Justice is blind, just not in the way it was intended. An article in the Wall Street Journal last week having pointed out that 97 percent of U.S. criminal prosecutions are now guilty-plea bargains, and that 85 percent of the remaining 3 percent are trials that return guilty verdicts, I return to the spavined bête noire of the justice system. These are totalitarian ... MOREConrad Black: Blind Justice
Justice is blind, just not in the way it was intended. An article in the Wall Street Journal last week having pointed out that 97 percent of U.S. criminal prosecutions are now guilty-plea bargains, and that 85 percent of the remaining 3 percent are trials that return guilty verdicts, I return to the spavined bête noire of the justice system. These are totalitarian ... MOREMatt Kibbe & Deenen Borelli: It's A Black And White Issue
Freedom works. Americans coast to coast are victimized daily by an onslaught of hate
and intolerance. But to Van Jones’s dismay, it’s not coming from the
Tea Party movement. Race traitor, Uncle Tom, sell-out, racist, bigot. These are the names that fiscal conservatives, including
ourselves, encounter daily from members of the liberal ... MOREEd Black: Proposed Regulations Threaten Free Internet
We will have to fight to keep free internet. The Internet is the world’s biggest economic and social success story of the past three decades. Citizens, NGOs, engineers and governments have all have joined together to write an amazing narrative. That success story now is under threat. In Dubai this December a group of governments will conclude a treaty ... MOREJohn Stossel: We Fund Dependency
"There are no jobs!" That is what people told me outside a government "jobs center" in New York City. To check this out, I sent four researchers around the area. They quickly found 40 job openings. Twenty-four were entry-level positions. One restaurant owner told me he would hire 12 people if workers would just apply. It made me wonder what my ... MORECampaign To Legalize Pot Gets High-Profile GOP Support
by Gene Johnson. The campaign to legalize and tax marijuana for adults in Washington state is rolling as next month's vote approaches, with more than $1 million in new contributions reported since last week and a surprising endorsement Wednesday from Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Michael Baumgartner. The money, most of it from retired ... MOREExpression Must Be Free Of Government Control
by Gene Policinski. I can say what I want, even if it offends you. And so can you. No American government official, high or low, federal, state or local, can silence our freedom of expression — whether it’s our views on politics, public issues or religious faith. If someone says something we don’t like, we can freely express ourselves in opposition, even if that ... MOREHigh Court Hides From TSA Fourth Amendment Violations
by Jack Kenny. The U.S. Supreme Court on October 1 rejected the appeal of
a Michigan resident who claimed the use of body-imaging scanners and
pat-down procedures by Transportation Security Administration agents at
airports throughout the country violate airline passengers' privacy
rights protected by the Fourth Amendment ... MORE
A. B. Hinkle: Warrantless Spying Skyrockets Under Obama
Is it fascism yet? That was the snarky question glued to the bumper of every self-respecting progressive’s gas/electric hybrid back during the Bush-Cheney administration. It now must be asked again. Back then, liberals were raising the alarm about impending fascism because of post-9/11 policies such as warrantless wiretapping, wars of choice, military ... MOREThomas Sowell: Capital Gains Tax
Do you really think taxes and jobs are unrelated? One of the many false talking points of the Obama administration is that a rich man like Warren Buffett should not be paying a lower tax rate than his secretary. But anyone whose earnings come from capital gains usually pays a lower tax rate. How are capital gains different from ordinary ... MORE
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