Relentless incompetence too glaring to ignore. Over the last several months, the American public has had a hard and clear look at the executive talent inside the White House, and has begun to despair for real leadership and competence. When leadership fails, people stop following. It appears in the sixth year of the Barack Obama ... MOREEdward Morrissey: Americans Are Giving Up on Obama
Relentless incompetence too glaring to ignore. Over the last several months, the American public has had a hard and clear look at the executive talent inside the White House, and has begun to despair for real leadership and competence. When leadership fails, people stop following. It appears in the sixth year of the Barack Obama ... MOREVIDEO: Should Our School System Be Privatized?
Milton Friedman, Thomas Sowell, William F Buckley Jr.
Greg Young: Legally, The Police Do Not Have To Protect You – But You Will Go To Jail For Not Assisting Them
Public servants or public masters? Just a little while ago, there was a video going around that showed an officer being beaten by a citizen in a fight. The police chief said he was disappointed and surprised that people stood by and let it happen. On the other hand, the video of the guy (who was severely injured) that stopped a knife-wielding ... MORECan President Obama Faithfully Enforce the Laws?
by Andrew Napolitano. On the same weekend that the Secretary of Veterans Affairs resigned amidst the scandal of veterans dying before the government's doctors could treat them in government hospitals, on the heels of another revelation of NSA unconstitutional spying in which federal agents have been seizing the digital images of our ... MOREWhy Seattle Is Wounding Itself With That Minimum Wage
by Steve Forbes. Seattle is enacting a $15-an-hour minimum wage, which will destroy jobs, especially for young people, and bankrupt numerous small businesses that operate on tight profit margins. It will drive companies to substitute machines for labor. For example, expect more fast fooderies to put in automated kiosks to process ... MORE
Matthew Harwood: How The Castle Crumbled
“A man’s home is his castle,” the old English saying goes. Since the American Revolution, Americans’ homes have been considered sanctified space. Under the Castle Doctrine, first expressed in English common law, a person’s home — whether it’s a shack or a McMansion — is a protected space that no one can breach without the consent ... MORERichard Rahn: How Fracking Saved Obama
The only thing keeping economy afloat. Without fracking of oil and gas deposits, there would have been no economic growth in the U.S. over the past five years. Yet the oil and gas industry has been a favorite whipping boy of the environmental zealots both inside and outside of the administration. Without those brilliant entrepreneurs and ... MOREJason Snead: Civil Forfeiture Backfires On Former Sheriff
Former legalized theft advocate changes tune. Sometimes, justice prevails. In January, 21-year-old Sylvia Solano slammed her 2003 BMW
into a brick wall. By the time cops arrived, she and her passenger—both
uninjured—were sitting atop the obstinate barrier, clearly intoxicated.
A breathalyzer confirmed she had a blood alcohol ... MOREJacob Sullum: How Cops Became Baby Burners
Horrific collateral damage from the drug war. When Alecia Phonesavanh heard her 19-month-old son, Bounkham,
screaming, she
thought he was simply frightened by the armed men who had burst
into the house in the middle of the night. Then she saw the charred
remains of the portable playpen where the toddler had been
sleeping, and ... MOREU.S. Marshals Seize Local Cops’ Cell Phone Tracking Files in Extraordinary Attempt to Keep Information From Public
by Nathan Freed Wessler. A run-of-the-mill public records request about cell phone
surveillance submitted to a local police department in Florida has
unearthed blatant violations of open government laws, including an
incredible seizure of state records by the U.S. Marshals Service, which
is part of the Justice Department. ... MOREJohn Stossel: Popular Nonsense
Repeat a lie often enough and it will be believed. "Young people are exploited!" "Income mobility is down!" "Poor people are locked into poverty!" Those are samples of popular nonsense peddled today. Leftist economist Thomas Piketty's book "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" has been No. 1 on best-seller lists for weeks (with 400 ... MORESeattle Ignites Robot Revolution With $15 Minimum Wage
by Scott Shackford. Our labor participation rate is
terrible
and our
economy shrank by 1 percent in the first quarter of the year.
So it's the perfect time to raise the minimum wage to a degree
unseen in America before, right? That's what Seattle has done. Yesterday the Seattle City Council
unanimously voted to raise the city's minimum wage ... MORERand Paul Is Right to Oppose Targeted Killing Of Americans
by Chris Edelson. Secret law has no place in a constitutional democracy. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has quite rightly called on the Obama administration to publicly disclose its legal justifications for the claimed power to order the killing, without trial or hearing, of U.S. citizens abroad who are suspected of being terrorist leaders planning attacks ... MORE
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