The Libertarian party is selecting a nominee too. A recent poll shows that if the election were held today, 11 percent of Americans would vote for a Libertarian, former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson. That's surprising, since last election Johnson got just 1 percent of the vote. This year, he's doing better, probably because Donald Trump and ... MORE
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John Stossel: A Better Choice For 2016
The Libertarian party is selecting a nominee too. A recent poll shows that if the election were held today, 11 percent of Americans would vote for a Libertarian, former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson. That's surprising, since last election Johnson got just 1 percent of the vote. This year, he's doing better, probably because Donald Trump and ... MOREIllegal Drugs Should Be Decriminalized, Say Health Experts
by Lisa Ryan. Current policies are damaging. The war on drugs has failed – and certain illegal substances should now be decriminalized, according to some of the world’s leading health experts. Harsh drug control policies have done little to affect drug markets or drug use, experts argued. Instead, the war on drugs and zero-tolerance ... MORESalim Furth: Government Regulators Have Added At Least An Extra $3,800 To The Price Of Producing A New Car
The high cost of savings-government style. When Congress and the Obama administration passed and implemented
extremely strict fuel economy regulations, the Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) claimed that it would save consumers a few thousand dollars on gas and add only $948 to the price of a new car. Three teams of independent ... MOREAmir Taheri: The Non-Assimilation Of Muslim Immigrants Aid The Left's Quest To Destroy Traditional Western Values
Islam is actively devouring Europe. On Tuesday, when Islamist suicide bombers blew themselves up in Brussels, killing 35 innocent people and injuring 240, the European Union’s foreign policy representative, the Italian Federica Mogherini, happened to be on an official visit to Amman, the Jordanian capital. Fighting back tears, she cut short a ... MOREEPA Dodges Accountability For Flint Water Crisis
by Paul Dykewicz. Government failures at
the federal, state and local levels that led to toxic water flowing
from the faucets in Flint, Michigan, spurred the House Oversight
Committee to hold two hearings this week in which the head of the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and its former Midwest region
administrator claimed agency officials ... MORELancet Commission Recommends Drug Legalization
by Jacob Sullum. The last time the U.N. General Assembly held a "special session" (UNGASS) on drug policy, it was organized under the slogan "A Drug-Free World...We Can Do It." Pino Arlacchi, then executive director of the U.N. Drug Control Program, insisted "there is no reason" the world's supply of cocaine and heroin "cannot be eliminated in ... MORE
Nicole Duran: Obama Says More More More To Refugees
Who cares they can't be vetted? In a brief Easter weekend radio address, President Obama vowed to decimate the self-proclaimed Islamic State, but he said the United States will do so by offering an example of freedom, tolerance and open society. "Our openness to refugees fleeing ISIL's violence; our determination to win the battle against ISIL's ... MORECivil Asset Forfeiture Allows For Abuse Of Police Power
by Allison Chavez. People need to be aware of the practice of civil asset forfeiture and understand their rights when dealing with the police. The police doctrine known as civil asset forfeiture is barbaric and needs to be more strictly regulated. Civil asset forfeiture is essentially an excuse the police employ in order to steal civilians’ property and ... MORE12-Year Old Girl Gets Arrested And Booked For Pinching Boy's Butt. It Was The Boy's Mother Who Was Butt Hurt
by Melissa Dykes. Public school is already a terrible place of fear, conditioning and over-reactions to prepare you for the real world of utter B.S. But this pushes even the insane limits of a politically-correct world that gets offended at every thing, arrests children for bubble guns and toy weapons, among other petty controversies that demonstrate how ... MORELaw Enforcement Now Snoops Private DNA Databases
by Jessica Chia. A filmmaker in New Orleans became a suspect in the 1996 murder of an Idaho Falls teenager after his father donated his own DNA to a nonprofit organization conducting a hereditary study backed by the Mormon church. Idaho Falls Police Department had a warrant to seize the genetic information later sold to Ancestry.com in an attempt ... MORESheldon Richman: Conceived In Tyranny
The move toward centralization. If the American Revolution was in some large measure a tax rebellion, we should appreciate the bitter irony that the U.S. Constitution was in some large measure a reaction to a tax rebellion. It’s another reason we can reasonably view the move toward the Constitution — toward, that is, the concentration of power in a ... MORE
Oliver Steinberg: We're One Nation, Under Surveillance
Another slip down the slippery slope. “Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human liberty; it is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.” The Star Tribune’s March 22 editorial endorses tax expenditures for “A needed boost for courthouse security.” Consider what it means: To enter a public building, we lowly taxpayers, at the ... MORECarey Welder: Nixon Advisor Admitted War On Drugs Invented To Crush Anti-War And Black Movements
A damning revelation comes to light. In 1994, a former Nixon policy adviser admitted the War on Drugs was
waged not to keep Americans safe, but to crush dissent. According to John Ehrlichman,
who served time in prison for his involvement in the Watergate scandal,
the Drug War was intended to disempower anti-war and black ... MOREThe Candidates' Public Disservice On Trade
by A. Barton Hinkle. Almost three-fifths of Americans recognize
that international trade offers the country an opportunity to expand
the economy; only 34 percent see it as a threat. Unfortunately, the
leading presidential contenders are doing their best to change that. Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have been spouting a ... MORELittle Sisters Of The Poor Case Not About Contraception, It's About Gov't Forcing You To Violate Your Conscience
by Stephanie Slade. This morning the eight justices of Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Zubik v. Burwell. The case will determine whether the Little Sisters of the Poor and six other petitioners (including Pittsburgh Bishop David Zubik) can object to an "accommodation" from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that they ... MOREJohn Stossel: The Art Of Trump
Hooray for Donald Trump! I can ice skate in Central Park because Trump got the skating rink fixed after New York City couldn't. Couldn't, you ask? Really? How is that possible? New York City government couldn't fix an ice rink? Sad, but true. Despite six years of effort and fiddling with 13 million taxpayer dollars, government's bureaucracy was unable ... MOREPhysicians Face Moral Dilemma In Drug War Conscription
by Jeffrey A. Singer. Gov't wants the narco squad to be your doctor. America’s physicians have been conscripted as law enforcement agents in the never-ending War on Drugs, and it puts us in a moral dilemma. As media attention has turned to the recent national surge in prescription-opioid and heroin abuse, politicians feel compelled to be ready ... MOREJohn W. Whitehead: Fascism, American Style
They’re all fascists. “If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States.” ― Henry A. Wallace, 33rd Vice President of the United States This is an indictment of every politician who has ever sold us out for the sake of money ... MORE
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