Obama Puts His Daddy Hat On, Again
by M. Catherine Evans. Since when is it a president's place to advise people in their personal moral and spiritual journey? For five years, he's been preaching to white people on how they should act. Yesterday, President Obama piped up once again on how the Trayvon Martin tragedy should move us all to be a little less racist. Predictably, he ... MOREBen O'Neill: Internet Fascism And The Surveillance State
It's not about keeping us safe. What is the purpose of telecommunication and internet surveillance? The NSA presents its surveillance operations as being directed toward security issues, claiming that the programs are needed to counter terrorist attacks. Bald assertions of plots foiled are intended to bolster this claim. However, ... MORE
Anthony Gregory: The War On Terror Is A War On Freedom
Terrorism isn't the primary threat to our freedom. In the aftermath of 9/11, President George W. Bush guided the Patriot Act through Congress, unilaterally expanded surveillance of Americans, amplified executive detention authority and took other dramatic measures that shifted the balance between liberty and ... MOREGovernment Keeps Track Of Everywhere You're Driving
On the deployment of automated scanners. Chances are, your local or state police departments have photographs of your car in their files, noting where you were driving on a particular day, even if you never did anything wrong. Using automated scanners, law enforcement agencies across the country have amassed millions of digital ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Double Jeopardy
Prosecutors display antipathy for Constitution. While the country processes the racial politics-inspired prosecution of George Zimmerman, which came to a conclusion last week, and as the calls to try him in federal court for the same events for which he was acquitted in a state court become louder each day, a case in upstate New York ... MORE
Freedom Does Not Equal Polygamy And Heroin
by Shikha Dalmia. Cultural conservatives can’t be too happy about the country’s growing tolerance for gay marriage and legal marijuana, both of which a slim majority now supports. This erosion of traditional moral codes, they fear, will put America on the highway to Gomorrah. But removing government from the business of ... MOREVIDEO: Don't Cops Have Better Things To Do
Men in blue work hard to keep us safe from bikini baristas.
Larry Elder: What Does It Take For America To Wake Up?
The results are in. Someone did an experiment to test an old tale — that a frog placed in a pot of cool water, which is then slowly and continuously heated, will be boiled to death. By contrast, if thrown directly into scalding hot water, the frog jumps out. But it turns out that, no, once the water got hot enough, the critter hopped out ... MOREDid Zimmerman Prosecutor Try Reverse Jury Nullification?
Asked jury to disregard lack of evidence. Zimmerman was acquitted of murder and manslaughter for shooting Trayvon Martin. (Details of the case can be read here.) The scary part is that one of the prosecutors, John Guy, in his rebuttal to the defense's closing arguments asked the jurors to disregard the lack of evidence and the lack ... MOREBrent Bozell: America, Forever Racist?
Racism has great utility for the left. The central criticism of the George Zimmerman trial is that there was one. It was simply impossible to convict him of anything beyond a reasonable doubt. The central criticism of the coverage of this trial was that there was any. How did this story merit consideration as national news? Why was the death of ... MORE
74% Of Small Business Will Fire Workers, Cut Hours
Paul Bedard on the effects of ObamaCare. Despite the administration's controversial decision to delay forcing companies to join Obamacare for a year, three-quarters of small businesses are still making plans to duck the costly law by firing workers, reducing hours of full-time staff, or shift many to part-time, according to a sobering survey ... MOREJohn Stossel: Strangling Life
There are now 175,000 pages' worth of federal laws. Local governments add more. I'm not so cynical that I think politicians pass laws just to control us. Someone always thinks: "This law is needed. This will protect people." But the cumulative effect of so many rules is to strangle life. Yet lawyers like George Washington Law professor John ... MORE
Banning Advice Columnists In The Name Of Licensing
Brian Doherty on the high cost of free speech. The state of Kentucky believes that writing a newspaper column is not protected by the First Amendment. On May 7, Kentucky’s office of attorney general sent a letter to
newspaper advice columnist John
Rosemond. The letter ordered him to sign a consent decree that
he would stop ... MORE
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