Steve Chapman: Why Obama Is Pandering Overtime

Vision of the anointed is just another job killer.     If you take an economics course, you may learn about the different events that can cause an increase in workers' pay. The demand for the product a worker makes may rise, causing the demand for workers to go up. The supply of workers may decline, causing employers to bid up wages to keep  ... MORE

Google, DuckDuckGo And Regulation Of Privacy

by Tim Worstall.     This piece about DuckDuckGo rather interested me, for it speaks to the argument that is being had over the regulation of privacy in both the US and the European Union. And while this isn’t entirely and wholly true it is in essence: the US has, in my opinion, taken the right view of that regulation. Leave it, largely, to the         ... MORE

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Families Move To Secure Medical Marijuana For Kids

by Lisa Bernard-Kuhn.      Moving to Colorado. The Bentons will move as soon as Addyson comes off the waiting list, which they hope will be October – leaving behind the home in Liberty Township, Ohio, that they built less than a year ago and the friends and family who have supported them. "It's so sad to know that Addyson won't be able to see     ... MORE

'Crazy Cave' Is Poster Child For Government Waste

by Daniel Bates.        No incentives for cost-saving innovation. Six hundred workers are processing government pension papers in an underground bunker entirely by hand in a staggering example of state inefficiency that is costing taxpayers millions. Staff at what has been dubbed the ‘Crazy Cave’ take up to 61 days just to deal with     ... MORE

The Boom In Smuggling To Avoid Cigarette Taxes

by Jonathan Berr.        Another government-provoked black market. More than half of the cigarettes sold in New York State are smuggled in from other places to avoid the Empire State's taxes on smokes, which have soared nearly 200 percent since 2006, according to a report issued by the conservative Tax Foundation. New York is the highest net    ... MORE

Hawaii Law Allows Cops To Have Sex With Prostitutes

by Mike Bertha.      The police lobbied hard. There is apparently an exemption in Hawaiian sex trafficking laws that allows for undercover police officers to have sex with prostitutes while on the job, in an effort to help them more effectively catch the bad guys, obviously. A new law would have done away with the exemption, but that new     ... MORE

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Barry Farber: My Fear Of GOP Overconfidence

This is miserable casting.     You’ve got no business expecting me to do Clark Gable’s work. But nobody else is doing it, and it must be done. In an early scene in “Gone With the Wind,” before the Civil War started, a big party was rocking Tara, the plantation inhabited by Scarlett O’Hara. In the library, a gaggle of Southern cadets from a military academy  ... MORE

Marijuana Research Hampered By Government And Politics

by Ariana Eunjung Cha.      Millions of ordinary Americans are now able to walk into a marijuana dispensary and purchase bags of pot on the spot for a variety of medical ailments. But if you’re a researcher like Sue Sisley, a psychiatrist who studies post-traumatic stress disorder, getting access to the drug isn’t nearly so easy. That’s because the    ... MORE

VIDEO: Government's War On Living Standards


Peter Schiff compares earnings and purchasing power from 1947. 

Baylen Linnekin: Big Brother Is Watching You Eat

Your betters say it's for your own good.      Just how far is the federal government willing to go to push Americans to make subjectively “healthy” food choices? Chillingly far, if the most recent meeting of the federal government’s Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) is any indicator. The DGAC is made up of fifteen academics,       ... MORE

Gun Tattoo Attracts Cops With Assault Weapons

Ink can be so threatening.     Michael Smith went outside shirtless after being awakened Tuesday morning, yelling at a tree removal company to get off his property. The workers thought they saw a gun in his waistband and called police. Smith, who’d gone back to bed, was awakened again minutes later — this time by Maine State Police  ... MORE

Alex Pappas: The Times They Are A-Changin'

Rand Paul gets a standing ovation at Berkeley.      Delivering a rare speech for a Republican at this bastion of liberalism, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul on Wednesday was given multiple standing ovations by the left-wing audience after railing against government surveillance and warning the students: “Your right to privacy is under assault.”    ... MORE

The United States Vs. Toyota: Anatomy Of A Shakedown

by Judson Phillips.         Attorney General Eric Holder announced Wednesday a $1.2 billion dollar settlement between Toyota and the U.S. government, ending a criminal probe into Toyota’s disclosure of alleged product defects. Most Americans, if they pay attention to this at all, will simply see a short blurb on the news with the announcement.  ... MORE