Or, did the blind squirrels in robes merely find a nut. As far as it went, the Supreme Court generally got it right in
the Hobby Lobby Obamacare contraception case. Unfortunately it
didn't go nearly far enough. The court ruled that "closely held corporations" whose owners have religious convictions against certain kinds of contraceptives ... MORE
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Sheldon Richman: A Slippery Slope in the Right Direction?
Or, did the blind squirrels in robes merely find a nut. As far as it went, the Supreme Court generally got it right in
the Hobby Lobby Obamacare contraception case. Unfortunately it
didn't go nearly far enough. The court ruled that "closely held corporations" whose owners have religious convictions against certain kinds of contraceptives ... MORECops Defend Needless Murder Of Homeowner's Dog
by Ryan Gorman and Jill Reilly. Unbelievable video from the pet owner. Dramatic video has emerged of the moment the owner of a dog shot dead by a policeman searching for a missing boy confronted cops over the killing. Sean Kendall, 27, berated the officers only minutes after his dog was shot in the head last week by a Salt Lake City ... MOREIs Dept. of Homeland Security America’s Standing Army?
by John W. Whitehead. The Founders' worst fear. If the United States is a police state, then the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is its national police force, with all the brutality, ineptitude and corruption such a role implies. In fact, although the DHS’ governmental bureaucracy may at times appear to be inept and bungling, ... MOREJeff Berwick: Stealing Every Last Penny From Americans
More evidence the government is not us. All of a sudden the government lays claims to your savings. They can't prove you owe them a dime, but you're deprived due process. The legal bills become overwhelming, and so you let your money be stolen. You simply have no choice. Sound outlandish? It's not. Not in the "Land of the Free" ... MORE
Walter E. Williams: How To Assist Evil
Enhancing governments power to tyrannize. "Engineering Evil" is a documentary recently shown on the Military History channel. It's a story of Nazi Germany's murder campaign before and during World War II. According to some estimates, 16 million Jews and other people died at the hands of Nazis. Though the Holocaust ranks high among the ... MORE
Government Power Rests on Violence and Coercion
by A. Barton Hinkle. From police brutality to the events in Ukraine. “Ukrainian events have demonstrated,” writes Maria Snegovaya in
The New Republic, “that control of violence is still at
the very essence of the state.” She says Vladimir Putin’s
aggression proves that Max Weber’s definition of the state—an
entity with a monopoly on the ... MOREThe United States Vs. Toyota: Anatomy Of A Shakedown
by Judson Phillips. Attorney General Eric Holder announced Wednesday a $1.2 billion dollar settlement between Toyota and the U.S. government, ending a criminal probe into Toyota’s disclosure of alleged product defects. Most
Americans, if they pay attention to this at all, will simply see a
short blurb on the news with the announcement. ... MOREBob Barr: Obama's "Society Of Fear"
Living under the threat of government surveillance. In observational experiments, researchers constantly battle a phenomenon called the “Hawthorne effect,” where subjects of experiments alter their behavior when aware of being studied. For example, in 2011, researchers at Carnegie Mellon mailed postcards to customers of an electric ... MORE"Terrifying" Surveillance Tactics Shut Down Privacy Service
by Ryan Gallagher. Yet another American Internet privacy service has bitten the dust,
prompted by fears about broad government surveillance demands. San Francisco-based CryptoSeal,
a provider of virtual private networks that can be used to browse the
Internet anonymously, has closed its doors to users of its private VPN ... MOREEPA Deploys SWAT To Check For Clean Water Violation
by Sean Doogan. When agents with the Alaska Environmental Crimes Task Force surged out of the wilderness around the remote community of Chicken wearing body armor and jackets emblazoned with POLICE in big, bold letters, local placer miners didn’t quite know what to think. Did it really take eight armed men and a squad-size ... MOREAgent Admits Tea Party Groups Still In IRS Crosshairs
by Paul Bedard. In a remarkable admission that is likely to rock the Internal Revenue Service again, testimony released Thursday by House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp reveals that an agent involved in reviewing tax exempt applications from conservative groups told a committee investigator that the agency is still targeting ... MOREPoll: Americans Angry With DOJ's Intimidation Of Media
Federal tyranny is the only thing transparent. The Internal Revenue Service scandal is just one hot-button issue that the Obama administration is facing. The other is the government investigating reporters. And new poll new numbers indicate, many Americans are not happy with the Justice Department snooping on the press, CBS ... MORERalph R. Reiland: A Government Against Liberty
Public servants or public masters? Let’s say you’re like most people and believe the federal government has become too large, too wasteful, too crooked and too intrusive. Now imagine the morning mail arrives from the money-bleeding U.S. Postal Service ($16 billion in the hole last year) and there’s a letter from the Internal Revenue ... MORE
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