Andrew Napolitano: Above The Law
How do we reign in a runaway government? Fidelity to the rule of law is the centerpiece of a free society. It means that no one is beneath the protection of the law and no one is absolved of the obligation to comply with it. The government may not make a person or a class of persons exempt from constitutional protections, as it ... MORED.W. MacKenzie: Mythology Of The Minimum Wage
The economic case for a living wage is unfounded. Once again politicians and pundits are calling for increases in the legal minimum wage. Their reasons are familiar. Market wages are supposedly immoral. People need to earn a "living wage." If the minimum wage went up at least to $7, or better still to near $10 an hour, millions would be ... MOREThomas Sowell: The Mindset Of The Left (Part IV)
The vision of government minding the sheeple. At the heart of the left's vision of the world is the implicit assumption that high-minded third parties like themselves can make better decisions for other people than those people can make for themselves. That arbitrary and unsubstantiated assumption underlies a wide spectrum of laws ... MOREJacob Sullum: Why Zimmerman Should Be Acquitted
Emotion should not obscure the evidence. On a rainy night in February 2012 at a gated townhouse complex
in Sanford, Florida, George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin stared at
each other, and both perceived a threat. What followed is the focus
of a
murder trial that hinges on specific facts rather than the
overarching, frequently ... MOREKristen Gwynne: Four Shady Ways Police Make Drug Busts
And why the war on drugs is a war on you. On Wednesday, the city of Berkeley filed a claim against
the federal government’s move to file asset forfeiture against the
landlord of Berkeley’s largest medical marijuana dispensary. The tactic,
which threatens landlords with the state’s ability to seize their
property, has been used many times ... MOREAn Egyptian Explains Their Situation To Americans
from Bret Baier's blog. "In a Nutshell... A lot of my dear American friends sill ask me what on earth really happened in egypt, for their benefit, and anyone else on earth genuinely trying to make heads or tails of us "crazy Egyptians" ; here's exactly what happened in egypt over the past 12 months, but expressed in 'American" terms... ... MOREByron Acohido: Privacy Tools Can Curtail PRSIM Tracking
Surf in a "Cocoon." Powerful privacy tools you can use to curtail how big tech companies — and sometimes the federal government — track your every step on the Internet have been available for years. Thanks to whistle-blower Edward Snowden these privacy tools have emerged from the fringes of the Internet into the limelight. "It's not just the ... MOREA. Barton Hinkle: Time To Train Officers Not To Kill Dogs
A cop shot a dog the other day. Again. Maybe you’ve seen the video -- it was all over the Internet, complete with the dog's grisly death spasms. Hawthorne, Calif., resident Leon Rosby was using his cellphone to record a standoff between police officers and armed robbers. At the end of the standoff, officers headed Rosby’s way. He put his dog, ... MORECollege Girls, Bottled Water & The American Police State
by John Whitehead. What do college girls and bottled water have to do with the emerging American police state? Quite a bit, it seems. Public outcry has gone viral over an incident in which a college student was targeted and terrorized by Alcohol Beverage Control agents (ABC) after she purchased sparkling water at a grocery store. The girl ... MOREIRS Pays Over 200 Employees To Work Full-Time For Union
by Eliana Johnson. The Internal Revenue Service pays over 200 full-time employees not to
conduct audits or process tax returns but to work for a
federal employees’ union, according to documents
released by the agency in response to a Freedom of Information Act
request by the advocacy group Americans for Limited Government.
Forty-three ... MORE
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