by Robert Herriman. After the release of the chilling and quite gruesome Center for Medical Progress video earlier this week (see full video and transcript below) , which exposed Planned Parenthood’s ghoulish side gig from their already abhorrent abortion numbers of selling fetal organs and tissue, many in the Congress reacted negatively to it. ... MORE
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Rand Paul Says No More Tax Dollars To Planned Parenthood
by Robert Herriman. After the release of the chilling and quite gruesome Center for Medical Progress video earlier this week (see full video and transcript below) , which exposed Planned Parenthood’s ghoulish side gig from their already abhorrent abortion numbers of selling fetal organs and tissue, many in the Congress reacted negatively to it. ... MOREBrian Doherty: L.A.'s Minimum Wage Hike: A Teaching Moment For Those Trying To Help The Underprivileged
Harder to do good for someone if it costs a lot more. A lightly annotated story from today's L.A. Times from the frontline of the politically connected trying to claim special exemptions from L.A's forthcoming minimum wage hike, which highlights not the corruption of the politically connected seeking special favors but the logic ... MOREElise Cooper: How Not To Handle A Water Crisis
A crisis created by government regulations. Californians have a love affair with water. It’s used for pools, irrigation, green grasses, and washing cars. Yet, because of the drought the grass is turning brown, cars are staying dirty, and pools might be a thing of the past. American Thinker interviewed people who have some knowledge about this crisis. ... MOREJosie Wales: IRS Continues SWAT Raids For Evasion While Hundreds Of Thier Agents Avoid Paying Any Taxes At All
Government's tax cheats are low priority. The Associated Press has reported that over 1,600 IRS employees have willfully committed tax evasion in a 10-year span; most still employed in spite of a 1998 law calling for termination in such cases. Even worse, it has been reported that many of the tax-evading agents were active in enforcing the federal ... MOREFarmers Unable to Repair Tractors Because Of Copyright
by Rick Falkvinge. Stories are starting to appear about farmers unable to repair tractors and car aficionados unable to tinker with cars because of copyright legislation. That's not a side effect. It was the whole idea of the law. This week, there have been stories about farmers who can’t legally repair their John Deere tractors, as copyright monopoly ... MOREAmerican Small Business Struggles Under Heavy Regulation
by Paul Ebeling. What big business pays politicians to do. Heavy US regulation putting a damper on American small businesses, but larger businesses are able to surmount regulatory burdens and might even thrive from them, a new American Action Forum (AAF) study released indicates. The survey was conducted by a policy analyst for AAF, a center- ... MOREWhat Romance Can Tell Us About Government Regulation
by Julian Adorney. Dating is perhaps the freest “market” in the United States today, and its lack of regulation can teach us powerful lessons about the flaws inherent in government regulation. Most people recognize the absurdity of trying to regulate romantic relationships. What many don’t realize is that this absurdity stems not from the nature of ... MORERon 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
Wanted: A Budget-Cutting President
by Donald Lambro. The candidate who wins the presidency in 2016 will be the one who vows to wage all-out war on a bloated, inefficient, corrupt government in need of a top-to-bottom, budget-cutting revolution. Next to an underperforming economy, the problem that concerns most Americans is the government’s $18 trillion debt, fueled by six ... MOREJohn Stossel: Chicago Fray
Money can't buy you love, but ... Rahm Emanuel, current mayor of my old hometown, Chicago, is not a gentle soul. But he's smarter than his big-spending predecessor, Richard M. Daley, and the union pawn, Jesus "Chuy" Garcia, who becomes the new mayor if he beats Emanuel in a run-off election April 7. Emanuel was the tough Obama chief of staff ... MOREJacob Sullum: Darren Wilson's Friendly Trial
The need for independent prosecutors in police shootings. A Justice Department report released last week makes a strong case
that Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson acted in
self-defense when he shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black
teenager, last August. The report suggests that Robert McCulloch, the
much-maligned ... MORE
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