Current observations of a genius. Some financial institutions may be considered "too big to fail," but contemporary Western society may be too frivolous to survive. The Romans had bread and circuses to keep the masses passive and unthinking. We have electronic gadgets, drugs and pornography. Like the Roman Empire, we too may decline and ... MORE
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School Choice Can Help Quell Urban Violence
by Lewis M. Andrews. What is most remarkable about reports of escalating urban violence across America is that politicians and the media remain just as narrowly focused on police tactics in the aftermath of Ferguson and Baltimore. Even as 2015 murder rates for Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City (Missouri), New Orleans, St. Louis, Washington, DC, ... MORE
FBI Refuses To Cooperate In Clinton Email Server Probe
by Stephen Dinan. More government stonewalling. The FBI refused to cooperate Monday with a court-ordered inquiry into former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s email server, telling the State Department
that they won’t even confirm they are investigating the matter
themselves, much less willing to tell the rest of the government ... MORE
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Marijuana Legalization: Bad For The Cartels, Better For All
by Hillary Bricken. Marijuana legalization has already led to many benefits in the United States, ranging from increased tax revenues to decreased cannabis use by minors. Marijuana legalization is also putting a dent into what the Department of Justice calls the “greatest organized crime threat to the United States,” the Mexican drug cartels. ... MORE
FBI Lies May Have Led To Execution of 14 Innocent People
The Washington Post reports: The Justice Department and FBI have formally acknowledged that nearly every examiner in an elite FBI forensic unit gave flawed testimony in almost all trials in which they offered evidence against criminal defendants over more than a two-decade period before 2000. Of 28 examiners with the FBI Laboratory’s … MORE
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dishonesty,
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Andrew Napolitano: Can The President Kill Americans?
Can the president kill you? The short answer is: Yes, but not legally. Yet, President Obama has established a secret process that involves officials from the Departments of Justice and Defense, the CIA, and the White House senior staff whereby candidates are proposed for execution, and the collective wisdom of the officials then recommends ... MORE
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Ron Paul: IRS, Congress Hold Our Liberty In Contempt
Unaccountable government marches on. This week the Justice Department announced it would not charge former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) official Lois Lerner with contempt of Congress. Some members of Congress requested that Lerner be charged with contempt after she refused to testify at a congressional hearing ... MORE
Tammy Bruce: Another Blow To ObamaCare Privacy
Personal medical info to be shared with 35 federal agencies. Get ready to fight back: Last week, the Health and Human Services Department announced a plan to share your medical records with over 35 federal agencies — all in the name of “health care,” of course. All in the name of “efficiency,” the favorite excuse used by fascists ... MORE
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Ed Krayewski: Time For A Police Offenders Registry
Can we agree police job is a privilege, not a right? This week, the Department of Justice announced
new guidelines against racial profiling. The changes
don't actually change all that much. As regular incidents of
police brutality get more and more mainstream media attention, it's
time for a bold move from the White House. ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: Racial Quota Punishment
Enabling bad behavior solves nothing. If anyone still has any doubt about the utter cynicism of the Obama administration, a recent agreement between the federal government and the Minneapolis Public Schools should open their eyes. Under the Obama administration, both the Department of Education and the Department of Justice ... MORE
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
Joel Gehrke: Election Eve Dump - Eric Holder Releases Fast And Furious Documents That Got Him Cited for Contempt
Holder contempt vote vindicated? Justice Department officials provided House investigators with thousands of documents related to Operation Fast and Furious that President Obama had previously claimed were exempt from congressional review. In an “election eve dump,” as House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman ... MORE
Americans Are Renouncing Citizenship At A Record Pace
by Laura Saunders. Significant numbers of people are continuing to renounce their U.S. citizenship or end their long-term U.S. residency. There are 776 names on the Treasury Department list published Friday for the third quarter of 2014. That’s the third highest quarterly figure ever, according to Andrew
Mitchel, an international tax lawyer in ... MORE
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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
Thomas Sowell: Ebola And Obama
The safety of Americans comes in second. The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is both a danger in itself and a wake-up call for Americans -- about President Obama, about the institutions of this country and, most important, about ourselves. There was a time when an outbreak of a deadly disease overseas would bring virtually unanimous ... MORE
Damon Root: Two Jeers For Eric Holder
His real "signature achievement." In
an interview conducted yesterday with The Daily Beast,
outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder cited criminal-justice reform
as his "signature achievement" as America's top law enforcement
official. "After years of over-reliance on incarceration as a
criminal-justice strategy, we finally started to ... MORE
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Eric Holder,
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