TSA wants nude body scanners without public hearings. A federal appeals court Wednesday ordered the Transportation Security Administration to explain why it hasn’t complied with the court’s year-old decision demanding the agency hold public hearings concerning the rules and regulations pertaining to the so-called nude body scanners ... MORE
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Court Demands TSA Explain Why Order Was Defied
TSA wants nude body scanners without public hearings. A federal appeals court Wednesday ordered the Transportation Security Administration to explain why it hasn’t complied with the court’s year-old decision demanding the agency hold public hearings concerning the rules and regulations pertaining to the so-called nude body scanners ... MOREMichael J Hurd: Doctors For Socialized Medicine
Government-guaranteed insurance is like public school. This is perhaps my favorite line from Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged with regard to doctors who support, or tolerate, socialized medicine: “Let them discover, in the operating rooms and hospital wards, that it is not safe to place their lives in the hands of a man they have throttled. It is not safe, ... MOREJacob Sullum: The Mythical Right To Decency
High court misses chance to overturn speech restrictions. Pity the poor speech regulators at the Federal Communications Commission, who are charged with sifting through complaints about TV and radio programs in a farcical attempt to determine which references to "sexual or excretory organs or activities" are "patently offensive as measured ... MOREMike Kimel: Libertarians And Privacy
Invasions of privacy, public and private. Over at EconLog, David Henderson berates a fellow libertarian on the difference between Facebook at the Census. But let's grant, for the sake of this discussion, that FB is quite contemptuous of privacy and that the Census Bureau is less so. Here's the difference. Every single person who signs up with Facebook ... MORECould The Rats Be Fleeing A Sinking Ship?
Congressional retirements highest since 1996. Rep. Ed Towns' (D-NY) retirement announcement "makes him the 25th House retirement of this cycle. Add in the 10 Senate retirements, and you've got the most combined retirements since 1996, when Democratic lawmakers retired in droves after the Republican Revolution of 1994 (and many ... MOREP. Wolf & R. Maranto: Evidence That Vouchers Work
Competition increases student achievement. School vouchers have stalled in the Pennsylvania legislature, and President Obama's budget proposes to end the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, which allows children from low-income families to attend private schools with government aid. This is despite a U.S. Department of Education ... MOREThomas Sowell: Kodak And The Post Office
Why government works so poorly. The news that Eastman Kodak is preparing to file for bankruptcy, after being the leading photographic company in the world for more than a hundred years, truly marks the end of an era. The skills required to use the cameras and chemicals required by the photography of the mid-19th century were far beyond those of ... MOREVIDEO: John Stossel - School Choice = Better Schools
Politicians claim to want better schools, but do they actually vote for them?
Thomas Sowell: Different Decisions
Two unrelated news stories on the same day show the contrast between government decisions and private decisions. Under the headline "Foreclosed Homes Sell at Big Discounts," USA Today reported that banks were selling the homes they foreclosed on, at discounts of 38 percent in Tennessee to 41 percent in Illinois and Ohio. Banks in general try to get rid of the homes they ... MOREVIDEO: John Stossel - Undercover Ethics
Investigative reporter James O'Keefe joins John to discuss conflicts between truth-seeking and privacy.
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