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VIDEO: When Caution Kills, The Most Dangerous Monopoly
Why a laissez-faire economy best serves the public.
6 Shocking Studies That Prove Science Is Totally Broken
by Andrew Marinus, Alan Boyle and Jon Pearl. Even if you're not all that into science, it's still a big part of the
news that reaches you on a day-to-day basis -- you'll see interesting
headlines about how studies show marijuana cures loneliness or how other studies say pot ruins your memory, and you kind of just assume they're true. If scientists ... MOREAnthony Gregory: License To Kill
Police safety is above citizens' rights and the law. No one knows how many times police shoot and kill Americans every year. Most estimates put the number at a few hundred a year, but we don’t know the details, including how many of these killed people presented a real threat to anyone. The U.S. government does not do body counts, as ... MOREGreg Beato: The Benefits Of Unregulated Pot
The domesticating influence of capitalism. Last September the Washington State Liquor Control Board published a 43-page list of proposed guidelines for the sale of recreational marijuana. A few days later, Colorado issued an even longer set of rules, 136 densely packed pages in all. In the realm of legal, commercialized cannabis, ... MORE
Relentless Quest For Child Safety Making Us Very Stupid
by Scott Beaulier. Regulations are on the rise in almost every area of our lives. While
some regulations, such as requiring kids to be buckled in automobiles
make sense, others are plain silly. In Corlaville, Iowa and Midway, Georgia, for example, kids are not allowed to run lemonade stands without permits and government approval. In the entire ... MORE
Kofi Annan: Stop The Global War On Drugs
Stop ignoring the evidence. Each year, hundreds of thousands of people around the world die from preventable drug-related disease and violence. Millions of users are arrested and thrown in jail. Globally, communities are blighted by drug-related crime. Citizens see huge amounts of their taxes spent on harsh policies that are not ... MORE
Dr. Helen Smith: The War On Football
Putting risk in perspective. Sadly, I saw that a former Amazon CFO, Joy Covey, died in a bike crash on Wednesday: She died Wednesday after colliding with a minivan while
riding her bicycle downhill on Skyline Blvd. near Portola Valley,
Calif., according to Art Montiel, a public information officer at the
California Highway Patrol in Redwood ... MOREBrad Tuttle: End Of The Road For Speed Traps?
Low speed limits make roads less safe. Politicians, driver advocacy groups and even the police are trying to outlaw speed traps, not only because they’re annoying, but because when speed limits are too low, roads become more — not less — dangerous. Most drivers understand the need for speed limits. And yet they loathe speed traps ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Liberty And Safety
The road to totalitarianism. When Edward Snowden revealed that the federal government, in direct defiance of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution, was unlawfully and unconstitutionally spying on all Americans who use telephones, text messaging or emails to communicate with other persons, he opened a Pandora's box of ... MOREThomas Sowell: Random Thoughts From Wise Thinkers
Not-so-common sense. "We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish." (F.A. Hayek) "Many respectable writers agree that if a man reasonably believes that he is in immediate danger of death or grievous bodily harm from his assailant he may stand his ground and that if he kills him he has not ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Storm Clouds Gathering
Government is bad for personal freedom. That argument is premised upon the truism that everything government does interferes with freedom because it either prohibits or compels. Everything it owns it has taken from others. Much of what it says is divorced from the truth. President Obama, like President George W. Bush, has argued ... MOREKatie Kieffer: Get The Facts And Save Lives With Guns
Educate instead of indoctrinate. Teach gun safety in classrooms and leave sex education to parents. Plan B won’t save young people from incurable STDs, but guns will protect women and children from being raped or murdered. The more young people know about guns, the safer our society will be. Rush Limbaugh said on his talk radio ... MORESteve Chapman: When In Doubt, Do Nothing
Credo of the government bureaucrat. Once in a while, a government agency adopts a policy that is
logical, hardheaded, based on experience and unswayed by cheap
sentiment. This may be surprising enough to make you reconsider
your view of bureaucrats. But not to worry: It usually doesn't
last. In March the federal Transportation Security Administration . ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Boston And Freedom
Defining moments. The government's fidelity to the Constitution is never more tested
than in a time of crisis. The urge to do something — or to appear to be
doing something — is nearly irresistible to those whom we have employed
to protect our freedom and to keep us safe. Regrettably, with each
passing violent crisis — Waco, Oklahoma City, ... MOREPamela Geller: The Epic Failure Of Our Intel Agencies
Losing our liberties in trade for what security? I find it very disconcerting that thirty-six hours (as of this writing) after the Boston terrorist bombing, law enforcement and counterterrorism officials are running hotlines and calls for "anyone seen with an unusually heavy, dark bag" in the Boston area. A $50,000 reward has been offered for ... MORE
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