by Molly Ball. The last stage of grieving is acceptance. The first wave of Tea Party lawmakers strode into Congress in 2011 on a wave of denial and anger. They were angry at President Obama and business as usual in Washington. But they were also in denial about their power—or rather powerlessness—to change it. Three years later, the right-wingers ... MOREWhy Republicans Are Surrendering On The Debt Ceiling
by Molly Ball. The last stage of grieving is acceptance. The first wave of Tea Party lawmakers strode into Congress in 2011 on a wave of denial and anger. They were angry at President Obama and business as usual in Washington. But they were also in denial about their power—or rather powerlessness—to change it. Three years later, the right-wingers ... MOREJohn Stossel: Budget Baloney
Regurgitating hope and change. This week, President Barack Obama proposed "a budget that will create new jobs in manufacturing and energy and innovation and infrastructure, and we'll pay for every dime of it by cutting unnecessary spending, closing wasteful tax loopholes!" What? I must have fallen asleep and woken up in 2008. That could ... MOREFlorida Cops Deployed Warrantless Cellphone Tracking
Sunshine state or police state? Police in Florida have offered a startling excuse for having used a controversial “stingray” cellphone tracking gadget 200 times without ever telling a judge: the device’s manufacturer made them sign a non-disclosure agreement that they say prevented them from telling the courts. The shocking ... MOREThomas Sowell: Freedom Is Not Free
Protect the Constitution and it will protect you. There may be something to the claim that all people want to be free. But it is a demonstrable fact that freedom has been under attack, usually successfully, for thousands of years. The Federal Communications Commission's recent plan to have a "study" of how editorial ... MOREJoel Kotkin: Politics Runs Real Energy Out Of California
Banking on expensive alternative energy. More bleak economic news for the average Joe. The recent decision by Occidental Petroleum to move its headquarters to Houston from Los Angeles, where it was founded over a half-century ago, confirms the futility and delusion embodied in California's ultragreen energy policies. ... MOREVerizon Reveals More About Federal Spying on Customers
by Josh Peterson. They can hear you now (the Feds, that is). Verizon
updated its transparency report Monday to include orders issued
by the nation’s spy court. During the first six months of 2013, the nation’s spy court, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, ordered Verizon between zero to 999 times to hand over content for 4,000 to ... MORENine Reasons Why The Minimum Wage Is A Terrible Idea
by Ira Stoll. President Obama and congressional Democrats are pressing to increase the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. Here are nine reasons why that’s a bad idea. 1. It’s a big country. The costs of living,
especially housing, vary widely in America from state to state and
city to city. If the point of raising the minimum wage is to ... MOREShould Bigots Be Allowed To Exclude Gays And Blacks?
by Sheldon Richman. We can oppose bigotry without politicians. Should the government coercively sanction business owners who, out of apparent religious conviction, refuse to serve particular customers? While such behavior is repugnant, the refusal to serve someone because of his or her race, ethnicity, or sexual ... MORE
Julia Angwin: Has Privacy Become A Luxury Good?
Will the middle class be priced out of privacy? Last year, I spent more than $2,200 and countless hours trying to protect my privacy. Some of the items I bought — a $230 service that encrypted my data in the Internet cloud; a $35 privacy filter to shield my laptop screen from coffee-shop voyeurs; and a $420 subscription to a portable ...MORES.M. Oliva: Michael Jordan Vs. Free Speech
Circuit court ruling gives fame a First Amendment veto. In 2009, Michael Jordan's entry into the Naismith Memorial
Basketball Hall of Fame was marred by
a “petty and punitive” speech focused more on settling old
scores than celebrating his legendary career. As Yahoo Sports
columnist Adrian Wojnarowski wrote at the time: “This wasn't a ... MORESteve Chapman: For Ships Of State, A Looming Iceberg
The crushing burden of government employee pensions. If you're in the hospital with multiple fractures, a staph infection
and a collapsed lung, you may not take great comfort when your doctor
informs you that his last patient has it worse, being dead. Sometimes
encouraging comparisons are not that encouraging. So Chicagoans didn't ... MORE
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