Costly State Energy Policies To Raise California Power 33%

Golden State residents to lose more gold.     has been a leader in production, in part due to federal and state level policies that provide incentives for producers of renewable power. However, a new report found that California’s policies will raise state power rates and associated costs by nearly 33 percent.       ... MORE

Fighting The Total Surveillance State In Our Schools

by John Whitehead.  “I would say there is a school-to-prison pipeline, but there is also a prison-to-school pipeline. [The use of security hardware (cameras, metal detectors and retina detectors) and the practice of treating students as suspects are strategies of the criminal justice system, and they have been flowing into the schools.] ... MORE

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Anna Mulrine: Will Women Have To Register For Draft? Yes

A great achievement for women's rights.    That may be a difficult question from a societal standpoint, but the answer is straightforward, according to a legal analysis. On Thursday, the Pentagon will lift its ban on women in combat. Now that the Pentagon is lifting its ban on women in combat, does this mean that women could potentially be drafted ... MORE

Look Who's Mocking Fascist Fear-Mongering Now

by A. Barton Hinkle. One of the arguments we’re hearing in the current debate about gun control is what might be called the anti-anti-tyranny argument. Coming from liberals, it’s a little rich. Some gun-rights supporters say the Second Amendment’s purpose is not merely to protect the right to hunt or defend yourself, but to guard against         ... MORE

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THE HILL: Feinstein Launches Government Gun Grab

To begin by banning 150 types of rifles and handguns.    Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) will introduce a bill banning assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition clips on Thursday. Feinstein’s bill will expand the criteria for classifying military-style assault weapons from a 1994 law, which lapsed a decade later. Her new measure will ban the sale of about  ... MORE

'What Is Driving The Growth In Government Spending'

by Veronique de Rugy. This is not from NRO, the Cato Institute, or Reason: Spending on entitlement programs was about $500 billion per year in 1972 in today’s dollars. If it had increased at the same rate as the gross domestic product, it would now be about $1.4 trillion. Instead, it is now about $2.9 trillion per year. What this means is that there has ... MORE

Harry Biswanger: The Nature Of The Anti-Gun Campaign

A need to switch the national conversation. Whatever your views on whether or not there should be controls on guns, the anti-gun control movement needs discussion, because it is extreme. For instance, Monday morning on CNN, the news at 10a.m. ET opened with the issue of gun control and was of course unrelievedly slanted to the anti-gun ... MORE

John Stossel: Shopping Around For A Better Life

Thanks, California!    Thanks for your monstrous spending and absurd regulatory overreach! America needs you. We need Connecticut and Illinois, too! We need you the way we needed the Soviet Union, as models of failure, to warn us what happens if we believe those who say, "Government can." Moving to California was once the dream for many Americans.  ... MORE

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