by William Jackson. The political-appointees in robes will decide. Smartphones contain a wealth of information that can translate into evidence in civil and criminal court cases, and law enforcement agencies increasingly are mining this data in their investigations. “If law enforcement or the government want to see your data, they can ... MORESmartphone: Searchable Wallets Or Pocket PCs?
by William Jackson. The political-appointees in robes will decide. Smartphones contain a wealth of information that can translate into evidence in civil and criminal court cases, and law enforcement agencies increasingly are mining this data in their investigations. “If law enforcement or the government want to see your data, they can ... MOREThomas Sowell: A Bitter After-Taste
Squandering the sacrifice of soldiers. The news from Iraq that Islamic terrorists have now taken over cities that American troops liberated during the Iraq war must have left an especially bitter after-taste to Americans who lost a loved one who died taking one of those cities, or to a survivor who came back without an arm or leg, or ... MOREWalter E Williams: Slavery Reparations
Just another hustle. Calls for slavery reparations have returned with the publication of Ta-Nehisi Coates' "The Case for Reparations" in The Atlantic magazine (May 21, 2014). In making his argument, Coates goes through the horrors of slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow and gross racial discrimination. First off, let me say that I agree with reparations ... MOREBrendan Greenley: David Brat Is A True Ayn Rand Acolyte
It’s been a long time since I read Atlas Shrugged. I didn’t finish it. In my defense, I was 19, and I think we can all agree that the book doesn’t succeed as a novel, in the way that when you open a novel you expect characters and a plot. But I’ve been curious, given the increased prominence of the book since 2010, how in this ... MORETexas Police Are Making Millions With 'Civil Forfeiture'
by Michael Allen. Police in Texas are raking in tons of money, property and cars, all
thanks to a controversial legal maneuver called "civil forfeiture." Under this obscure law, someone's property can be forfeited to a
local police force, even if the property owner has not committed a
crime, notes Forbes. In a civil forfeiture, the ... MOREChris Stobing: The Militarization Of America's Police State
Surveillance at the local level. “We believe in transparency here, you have a right to know what the
police are up to in your country.” – Camden Police Chief Scott Tomson. On VICE News,
Vikram Gandhi went to Camden, New Jersey to preview the latest
technologies and strategies that are being employed to help local law
enforcement in the ... MOREKatie Kieffer: Let Students Carry On Campus
Why force students into being sitting ducks? Pepper spray, police and cardboard signs failed to prevent the June 5 Seattle Pacific University shooting. Let’s stop mass violence on college campuses by defending college students’ right to carry firearms on campus. Tragically, this is the third column this year that I must write defending ... MORETaxpayers Cough Up Record Amount As Deficits Increase
Government's unquenchable thirst for revenue. Federal tax revenues continue to run at a record pace (in inflation-adjusted dollars) in fiscal 2014, as the federal government’s total receipts for the fiscal year closed May at an unprecedented $1,934,919,000,000, according to the Monthly Treasury Statement. Despite record revenue, the ... MOREStar Parker: In Today’s America, “Mainstream” Means Left
America has no center today. Just when Tea Party obituaries were being sounded around the country, Washington fixture of 42 years, Mississippi Senator Thad Cochran, loses to upstart Tea Party candidate Chris McDaniel. And one week later, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, in the blockbuster of this year’s political season, is booted out of ... MORE
Peter Schiff: Debt Is No Salvation
Credit is destroying what savings built. Thus far 2014 has been a fertile year for really stupid economic
ideas. But of all the half-baked doozies that have come down the pike
(the perils of “lowflation,” Thomas Piketty’s claims about capitalism
creating poverty, and President Obama’s “pay as you earn” solution to
student debt), an idea hatched ... MOREJaana Woceshyn: Income Levels Is Not A Social Issue
Don't take your eye off the ball. I have resisted writing about the perceived problem of inequality in income and wealth; Thomas Piketty’s book, Capital in the 21st Century, has received too much unjustified attention already. But I gave in because I think what I have to add to the debate helps in rejecting Piketty’s argument that ... MOREThe Government Wants You Ignorant Of Cops Tracking You
by Trevor Timm. Thought the NSA was bad? All across America, from Florida to Colorado and back again, the country's increasingly militarized local police forces are using a secretive technology to vacuum up cellphone data from entire neighborhoods – including from people inside their own homes – almost always without a warrant. This ... MORE
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