15 Government Agents Storm Animal Shelter To Kill Bambi
Your tax dollars at work. Government agents swarmed an animal shelter and killed a baby deer named Giggles as Wisconsin law forbids keeping wildlife without the right permit. WISN 12 News reported on a military-style operation in July where nine officers from the Department of Natural Resources and four deputy sheriffs stormed the barn ... MORE
Ronald Bailey: The Social Cost Of Carbon
Garbage In, Garbage Out. Economists, regulators, and activists all try to calculate the
social cost of carbon—that is, the economic and ecological damage
caused each time we add a ton of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere
by burning fossil fuels. If we know how much harm each additional
ton of carbon dioxide causes, the thinking goes, ... MORE
The Danger Of American Apathy On NSA Surveillance
by Elizabeth Goitein. Little by little, Americans are allowing their government to chip away at the fortress of legal protections that people in less-privileged societies – including multiple nations in the Arab world – are giving their lives to build. The director of National Intelligence today declassified and released documents describing the National ... MOREWhen Cops Don't Need A Warrant To Bust In Your Door
By J.D. Tucille. The Fourth Amendment protects us from random invasions of our homes by police, right? We know we're secure in our "persons, houses, papers, and effects" unless the cops demonstrate probable cause to a judge and get a warrant. Except... Except when they don't. The fact of the matter is that police have a lot of leeway ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Liberty And Safety
The road to totalitarianism. When Edward Snowden revealed that the federal government, in direct defiance of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution, was unlawfully and unconstitutionally spying on all Americans who use telephones, text messaging or emails to communicate with other persons, he opened a Pandora's box of ... MOREA Guide To The World's Most Libertarian Countries
by Alasdair Baverstock. As Uruguay, a country which has never criminalised cannabis for personal use, turns to legalising its cultivation and distribution, we look at other trailblazing, libertarian countries. In 2001, Portugal became the first European country to decriminalise possession of all drugs for personal use. The country introduced ... MORE
Cell Phones And The Expectation Of Privacy
by Jesse Wegman. Ninety-one percent of American adults now own a cell phone, according to a survey
by the Pew Research Center. Among those 44 and younger, ownership rises
to more than 95 percent. The cell phone is as ubiquitous a piece of
consumer technology as we have ever had, and may be the most rapidly adopted in history. ... MOREMark K. Matthews: TSA Misconduct Is On The Rise
Luggage theft. Drug use. Sleeping on the job. These are just a handful
of nearly 10,000 reports of misconduct involving employees at the Transportation Security Administration from 2010 to 2012, according to a new watchdog report. As
disturbing, wrote federal investigators, is that these allegations are
on the rise: increasing from 2,691 reports ... MOREThe Bradley Manning Verdict: What You Should Know
by Marcy Wheeler. “I believed that if the general public, especially the American public,
had access to the information contained within [the military’s own
databases], it could spark a domestic debate on the role of the military
and our foreign policy in general as it related to Iraq and
Afghanistan.” That is — according to a statement
Bradley ... MOREBarry Farber: Obama's New Marxist Ploy
You can learn a lot from an Estonian. A Southern law professor once instructed his class on how to defend
Hell in court. “First you admit that the climate is not the most
comfortable,” came the advice, “and then you admit your companions are
far from the kind of people you’d choose to spend eternity with. Then,”
the professor ... MOREJohn Stossel: Are We Rome Yet?
Empires do crumble. Unfortunately, the fall of Rome is a pattern repeated by empires throughout history ... including ours? A group of libertarians gathered in Las Vegas recently for an event called "FreedomFest." We debated whether America will soon fall, as Rome did. Historian Carl Richard said that today's America resembles ... MORE
Would A Higher Minimum Wage Help McDonald's Workers?
by Art Carden. In the recent fury over a proposed budget for low-wage workers circulated by McDonald’s, Forbes contributor Laura Shin asked “Will the McDonald’s Employee Budget help Get the Minimum Wage Raised?”
I hope not, but not just for the sake of McDonald’s customers and
shareholders. I hope not for the sake of ... MORE
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)