Joan Lowy: Drones Spark Privacy Fears

Thousands of drones patrolling U.S. skies?   Predictions that multitudes of unmanned aircraft could be flying here within a decade are raising the specter of a “surveillance society” in which no home or backyard would be off limits to prying eyes overhead. Law enforcement, oil companies, farmers, real estate agents and many others have  ... MORE

Ole Martin Moen: Did Ayn Rand Eat Babies For Breakfast?

A clear and present danger to leftist ideology.     According to Mahatma Gandhi, revolutionaries are first ignored, then laughed at, then attacked—and then they win. Reading George Monbiot’s piece on Ayn Rand, “How AynRand became the new right’s version of Marx” (The Guardian), has made me think that Gandhi could have included an intermediary  ... MORE

Andrew Napolitano: Can Obama Rewrite Federal Law?

Power without limits. Here we go again. Is the Constitution merely a guideline to be consulted by those it purports to regulate, or is it really the supreme law of the land? If it is just a guideline, then it is meaningless, as it only will be followed by those in government when it is not an obstacle to their purposes. If it is the supreme law of the land, what do we ... MORE

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130,000 Elderly Brits A Year Killed By Gov't Health Service?

Top doctor says a 'death pathway' is used.     NHS doctors are prematurely ending the lives of thousands of elderly hospital patients because they are difficult to manage or to free up beds, a senior consultant claimed yesterday. Professor Patrick Pullicino said doctors had turned the use of a controversial ‘death pathway’ into the equivalent of euthanasia  ... MORE

Emily Miller: Gun Ownership Up, Crime Down

The inconvenient truth for gun control advocates. Gun-control advocates are noticeably silent when crime rates decline. Their multimillion-dollar lobbying efforts are designed to manufacture mass anxiety that every gun owner is a potential killer. The statistics show otherwise. Last week, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)   ... MORE

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AP: Regulations Raising Cost Of Doing Business

Strangled by red tape.   Small company owners told the House Small Business Subcommittee on Contracting and Workforce last week that federal regulations are raising costs and creating more work for them and other owners. The subcommittee, meeting in Rock Hill, S.C. on Thursday, heard testimony from local business owners about the impact of federal     ... MORE

Libertarians Could Vote For Johnson, Elect Obama

by Charles Mahtesian. There hasn’t been a single poll out of Colorado this year that’s shown Mitt Romney ahead of Barack Obama. Tuesday’s Public Policy Polling poll is no exception: Obama leads Romney in a head-to-head matchup by 49 percent to 42 percent. But add libertarian Gary Johnson to the mix and the numbers are slightly different: Obama leads   ... MORE

John Stossel: Regulating Political Speech

Congress shall make no laws abridging freedom of speech? It's presidential season, so again pundits are indignant that money is spent on politics. Spent by corporations! And rich people! Because the Supreme Court allowed that, "2012 will be a miserable year," says The Washington Post's E.J. Dionne 2012 may be miserable -- but if it is, it won't be because  ... MORE

Brian Doherty: Ron Paul's Clone Army

Spawning new candidates in the mold of Dr. No. As the 2012 race for the Republican Party presidential nomination winds down, the last runner-up standing is Rep. Ron Paul of Texas. This time around, Paul has managed to snag about 10 percent of the overall primary vote (as of late April), up from 4 percent total in his 2008 campaign. He is sure to      ... MORE

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