President criticizes his own abuses of executive power. Last week a guy named Barack Obama gave a
speech in which he expressed appropriate concern about the
abuse of government power in the name of fighting terrorism. Too
bad he's not in a position to do anything about it. Obama, who used to teach constitutional law at the University of ... MOREJacob Sullum: Obama Debates War On Terror With Self
President criticizes his own abuses of executive power. Last week a guy named Barack Obama gave a
speech in which he expressed appropriate concern about the
abuse of government power in the name of fighting terrorism. Too
bad he's not in a position to do anything about it. Obama, who used to teach constitutional law at the University of ... MOREAriel Shearer: IRS Targets Medical Marijuana In War On Pot
The tea party has company. For the past several years, the Internal Revenue Service has been systematically targeting medical marijuana establishments, relying on an obscure statute that gives the taxing agency unintended power. The IRS has been functioning as an arm of justice, employing the U.S. tax code as a weapon in the federal ... MOREVIDEO: How To Build Your Own AK-47
Reporter Bryan Schatz went inside a "build party" where anyone can make a rifle that no cop will ever know about. Read the full story here.
Jeffrey Folks: Christie Conservatism
The president's bulky and ungainly doormat. Once again, Chris Christie has walked the Jersey Shore with President Obama, and once again he has enunciated what his brand of conservatism means. It is not, he said, an attempt to gain political advantage or advance one's ideology. Nothing so ungenerous as that. It's the opportunity ... MORE
John Stossel: Gas Myths
Plan to drive more this summer? Annoyed by the price of gas? Complaining that oil companies rip you off? I say, shut up. Even if gas costs $4 per gallon, we should thank Big Oil. Think what they have to do to bring us gas. Oil must be sucked out of the ground, sometimes from war zones or deep beneath oceans. The drills now bend and dig sideways ... MORETeacher Faces Discipline For Informing Students Of Rights
by Jacob Sullum. A
high school social studies teacher in Batavia, Illinois, faces
disciplinary action for informing students of their Fifth Amendment
rights in connection with a survey asking about illegal drug use.
The survey, ostensibly aimed at assessing the needs of students at
Batavia High School, was distributed on April 18. After picking up ... MOREHolder's Judge Shopping For A Fox News Subpoena
by Larry O'Connor, Breitbart News. The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza, a bulldog on the DOJ/Fox News secret subpoena story, reports that the effort by the Justice Department to obtain the controversial court order was arduous, contentious and unsuccessful until finally a third judge acquiesced. The new documents show that two judges ... MORE
Alyssa Berlin: NYC Cracks Down On Sidewalk Cafes
Just in time for summer. Forget the great outdoors. The Department of Consumer Affairs has sent notice to 17 New York
restaurants, telling them that that they will have to close their
sidewalk seating areas unless they are willing to comply with the city’s
zoning regulations. “Please be advised you have 100 business days ... MOREThomas Sowell: The Bullying Pulpit
Bullying by government has become the norm. We have truly entered the world of "Alice in Wonderland" when the CEO of a company that pays $16 million a day in taxes is hauled up before a Congressional subcommittee to be denounced on nationwide television for not paying more. Apple CEO Tim Cook was denounced for contributing to "a ... MOREThe IRS Fiasco Is Only The Tip Of The Iceberg.
by Henry I. Miller. You certainly hear some amazing things in congressional testimony. Lois Lerner, the head of the IRS unit that determines whether organizations receive tax-exempt status, claimed last week that she had neither done anything wrong nor lied about her involvement in the discrimination against conservative and ... MORE
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