by Brian Phillips. Most people accept building codes as a necessary government intervention. One website states: "Codes provide minimum standards for building construction in order to safeguard the public’s safety, health, and welfare." Another website states: "If we searched we could find examples of people having built things that ended up falling on ... MOREBuilding Safely Without Government Building Codes
by Brian Phillips. Most people accept building codes as a necessary government intervention. One website states: "Codes provide minimum standards for building construction in order to safeguard the public’s safety, health, and welfare." Another website states: "If we searched we could find examples of people having built things that ended up falling on ... MOREVIDEO: The Morality Of Using Force To Distribute Wealth
Philip DeFranco is uncomfortable thinking about government and morality.
Andrew A. Morgan: Why The Left Hates The Laffer Curve
A self-evident economic truth. For those who are familiar with the "Laffer Curve," the name generally brings on an immediate and politically charged opinion related to the inherent implications the curve has historically had on the topic of the government's tax rate policies. However, the underlying points illustrated by the curve deserve serious and ... MOREJoan Lowy: Privacy Worries On Domestic Drone Use
Drones to be routinely deployed over the next 3 years. More than a third of Americans worry their privacy will suffer if drones like those used to spy on U.S. enemies overseas become the latest police tool for tracking suspected criminals at home, according to an Associated Press-National Constitution Center poll. Congress has directed ... MORE
Roger D. Luchs: Hope And Chains
Democrats have made a living playing blacks. Joe Biden's comment "They gon' put y'all back in chains" has shone a light on a truth the Democratic Party and its adjutants in the media have suppressed for over half a century. That is that the party's electoral victories have been built upon the suppression of the aspirations of many of the ... MORETed Nugent: Mitt Romney Was Right About The 47%
Americans are too dependent on Fedzilla. Mitt Romney
hit the bull’s-eye with his comments regarding the 47 percent of
Americans who do not have any skin in the game as it pertains to paying
federal income tax. Facts are facts. Mr. Romney is not backing down. Good. The truth is the truth and it’s long past time someone said it. As I’ve written ... MOREShawne K. Wickham: 'Nullify' To Be Common Refrain In NH
Juries powers acknowledged in the Granite State. Criminal defense attorneys predict New Hampshire jurors routinely will be told they have the right to find someone innocent even if the state proves its case because New Hampshire has passed what appears to be the nation's first “jury nullification” law. Earlier this month, a Belknap County ... MORESenators Join Suit Over Obama's Constitutional Powers
by Stephen Dinan. Republican senators on Wednesday joined a lawsuit arguing President Obama violated the Constitution when he used his recess appointment powers earlier this year to fill several controversial posts. The move intensifies a simmering separation-of-powers battle over Mr. Obama’s executive powers, which Republicans say he has abused during ... MORE
John Stossel - Strangulation By Union
Chicago Teachers 1 School Children 0. The Chicago teachers strike is over, but the public didn't win. Schools will still transfer bad teachers to other schools because it's nearly impossible to fire them. When bad teachers go from school to school, principals call it "the dance of the lemons." It would be funny if those teachers didn't slowly wreck ... MOREMoorad Choudhry: In Defense Of The Free Market
The freedom to choose. I don’t imagine that too many of you would have heard of Easterhouse, a
Manchester band from the 1980s that recorded some electrifying songs
with a strong political content on the (also Manchester-based) Rough
Trade label. They were never on Top of the Pops or MTV. I saw them live a
couple of times, let's put it ... MOREJacob Sullum: The Marijuana Rebellion
Prohibition under attack. By the time the 21st Amendment ended national alcohol
prohibition in December 1933, more than a dozen states had already
opted out. Maryland never passed its own version of the Volstead
Act, while New York repealed its alcohol prohibition law in 1923.
Eleven other states eliminated their statutes by ... MORE
America Being Transformed Into A Giant Surveillance Grid
19 signs. You are being watched. The control freaks that hold power in the United States have become absolutely obsessed with surveillance. They are constantly attempting to convince the American people that we are all "safer" when virtually everything that we do is watched, monitored, tracked and recorded. Our country is being systematically transformed ... MORE
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