Say you buy a car. Drive it around for five years, get plenty of use out of it. Then one day you decide you paid way too much. You really should have paid half what you did. Or even less. So you go back to the dealership and say the car is worth less now, and you want a refund. Think you’d get it? Precisely. Yet this is just the kind of stunt ... MOREA. Barton Hinkle: When Eminent Domain Is Just Theft
Say you buy a car. Drive it around for five years, get plenty of use out of it. Then one day you decide you paid way too much. You really should have paid half what you did. Or even less. So you go back to the dealership and say the car is worth less now, and you want a refund. Think you’d get it? Precisely. Yet this is just the kind of stunt ... MOREThomas Sowell: Another Galling Betrayal
It doesn't have to be this way. The Afghanistan government's recent release of dozens of imprisoned terrorists, many of whom had killed Americans, was a galling betrayal of those Americans who died defending Afghanistan against the Taliban terrorists — as well as those Americans who have returned home with arms or legs missing, ... MOREFeds Want To Track Your DNA Like A License Plate
by Steve Peacock. More evidence the government is not us. The federal government doesn’t just want the ability to track down your car; it wants to be able to track down your body as well. Just as details are emerging about a controversial, nationwide vehicle-surveillance database, WND has learned the federal government is planning an even ... MOREJohn Hood: Laboratories For Prosperity
Confirmation of free-market principles. Over the past three decades, America's state and local governments have experienced a large and underappreciated divergence. Some places, usually but not always led by Republicans, have become friendlier to free enterprise. Other places, usually but not always led by Democrats, have become ... MOREWalter E Williams: Concealing Evil
The slavery liberals love. Evil acts are given an aura of moral legitimacy by noble-sounding socialistic expressions, such as spreading the wealth, income redistribution, caring for the less fortunate, and the will of the majority. Let's have a thought experiment to consider just how much Americans sanction evil. Imagine there are several elderly ... MOREStanton Peele: Why We Have Drug Scares
Are there greater social problems we can't face? How many drug scares can you identify? Jacob Sullum identified these from 2013: marijuana, Salvia divinorum, cocaine,"bath salts," absinthe, Four Loko. Well, let’s go back a ways. Of course there was crack. There were horse tranquilizers. There was OxyContin. Before Oxy there were ... MORE10 Prison Security Techniques Being Used On The People
Marlon Brock on America's police state. Americans are not typically aware of how their federal and state prison systems work. What we think we know, we learned from watching television. When I took my first walk through at FCI (Federal Correctional Institution) El Reno Oklahoma as a new employee, I was surprised at how non- ... MORE
Craig Biddle: What Is Objectivism?
The philosophy of reason, egoism and capitalism. It is widely believed today that our moral, cultural, and political
alternatives are limited either to the ideas of the secular,
relativistic left—or to those of the religious, absolutist right—or to
some compromised mixture of the two. In other words, one’s ideas are
supposedly either ... MOREFighting Back Against Government's Big Secret
by Rep. Ted Poe. It’s Tuesday morning. A citizen wakes up, writes emails and makes a phone call. The person has a meeting soon, so he pulls up Google Maps to figure out a route. He then hops into a cab, checks Facebook on his phone, texts his friend and plays ‘Candy Crush’ on his iPhone. After the meeting he heads to the office, logs on to ... MOREPresident's ObamaCare Lies Were Essential To Passing Bill
Voters would have rejected it had they known truth. Over half of American voters regret that the Affordable Care Act passed, and nearly two-thirds say it never would have -- if we knew then what we know now. In addition, more than half think the health care law will ultimately be bad for the country, and that it’s more about the ... MORECal Law Forces Chefs And Bartenders To Wear Gloves
Alexis Garcia on California's latest idoicy. No plastic grocery bags, mandated plastic gloves. “This law, which seems to be really focused on the Subways and Chipotles of the market, now affects your most well-trained and experienced chefs who have mastered their craft and have never had any issue,” says Jordan Bernstein, a Los ... MORE
Drug Cops Kill Innocent 80-Year-Old Man In His Own Bed
As they didn't find what they were looking for. In the early morning hours of June 27, 2013, a team of Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department deputies pulled up to the home of Eugene Mallory, an 80-year-old retired engineer living in the rural outskirts of Los Angeles county with his wife Tonya Pate and stepson Adrian Lamos. ... MORE
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