Full-Body-Pat-Downs In America's Public Schools
How the war on drugs is a war on children. On a warm spring afternoon at American colleges, the intoxicating aroma
of surely medicinal marijuana will be floating like a soft caress in the
breeze, and hard-working students will be stocking up on amphetamine
cocktails to sharpen their overstressed young minds for the coming
exams. ... MOREEmily Miller: Concealed Carry Renewed
Pumping oxygen to the 2nd Amendment. The top legislative priority for gun owners in the previous Congress
was passage of a national concealed carry reciprocity bill. The measure
sailed through the House on a bipartisan 272 to 154 vote only to die at
the hands of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who refused to bring it to the floor. Since President ... MORE
New York Toddlers Cram For Kindergarten Entrance Exam
by Gary North. At age 4, kids are expert test-takers. They have to be. If they don’t score well, they will have to attend a public school. Yes, a public school. A New York City public school. The kid is doomed. Rich parents dread the thought. At $30,000 for kindergarten,
there is still intense competition. Think of $400,000 for a kid’s
education, ... MORE
R Rahn: More Government Control Equals Poorer Nations
A free market tutorial from, of all places, Moscow. An upside down world. Here I am, in my London hotel
room, watching an English-language financial program being broadcast
from Moscow on RT (Russian TV). The program host is correctly berating
the heads of the major Western central banks for acting like socialists
in setting interest rates and ... MORE3 Reasons To Build The Keystone XL Pipeline
by Meredith Bragg & Nick Gillespie. Few energy projects have inspired the level of vitriol surrounding the Keystone XL Pipeline, that would run 1,700 miles from Alberta, Canada through the United States to refineries on the Gulf of Mexico. The oil sands of Alberta are estimated to hold 170 million 170 billon barrels of petroleum, the largest reservoir of black ... MOREJeff Berwick: Is America A Police State Yet?
There are ways to measure. Wendy McElroy writes: If you need to ask the question,
then the answer is “yes”. But that is a glib response and I do not
feel glib about America's slide through the nine rings of political
hell. A police state is generally defined as a totalitarian government that
exerts extreme and pervasive social, political and economic control
over ... MORE
Jay D. Homnick: Uncle Sam Finds His Snitch
The IRS invents a whole new kind of tax refund. My attitude to the second Obama administration is captured in the old joke about Bertha who gets on the New York-to-Chicago Greyhound bus and asks the driver to let her know when they get to Cleveland. She keeps loudly reminding him every half-hour or so until he is ready to pull his hair out. But he ... MORE
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