“Get on the ground! Get on the ground!” That demand is spat by police into the face of thousands of people every day in this country, many – perhaps most -- of whom have neither been caught in a criminal act nor have been named on an arrest warrant. The refrain is recited by home invaders in paramilitary garb after they have kicked in a ... MOREMaking Cop-Worship Mandatory
“Get on the ground! Get on the ground!” That demand is spat by police into the face of thousands of people every day in this country, many – perhaps most -- of whom have neither been caught in a criminal act nor have been named on an arrest warrant. The refrain is recited by home invaders in paramilitary garb after they have kicked in a ... MOREWilliam Dunkelberg: Minimum Wage Myths
Economics is about incentives. If the teen unemployment rate isn’t high enough for you, raise the minimum wage to $10 or $15 an hour. A year ago, the teen unemployment rate was over 25%. It has declined to 20% a year later, that is progress, but it is still unacceptably high. That means that I of every 5 our young citizens that want to work ... MOREWalter E Williams: Governed By Rules, Not Men
What kind of rules should govern our lives? I'd argue that the best rules are those that we'd be satisfied with if our very worst enemy were in charge of decision-making. The foundation for such rules was laid out by my mother. Let's look at it. My mother worked as a domestic servant. That meant that my younger sister and I often lunched ... MOREKaley V. United States: A Terrible Supreme Court Decision That Lets The Government Take Your Assets Before Trial
by Chanakya Sethi. High Court expands government's ability to steal. Justice for Kerri and Brian Kaley, the Supreme Court held Tuesday, is of the Alice in Wonderland variety: First comes the punishment—the seizure of all their assets—then the trial, and the crime last of all.* “But suppose they never committed the crime?” Alice asks. “It doesn’t ... MORE
NSA Is 'Setting Fire To The Future Of The Internet'
by Ashe Schow. Newest revelation from Edward Snowden. Edward Snowden, the man who leaked the National Security Agency data collection programs, said Monday the act of mass surveillance is “setting fire to the future of the Internet.” Snowden, speaking via satellite feed (in front of a green-screen
display of the U.S. Constitution) to a ... MOREScience And Reason Vs. Political Correctness
by Victor Davis Hanson. President Obama entered office promising to restore the sanctity of science. Instead, a fresh war against science, statistics and reason is being waged on behalf of politically correct politics. After the Sandy Hook tragedy, the president attempted to convert national outrage into new gun-control legislation. ... MOREKammi Foote: A Huge Blow To California Property Rights
Some are more equal than others. A barrage of new bills was introduced into the California Legislature recently including a bill that masks a huge blow to property rights under the guise of increased public protection. Assembly Bill 2206 by Assemblyman Gomez is almost identical to AB 2299 introduced in the 2011/2012 legislative session ... MORE
Big Brother Getting Stronger Every Day
by William F.B. O'Reilly. I went to bed earlier this week a semi-rational person.
I awoke the next day a raving paranoid. It happens once in a while. It wasn't a single thing that put me over the
edge; it was the accumulation of stories about expanding police
technologies, the ones to which we, as citizens, routinely succumb. Call
it a Keyser Söze ... MOREJeff Jardine: Going In Reverse Down Free-Speech Road?
Cowards don't stay free. Fifty years ago this fall, the Free Speech Movement rocked the UC Berkeley campus. The short version: It represented a clash between school/government officials who sought to stop students from promoting and raising funds for political causes on the campus by declaring rules prohibiting such activities would be ... MORE
Nick Gillespie: Kill The FDA (Before It Kills Again!)
Death by government. If you haven't seen The Dallas Buyers Club, which took home three Oscars last Sunday, you should. It's the most flat-out libertarian movie since Ghostbusters and one of the best message movies I can think of (of course, like all quality message movies, it's first and foremost a powerful piece of art). Specifically, it shines a ... MOREA Law So Stupid Even California Legislature Recognizes It
by Thomas Lifson. Politicians try to kill their dumb law. California’s state legislature is seeking to repeal an idiotic law that took effect January 1st. It turns out that some feel-good regulatory efforts generate enough blowback that they can actually be reversed. Stacy Finz reports in the San Francisco Chronicle: State lawmakers have passed a ... MORETo End IRS Abuses Of Free Speech, End The IRS
by J.D. Tuccille. To read the headlines, you'd
think the biggest controversy involving the Internal Revenue
Service (IRS) is over the
spat between Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Rep. Elijah Cummings
(D-Md.) in the course of an
aborted hearing into the IRS's targeting of primarily
conservative political organizations. "We're better than that ... MORE
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