The drug war is a war on YOU. Lodging in Collinsville (with Michael Reichert)
VIDEO: A Cop Reveals How To Manufacture Drug Busts
The drug war is a war on YOU. Lodging in Collinsville (with Michael Reichert)
Becky Akers: Gutsy Granny Stumps The TSA
How to treat the government groppers. A reader who wished me to identify her by name and location until I talked her out of it offered this advice for Women of a Certain Age who must endure aviation’s gulag: …I never go through the back scatter machine -- and in [the airport closest to her home], there are no options, the regular metal detectors ... MORECaroline May: Food Stamp Use Hits Another Record High
Spending has doubled in last four years alone. Participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or food stamps, reached another high in September, according to new data released by the United Stated Department of Agriculture. The most recent data on SNAP participation were released Friday, and showed that ... MOREScott Holleran: The Bum, The Cop And The Facts
The moral of the story. This is about the barefoot Times Square bum bestowed with a pair of
boots on a cold November night by a policeman whose act of charity was
photographed by an Arizona tourist. The bum, it turns out, was seen last
Sunday on the Upper West Side. The new boots, valued at $100, were
nowhere to be seen. The policeman, ... MORE
There Is A Snitch Riding In Your Car With You
Black boxes in cars raise privacy concerns. Many motorists don’t know it, but it’s likely that every time they get behind the wheel, there’s a snitch along for the ride. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Friday proposed long-delayed regulations requiring auto manufacturers to include event data recorders — better known as “black boxes” — ... MOREBetsy McCaughey: Obama Dives Over Constitutional Cliff
The president's unprecedented power grab. President Obama went over the constitutional cliff this week, demanding more power than the U.S. Constitution allows any president to have. All Americans — regardless of party affiliation — should shudder at the president's attempted power grab and say no. Compromising on taxes and ... MOREAnother State To Consider ObamaCare Nullification
Four and counting. Since the Supreme Court rendered its opinion on the constitutionality of a mandatory federal health care system last summer, many Americans consider the matter settled. But others recognize that despite the pronouncement of five robed federal employees, the Constitution still does not delegate Congress the ... MOREVIDEO: Censorship and "Unlearning Liberty"
Greg Lukianoff (FIRE), spoke with Reason TV's Nick Gillespie about his new book.
The Enterprise Of Law: Justice Without The State
A book review by George C. Leef. Nearly everyone agrees that a few core government functions —foremost among them the provision of law and justice—can’t be performed in a free market. A handful of rogue thinkers, however, questions this conventional wisdom. Foremost among them is Florida State University economics professor Bruce ... MOREPeter Schiff: The Fantasy Of A 91% Top Income Tax Rate
An Edsel of an economic idea. Democratic Party leaders, President Obama in particular, are forever telling the country that wealthy Americans are taxed at too low a rate and pay too little in taxes. The need to correct this seeming injustice is framed not simply in terms of fairness. Higher tax rates on the wealthy, we're told, would ... MOREMajority Of Young Voters Favor Bigger Government
Public school is serving its purpose. A Pew Research post-election poll found that a majority of young voters who were 18-29 years of age preferred bigger government. According to the survey, 59% of young voters said “government should do more to solve problems” while only 37% felt “government is doing too many things better left to businesses ... MOREDefending The World, Bankrupting Ourselves
by Steve Chapman. The argument for leaving 10,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan after 2014 is more or less reasonable on its face. The Kabul government is fragile; our gains might be reversed; the Afghan military is not ready to stand on its own. Here's the unreasonable, unavoidable part: If we don't leave then, we probably never will. The lesson of the past ... MORECalifornia's Prop 30 Hits Entrepreneurs Hard
By Ethan Anderson. Nothing terrifies investors or entrepreneurs as much as the concept of expropriation.
When governments decide to expropriate legally obtained assets,
entrepreneurs who worked tirelessly to build businesses and investors
who risked scarce capital end up with little to nothing for their
troubles. In fact, developing countries often ... MORE
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