The glory of fracking. Hector Gallegos sits in the cab of his pick-up enjoying a few hours of calm. A day earlier, workers finished carting off the huge rig that had drilled three new wells beneath this small patch of south Texas farmland and he’s now getting ready to prime them for production. He reckons that about three weeks from now ... MOREU.S. To Become Bigger Oil Producer Than Saudi Arabia
The glory of fracking. Hector Gallegos sits in the cab of his pick-up enjoying a few hours of calm. A day earlier, workers finished carting off the huge rig that had drilled three new wells beneath this small patch of south Texas farmland and he’s now getting ready to prime them for production. He reckons that about three weeks from now ... MOREAmericans Are Being Thrown In Jail For Filming Police
by John W. Whitehead. Lights, Camera, Arrested. Once again, the U.S. government is attempting to police the world when it should be policing its own law enforcement agencies. We’ve got a warship cruising the Black Sea, fighter jets patrolling the Baltic skies, and a guided-missile destroyer searching the South China Sea for the downed ... MORE
Why Rand Paul Will Be The Next President
by Brent Hatley. What if liberty is a prime consideration? You have probably seen all of the ridiculous speculating about the GOP nomination in 2016. This is still speculating, but my sincere hope is you don’t think it’s ridiculous too. Kentucky Senator Rand Paul is laying the foundation for his presidential bid in concrete and steel. First, forget about ... MORELegalized Theft Department: Asset Forfeiture Roundup
by Radley Balko. The incentives to police for profit. There have been some interesting new developments across the country from the world of civil asset forfeiture, the upside-down policy where police and prosecutors can seize and keep your property, often without ever charging you with a crime, and then keep the proceeds for themselves. ... MORE
How The NSA Plans To Infect 'Millions' Of Computers
by Ryan Gallagher and Glenn Greenwald. Government malware to aid in warrantless searches. Top-secret documents reveal that the National Security Agency is dramatically expanding its ability to covertly hack into computers on a mass scale by using automated systems that reduce the level of human oversight in the process. The ... MORECop Responds To Domestic Violence Call By Raping Victim
DNA reveals inconvenient truth. Detroit police officer Deon Nunlee, 40, was charged on three counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct, one count of assault with intent to penetrate, and one count of misconduct while on duty after he allegedly raped a woman who called 911 saying her boyfriend had assaulted her. At the home, Nunlee ... MOREJohn Stossel: War On Women
Sorry, genders are not exactly equal. You've probably heard that Democratic Party leaders decided that a way to win votes this November is to shout loudly that Republicans wage "war on women." Politico calls this a "proven, persuasive argument."Give me a break. The idea of a conservative "war on women" is as silly as propaganda ... MORECampus Censorship And The End Of American Debate
by Greg Luckianoff. In the year and a half since I handed in the final draft of Unlearning Liberty, an amazing number of developments have taken place on and off campus regarding the free speech rights of college students and faculty. While some of them have been positive, several have been deeply disturbing to those of us who care ... MOREThomas Sowell: The Left Versus Minorities
Hypocrisy exposed. If anyone wanted to pick a time and place where the political left's avowed concern for minorities was definitively exposed as a fraud, it would be now — and the place would be New York City, where far left Mayor Bill de Blasio has launched an attack on charter schools, cutting their funding, among other things. These ... MORENSA Too Busy Spying on Americans To Catch Terrorists
JD Tuccille on Edward Snowden's latest reveal. In
testimony published last week by the European Parliament's
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice, and Home Affairs, NSA
snooping whistleblower Edward Snowden told lawmakers that mass
spying has proven to be an especially ineffective means of
deterring wrongdoing. NSA claims to have ... MORE'Beaten Into Submission' by Political Correctness
by Tyler O'Neil. The Left's focus on "political correctness" prevents Americans from speaking common sense about political issues, Dr. Ben Carson, former pediatric neurosurgery director at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center who shot to fame last year when he gave a politically incorrect speech at the National Prayer Breakfast, declared In a ... MORE
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