Rick Jenson: The Death Of Personal Freedom
Push to make warrantless searches the norm. Massachusetts Democrat Barry Greenfield is pushing for legislation to allow police to enter your home unannounced, without warrant, and take your guns. Greenfield actually believes it is a “problem” that police don’t have the authority to enter peoples’ homes and inspect their firearms ... MOREMonty Pelerin: Hyperinflation Is A Political Choice
Markets will stop what politicians will not. The situation with the Federal Reserve (and other central banks around the world) is not very different than what prevailed in the early 1920s and ended in Germany’s horrendous hyperinflation. The notions that “this time is different” or “it can’t happen here” are naive. It is happening ... MOREStates Should Cut Taxes To Boost Economic Growth
by Ben Wilterdink. There was a strong trend of states cutting taxes this year, with 18 states passing significant tax cuts into law during the 2013 legislative session. With one-third of the United States cutting taxes, it is clear economic growth has become a top priority for states that want to dig out of the dismal economy that followed the ... MOREFAA Announces Impending Launch Of Surveillance Drones
Serious data-collection on Americans begins. Surveillance monitors and bracelets; key cards; Smart Cards; Radio Frequency Identification tags, labels, and toll collectors; followed by the newest wave of subdermal implants (ostensibly to keep the kids and Grandma safe). Hidden GPS satellite tracking; concealed webcams; ... MOREThe More Doctors Know, The More They Dislike Obamacare
by Mark J. Perry. Some pretty devastatingly negative results about Obamacare from a
November 8-12 survey of 3,072 practicing physicians in all 50 states,
and reported this week by the Atlanta Business Chronicle: 1. Most physicians didn’t like Obamacare when Congress passed the health-care reform law in 2010. Fifty-nine percent of ... MOREWhen Did To 'Serve & Protect' Become To 'Seize & Profit'?
by Jesse Lava and Sarah Solon. Leon and Mary Adams had been living in their Philadelphia home for nearly five decades. They were eating breakfast one morning last year when armed cops streamed out of a bunch of vans and said the couple had 10 minutes to grab their things and leave. Permanently. As in, Leon and Mary wouldn’t be allowed ... MOREMario Loyola: How The Minimum Wage Hurts Poor People
Raising the cost of employment is a bad idea. Progressive policies are usually advanced by reference to their
intended beneficiaries, without any reference at all to the social
losses they create. It’s important to see how the supposed benefits fail
in the case of the minimum wage, and Kevin Williamson does a typically great job ... MOREDriver Arrested For Secret Compartment Full Of Nothing
by Scott Shackford. Norman Gurley, 30, is facing
drug-related charges in Lorain County, Ohio, despite the fact that
state troopers did not actually find any drugs in his
possession. Ohio passed
a law in 2012 making it a felony to alter a vehicle to add a
secret compartment with the “intent” of using it to conceal drugs
for trafficking. Gurley is the ... MOREJohn W. Whitehead: Kennedy Was Right
We are the heirs of the First Revolution. The year was 1961. I was fourteen years old, the only child of blue-collar workers living in Peoria, Illinois. Lacking any great understanding of the winds of change that were blowing through our nation and the world, I sat transfixed in front of our small black-and-white television as John F. Kennedy ... MORETenn Hearings Demonstrate Absurdities Of Asset Forfeiture
by Radley Balko. Here in Nashville, the state legislature held hearings this week on "policing for profit," the catchy name the libertarian public interest law firm the Institute for Justice has given to the practice of civil asset forfeiture. The hearings were inspired by some terrific reporting
done by local television journalist Phil Williams over ... MORE
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