John W. Whitehead: The End Of Private Property
In the era of the American police state. If the government can tell you what you can and cannot do within the privacy of your home, whether it relates to what you eat, what you smoke or whom you love, you no longer have any rights whatsoever within your home. If government officials can fine and arrest you for growing ... MOREWalter E Williams: Our Fragile Planet
And our even more fragile capitalistic system. Let's examine a few statements reflecting a vision thought to be beyond question. "The world that we live in is beautiful but fragile." "The 3rd rock from the sun is a fragile oasis." Here are a couple of Earth Day quotes: "Remember that Earth needs to be saved every single day." "Remember the ... MOREOnly The Private Sector Stimulates Job Growth
by Chriss Street. The mainstream media were shocked today when U.S. job growth continued at a very strong pace in November, despite the October government shutdown that ended on October 17th. Employers added 203,000 jobs and the reported unemployment rate fell from 7.3% to 7%, its lowest level since November 2008. Economists had ... MOREMike Elgan: Are Your Smartphone Apps Selling You Out
Of course they are. The president of the United States says he's not
"allowed" to own an iPhone, which is why he's sticking with his
BlackBerry, according to The Wall Street Journal. It's a politically sensitive subject because the iPhone is the big American brand, and the president is a self-proclaimed fan of the late Apple
founder and CEO Steve ... MOREIRS Using Google Maps To Spy On Taxpayers
by Josh Peterson. Agents from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) are using Google Maps
as part of their tool kit to audit taxpayers and organizations, The
Daily Caller has learned. A redacted
IRS letter dated Sept. 8, 2011 reveals that at least in one case the
IRS’s examiners used photos of a property, obtained through Google Maps,
as ... MORETSA: Parking At Airport Grounds For Warrantless Search
Bureaucratic dictate trumps 4th Amendment. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has now expanded its intrusive searching protocol to include the interior of parked cars left at the airport. Reports of vehicle searches have been reported at multiple airports since this summer. Since roughly June, airports have ... MORECalifornia Taxpayers To Subsidize Green Cars For The Poor
by Steven Greenhut. One longtime critic of federal
transportation spending once concluded that it would be less
expensive for the government to buy every new transit rider a
Jaguar XJ8 than it would be to build certain new rail systems.
Unfortunately, California officials may not have realized that the
idea of buying people new cars ... MOREHumberto Fontova: Caveat On Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela's commitment to liberty. A Martian visiting earth this week, coasting TV channels and perusing papers, would have to conclude that among the items that most interest this planet’s news bureaus is the plight of former political prisoners, especially black ones. Well, many Cubans (many of them black) suffered longer and ... MOREEnvironmentalist Wackos 1 Animal Rights Activists 0
Steven Dinan on govt-permitted eagle chopping. The Interior Department says it will change the rules and issue permits that would let wind farms kill eagles for up to 30 years, or six times longer than the current permits allow. Wind farms — the fields of windmill turbines that dot the landscape — kill about 440,000 birds of all species every ... MORE
Jim Epstein: What We Saw At NYC's Fast Food Strike
More much ado about nothing. Yesterday, Naomi Brockwell and I attended a demonstration
demanding that fast-food restaurants boost their minimum wage to
$15 per hour, or a little more than double the current federal
minimum wage. The strike, which was led by a group called Fast Food Forward that’s
affiliated with the Service ... MOREThe Three Most Important Ongoing 2nd Amendment Cases
by Brian Doherty. Since the 2010 Supreme Court case McDonald
v. Chicago, which applied the ruling
in the
2008 Heller case (which said the Second Amendment
guarantees an individual right to bear arms) to states and
localities, the
Court has so far evaded any new case about the limits and
meaning of the Second Amendment. Those two cases, ... MOREJeffrey Folks: Obama's Plan To Snatch Your Savings
The next stop on the path to socialism. In his first term, Obama managed to get his paws on health care, banking, energy, student loans, the auto business, and more. Now he has his sights set on your 401(k). The left has had its eye on retirement savings for years, but so far takeover attempts have been rebuffed. One ... MORE
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