Government's newest innovation in revenue collection. In Seattle, wasting food will now earn you a scarlet letter — well, a scarlet tag, to be more accurate. The bright red tag, posted on a garbage bin, tells everyone who sees it that you've violated a new city law that makes it illegal to put food into trash cans. "I'm sure neighbors are going ... MORE
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Amy Radil: Seattle Will Fine You For Tossing Food In Trash
Government's newest innovation in revenue collection. In Seattle, wasting food will now earn you a scarlet letter — well, a scarlet tag, to be more accurate. The bright red tag, posted on a garbage bin, tells everyone who sees it that you've violated a new city law that makes it illegal to put food into trash cans. "I'm sure neighbors are going ... MOREHome Appliances Could Soon Be Controlled By Government
by Daniel Barker. Increasingly, our freedom and autonomy are threatened by those who seek to monitor and control every aspect of our daily lives. George Orwell’s “Big Brother” from the novel 1984 is a pale threat in comparison to the dystopian reality our leaders which have created for us since that book was published more than six ... MORERadley Balko: The Flashbang Menace
Officer safety always trumps citizen safety. ProPublica has just published a long investigation of the use of flashbang grenades, an issue I’ve written about quite a bit, including here at The Watch. These
are the incendiary devices intended to temporarily stun, blind and
deafen everyone within range. They have some limited appropriate ... MORE
Don't Blame Me - The Year's Highlights In Buck Passing
by Jacob Sullum. For years New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has
insisted that people who pay for sex and the
intermediaries who facilitate that exchange are responsible for
violence against women. Hence his February 26
column celebrating the arrests of men who were guilty of
nothing but negotiating terms with cops posing as ... MOREFeds Decide Better To Live In Pain Than Risk Drug Abuse
The rescheduling of hydrocodone. Imagine being wheeled into an operating room for an eye lift. As the
anesthesia begins to flow into your vein, you see that instead of small
precision scalpels on the instrument tray next to you, your surgeon
will be using a hatchet and an ax. Panic swells as you slide
defenselessly out of consciousness… ... MORETammy 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 ... MORECongress OKs Codification Of Warrantless Surveillance
Fourth Amendment fast becoming toothless. Congress last week quietly passed a bill to reauthorize funding for intelligence agencies, over objections that it gives the government "virtually unlimited access to the communications of every American", without warrant, and allows for indefinite storage of some intercepted material, including ... MOREJose Pagliery: Expect Heavy FAA Drone Regulations
Government rapidly seeks to curb new freedom. Farmers want drones to survey fields. Wedding photographers want them for moving aerial shots. They might soon need a pilot's license. By year's end, the Federal Aviation Administration will unveil proposed rules that apply to anyone flying a small drone that's even remotely for business ... MOREIf You Like Your Internet, You Can Keep Your Internet
What Comcast and Time Warner paid Obama to do. The principle of net neutrality is easy to understand and support; to treat the delivery all data equally. This has been the status quo. Works great. Few oppose that, but supporting the principle of net neutrality is not the same thing as supporting the government's plan to enforce that ... MORE‘We All Knew’ Obama was Lying About Obamacare
by Matthew Burke. The supporters of Obamacare knew they had to lie. In what should be considered a shameful admission, Democrat Senator Kirsten Gillibrand admitted on ABC’s This Week that all democrats knew that Obama was lying when he fraudulently repeated over 30 times that, “If you like your insurance plan, you can keep it, period.” When ... MOREJohn Stossel: Control Freaks Want To Run Your Life
They call themselves public servants. But whether student council president, environmental bureaucrat or
member of Congress, most believe they know how to run your life better
than you do. I admit I was once guilty of this kind of thinking. As a young
consumer reporter, I researched what doctors said was bad for us and
what products ... MORE
Gruber Lets Obama's Socialist Cat Out Of The Bag
by Ken Blackwell & Bob Morrison. Not since the Kermit Gosnell murder trial has the mainstream press labored so diligently to ignore a hot story. Rush Limbaugh delights in calling them “the drive-by media,” but in the case of Kermit Gosnell’s trial for the negligent death of a poor young woman and for killing many infants born alive, the liberal ... MORE
The Walking Dead in the American Police State
by John W. Whitehead. The zombies are us. Fear and paranoia have become hallmarks of the modern American experience, impacting how we as a nation view the world around us, how we as citizens view each other, and most of all how our government views us. Nowhere is this epidemic of fear and paranoia more aptly mirrored than in the culture’s ... MORESpecial Report: America's Perpetual State Of Emergency
by Gregory Korte. The United States is in a perpetual state of national emergency. Thirty separate emergencies, in fact. An emergency declared by President Jimmy Carter on the 10th day of the Iranian hostage crisis in 1979 remains in effect almost 35 years later. A post-9/11 state of national emergency declared by President George W. Bush — and ... MOREJ D Tucille: NH Supreme Court Guts Jury Nullification Law
The judges want more law enforcement, less justice. State snatches more power from the people. Insisting "It is well established that jury
nullification is neither a right of the defendant nor a defense
recognized by law," the New Hampshire Supreme Court this morning
eviscerated a law
that was openly intended and
widely ... MORE
Reports Suggest FCC Poised To Regulate Internet
by John Gizzi. There has been mounting evidence in the last two weeks that the Internet, one of the last unregulated venues for communication, might well be headed for federal regulation. What makes the specter of Internet regulation (or "net neutrality," as its proponents prefer to call it) all the more ominous is that it might become ... MOREJudge Gives County Green Light To Sell Woman’s Home After One Property Tax Payment Was Missed By Mistake
by Matt Erspamer. A Kalamazoo County judge has sided with county officials in a dispute
where a Richland woman says her home is being seized over a property
tax mistake. FOX 17 first talked with Deborah Calley
in mid-September, when she told us she lost her home after she
accidentally missed a property tax payment of roughly $2,000 ... MORE
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