The threshold for a hate crime continues to decline. Have you ever used a racial slur? You may have two answers to that question. There's your initial visceral response: No! Of course not! Never! But then there's the response you'd give if you were being a little more honest: maybe... once or twice. So, if you have, does it make you a racist? In the court of ... MOREDaniel Allott: The Hate Crimes Farce
The threshold for a hate crime continues to decline. Have you ever used a racial slur? You may have two answers to that question. There's your initial visceral response: No! Of course not! Never! But then there's the response you'd give if you were being a little more honest: maybe... once or twice. So, if you have, does it make you a racist? In the court of ... MOREVIDEO: John Stossel - Camera Shy Or A Power High?
Some public servants don't want their service to be public.
Thomas Sowell: The Invincible Dogma
How the government demonstrates discrimination. A long-standing legal charade was played out again recently, when Federal Express paid $3 million to settle an employment discrimination case brought by the U.S. Department of Labor. Federal Express was accused of both racial discrimination and sex discrimination. FedEx denied it. Why then did ... MORERobin Zubrin: Carbon Emissions Are Good
Always check your premises. Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced its intention to enforce regulations that would effectively ban new coal-fired power plants in the United States. As coal is by far America’s cheapest and most plentiful fossil fuel, and coal-fired power stations account for 45 percent of all electricity generated ... MOREKatie Pavlich: Unions Plan To Train 100,000 Protestors
Welcome to Occupy Spring. When The 99% Spring was announced in February, organizers vowed to train 100,000 people. It looks like they’ll easily make that goal when their training programs kick off next week. There are already 918 planned around the country. All the group needs is about 10 people at each session to meet its goal, and ... MORE
Michael Barone: The Constitution's Comeback
Americans are worrying about the founding document again. I don’t worry about the Constitution,” said Representative Phil Hare, Democrat of Illinois, at a town-hall meeting where voters questioned his support of the legislation that became Obamacare. You can find the clip on YouTube, where it has 462,084 hits. That was before the 2010 election ... MOREWalter E Williams: Dupes For The State
The tragedy: an increased willingness to use government force. Public misunderstanding, ignorance and possibly contempt for liberty play into the hands of people who want to control our lives. Responses to my recent column "Compliant Americans" brought this home to me. In it, I argued that the anti-tobacco movement became the template and ... MOREAmericans Want MORE Control Of Their Own Health Care
by Shikha Dalmia. With the three-day ObamaCare circus at the Supreme Court behind us, let’s fast-forward to June. Suppose that five justices find their constitutional bearings and do what a majority of Americans want them to do: Scrap the individual mandate, the key provision without which the law will collapse. What then? Will that mean that our current system ... MORERekha Basu: The Bigger Problem: Drugs Or Drug War?
Vincente Fox says the solution is legalization. When a former Mexican president comes to town, you might expect drugs to be discussed. You might not expect a pitch for legalizing them. But there on Wednesday was Vicente Fox, who led Mexico from 2000 to 2006, sharing a cocktail with a group at the Des Moines condo of Connie Wimer and Frank Fogarty ... MORE
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