Senate Dems back automatic debt limit hikes. Democrats controlling the Senate proposed Tuesday to avoid future showdowns over the so-called debt ceiling by giving the president authority to authorize additional federal borrowing unless Congress can muster veto-proof margins to block him. The move by Sens. Charles Schumer, ... MOREAndrew Taylor: Drunken Sailors Seek A Blank Check
Senate Dems back automatic debt limit hikes. Democrats controlling the Senate proposed Tuesday to avoid future showdowns over the so-called debt ceiling by giving the president authority to authorize additional federal borrowing unless Congress can muster veto-proof margins to block him. The move by Sens. Charles Schumer, ... MOREThomas Sowell: Throw The Rascals Out?
Making it harder to be a tyrant. Polls indicate that the public is so disgusted with Washington politicians of both parties that a surprisingly large proportion of the people would like to get rid of the whole lot of them. It is certainly understandable that the voters would like to "throw the rascals out." But there is no point in throwing the rascals ... MOREFred Reed: Notes On The Wussification Of America
It is time to get women out of the schooling of boys. It is way past time. Women in our feminized classrooms are consigning generations of our sons to years of misery and diminished futures. The evidence is everywhere. Few dare notice it. The feminization is real. More than seventy-five percent of teachers are women; in New York ... MOREVictor Davis Hanson: Beware Of Beautifully Misnamed Laws
Who opposes affordable care or farm security? Washington has a bad habit of naming laws by what they are not. These euphemisms usually win temporary public support. After all, who wants to be against anything “affordable”? But on examination, such idealistically named legislation usually turns out to be aimed at special interests ... MORERails To Trails: A Train Wreck For Property Owners
by Kathryn Ciano. Rails
to Trails is a government program to convert abandoned railroad
tracks to recreational trails. Sounds great, except that the tracks
run over private property, and the private landowners haven’t been
paid for this permanent land grab. A case before the Supreme Court
this term,
Brandt v. United States, demonstrates the program’s ... MOREJohn Ransom: You Say You Want A Revolution
Liberty is about a lot of things; it’s a deep topic. But at its core liberty can be summed up in one simple and reciprocal concept. That concept is respect. You know the 2010 election was about many things, but it was mostly about respect. It was about starting to restore the respect that people have in government, by getting the ... MORERadley Balko: This Week In Innocence
Bad cop costs men 17 years in prison. Two Washington state men will get $10.5 million after spending 17 years in prison for a rape they didn't commit. It's easy to dismiss these exoneration stories as the product of an
imperfect system that sometimes makes mistakes. But read past the
headline, and you'll see that they're often less the ... MOREPeter Schiff: A Green Light For Gold?
It is rare that investors are given a road map. It is rarer still that the vast majority of those who get it are unable to understand the clear signs and directions it contains. When this happens the few who can actually read the map find themselves in an enviable position. Such is currently the case with gold and gold-related investments. ... MOREDaniel Raphael: End The War On Drugs
Just say no to liberty-trampling failure. Many in Washington are against drug legalization, even though there is overwhelming evidence that prohibition does not work, and will never work. The Global Commission on Drug Policy reported that between 1998 and 2008, global use of opiates increased 34.5 percent, cocaine 27 percent, ... MORE
Matt Sledge: High Court To Hear Asset Forfeiture Case
Will the Supremes uphold legalized theft? A New York couple's case heads to the Supreme Court on Wednesday --
and the outcome could determine whether the government can prevent
criminal defendants from selecting the lawyers of their choice by
freezing their assets. The court is hearing oral arguments in the case of Kerri ... MOREFDA Seeks To Make Prescription Painkillers Harder To Get
Government steps up war on drugs. A big change to legal drug policy is in the works. After years of
pressure from public-health and addiction advocates, as well as the U.S.
Drug Enforcement Administration, the Food and Drug Administration has
recommended that access to drugs containing the highly-addictive opiod
narcotic hydrocodone ... MORE
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