Taxi Wars: How Govt Tries to Kill Services Customers Want
by Nick Gillespie. If you've ever tried Uber, the innovative car service available
in about two dozen U.S. cities, or have been stuck waiting for a
cab, watch the video. Rob Montz and William Beutler's short doc captures attempts by
established interests and politicians in Washington, D.C. to crush
a service that only added to ... MOREVictoria Jackson: "Thought Police" Ban All Words
The fundamentals of tyranny. Seattle is considering banning the words “brown bag” and “citizen” because the words offend black people and illegals. Daniel Greenfield responds, “When Seattle one day gets around to banning all words, because language is inherently offensive to the illiterate, and everyone is reduced to communicating ... MOREWhy You Should Root For ObamaCare's Failure
by David Hansanyi. In a news conference expected to feature a mea culpa for the Obamacare website fiasco, President Barack Obama turned the tables on his political opponents, scolding them for using their supernatural ability to transform the mere hope of failure into a reality. "It's time," he implored, "for folks to stop rooting for its failure, ... MOREWhy Did The Cop Dressed As A Chicken Cross The Road?
To separate taxpayers from their money, of course. When California police dressed one of their officers in a chicken suit they thought the sight would be enough to make drivers stop at crossings - but they were wrong. As a campaign to make Lake Elsinore crosswalks safer got underway on Thursday, 31 drivers were ticketed after failing ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: A Government Of Secrecy And Fear
Will we get our lost liberties back? Every American who values the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, every American who enjoys the right to be different and the right to be left alone, and every American who believes that the government works for us and we don't work for the government should thank Edward ... MORE
Barry Farber: Why They're After The Brilliant Ted Cruz
Why are the tree-dwellers making faces at him? There’s something “other-worldly” about Sen. Ted Cruz. And the reaction he provokes. The whole Cruz phenomenon reminds me of the billionaire industrialist who invited 50 of his most important business friends on a hunting trip in Maine. As dusk began to set in, their guide ... MORE
NSA Spied On 124 BILLION Phone Calls In One Month!
Adam Kredo on NSA's widespread data collection. The National Security Agency recorded information about more than 124 billion phone calls during a 30-day period earlier this year, including around 3 billion calls from U.S. sources, according to a tally from top-secret documents released by multiple news outlets. ... MOREFroma Harrop: Scandal In Candyland
Taxpayers get not-so-sweet deal. Ever notice how some government programs draw the ire of almost everyone? Conservatives, liberals, environmentalists, libertarians, business, labor, consumers and grouchy taxpayers are all opposed. Yet these programs go on as though directed by an unstoppable particle beam from a neighboring ... MORET Gamble: Political Correctness Crowd Working Overtime
Avoiding the heartbreak of being offended. The political correctness crowd has been working overtime lately, which I guess they can do considering they don’t really actually work anywhere but instead spend all their time trying to figure out a new way to be offended. They now claim great offense at the Washington Redskins ... MORERonald Bailey: Five Phony Public Health Scares
Scaremongering sells. Health activists, nutrition nannies, medical paternalists, and just plain old quacks regularly conjure up menaces that are supposedly damaging the health of Americans. Their scares range from the decades-long campaign against fluoridation to worries that saccharin causes cancer to the ongoing hysteria ... MORE
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