Drug warriors take one on the chin. The Supreme Court today refused to hear a case
filed by the states of Nebraska and Oklahoma claiming that neighboring
Colorado’s legalization of marijuana violates federal law and inflicts
various harms on them: The U.S.
Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider a lawsuit from Nebraska and ... MORE
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Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Sharon Cohen: Chicago's $662 Million Police Misconduct Bill
But few officers punished. In this city's troubled history of police misconduct, Eric Caine's case may be unrivaled: It took more than 25 years and $10 million to resolve. For decades, he maintained he didn't brutally kill an elderly couple. The police, he said, beat him into a false confession. Locked up at age 20, he was freed at 46, bewildered by a world ... MORE
Steven Greenhut: How Regulators Quietly Drive Up Costs
Seen and unseen. California political observers are understandably fixated on the
goings-on in the state legislature, which is the living embodiment of
what New York Judge Gideon Tucker wrote in an 1866 ruling:
"No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is
in session." Reporters and commentators also focus on major legal ... MORE
Thanks To Minimum Wage Mandates, Carl’s Jr CEO Now Wants To Replace All Human Workers With Robots
Government forces low-skill workers to sidelines. Looks like the little guy can teach a global fast food conglomerate a thing or two about running a restaurant. Eatsa, the mostly automated healthy, fast food bowl shop based in San Francisco, has inspired the CEO of Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s to rethink the traditional workforce—by replacing all ... MORE
How The West Was Shunned In Primary Politics
by Froma Harrop. There's a not-insignificant part of the United States known as the West Coast. It includes such prominent states as California, Oregon and Washington. These states have yet to hold a single presidential primary or caucus. But at 8 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on Tuesday, this population center of 50 million-plus souls was informed that the ... MORE
Brittany Hunter: How Congress Is Giving Up Its Power
Unelected bureaucrats now call most of the shots. Today, the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law will hold a hearing on the growth of federal bureaucracy. At the center of the discussion is a legal principle known as “Chevron deference,” something few ... MORE
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policy,
politics,
regulation,
restrictions,
rules,
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California’s Carl’s Jr. Says So Long, Golden State
They know when they are not wanted. States: To hear Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, you’d think that taxes can go up to 60% or even 80%, and businesses and investors will just … pay up. But the growing number of businesses stampeding out of high tax areas suggest that they’re very wrong. We got more evidence of that this week when CKE ... MORE
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business,
California,
economics,
government,
growth,
incentives,
motivation,
policy,
politics,
tax
Lefty Protesters Drive People Into Arms Of Donald Trump
by Robby Soave. Trump's useful idiots. Donald Trump's supporters aren't fazed by his decision to cancel an appearance at a Chicago rally over the weekend—in fact, they are more likely to vote for him to be the Republican nominee because of it. That's according to a new poll of likely Republican voters conducted by Monmouth University. ... MORE
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free speech,
liberalism,
political correctness,
politics,
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Hard Times For The Nixon Of The Democrats
by Wesley Pruden. The wheel that goes around comes around, as life teaches us all, even Hillary Clinton. She was 27, a reckless and ambitious lawyer for the House Judiciary Committee, working to impeach Richard Nixon. She couldn’t imagine that she would one day be the Nixon of the Democrats, a reckless and ambitious presidential candidate ... MORE
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deception,
dishonesty,
e-mail,
Hillary Clinton,
misconduct,
Nixon,
politics,
power
Daily Bell Staff: Elites Link Anti-Government Thought To Mental Illness, Lay The Groundwork For Incarceration
A chilling attack on dissent. Believe in conspiracy theories? You’re probably a narcissist: People who doubt the moon landings are more likely to be selfish and attention-seeking … Psychologists from the University of Kent carried out three online studies … -UK Daily Mail We are seeing an increasing number of academic studies analyzing the psychology ... MORE
J.D. Tuccille: Voting Third Party Isn’t Just A Serious Choice
It’s THE serious choice. This year, the likely presidential candidates of the major political
parties are two of the less savory individuals ever to run for office in
a country whose Wikipedia entry doesn't feature periods of military
rule. The Republicans seem poised to give us a crony capitalist who admires authoritarian foreign governments, views ... MORE
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authority,
campaign,
cronyism,
Donald Trump,
Gary Johnson,
Hillary Clinton,
libertarian,
politics
Andrew Napolitano: What If The FBI Is Onto Hillary Clinton?
And the Democrats are not. What if Hillary Clinton is in legal hot water and she knows it but won't admit it? What if she has decided to go on the offensive and make her case that she did nothing unlawful with her emails that contained state secrets? What if the essence of her defense is that other secretaries of state used non-secure email devices ... MORE
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accountability,
classified,
corruption,
crime,
deception,
e-mail,
Hillary Clinton,
politics,
secrecy
Congress Pisses Down Our Backs And Tells Us It's Raining
by Daniel J. Mitchell. Another budget deal good for Washington and bad for America. Advocates of smaller government are justifiably upset by the pork-filled spending bill enacted in December. With goodies for countless special interests, it was more "ominous" than "omnibus." But that wasn't the biggest fiscal hit Congress inflicted on America in ... MORE
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budget,
bureaucracy,
debt,
economics,
government,
politics,
pork,
special interest,
spending
Thomas Sowell: Desperate Tactics
Why Ted? It is desperation time for the Republican party establishment. Its extremely well financed favorite — Jeb Bush — never got anywhere with the voters in the primaries, and has already been forced out of the contest. This should at least cause some second thoughts — or perhaps first thoughts — by people who keep repeating that money buys ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: Random Thoughts On The Passing Scene
Sparks of brilliance! The presidential election prospects for the Democrats are so bad this
year that only the Republicans can save them — as Republicans have
saved them before. Will a Supreme Court without a single Protestant justice rule that an
"under-representation" of any group is evidence of discrimination? Here is a trick question: What ... MORE
Oregon Legislature Repeals Laws Of Supply & Demand
It is not likely to work out well. Like the apocryphal story
of the state legislature that passed a law dictating that pi equals 3,
the Oregon state legislature has passed two laws that pretend the laws
of supply & demand don’t exist. The difference is that, in reality,
no state legislature ever did pass a law saying that pi equals 3, but
Oregon’s ... MORE
Walter E Williams: The Seen And The Unseen
Why Congress should get out of the miracle business. Claude Frederic Bastiat (1801-50) — a French classical liberal theorist, political economist and member of the French National Assembly — wrote an influential essay titled "That Which Is Seen and That Which Is Not Seen." Bastiat argued that when making laws or economic decisions, ... MORE
Free Speech Is Very Threatened On Campus
by Conor Friedersdorf. At a recent Intelligence Squared debate,
an audience filled an auditorium at Yale University to weigh the timely
proposition, “Free speech is threatened on campus.” The debate
concerned higher education generally, not just the host institution. And
at the event’s conclusion, having heard arguments on both sides ... MORE
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