by David Sherfinski. Former Rep. Ron Paul says that even had an amendment to defund some of the surveillance programs of the National Security Agency (NSA) had passed last week in the U.S. House of Representatives, it would have been a “significant symbolic victory,” but possibly little more than that. “[W]e should be careful about ... MORE
Betsy McCaughey on defunding ObamaCare. Two weeks ago, the House of Representatives Appropriations Committee voted to strip the scandal ridden Internal Revenue Service of nearly one quarter of its 2014 budget as punishment for its targeting of political groups and its costly boondoggles. Shockingly, Senate Democrats voted to ... MORE
A wake up call or the beginning of the end? Be glad that symbolism is important. Be glad up to a point. Then quit! Symbolism can ennoble. Symbolism can also kill. Did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor in 1941 to destroy the “symbolism” of this new American world power? I don’t think so. I was the twerpiest of all possible pre-juvenile ... MORE
by John Villasenor. We don't have a mind reading machine. But what if we one day did? The
technique of functional MRI (fMRI), which measures changes in
localized brain activity over time, can now be used to infer information
regarding who we are thinking about, what we have seen, and the memories we are recalling.
As the technology ... MORE
Policing for profit. District Attorney Jason Hicks, whose territory includes four Oklahoma counties, hired Guthrie-based Desert Snow LLC with a deal to pay it between 10 and 25 percent of seizure proceeds, depending on whether its “trainers” were present or only department officers. “Sometimes, no drugs were found and no one was ... MORE
Volunteering for the chains of the left. If we put ourselves into the shoes of racists who seek to sabotage black upward mobility, we couldn't develop a more effective agenda than that followed by civil rights organizations, black politicians, academics, liberals and the news media. Let's look at it. First, weaken the black family, but don't blame it ... MORE
Our president is hardwired to the socialist view. President Barack Obama went to Knox College in Galesburg, Ill., this week to rearticulate his vision for the American economy and to reassure the American people that, yes, he knows what he is doing. The president's prodigious political skills are always on display, even in the most ... MORE
by David Catron. Among the most offensive features of the ironically titled “Affordable Care Act” is its designation of the Internal Revenue Service as the main enforcer of the law’s many mandates, taxes, penalties, and reporting requirements. It exponentially increases the power of a group of bureaucrats notorious for repeatedly ... MORE
by Nick Gillespie. This is what bipartisanship looks like—and it looks pretty damn fresh. On July 24th, a bill co-sponsored by Reps. Justin Amash (R-MI) and John Conyers (D-MI) that would have brought NSA domestic surveillance of U.S. citizens into rough compliance with the Constitution nearly passed the House of Representatives in a ... MORE
Putting profit over principle. Pot legalization activists are running into an unexpected and ironic
opponent in their efforts to make cannabis legal: Big Marijuana. Medical
marijuana is a billion-dollar industry — legal in 18 states, including
California, Nevada, Oregon and Maine — and like any entrenched business,
it’s fighting to keep what it has and shut ... MORE