Employers Forced To Get IRS Permission For Layoffs
by Lennie Jarratt. President Obama has once again decided to change a law without Congress. This time he is delaying the employer Obamacare mandate until 2016 for companies with 50-99 employees. He also lowered the percentage of companies of 100 or more to have to offer 70% of it’s employees coverage instead of 95%. If you remember ... MOREObamaCare: Repeal Is Not Impossible
by Dom Armentano. Obamacare was sold to the American people as a humanitarian attempt to provide health insurance to the poor and to individuals with a pre-existing medical condition who had been denied coverage. If you were not poor, did not have a pre-existing condition, and already had health insurance and were satisfied with its ... MORE
Why Teaching How To Beat Polygraphs Can Land You In Jail
by Joshua Swain. Last September,
Chad Dixon was sentenced to 8 months in a federal
prison for teaching clients counter-measures for polygraph
tests. Federal prosecutors charged Dixon with obstructing
justice—they view his business as undermining an important tool
used to check the credibility of government employees and prosecute ... MORERand Paul Announces Class-Action Suit Against NSA
from Fox News. Sen. Rand Paul on Wednesday announced what he described as one of the largest class-action lawsuits in history, taking President Obama and top intelligence officials to court over National Security Agency surveillance. "This, we believe, will be a historic lawsuit," the Kentucky Republican said. The suit, joined by conservative ... MOREJohn W Whitehead: Putting Big Brother In The Driver's Seat
V2V transmitters, black boxes & drones. Time to buckle up your seatbelts, folks. You’re in for a bumpy ride. We’re hurtling down a one-way road toward the Police State at
mind-boggling speeds, the terrain is getting more treacherous by the
minute, and we’ve passed all the exit ramps. From this point forward,
there is no turning ... MOREJ.D. Tuccille: The Right To Take (Even Really Stupid) Risks
The beauty of self-determination. There's nothing like the feeling of a motorcycle sliding out from beneath you on a busy thoroughfare to focus the mind beautifully on the value of life. As your ass bounces from the cushioned seat toward the hard tarmac with the screech of unseen cars slamming on their brakes to your rear, you have ... MORERandom Thoughts On The Passing Scene
Tidbits of wisdom from Thomas Sowell. It is amazing how many people still fall for the argument that, if life is unfair, the answer is to turn more money and power over to politicians. Since life has always been unfair, for thousands of years and in countries around the world, where does that lead us? I am so old that I can remember when ... MOREWalter E Williams: Dependency, Not Poverty
There is no material poverty in the U.S. Here are a few facts about people whom the Census Bureau labels as poor. Dr. Robert Rector and Rachel Sheffield, in their study "Understanding Poverty in the United States: Surprising Facts About America's Poor", report that 80 percent of poor households have air conditioning; nearly three-quarters ... MOREFull Employment Redefined By The Obama Regime
by Lee Cary. Words matter. Presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama said that in a 2008 campaign speech. It was not news then. And it's not news now, for as long as there have been words they have mattered. What matters most about words today is that, in politics, they are losing their core meanings as doublespeak spreads. When a Senator ... MOREJacob Sullum: Why Reschedule Marijuana?
Introducing reality into the equation. Ever since Congress passed the Controlled
Substances Act (CSA) in 1970, drug policy reformers
have complained that
marijuana does not belong on Schedule I, the statute's most
restrictive drug category. Schedule I ostensibly is reserved for
drugs with a "high potential for abuse" that have "no ... MORE
The Terrifying Surveillance Case Of Brandon Mayfield
by Matthew Harwood. Nobody is safe from confirmation bias. During a live Web chat in late January, National Security Agency
whistle-blower Edward Snowden explained one of the least discussed
dangers of bulk collection. By indiscriminately sweeping up the call records and the international communications
of Americans, the government ... MORE
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