GOP To Obama: If You Can Delay Health Care, So Can We
by Anita Kumar. Republicans will make another move Wednesday to damage the national health care law they derisively call Obamacare. This time, they’re being aided by the champion of the measure, President Barack Obama. With Obama’s recent move to postpone one part of the law as an opening, the Republican-ruled House of ... MORE
Deroy Murdock: Fracking - Clean And Green
Contrary to rumors, it’s environmentally friendly. The only thing deeper than a natural-gas well is the ignorance of the anti-fracking crowd. Fracking — formally called hydraulic fracturing — involves briefly pumping water, sand, and chemicals into shale formations far below Earth’s surface and the aquifers that irrigate crops and quench ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: Is This Still America?
There are no winners in the trial of George Zimmerman. The only question is whether the damage that has been done has been transient or irreparable. Legally speaking, Zimmerman has won his freedom. But he can still be sued in a civil case, and he will probably never be safe to live his life in peace, as he could have before ... MOREAsset Forfeiture, The Cash Cow Of The Drug War
by Lucy Steigerwald. During a July 9 traffic stop in Meridian, Mississippi, police found $360,000 stashed in a secret compartment in the car. Though that’s perhaps an eyebrow-raising amount of money, readers of that linked article might notice something odd—the driver was let go, but the money was kept by the cops. The unnamed individual ... MOREJonathon Moseley: Right Of Self-Defense 1, Obama 0
Creepy crackers are not the problem. Destroying the Second Amendment and the people's right of self-defense was the real goal of the George Zimmerman prosecution. Liberals hoped to scare gun owners, regardless of the eventual verdict. Traumatizing and intimidating people from using a firearm to defend themselves were what this case ... MOREWalter E Williams: What Egyptians Need
Starting with private property rights. What Egyptian citizens must recognize is that political liberty thrives best where there's a large measure of economic liberty. The Egyptian people are not the problem; it's the environment they're forced to live in. Why is it that Egyptians do well in the U.S. but not Egypt? We could make the the same ... MORE
Veronique de Rugy: Yes, We Do -- Have A Debt Problem
The president tries to downplay the continuing crisis. In mid-May, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) revised its previous estimate of the federal government’s 2013 deficit downward by 24 percent. The fiscal year (which ends on September 30) will feature red ink of merely $642 billion, down from the $1 trillion-plus of the ... MOREKurt Loder: How Privacy Died
"Terms and conditions may apply." Whatever happened to the Fourth Amendment? You know, that bulwark of our right to privacy? Its protections against government intrusion and coercion aren't exactly dead — not yet — but they're going fast. Because we can't seem to stop giving them away. It's useful to have all the bad news about this ... MOREJohn Hudson: U.S. Repeals Propaganda Ban
Government-made news to be spread to Americans. For decades, a so-called anti-propaganda law prevented the U.S. government's mammoth broadcasting arm from delivering programming to American audiences. But on July 2, that came silently to an end with the implementation of a new reform passed in January. The result: ... MORERonald Bailey: Seven Surprising Truths About The World
A lot of the bad news you think you know is wrong. Did you know that the incidence of cancer in the United States has been declining for nearly 20 years? That the spread of pornography correlates with a decline in rape? That average IQs are going up substantially all around the world? These are just some of the truths that are well-known ... MORERyan Gorman: Mississippi Cops Legally Steal $360,000
Even though no crime was committed. Police in Mississippi have confiscated almost $365,000 found hidden in the secret compartment of a car. Pulled over July 9 during a routine traffic stop on Interstate 20/59 in Meridian, officers suspected the car was being used for criminal activity and asked for permission to search the car. ... MOREWashington D. C. To Consider Legalizing Marijuana
by Susan L. Ruth. Washington D.C. is considering making marijuana legal in the nation’s capital. A bill was introduced on Wednesday, July 10, 2013 that would virtually eliminate all criminal penalties for minor marijuana offenses. The “Simple Possession of Small Quantities of Marijuana Decriminalization Amendment Act” was introduced by ... MORE
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