A lesson about capitalism. At one time, people in India had to get on a waiting list to buy Hindustan Motors' Ambassador automobile, even though it was an obvious copy of Britain's Morris Oxford of some decades earlier. The reason was simple: the Indian government would not allow cars to be imported to compete with it. The fact that the ... MOREThomas Sowell: The Ambassador And The Post Office
A lesson about capitalism. At one time, people in India had to get on a waiting list to buy Hindustan Motors' Ambassador automobile, even though it was an obvious copy of Britain's Morris Oxford of some decades earlier. The reason was simple: the Indian government would not allow cars to be imported to compete with it. The fact that the ... MOREPowerful New Painkiller Gives Drug Warriors A Headache
by Tom Wilemon. Government's noble war to free you from pain relief. A powerful new pain medication approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that easily can be manipulated by abusers has officials in Tennessee and other states worried. Called
Zohydro, it’s an extended-release form of hydrocodone that comes in a
capsule ... MOREJohn W. Whitehead: A War on America’s Military Veterans
Waged with SWAT teams, surveillance and neglect. Just in time for Memorial Day, we’re once again being treated to a generous serving of praise and grandstanding by politicians and corporations eager to go on record as being supportive of our veterans. Patriotic platitudes aside, however, America has done a deplorable job of caring ... MORE
Obama Just Found A Way to Make College Cost More
by Shikha Dalmia. University presidents are crying a river over the Obama plan to create a federal scorecard to rate colleges. But their tears might be the only good thing to come out of this plan. Otherwise, it's simply a welfare scheme for students masquerading as college accountability that won't do diddly to make college more ... MORE4-Year Old's Drawing Sends Dad To Jail
Canada's political correctness continues running amok. It was a kindergarten class piece of art that Jessie Sansone probably won’t want to hang on the refrigerator anytime soon. After Jesse Sansone’s 4-year-old daughter
drew a picture of a gun, cops handcuffed the clueless father and dragged
him off to jail. It was there that the dad ... MORE8 Ridiculous Laws That Stop People From Helping Others
by Nick Sibilla. No good deed goes unpunished. Dr. Elizabeth Gohl was a dentist in the U.S.
Navy for five years, where she performed hundreds of teeth extractions
on sailors. She left the Navy and moved to Arkansas, where she wanted to
extract teeth for free at a charity event. But the state said no. Even though she is a licensed dentist and an orthodontist, a bizarre law kept her from volunteering. Arkansas is just one of eight states that ban orthodontists from performing basic dental services, like cleaning or removing teeth. The law also ... MOREJury Nullification: If The Law Is Bullshi*t, You Must Acquit
Why not go for justice? You and I have the power to end Nixon's failed War on Drugs once-and-for-all. In fact, it's our constitutional right to do so. Imagine for a second that you've been selected as a juror for the trial of someone like Jacob Lavoro, the 19-year-old Austin, Texas man currently facing anywhere from five years to life in prison for ... MOREBarry Farber: How Can 40% Of Us Approve This Failure?
Pope ought to declare Obama's numbers a miracle. To my knowledge, some of the following points have never been the subject of a column before. Does that indicate I own a warped curiosity, or, much more to my liking, have I been kissed by flames of originality? Even though he’s not running for president any more (some fear he’ll find ... MORESign Regulations And The Threat To Free Speech
by S.M. Oliva. In 2006, auto shop owner Wayne Weatherbee decided to expand his business by purchasing a vacant lot that had once held another auto shop dating back to the 1940s. But zoning officials in the city of Clermont, Florida, determined that Weatherbee's plans for the lot clashed with the city's aesthetic agenda and zoning regulations, ... MOREVIDEO: Could U.S. Citizens Pass A Citizenship Test?
A video more about the dumbing down of America than the citizenship test.
School Districts Are Paying To Data Mine Your Children
by Stephanie Simon. The NSA has nothing on the ed tech startup known as Knewton. The data analytics firm has peered into the brains of more than 4 million students across the country. By monitoring every mouse click, every keystroke, every split-second hesitation as children work through digital textbooks, Knewton is able to find out not ... MORESheriff In Burned Baby Raid Tries To Dodge Responsibility
by Ed Krayewski. Looks to blame target of warrant for their deeds. CNN has
updates on the story of the Georgia SWAT team that
threw a flash bang while executing a no-knock warrant that
severely burned a nineteen-month-old baby. Habersham County Sheriff
Joey Terrell says the deputies involved are "devastated" and that ... MOREWhen Drug Warriors Burn A Baby, Who's The Terrorist?
by Jacob Sullum. Habersham
County, Georgia, Sheriff Joey Terrell feels bad that his deputies
horribly burned a toddler by tossing a "distraction device"
(a.k.a. a "flash bang" grenade) into the playpen where he was
sleeping during a drug raid on Wednesday morning. "The baby didn't
deserve this," Terrell concedes in
an interview with ... MORE
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