LA Times: TSA Screenings Not Just For Airports Anymore
Terror checkpoints doing more inflicting than detecting. Rick Vetter was rushing to board the Amtrak train in Charlotte, N.C., on a recent Sunday afternoon when a canine officer suddenly blocked the way. Three federal air marshals in bulletproof vests and two officers trained to spot suspicious behavior watched closely as Seiko, a German shepherd ... MORE
Emily Miller: Firing Back At Gun Control
Congress muzzles funds to weaken 2nd Amendment. The Obama administration’s anti-gun agenda, which has been sneaking into the federal bureaucracy in recent years, was blasted by Congress last week. Republicans used the $1 trillion omnibus bill for 2012 to shoot back at the sneaky use of federal funds for gun control. One sentence in the 2,100-page ... MOREEric Peters: Here Comes Santa's Last Run
Right down Nanny State Lane. Santa's been running late because of all the speed traps and sobriety checks out there. Not to mention the endless meetings with his legal team to make sure the factory's in compliance with the latest workplace safety rules -- and the elves happy with the terms of their latest contract. Thank God the sleigh doesn't have to have a catalytic ... MOREBarry Farber: Occupiers Are Not Heroes, Just Marxists
Mice striving to be rats. How dare Time magazine link real freedom fighters of the Middle East with the sorry bunch of American "protesters" who shared Time's Person-of-the-Year honors? Whatever happened to the Time magazine that emblazoned its cover in 1956 with the genuinely heroic anti-Communist Hungarian freedom fighters? Protesters in Syria daily... MORENew Ideas Or Fidelity To Old Principles?
by Andrew Napolitano. If you've been watching cable television regularly, you've heard from many analysts who know Newt Gingrich personally. They either call him the smartest man in the room or they tell us Gingrich believes he's the smartest man in the room. Gingrich has always been a government ideas man, and whenever he says something odd ... MOREConko & Miller: The FDA Vs. Commercial Speech
Agency puts doctors and patients at risk. The ability of physicians to prescribe approved medicines for purposes not sanctioned by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is one of the most important elements of medical care in the United States. These “off-label” uses are perfectly legal, and doctors rely on them extensively. But the agency views ... MORETaxpayers Cough Up $250K Per Vehicle For Chevy Volt
Department of Energy uses tax dollars to fuel idiocy again. Each Chevy Volt sold thus far may have as much as $250,000 in state and federal dollars in incentives behind it – a total of $3 billion altogether, according to an analysis by James Hohman, assistant director of fiscal policy at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. Hohman looked at total state and federal ... MORE50 Facts About The U.S. Economy That Will Shock You
The situation is bad -- very bad. “Even though most Americans have become very frustrated with this economy, the reality is that the vast majority of them still have no idea just how bad our economic decline has been or how much trouble we are going to be in if we don’t make dramatic changes immediately,” writes The Economic Collapse (TEC). ... MORE
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