A lesson on regulation.
Fed Workers Paid $155M To Work For Labor Unions
by Alissa Tabirian. Federal employees were paid more than $155 million of taxpayer dollars in 2011 for spending more than 3.4 million hours of "official time" on labor union activities that fell outside their assigned government duties, according to a survey by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). "Voluntary membership in ... MORE
Climate Depot: A Very Inconvenient Truth For Warmers
1,122 Record Cold Temps in the U.S. in one week!
Forecast shows new lows for much of north and west will likely continue. Where’s that global warming when we need it? ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: The Tragedy Of Isolation
Inflicting a handicap on their own people. In the 20th century, Western intellectuals' two most dominant explanations of disparities in economic, educational and other achievements were innate racial differences in ability (in the early decades) and racial discrimination (in the later decades). In neither era were the intelligentsia ... MOREU.S. Shale Bonanza Poses Danger To Saudi Oil Interests
by Alaj Makan and Abeer Allam. Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, the billionaire Saudi Arabian investor, has warned that his country’s oil-dependent economy is increasingly vulnerable to competition from the US shale revolution, setting him at odds with his country’s oil ministry and Opec officials. In an open letter addressed to Ali Naimi, ... MOREJacob Sullum: The Cannabis Is Out Of The Bag
Prohibitionists might want to think carefully about this. At the end of May, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper signed legislation aimed at taxing and regulating the commercial distribution of marijuana for recreational use. The legislative process had been haunted by the fear that the federal government would try to quash this ... MORE
Americans More Concerned With Privacy Than Terrorism
A Pew Research study. For the first time in almost a decade, the majority of Americans are more concerned about the government infringing on their civil liberties than about a potential terrorist attack, according to a new poll by Pew Research. US citizens have traditionally responded to similar polls by saying the government has not ... MORE
Ron Paul: House Leadership Voted For ‘Police State’
by David Sherfinski. Former Rep. Ron Paul says that even had an amendment to defund some of the surveillance programs of the National Security Agency (NSA) had passed last week in the U.S. House of Representatives, it would have been a “significant symbolic victory,” but possibly little more than that. “[W]e should be careful about ... MOREThe Framers' Remedy For Presidential Lawlessness
Betsy McCaughey on defunding ObamaCare. Two weeks ago, the House of Representatives Appropriations Committee voted to strip the scandal ridden Internal Revenue Service of nearly one quarter of its 2014 budget as punishment for its targeting of political groups and its costly boondoggles. Shockingly, Senate Democrats voted to ... MOREBarry Farber: Is Detroit A Foreshadow Of America?
A wake up call or the beginning of the end? Be glad that symbolism is important. Be glad up to a point. Then quit! Symbolism can ennoble. Symbolism can also kill. Did the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor in 1941 to destroy the “symbolism” of this new American world power? I don’t think so. I was the twerpiest of all possible pre-juvenile ... MOREGetting A Search Warrant For Your Thoughts
by John Villasenor. We don't have a mind reading machine. But what if we one day did? The
technique of functional MRI (fMRI), which measures changes in
localized brain activity over time, can now be used to infer information
regarding who we are thinking about, what we have seen, and the memories we are recalling.
As the technology ... MOREWalter Olson: What's Scarier Than Asset Forfeiture?
Policing for profit. District Attorney Jason Hicks, whose territory includes four Oklahoma counties, hired Guthrie-based Desert Snow LLC with a deal to pay it between 10 and 25 percent of seizure proceeds, depending on whether its “trainers” were present or only department officers. “Sometimes, no drugs were found and no one was ... MOREWalter E Williams: Black Self-Sabotage
Volunteering for the chains of the left. If we put ourselves into the shoes of racists who seek to sabotage black upward mobility, we couldn't develop a more effective agenda than that followed by civil rights organizations, black politicians, academics, liberals and the news media. Let's look at it. First, weaken the black family, but don't blame it ... MORE
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