by Stephen Dinan. The Senate’s
senior lawmaker said Tuesday that its time to end the Patriot Act power
that the intelligence community has relied on to collect all Americans’
phone records, saying it isn’t making the country safer. “In my view, and I’ve discussed this with the White House, the Section 215 collection of Americans’ phone records ... MORESenator Calls To Scrap Key Patriot Act Snooping Provision
by Stephen Dinan. The Senate’s
senior lawmaker said Tuesday that its time to end the Patriot Act power
that the intelligence community has relied on to collect all Americans’
phone records, saying it isn’t making the country safer. “In my view, and I’ve discussed this with the White House, the Section 215 collection of Americans’ phone records ... MORERick Moran: One Family's ObamaCare Nightmare
Premiums jump from $333 to $965 a month. There has been conflicting information from supporters and opponents of Obamacare over the last few months about just what is going to happen to premiums under the law. Generally speaking - very generally - most employer based policies will either stay the same or increase ... MOREPaul Roderick Gregory: The Problem Is Obesity, Not Hunger
Thoughts on the food stamps debate. Throughout history, politicians have fabricated crises to justify their
own solution to the crisis they themselves dreamed up. History is strewn
with non-existent crises – the population bomb, global cooling,
resource depletion, freon destroying the ozone layer, and so on – that
threaten ... MOREJerry Brito: How Much Surveillance Can We Accept?
Are the watchers worthy of our trust? Three months after Edward Snowden’s leaks began to reveal the extent of the U.S.’s mass surveillance program, “serious people” are beginning to make the case that it’s time for the outrage and indignation to subside and give way to a “national conversation” about the future of surveillance. ... MOREThomas Sowell: High Risk, Low Yield
Can ObamaCare be defunded? This has been the worst time, politically, for President Barack Obama since he took office. Recent polls reveal that public confidence in both his domestic and foreign policies has been falling, amid revelations about their defects and dangers. Even people who once supported and defended him have now turned ... MOREBiden Recruited To Hand Out Free Joints
by Radley Balko. The Denver Westword reports
that a pro-pot group fighting a new proposal to impose a 30 percent tax
on the drug -- which is now legal under Colorado law -- wants Joe
Biden's help. Earlier this month, a group opposed to Proposition AA, the measure to
establish tax rates on recreational marijuana sales in Colorado, staged a
rally at Civic ... MOREWalter E Williams: Honesty And Trust
Two under-appreciated virtues. Dishonesty, lying and cheating are not treated with the right amount of opprobrium in today's society. To gain an appreciation for the significance of honesty and trust, consider what our day-to-day lives would be like if we couldn't trust anyone. When we purchase a bottle of 100 pills from our pharmacist, how many ... MOREGrowing Phenomenon Of Police Shooting Unarmed Citizens
by John W. Whitehead. Here’s a recipe for disaster: Take a young man (or woman), raise him on a diet of violence, hype him up on the power of the gun in his holster and the superiority of his uniform, render him woefully ignorant of how to handle a situation without resorting to violence, train him well in military tactics but allow him to be ... MOREDestroying The Right To Be Left Alone
by Christopher Calabrese and Matthew Harwood. For at least the last six years, government agents have been exploiting an AT&T database
filled with the records of billions of American phone calls from as far
back as 1987. The rationale behind this dragnet intrusion, codenamed
Hemisphere, is to find suspicious links between people with ... MOREFree Speech Is So Annoying To Elected Officials
by A. Barton Hinkle. “There’s just way too much money in politics,” said a candidate for governor earlier this month. Since the candidate was Terry McAuliffe, a political fundraiser of Brobdingnagian proportions, the remark could go down as the funniest line from this year’s contest. McAuliffe had just been asked if he would ... MOREKatie Kieffer: Pour Me A Vodka, Putin
Bad news for Barack. For the first time in five years, the conventional media prefers Russian President Vladimir Putin over U.S. President Barack Obama. Has Vladimir sent American journalists cases of Russian vodka? Or are they fed up with Barack? It’s amusing to imagine Putin shipping cases of Russian vodka to American journalists ... MORE
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