from deporting some four million adult immigrants illegally present in the United States if they are the parents of children born here or legally present here and if they ... MORE
Thom Dunn: A 7-Month-Old Baby Is On The No-Fly List
Our proactive stance on terrorism. In 2012, a 7-month-old baby was designated as a "known or suspected terrorist threat" by airport security and placed on the no-fly list. That baby is now 4 years old and is one of 18 plaintiffs listed in a lawsuit filed by the Council on American-Islamic Relations in April seeking damages for those who have ... MORE
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The Profit Incentives Driving The Police State
by John W. Whitehead. If there is an absolute maxim by which the federal government seems
to operate, it is that the American taxpayer always gets ripped off. Not only are American taxpayers forced to “spend more on state, municipal, and federal taxes than the annual financial burdens of food, clothing, and housing combined,” but we’re ... MORE
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50-Year Disaster Of Government Trains, Buses & Streetcars
by Daniel Bier. Today, Less than 2% of trips use transit. Ronald Reagan once quipped that "government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." There, in a nutshell, you have a short history of mass transit in America. CEI's Marc Scribner explains, ... MORE
5 Reasons Conservatives Should Support Pot Legalization
by James McClure. Ever wonder how to bring up marijuana with your conservative friends, family or coworkers? You're in luck because there's an activist group that specializes in getting that sort of discussion started. RAMP (Republicans Against Marijuana Prohibition) is dedicated to persuading people to rethink their position on cannabis. We ... MORE
Ed Snowden Thinks A Global iPhone Attack Will Happen This Year As A Result Of The FBI's Battle With Apple
by Jason Lederman. A grim prediction in the wake the FBI's battle with Apple. In the wake of the FBI's legal battle with Apple, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has made a bold prediction. Snowden wrote in a pair of tweets today that he believes iPhones around the world will be globally compromised by August, due to the FBI's "refusal ... MORE
The Cruelty Of The $15 Minimum Wage
by Nick Gillespie & Jim Epstein. The $15 minimum wage just went from "laughable" to "viable"—as a New York Times headline put it—to the law of the land for millions of New York and California residents. In April 2016, the Empire and Golden states almost simultaneously passed laws that will boost the state-mandated wage floor to $15 over the ... MORE
Andrew Napolitano: Obama Damns Hillary With Faint Praise
Excuse the gross negligence, please. President Barack Obama's recent remarks to my Fox News colleague Chris Wallace about Hillary Clinton's email issues were either Machiavellian or dumb. It is difficult to tell from them whether he wants the mountain of evidence of her criminal behavior presented to a federal grand jury or he wants her to ... MORE
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The Crypto Wars Are About Power, Not Terrorism
by Andrea Castillo. The FBI may have been able to unlock San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook’s work-related iPhone without conscripting Apple as an unwilling hacker, but that has not slowed down the government’s broader war on encrypted technologies
one bit. It didn’t take long for another tragic terrorist attack, this
one in Belgium, ... MORE
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Green Light For Jury-Nullification Crusaders
by Emma Gannone. The 10th Circuit upheld an injunction that lets protesters disseminate pamphlets about jury nullification outside a state courthouse in Colorado. Jury nullification describes the practice by which a jury acquits a defendant, despite evidence of his guilt, because the jury members believe the law at issue is immoral. Protests over ... MORE
Another Sexual Assault In Service Of The Drug War
by Jacob Sullum. Public servants or simple perverts, you decide. Yet another case of a driver sexually assaulted in the name of the war on drugs dramatically illustrates the dangerously broad power that police officers have to mess with motorists. According to a lawsuit filed last September, described in a February 3 ruling
by federal judge in ... MORE
Trump Movement Is Backlash Against Political Correctness
by Robby Soave. Stephen Baldwin—the actor, outspoken conservative, and brother of Alec Baldwin—supports Donald Trump for president, and his main reason is this: Trump is against political correctness. "The first policy of his that I favor is this guy is gonna take a stand when it comes to the BS of the PC—the political correctness," said Baldwin in an interview ... MORE
Protecting Consumers From Speech-Chilling Lawsuits
by Michael Beckerman. Summer is almost here, which means sun, fun, and summer vacations. It also means many of us are going to be spending time browsing online reviews to preview the good, the bad, and the ugly on travel locations. Imagine a world in which a hotel company could sue customers because they didn’t like their stay. What if ... MORE
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John Stossel: Another Libertarian Moment?
An alternative to Clinton and Trump. The Libertarian Party might get more votes this year. Before the primaries, Time Magazine, frequent pusher of trends that do not exist, put Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ken.) on its cover and called him the "most interesting man in politics." Then Paul fizzled, and pundits said the "libertarian moment," if there ever was ... MORE
Juries Were Supposed To Be Able To Overturn Laws
by Clay Conrad. History is clear. The law is unclear on exactly what a
jury is. Juries can range from four to 12 members, depending on the
state and case. In two states, criminal juries need not reach unanimous judgments. In some states, jurors can question witnesses. There have even been arguments for so-called professional jurors. Some believe ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: The 'Voice Of The People' Fallacy
An understanding of convenience. We hear many fallacies in election years. The fallacy that seems to be most popular this year is that, if Donald Trump comes close to getting the 1,237 delegates required to become the Republican nominee, and that nomination goes instead to someone else, then the convention will have ignored "the voice ... MORE
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Raising Minimum Wage Is Perfect Way To Kill Summer Jobs
by Jonah Goldberg. Expect more teenagers on the streets. I had a lot of summer jobs. I was a foot messenger in New York for a couple of summers. I worked as a receptionist and mail-room flunky. Before my junior year of high school, I briefly sold ice-cream snacks — sort of yuppie bonbons — on the street for a company called Love Bites. ... MORE
Hyprocrisy On Steroids: California Labor Union That Fought To Impose $15 Minimum Wage Now Wants An Exemption
The point is to drive up the costs of their competition. The labor union that led the charge for a $15 minimum wage hike in cities across California is now moving to secure an exemption for employers under union contracts. The Los Angeles County Federation of Labor buried the exemption on the eighth page of its 12-page proposal for the ... MORE
Red Light Cams Linked To Rear-End Collisions In Chicago
by Dan Kedmey. New study casts doubts on the claims that cameras improve road safety. A new Chicago-focused study links red light cameras to a coinciding rise in rear-end collisions, casting doubts on claims that the mounted cameras improve safety at intersections. The study’s findings, published by the Chicago Tribune Friday, found that while ... MORE
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Dear AG, Conspiring Against Free Speech Is A Crime
by Glenn Harlan Reynolds. Breaking the law to shut up climate change dissenters. Federal law makes it a felony “for
two or more persons to agree together to injure, threaten, or
intimidate a person in any state, territory or district in the free
exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him/her by
the Constitution or the laws of ... MORE
Europe Sacrifices Free Speech For Political Correctness
by Dr. Michael Hurd. Europe has gone crazy. Yes, there are the terrorist attacks. But it’s the political correctness and censorship, too. Governments in Europe are literally sacrificing their citizens for the sake of not offending Islam. Here’s an example. Anti-Islam firebrand Geert Wilders went on trial last Friday for allegedly inciting hatred against the ... MORE
More People Recognizing Copyright's 'Free Speech Problem'
by Mike Masnick. For many years now, we've written about the fact that copyright law and
the First Amendment are actually in quite a lot of conflict. After all,
copyright is regularly used to stifle speech, and the First Amendment
isn't supposed to allow for the barring of speech. Over the years, legal
experts have been increasingly starting to realize ... MORE
Economic Inequality Is Not Increasing. Propaganda Is
by Gary North. It never ends. We are besieged by articles on today's increasing economic inequality. These articles have three things in common: 1. Each one has a favorite explanation/boogeyman. 2. Each one calls for political reforms to make things more equal. 3. Each one fails to mention Pareto's 20/80 law. Here is the main problem with these ... MORE
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Ed Spillane: Many Judges Continue To Jail Defendants Without Money To Pay Fines. Here Are The Alternatives.
Why one judge refuses to send such folks to jail. Melissa J. showed up in my court last year with four kids in tow. Her children quietly watched from a nearby table while I spoke with her. The charges against her — driving with an invalid license, driving without insurance, not wearing a seat belt, failure to use a child safety seat properly ... MORE
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VIDEO: Why The Public Is Losing Respect For The Badge
Public servants or statist bullies? You decide.
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Walter E Williams: Attacking Our Nation's Founders
Undermining the Constitution to gain greater control. During Sen. Bernie Sanders' campaign visit to Liberty University, he told the students that our nation was created on racist principles. Students at a Christian-based university, such as Liberty, do not often hear the founders-as-racists argument. But it is featured at many other universities, ... MORE
$15 Minimum Wage Follies In California And New York
by Ronald Bailey. Good intentions, but a near total failure as an anti-poverty policy. Both California and New York have just adopted measures to raise their
minimum wages to $15 an hour over the next few years. Los Angeles Mayor
Eric Garcetti hailed
the increase, declaring, "Today California leads the nation once again,
passing a historic ... MORE
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