Big winners: lawyers and paper pushers. Remember when the president touted the ease with which consumers would be able to get a health insurance policy under Obamacare? It would be almost as easy as shopping on the internet, we were told. Oh, really? How many retail companies would stay in business if they required that you fill out ... MORERick Moran: ObamaCare's 15-Page Application Form
Big winners: lawyers and paper pushers. Remember when the president touted the ease with which consumers would be able to get a health insurance policy under Obamacare? It would be almost as easy as shopping on the internet, we were told. Oh, really? How many retail companies would stay in business if they required that you fill out ... MOREGene Healy: Rand Paul Vs The "Forever War"
Challenging modern conservative orthodoxy. The cruelest thing about politics is that it occasionally gets your hopes up. Sometimes, just when you've almost concluded that the best D.C. has to offer is ringside seats at the latest legislative catastrophe, you get an unexpected outbreak of political courage and common ... MORE
VIDEO: On Bloomberg, Authority And Police States
Jerry Day tears into NY Nanny-In-Chief Bloomberg's presumptions of authority.
NCPA Research: Green Cars Are Not So Clean After All
Green vehicles are polluting and wasteful. Electric and hybrid cars were lauded as a cure for climate change and carbon emissions. Though electric vehicles are zero emissions, only 50,000 were sold in 2012 -- well short of the number needed to achieve President Obama's goal of 1 million green cars on the road by 2015. While ... MORE
Tim Feran: Fear Of New Gun Laws Stokes Run On Ammo
In preparation for government tyranny. Gun owners are having a hard time reloading lately as a spike in ammunition sales has stripped shelves bare in shops across the country. “We’ve been out for a month, and we have no idea when any is coming in,” said David Tait of Ohio Valley Outdoors in Lancaster. “People want to come in, and we just don’t ... MOREA. Barton Hinkle: Will The Right Come Around On Pot?
Or will they assume the role of U.N. lackeys. Advocates of treating marijuana more like alcohol gained another ally recently: the United Nations. The U.N. would claim otherwise. In fact, the U.N.’s International Narcotics Control Board would hotly deny it. The agency’s latest report laments the legalization of pot in Colorado and ... MORETracie Cone: Bill Would Ban Lead Ammunition In California
Inmates are running the asylum. Environmentalists are pushing legislation to ban lead ammunition in California to prevent toxins from poisoning scavengers that eat animal remains left by hunters. Final language of the bill was introduced Monday by Assembly Member Anthony Rendon,
D-Lakewood, who said the legislation would remove a ... MOREFemale Senator Gets 'Very Uncomfortable' TSA Screening
by Keith Laing. Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) complained Monday she was subject to a very uncomfortable screening by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). McCaskill tweeted about the experience before boarding a flight on Monday. The senator, who has complained about the TSA's security techniques in the past, tweeted that ... MOREGavin Newsom: 'War On Drugs Is Abject Failure'
California Lieutenant Governor takes a stand. Citing the myriad politicians who have recently publicly declared their support for gay marriage, Newsom suggested it was time for leaders to "come out of the closet" on marijuana, too. "I am sick and tired of politicians saying one thing in private and saying another in public," he said. "It's time ... MORE
Thomas Sowell - Intellectuals And Race
Racism is now a default explanation. There are so many fallacies about race that it would be hard to say
which is the most ridiculous. However, one fallacy behind many other
fallacies is the notion that there is something unusual about different
races being unequally represented in various institutions, careers or at
different income or ... MORE
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