Advice on how to never go broke. There’s more to the deceit and dishonesty about Social Security and Medicare discussed in my recent columns. Congress tells us that one-half (6.2 percent) of the Social Security tax is paid by employees and that the other half is paid by employers, for a total of 12.4 percent. Similarly, we are told that ... MOREWalter E Williams: Do Americans Prefer Deception?
Advice on how to never go broke. There’s more to the deceit and dishonesty about Social Security and Medicare discussed in my recent columns. Congress tells us that one-half (6.2 percent) of the Social Security tax is paid by employees and that the other half is paid by employers, for a total of 12.4 percent. Similarly, we are told that ... MOREBarry Farber: More Fun Than A 1-Horse Open Slay
Obama's meltdown is quite delightful. If the president’s troubles make you want to sing, at least get the lyrics right. It’s not “We Shall Overcome.” It’s “They Shall Overreach”! “Don’t count chickens before they hatch!” is too stilted and cliché. I prefer the earthier Southern version, “Don’t count ‘taters afore grabbin’ time.” ... MOREAnother Official Lie: The 2012 Fake Election Jobs Report
John Crudele on an election deception. In the home stretch of the 2012 presidential campaign, from August to September, the unemployment rate fell sharply — raising eyebrows from Wall Street to Washington. The decline — from 8.1 percent in August to 7.8 percent in September — might not have been all it seemed. The numbers, ... MOREINVESTORS.COM: Suddenly, It's OK To Talk About Repeal
The repudiation of ObamaCare is underway. Not too long ago, Republicans pushing to kill ObamaCare were called extremists, obsessives and traitors. Now even liberals are discussing the possibility of repeal. We've reached an important turning point. Back in May, nobody batted an eye when Bill Maher blasted the GOP's efforts to repeal ... MOREVIDEO: Changing Laws By Proclamation
The executive branch is not the legislative branch, unless it wants to be.
Thomas Sowell: The War Against Achievement
Replacing inspiration and motivation with entitlements. A friend recently sent me a link to an inspiring video about an upbeat young black man who was born without arms. It showed him going to work -- unlike the record number of people living on government payments for "disabilities" that are far less serious, if not fictitious. How is ... MOREPolice Shoot Handcuffed 14-Year-Old In Face With Taser
by Meghan Keneally on state-sponsored child abuse. A distraught mother is calling for an investigation into the police officers who arrested her son, saying that they brutally beat him when he was resisting arrest. Marissa Sargeant has released a picture of her 14-year-old son that shows him with a bloody nose, gashes on his forehead ... MOREJerry Brito: Bitcoin - More Than Money
Changing the future of currency. On August 6, Judge Magistrate Amos Maazant of U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas made many a headline when he became the first known United States government official to declare that Bitcoin-the non-government and non-bank currency, payments network, and anarchic digital ... MORE
Christopher Cantrill: The True Face Of Collectivism
And it is not pretty. Most politicians are crafty. They hide the mailed fist of political power in a velvet glove of caring and compassion, and they conjure up an appealing picture of competence to hide the reality of blundering ineptitude. But not Barack Obama. He believes his own propaganda; he's even said so. He thinks that politics is ... MOREA Constitutional Strategy To Stop NSA Spying
by Michael Boldin. The National Security Agency looks at literally millions of phone records. It captures millions of e-mails. It sifts through millions of megabytes of private data. And it does this all without following the requirements of the Fourth Amendment. It can be stopped. How that can be done in a moment -- but first, a closer look at ... MOREAnother Insurance Mess Government Has Gotten Us Into
Kathleen Pender on the flood insurance snafu. A complex new federal insurance law is having so many unintended
consequences that some of its original sponsors and backers are now
trying to delay it. It's not the Affordable Care Act. It's the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012. Its goal was to put the National Flood ... MORESteve Chapman: Head Start And Other Federal Failures
Expensive measures that leave little trace behind. When the government shutdown began on Oct. 1, it forced the closing of Head Start facilities in several states, stopping educational services for thousands of low-income kids. So heart-rending was this spectacle that a pair of Texas philanthropists gave $10 million to keep the programs going. ... MORE
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