No-knock cops lob grenade into 12-year-old's bedroom. The child was asleep in her upstairs bedroom when a stranger lobbed an incendiary grenade into her home at about 6:00 a.m. October 9.
Within seconds the 12-year-old girl had suffered first- and
second-degree burns. Her father, who had been awakened by an insistent
pounding on ... MORE
by Daniel Harper. A new chart provided by the minority side of the Senate Budget Committee details the alarming fact that enrollment in federal social welfare programs like Food Stamps, Medicaid, and Disability have far outpaced job growth over the last four years. In terms of percentage growth, Food Stamp enrollment has jumped 65.2 ... MORE
If you want the right questions asked, that is. President Obama has been a failure. On his watch, the American economy has significantly deteriorated largely because he has stifled free market forces by over-regulating them and because he has laden taxpayers with debt. Those two factors alone -- the federal government increasing the cost of doing ... MORE
Time to triage tax dollars and legalize self-ownership. Current U.S. drug policies have produced mediocre results, at best. Pessimists say that trying to eradicate drug use by making it illegal has failed altogether. Even optimists mostly view the prohibition approach as just holding the line, which is a polite way of saying that we are mired in an ugly ... MORE
Top Obama donor supplies 'Obamaphones' to the poor. A Mexican telecom mogul who holds the title of world's richest man, and
one of President Obama's top donors are both getting even richer from
the U.S. government program that supplies so-called "Obamaphones" to the
poor. Carlos Slim, who has an estimated net worth of $70 ... MORE
Jeremiah Wright watches dreams come true. Four years ago, our media overlords assured us that President Empty Chair was really Candidate Empty Pew -- a parishioner who sat for 20 years in Reverend Jeremiah Wright's nutty, hate-mongering church and never heard a single word. "God bless America? No, no, no! God d*mn America!" thundered ... MORE
Say goodbye to automatic dishwashers that work. Ayn Rand’s novella Anthem, the ebook of the week in the Laissez Faire Club, is a story about a government that hates, fears, and bans technology precisely because it wants to keep the people enslaved in a primitive state of being. Preposterous right? Wrong: this is going on every day right ... MORE