Keystone Cop Obama protects his environmental flank. This week President Obama handed down what may prove to be one of the most fateful decisions of his entire administration when he rejected the plan to build the Keystone XL Pipeline carrying oil from the tar sands of Canada to the refineries of Houston. The decision did not win him one new ... MOREWilliam Tucker: Environmentalism And The Leisure Class
Keystone Cop Obama protects his environmental flank. This week President Obama handed down what may prove to be one of the most fateful decisions of his entire administration when he rejected the plan to build the Keystone XL Pipeline carrying oil from the tar sands of Canada to the refineries of Houston. The decision did not win him one new ... MORERon Paul: TSA Part Of An "Out-Of-Control" Police State
Candidate calls to abolish liberty-violating agency. Republican Senator Rand Paul was stopped at an airport on Monday for setting off an alarm and refusing a patdown, prompting his father, U.S. presidential candidate Ron Paul, to accuse security officials of being part of an "out of control" police state. In a harshly worded attack on the Transportation Security ... MORE
Walter E Williams: Schools Of Education
Time to get rid of academic slums. Larry Sand's article "No Wonder Johnny (Still) Can't Read" — written for The John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, based in Raleigh, N.C. — blames schools of education for the decline in America's education. Education professors drum into students that they should not "drill and kill" or be the "sage on the ... MORESupreme Court Delivers Government Surveillance A Hit
Warrant needed for GPS tracking. We finally have a victor in one of the most talked-about court cases of 2011. The Supreme Court issued its opinion [PDF] Monday in U.S. v. Jones, a case that asked whether the government needs a warrant to slap a GPS tracker on a suspect’s car. The Supreme Court was unanimous in its decision: The government lost. Privacy won. ... MORE
Andrew Foy & Brenton Stransky: 3 Problems With Ron Paul
Ron Paul does not have the smile of Obama, the folksy likability of Romney or the carving wit of Gingrich. In fact, Ron Paul looks (and sounds) nothing like a Washington elitist. In our visual society we too often pick our politicians based on hair line and pearly whites and too seldom on the content of their character or value of their platform. No one who ... MORENeil Snyder: An ObamaCare Warning To Seniors
You might not get that procedure. While I taught at the University of Virginia, I served for a while as associate dean. My dean at the time, Bill Shenkir, used a phrase that I thought was particularly helpful when we were contemplating major decisions: "Let's reduce the fog factor." By that he meant that we should always examine the ramifications of our ... MOREStephen Dinan: Arizona To Investigate Fed Gun-Running Op
Heavy-handed feds get payback from state. Arizona's state legislature will open its own investigation into the Obama administration's disgraced gun-running program, know as "Fast and Furious," the speaker of the state House said Friday. Speaker Andy Tobin created the committee, and charged it with looking at whether the program broke any .... MOREGary North: Victory On SOPA: Lessons Learned
"When we feel the heat, we see the light." - Senator Everett Dirksen. On Wednesday, January 18, the forces of liberty grained a major political victory over the entrenched meddlers in Congress. The owners of a handful of popular Internet sites joined together to protest SOPA/PIPA. They blacked out their sites and provided information on the threat to Internet ... MORESteven Greenhut: Jerry Brown's Failed Vision
Fires cannot be extinguished with more flames. Years ago, after starting to report and editorialize on news events in an old factory city in Ohio, I was quickly dubbed a “negative” for pointing out the disastrous government spending, housing, and tax policies embraced by city leaders—policies that were keeping a nice place wretched. Anyone who made ... MORE
THE HILL: Dems Propose Regulating Oil Company Profits
Tyrants seek to limit degree of success. Six House Democrats, led by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), want to set up a "Reasonable Profits Board" to control gas profits. The Democrats, worried about higher gas prices, want to set up a board that would apply a "windfall profit tax" as high as 100 percent on the sale of oil and gas, according to their legislation. The bill ... MOREInfowars: Google Is Already Using SOPA-Like Censorship
Publicly, Google opposes internet censorship. Despite Google’s much-heralded support for the anti-SOPA movement, the web giant is already enforcing SOPA-like policies of its own, blacklisting legitimate websites from its news aggregator and following government orders to remove material from its search results and You Tube. As major Internet giants ... MORE
Richard Ralston: The Year To Save American Medicine
Government's power grab will be reversed or expanded. During the coming year, the threat to freedom will proceed on multiple fronts. Each will require specific action. We are rapidly running out of time to prevent the destruction of the quality, availability and freedom of American medicine, and our best and last chance is upon us. In March 2012 ... MORE
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