by George Will. E.B. White reportedly said "the most beautiful sound in America" is "the tinkle of ice at twilight." In 2015's twilight, fortify yourself with something 90 proof as you remember this year in which: We learned that a dismal threshold has been passed. The value of property that police departments seized through civil asset forfeiture — usually ... MORE
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Showing posts with label children. Show all posts
Child Molestation If Done By Private Individual: Ten-Year- Old Girl Gets 2-Minute TSA Patdown Over Juice Pouch
by Morgan Cook. A Capri Sun juice pouch mistakenly left in a 10-year-old San Diego girl’s carry-on handbag led a TSA agent to subject the girl to almost two minutes of frisking and extra screening that lasted about an hour, her father said. Liquids exceeding 3 ounces are not allowed in carry-on bags, for fear they might contain explosives, but the ... MORE
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government,
harassment,
incentives,
privacy,
tactics,
TSA,
warrantless search
NYT Columnist Wants A Minimum Drinking Age For Soda
by Guy Bentley. Busybodies minding your own business. A New York Times columnist has proposed the government introduce a
minimum age for buying soda and card kids who try to buy Coca-Cola at
the local store. In wide-ranging discussion with Luckypeach.com,
food journalist and New York Times opinion writer Mark Bittman
attempted to equate ... MORE
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busybody,
children,
nanny state,
obesity,
prohibition,
regulation,
restrictions,
smoking,
sugar
Home Ownership Not The American Dream For Millennials
Has the American Dream become unattainable? Or has it just changed? Ask your parents what the American Dream meant to them growing up and you’ll probably find it differs from the ideals of millennials today. In fact, according to the Fusion 2016 Issues Poll, only 16 percent of people ages 18 to 35 believe the American Dream is still “very ... MORE
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business,
children,
college,
entrepreneur,
housing,
Millennials,
motivation,
prosperity,
wealth
Public School Students Are The New Police State Inmates
by John W. Whitehead. In the American police state, you’re either a prisoner (shackled, controlled, monitored, ordered about, limited in what you can do and say, your life not your own) or a prison bureaucrat (police officer, judge, jailer, spy, profiteer, etc.). When you’re a child in the American police state, life is that much worse. Microcosms of ... MORE
An 11-Year-Old Demonstrates Good Judgment And Good Marksmanship, Striking Down Home Invader With One Shot
Gun control means using both hands. An 11-year-old Missouri boy shot and killed a 16-year-old boy during an attempted home invasion Thursday afternoon, St. Louis County police said. Police said two suspects tried to break into the home north of downtown St. Louis twice before the shooting on Thursday. On the third try, authorities said the ... MORE
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children,
gun control,
home invasion,
protection,
security,
self-defense,
self-interest,
shooting
Carlos Morales: Abolish Child Protective Services
Revelation of a social worker. Standing in an office while two kids beg me to go back to their home, I begin retreating back into my inner-child. I imagine how I would have felt if I was seven years old and a Child Protective Services (CPS) investigator told me I couldn’t stay with my mom anymore. Their mother had committed the crime of respecting ... MORE
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bureaucracy,
child neglect,
children,
choice,
CPS,
government,
individual liberty,
social workers
Girls Rights Matter: Over 150 Students Walk Out Of School To Protest Transgender Teen Using Girl’s Locker Room
Gender-blender news. Over 150 Missouri high school students voiced their displeasure about a transgender teen using the girl’s locker room by walking out of class. How do you gel the sides and parents who are worried about their children. “You really don’t,” Schowalter says. “It’s going to end up in court. And that is where most of these issues are ... MORE
Indiana School Fingerprints Students For Lunch Program
by Kyle Olson. A new method of tracking the sheep. The grumbling in New Albany cafeterias isn’t coming from students’ stomachs. It’s from parents. The southern Indiana school district is one of the latest to deploy technology which “biometric identification to match a finger scan with a personal identification number,” WAVE reports. According to a ... MORE
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children,
identification,
police state,
public school,
snooping,
students,
tracking,
welfare state
Common Core: Who's Watching the Kids?
by Mary Anne Marcella and Cort Wrotnowski. Common Core is about more than just a shift in educational standards. The architects of Common Core have always planned to integrate computer technology with Common Core standards under the guise of “closing the digital divide” and “preparing our children for the 21st-century workplace.” They ... MORE
We're Doing Our Trophy Kids A Great Disservice
by Stephen Moore. Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison became an overnight cultural hero when he announced this week that he doesn't want his kids to accept trophies they "haven't earned." Harrison tweeted that he was returning his sons' "participation trophies," all the rage in kids' sports these days. Awards, he said, should be for ... MORE
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achievement,
busybody,
children,
nanny state,
nitwittery,
performance,
political correctness
How Helicoptered Kids Become Hypersensitive Students
by Lenore Skenazy. Creating the scaredy cat generation. This is the article everyone’s talking about: “The Coddling of the American Mind,” by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, on the cover of this month’s Atlantic.
It discusses the idea taking root on college campuses that students
cannot be exposed to ideas, words, or phrases that ... MORE
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abuse,
children,
college,
happiness,
microagression,
political correctness,
schools,
sensitivity
Religious Sex Perverts: ISIS Enshrines A Theology Of Rape
by Rukmini Callimachi. In the moments before he raped the 12-year-old girl, the Islamic State fighter took the time to explain that what he was about to do was not a sin. Because the preteen girl practiced a religion other than Islam, the Quran not only gave him the right to rape her — it condoned and encouraged it, he insisted. He bound her hands ... MORE
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children,
Daesh,
evil,
ISIS,
Islamic state,
philosophy,
rape,
religion,
sex offenders,
women
NSA Grooming And Recruiting Children To Be Hackers
by William Lawler. Recruitment posters show multiple young people placing their hands on a basketball sized earth as digital streams flow around the planet. The image conveys the distinct impression that these children control the world utilizing technology. This may be a powerful draw for children viewing the poster. Of course it does not hurt ... MORE
Nitwittery Run Amok: New York Cracks Down On Toy Guns
by Elizabeth Harrington. Expect fake murders to go down. New York is forcing Walmart, Amazon, and other retailers to pay over $300,000 for the crime of selling toy guns. The settlement stems from an investigation by the state’s attorney general office, which sent cease and desist letters to the retailers in December for breaking its strict law against ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: Looking Back
Discovering what is important. After my 85th birthday last week, I looked back over my life and was surprised to discover in how many different ways I had been lucky, in addition to some other ways in which I was unlucky. Among the things I did not know at the time was that I was adopted as an infant into a family with four adults, in which I was ... MORE
Liberal Dream: 11-yo Girls Can Now Get Birth Control Devices Implanted In Them Without Parents Knowing
by Matt Agorist. Between 1991 and 2013, the teen birth rate declined by 57% nationwide. Over this period, teen pregnancy has declined in all 50 states and among all racial/ethnic groups. Washington State is ranked 13 in the country for teen pregnancies with 20.5 births per 1,000 girls ages 15-19. That is a much better rate than Arkansas, which is more ... MORE
Public Servants At Work: 2 Parents Weren't Sure How Their Little Girl Fractured Her Leg, So CPS Took Their Children
by Lenore Skenazy. Yet another heart-wrenching state-sanctioned kidnapping. Here’s another horrifying case from the Family Defense Center in Chicago. A baby’s fractured leg convinced the Department of Child and Family Services that she had been abused, despite the fact that fractures like hers are common in kids, and there was absolutely no other ... MORE
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children,
coercion,
CPS,
force,
government,
individual liberty,
intimidation,
parents,
persecution
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