by Adriana Cohen. Another federal fairy tale. In a highly suspect news dump, the IRS announced days ago that years
of critical emails that took place between disgraced former IRS official
Lois Lerner and key players in government tied to the IRS targeting
scandal have “magically” disappeared. Even Democrats aren’t buying it. Everyone
knows ... MORENo Magic Strong Enough To Make IRS E-mails Vanish
by Adriana Cohen. Another federal fairy tale. In a highly suspect news dump, the IRS announced days ago that years
of critical emails that took place between disgraced former IRS official
Lois Lerner and key players in government tied to the IRS targeting
scandal have “magically” disappeared. Even Democrats aren’t buying it. Everyone
knows ... MOREJeffrey Tucker: The War Is On You
Why governments needs an enemy. After 25 years of war on Iraq, the U.S. has what to show for it? A
handful of dust. And at what cost in lives and property? It boggles the
mind to consider the breadth and depth of the suffering. Iraq was the great experiment following the Cold War for how the U.S.
military machine could be used to make ... MOREThe Redskins And The Role Of Government
by Jonathan S. Tobin. Yesterday’s ruling by the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board on a suit challenging the right of the Washington Redskins football team to protect their trademark is being hailed as a turning point in the battle to force the team and its stubborn owner to give up the fight to keep the controversial name. An appeal of ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Another Pointless War?
Reopening the soldier slaughterhouse. As we watch the collapsing government in Baghdad surrounded by a highly disciplined and serious force of Sunni-oriented fighters that has taken control of the most populous third of the country, we must, in John Adams' words, resist the temptation to slay the world's monsters. This time around, ... MORE
Caught on Tape: Texas Cop Executes Handcuffed Suspect
by John Prager. Warning: Execution video. In early 2014, a grand jury elected not to charge an El Paso, TX police officer in the shooting death of a prisoner, but newly released video is causing some to question if that is a good idea. After the Texas AG instructed the city of El Paso to fulfill the El Paso Times’ request for the video it has become ... MOREIt's Good To Be a Terrorist, Not So Good To Be a Veteran
by Steve Forbes. Government's healthcare priorities. The roughly 150 jihadists at Gitmo have approximately 100 doctors, nurses and health care personnel assigned to them to handle their post-traumatic stress or anything else that ails them, with zero wait time. If Thomas Francis Breen, a 71-year-old Navy veteran who died of bladder cancer ... MOREObamacare Increased 2014 Premiums By Average Of 49%
by Avik Roy. A 3,137-County Analysis. There are hundreds of aspects of Obamacare that people argue over. But
there’s one question that matters above all others: does the Affordable
Care Act live up to its name? Does it make health insurance less
expensive? Last November, our team at the Manhattan Institute published a study
indicating ... MORENSA Claims Our Surveillance System Is Too Complex to Stop
by Joe Wolverton, II. The National Security Agency (NSA) claims that its computers are so
powerful that to try to protect data from erasure would have “an
immediate, specific, and harmful impact on the national security of the
United States.” This is the argument put forth by the surveillance agency to excuse
itself from preserving data ... MOREA. Barton Hinkle: IRS Scandal Implicates Democrats
Using government power to limit political speech. "Special interests are planning and running millions of dollars" in ads, warns President Barack Obama. But despite their "benign-sounding names," adds Democratic operative David Axelrod, some of them are "front groups for foreign-controlled companies." Together, they are trying to ... MOREJohn Stossel: Here Comes Tomorrow
Robots will make our future better. Ray Kurzweil — inventor of things like machines that turn text into speech — has popularized the idea that we are rapidly approaching "the singularity," the point at which machines not only think for themselves but develop intellectually faster than we. At that point, maybe we no longer talk about "human ... MORE
The Data Is Clear: Free Markets Reduce Poverty
by D.W. MacKenzie. Some Catholic clergy have, once again, denounced supporters of laissez-faire capitalism.
Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga claims that the free market economy
is “a new idol” which creates inequality, excludes the poor, and that
“this economy
kills.” Cardinal Maradiaga does not speak alone. He quoted Pope ... MORELicense-Plate Readers Are Newest Police State Tool
by Ali Winston. One story of the collateral damage. Denise Green had just dropped off her sister at the 24th Street Mission BART station after picking her up from the hospital. Green, who was driving a 1992 red Lexus, noticed a San Francisco police car with its lights on pull up behind her as she passed through the intersection of Mission Street ... MORE
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