Public servants or public masters? Let’s say you’re like most people and believe the federal government has become too large, too wasteful, too crooked and too intrusive. Now imagine the morning mail arrives from the money-bleeding U.S. Postal Service ($16 billion in the hole last year) and there’s a letter from the Internal Revenue ... MORERalph R. Reiland: A Government Against Liberty
Public servants or public masters? Let’s say you’re like most people and believe the federal government has become too large, too wasteful, too crooked and too intrusive. Now imagine the morning mail arrives from the money-bleeding U.S. Postal Service ($16 billion in the hole last year) and there’s a letter from the Internal Revenue ... MOREDavid Harsanyi: Undermining Our Most Basic Right
This is what happens when you fear free speech. Perhaps these Obama administration scandals (popularly referred to as "so-called scandals" in liberal media circles) lack the explosive drama of a Watergate and the entertainment value of Bill Clinton's peccadilloes, but for those who are less obsessed with the political consequences and more ... MOREVIDEO: Thomas Sowell - Congressional Testimony
Thomas Sowell on affirmative action and judicial activism.
David Beckworth: The Low-Interest-Rate Blues
The Fed continues to make deficit spending easier. One of the most insidious developments in the economic crisis has been the low-interest-rate environment. Short-term interest rates have been stuck near 0 percent for four years, while long-term interest rates have declined to historically low levels. These low interest rates have created ... MOREWhen Congress Voted Down The Fourth Amendment
by Radley Balko. Earlier this month,
President Obama nominated North Carolina Rep. Mel Watt to head up the
Federal Housing Finance Authority. Here's a fun little nugget about Watt
that has little relevance to the job he's seeking, but has lots of
relevance to the current debates over leaks, press investigations,
wiretapping, and such: Back in ... MOREBob Unruh: States React To Fed Agenda With Nullification
Fighting back against government overreach. On the heels of a recent
poll that said 29 percent of registered voters believe an “armed
revolution” may be needed in America to restore liberties, a second poll said Americans already have figured out a solution – reject federal laws that are unconstitutional. Now it appears on issues ranging from ... MOREZach Weissmueller: Who Decides How You Die?
A question of self-ownership. You may have the right to control your own life, but what about
your own death? This is a question facing several states across the
U.S., including, most recently, Vermont and Montana. While physician aid-in-dying, or assisted suicide, has been
legal in Oregon for almost two decades and legal in Washington
for ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: An Assault On Freedom Of The Press
Government's response to inconvenient truths. The firestorm commenced by the revelation of the execution of a search warrant on the personal email server of my Fox News colleague James Rosen continues to rage, and the conflagration engulfing the First Amendment continues to burn; and it is the Department of Justice itself that is fanning ... MOREBarry Farber: Lois Lerner Is The New Chutzpa Champ
Move over Sweet Daddy Grace. Chutzpa is busting out all over. “Chutzpa” is the Yiddish word for a quality possessed by gutsy characters who bristle with unspeakable effrontery, the kind of person who could walk through a revolving door behind you and come out ahead of you. It takes chutzpa, for example, to shoot both parents and then ... MORE
Jacob 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.
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