An unwitting dupe or a totalitarian micromanager? When German Chancellor Angela Merkel celebrated the opening of the new U.S. embassy in Berlin in 2008, she could not have imagined that she was blessing the workplace for the largest and most effective gaggle of American spies anywhere outside of the U.S. It seems straight ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Spying On The President
An unwitting dupe or a totalitarian micromanager? When German Chancellor Angela Merkel celebrated the opening of the new U.S. embassy in Berlin in 2008, she could not have imagined that she was blessing the workplace for the largest and most effective gaggle of American spies anywhere outside of the U.S. It seems straight ... MORETenth Amendment Center: Why Nullification?
Is it valid? Is it a good idea? Writing for the Tenth Amendment Center, a person finds oneself spending a lot of time and pixels defending the concept of nullification. These defenses generally take the form of answers to two questions. Is nullification a legally valid concept? Is nullification a good idea? The arguments about whether or not ... MORE
Jacob Sullum: Spying On The Line
A challenge to the NSA's warrantless wiretapping. Last Friday the Justice Department
acknowledged for the first time that it is using evidence
derived from warrantless wiretapping to prosecute someone. That
development sets the stage for a Fourth Amendment challenge to a
law that gives the National Security Agency ... MORE
Carl Campanile: Docs Resisting ObamaCare Like Plague
They know bad medicine when they see it. New York doctors are treating ObamaCare like the plague, a new survey reveals. A poll conducted by the New York State Medical Society finds that 44 percent of MDs said they are not participating in the nation’s new health-care plan. Another 33 percent say they’re still not sure whether to ... MOREPatriot Act Author Introduces Bill To Halt NSA Snooping
by Stephen Dinan. The Republican author of the Patriot Act in the House and the senior Democrat in the Senate teamed together Tuesday to write a bill that would stop the National Security Agency’s
bulk collection of phone records and require a court order if the
government wants to search through Americans’ communications. ... MORERand Paul Says He Will Block Yellen Unless Fed Is Audited
by Oliver Darcy. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) told Senate
Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) Tuesday that he will move to block
Dr. Janet Yellen’s nomination as the next Federal Reserve Chair unless
the Senate votes on his legislation which allows the Fed to be audited “I am writing to convey my objection to
floor consideration of the nomination of Dr. ... MOREObamaCare: Latest Example Of Failed Central Planning
by A. Barton Hinkle. When Planned Parenthood wanted to add operating rooms in
Virginia Beach two years ago, anti-abortion groups tried to stifle
the effort by urging the state to deny a required Certificate of
Public Need. When a Richmond-area oncology center wanted to move a
linear accelerator from one location to another four years ... MOREJeffrey T. Brown: Can We Finally Stop Pretending?
Obamacare lies reveal a political strategy. Every day, it seems, more people who have been screaming their hatred for those who predicted all we see coming true are admitting what we have known all along. The president is incapable of telling a truth, and what conservatives have been predicting for three years about ... MOREWalter E Williams: Is There A Way Out?
The inevitable road of legalized theft. According to a recent Fox News poll, 73 percent of Americans are dissatisfied with the direction of the country, up 20 points from 2012. Americans sense that there’s a lot going wrong in our nation, but most don’t have a clue about the true nature of our problem. If they had a clue, most would have little ... MORENick Gillespie: "Yes, You Can Keep Your Health Plan" --------------- or, What Part of *Screw You* Don't You Understand?
O-Team knew what they were doing. Via the Twitter feed of Matt Cover (and National
Review's Jim
Geraghty) comes a link to this 2010 blog post by then-Obama
special assistant and now CNN Crossfire host Stephane Cutter: Yes, You Can Keep Your Health Plan ...A key point to remember is that while the Act makes many
changes to the ... MOREPeter Suderman: Health Care Rights And Responsibililties
What about the rights angle? What happens when health care is thought to be a fundamental
right? That's the question at the heart of David Kelley's January
1994 reason story, "The Rights
Angle." Kelley's piece examined the large-scale health-care
overhaul proposed under President Bill Clinton. Kelley came away
worried. The "plan in ... MORE
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