Who opposes affordable care or farm security? Washington has a bad habit of naming laws by what they are not. These euphemisms usually win temporary public support. After all, who wants to be against anything “affordable”? But on examination, such idealistically named legislation usually turns out to be aimed at special interests ... MORE
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Victor Davis Hanson: Beware Of Beautifully Misnamed Laws
Who opposes affordable care or farm security? Washington has a bad habit of naming laws by what they are not. These euphemisms usually win temporary public support. After all, who wants to be against anything “affordable”? But on examination, such idealistically named legislation usually turns out to be aimed at special interests ... MOREStephen DeMaura: The Creepy Business Of Patent Trolls
Leaching enemies of innovation. Free markets and pro-paycheck policy are necessary to build a strong economy rich with quality employment opportunities for all Americans. As the country has shifted from a manufacturing, labor-intensive workforce toward technology- and innovation-based jobs, it is important that we continue to ... MORECalifornia Joins The Nullification Parade
California governor signs a Liberty Preservation Act. It just got a lot harder for President Obama to indefinitely detain residents of California. On October 1, Governor Jerry Brown (shown) announced he had signed AB 351 into law. The new statute, called the California Liberty Preservation Act, outlaws the participation of any agency of the ... MOREThomas Sowell: Who Shut Down The Government?
This is not complicated. Even when it comes to something as basic, and apparently as simple and straightforward, as the question of who shut down the federal government, there are diametrically opposite answers, depending on whether you talk to Democrats or to Republicans. There is really nothing complicated about the facts. ... MORELarry Elder: Political Correctness In A Gun-Free Zone
A deadly combination. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., after another mass shooting, predictably wasted no time in demanding still more gun control legislation. This week, a killer with a valid ID entered the Washington Navy Yard in southeast D.C., a military facility where 16,000 people -- mostly civilians -- work. He killed 12 people ... MOREA Majority Of Americans Oppose The Internet Sales Tax
Our "representatives" continue to pursue it anyway. Public support is waning for the Marketplace Fairness Act, according to a new poll commissioned by the National Taxpayers Union and the R Street Institute. The poll,
which was released last week, found that 57 percent of all likely
voters oppose legislation like the Marketplace ... MORESen. Rand Paul: The Madness Of Mandatory Minimums
Lives needlessly ruined by rigid sentencing. I applaud President Obama’s recognition that mandatory minimum sentencing for nonviolent drug offenders needs to end. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.’s announcement Monday to change federal drug-sentencing policy hopefully signaled a significant shift toward justice in ... MOREDaniel J Mitchell: More Americans Are Going Galt
Why folks are deciding to renounce American citizenship. President Obama promised he would unite the world…and he’s right. Representatives from dozens of nations have bitterly complained about an awful piece of legislation, called the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), that was enacted back in 2010. They despise this ... MORERick Manning: The Extra-Constitutional ObamaCare Delay
Waiting till after midterms to drive up health costs. Never has a word better described a man than "audacious" describes the 44th president of the United States, Barack H. Obama. His latest jaw-dropper was delivered via a Treasury Department blog post that the controversial employer mandate section of the ObamaCare law will be delayed ... MOREMark Steyn: So Long, Self-Government
Might as well put the Constitution out of its misery. June 26, 2013 — just another day in a constitutional republic of limited government by citizen representatives: First thing in the morning, Gregory Roseman, Deputy Director of Acquisitions (whatever that means), became the second IRS official to take the Fifth Amendment, after he was ... MOREGarrett Quinn: The Free State Project Grows Up
Libertarians are changing the face of New Hampshire. In 2001 a Yale doctoral student named Jason Sorens published an essay in the small webzine The Libertarian Enterprise, lamenting the failure of libertarian efforts at the ballot box. “Nothing’s working,” he wrote, because libertarians are scattered. The only way to have a real ... MOREMinimum Wage Legislation & The Small Business Scam
by Michael Saltsman. A group calling itself the Small Business Majority (SBM) recently released a survey
to support its argument that two-thirds of small businesses support a
hike in the minimum wage. It’s a counterintuitive result: After all, if
small businesses don’t mind a minimum wage hike, then pursuing the
policy should be a ... MORESteven Greenhut: California's Homeless Bill Of Rights
The latest nitwittery from Golden State lawmakers. The Homeless Bill of Rights, the name applied to a new bill that recently soared through the California Assembly’s Judiciary Committee on a 7-2 vote, is the latest in a long line of California legislation that has grabbed national attention for its sheer lunacy. At the current rate, ... MOREA Triumph Of Privacy Over Unwarranted Police Prying
by Ronald Bailey. My Gmail inbox has over 151,000 messages in it. I am an electronic pack rat afraid that I might delete just the email I may some day want to read or re-read. But there’s a drawback to my correspondence collection: Many government agencies believe that they can demand to peek, without my knowledge, at any of my ... MOREPaul Shlichta: Choice Of Weapons
The gun grabbers forgot about this one. The advocates of gun control seem to believe that, by restricting or eliminating private possession of guns, all violence can be eliminated. However, recent events have tragically demonstrated that would-be assailants have a wide choice of weapons, including knives, explosives, automobiles, ... MORESen. Rand Paul: An Ill-Advised Internet Tax Mandate
Another way for government to separate man and money. The Republican Party is supposed to oppose tax increases and burdensome, unnecessary government regulations. But sometimes, they lose their way. The
most recent example is support by some Republicans for the misnamed
Marketplace Fairness Act, which should really ... MOREWashington Times: A Good Day For The 2nd Amendment
Common sense prevails in Senate! The president raged. The mayor of New York frothed. Joe Biden cried. But at the end of the day, common sense prevailed. The Senate killed the effort to unreasonably expand background checks for buyers of guns. The measure is not quite graveyard dead; it can be brought up again, but prospects for ... MORESteve Chapman: What's Worse Than Horse Slaughter?
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. When it comes to government action, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Hold down gasoline prices to help motorists, and you create shortages. Punish landlords to protect tenants, and apartments get harder to find. Invade Iraq to spread freedom, and you get civil war. ... MORE
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