On excuse-making and dependency. Sometimes I wonder when black people will reject the patronizing insults of white progressives and their black handmaidens. After CNN's Piers Morgan's interview with the key witness in the George Zimmerman trial, he said: "Rachel Jeantel is not uneducated. She's a smart cookie." That's a remarkable ... MOREWalter E Williams: Blacks And Progressives
On excuse-making and dependency. Sometimes I wonder when black people will reject the patronizing insults of white progressives and their black handmaidens. After CNN's Piers Morgan's interview with the key witness in the George Zimmerman trial, he said: "Rachel Jeantel is not uneducated. She's a smart cookie." That's a remarkable ... MORESteve Chapman: Drug Warriors In Retreat
Their drug-induced haze couldn't last forever. When it comes to Eric Holder, Republicans are divided between the radicals and the moderates. One group regards him as a lawless black power zealot intent on subverting the Constitution and stripping us of our liberties. Then there are the radicals... So when Holder gave a speech ... MORE
Regulation Nation: Obama Expands The Regulatory State
By Ben Goad and Julian Hattem. President Obama has overseen a dramatic expansion of the regulatory state that will outlast his time in the White House. The reach of the executive branch has advanced steadily on his watch, further solidifying the power of bureaucrats who churn out regulations that touch nearly every aspect of American ... MORESen. Rand Paul: The Madness Of Mandatory Minimums
Lives needlessly ruined by rigid sentencing. I applaud President Obama’s recognition that mandatory minimum sentencing for nonviolent drug offenders needs to end. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.’s announcement Monday to change federal drug-sentencing policy hopefully signaled a significant shift toward justice in ... MOREPeggy Noonan: What We Lose If We Give Up Privacy
The danger of amping up what government can do. What is privacy? Why should we want to hold onto it? Why is it important, necessary, precious? Is it just some prissy relic of the pretechnological past? We talk about this now because of Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency revelations, and new fears that we are ... MOREVIDEO: Fox News - The Prying Eyes Of Lawless NSA
Government listens to phone calls and reads e-mails of innocent Americans.
How Political Correctness Is Destroying America
Michael Snyder provides 19 shocking examples. If you say the “wrong thing” in America today, you could be penalized, fired or even taken to court. Political correctness is running rampant, and it is absolutely destroying this nation. In his novel 1984, George Orwell imagined a future world where speech was greatly restricted. ... MOREJacob Sullum: Barack, The Unmerciful Drug Warrior?
Why doesn't Obama pardon more drug offenders? This week Eric Holder said something that critics of our criminal justice system have been saying for decades but no other U.S. attorney general has managed to say while still in office. “Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long, and for no truly good law enforcement ... MOREThe NSA Has Violated Privacy Rules At Least 2,776 Times
by Scott Shackford. The Washington Post has the latest Edward
Snowden-provided
bombshell: The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or
overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since
Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to
an internal audit and other top-secret documents. ... MORE
DOJ Seeks To Protect Bernanke From Testitmony
Politicians have each other's back. The government is trying to block questioning of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke in a lawsuit by the former head of American International Group Inc. The Justice Department told a federal appeals court Friday that high-ranking officials should not have to testify except in extraordinary ... MOREBrian Doherty: Rand Paul Rises Above
Scandals likely to prove secondary to policy and ideas. The political world around the Pauls—retired Republican congressman Ron Paul and his son, sitting Kentucky senator Rand Paul—was roiled by mini-scandals last week. Treated as most consequential by national media was, naturally,
the one that touched on the senior Kentucky ... MORE
Brad Reid: An Overview Of Civil Asset Forfeiture
A look at history and recent cases. The forfeiture of assets associated with criminal activity has an ancient history. American colonists, particularly business owners, objected to general "writs of assistance" issued by British authorities that allowed broad searches and the subsequent seizures of discovered property suspected of ... MORE
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