Ill-Informed Voters Pay Dividends To Democratic Party
by Larry Elder. Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor is worried. In a recent speech at Boise State, O'Connor said: "Less than one-third of eighth-graders can identify the historical purpose of the Declaration of Independence, and it's right there in the name. ... The more I read and the more I listen, the more apparent ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Is The FISA Court Constitutional?
A court where only one party can make an argument. After President Richard Nixon left office in 1974, a bipartisan congressional investigation discovered many of his constitutional excesses. Foremost among them was the use of FBI and CIA agents to spy on Americans in violation of federal law and the Fourth Amendment to the ... MOREVictor Davis Hanson: The Late, Great Middle Class
Don't try to sell the recovery notion to them. The American middle class, like the American economy in general, is ailing. Labor-force participation has hit a 35-year low. Median household income is lower than it was five years ago. Only the top 5 percent of households have seen their incomes rise under President Obama. Commuters are paying ... MORETime To Speak Up Against The NSA's Mass Spying
by Rainey Reitman. This summer, some of our worst fears and suspicions about the NSA
have been confirmed. We now have evidence that the NSA is actively undermining the basic security of the Internet. It is collecting millions and millions of phone records of individuals not suspected of any crime. It is surveilling journalists. The NSA’s ... MOREThe Land Of The Free Is Now A Nation Of Sheep
by Bill Frezza. No, this is not another diatribe about the futility of many gun control laws and the geographic correlation between the level of gun crime and the hurdles law-abiding citizens have to surmount to provide for their own defense. Nor is it a rant about the media exploitation of tragedies like the recent Navy Yard shooting. ... MORECops Kill 95-Year-Old For Refusing To Go To Hospital
by Jonathan Turley. There is a disturbing report out of Chicago
where police were called when 95-year-old world War II veteran John
Wrana refused to go to a hospital for a urinary tract infection. Called
by paramedics to assist in getting Wrana into an ambulance, the Park
Forest police showed up in riot gear and proceeded to shoot Wrana ... MOREJacob Sullum: Ignorance Is Ratification
Allowing mass collection of Americans' phone records. In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Arthur Dent
discovers that the plans for a highway project involving demolition
of his house have been "on display" in the basement of a government
building at "the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a
disused lavatory with a sign on ... MOREJohn Stossel - Innovation And Stagnation
Government vs the free market. Invent something and the first thing that goes through some people's minds — especially politicians' minds — is what might go wrong. 3D printers now allow you to mold objects right in your living room, using patterns you find online. It's a revolutionary invention that will save time, reduce shipping ... MORE
L. Brent Bozell: Only Propaganda Is 'Good Journalism'?
Why the waterfall of liberal bias keeps flowing. Why are liberals in so much denial about liberal bias in the news? Why do they think they're bending over backward to be "objective" doing that which Republicans see as partisan activism? Daniel Froomkin of the Huffington Post — formerly of The Washington Post — suggests an answer. ... MOREGene Healy: Be Afraid Of NSA Spying
We've only seen the tip of the iceberg on NSA abuse. “Dear NSA/CSS family,” begins a Sept. 13, 2013, letter to employees and “extended family” of the nation’s largest spy agency from NSA director Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander, the boss of the family (CSS stands for Central Security Service, an NSA subagency). In the missive, published ... MORE
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