Constitutional contempt for all to see. Pundits are pointing to President Barack Obama's recent decline in public opinion polls, and saying that he may now become another "lame duck" president, unable to accomplish much during his final term in office. That has happened to other presidents. But it is extremely unlikely to happen to this ... MOREThomas Sowell: A Lame Duck Country?
Constitutional contempt for all to see. Pundits are pointing to President Barack Obama's recent decline in public opinion polls, and saying that he may now become another "lame duck" president, unable to accomplish much during his final term in office. That has happened to other presidents. But it is extremely unlikely to happen to this ... MOREReport Show Police Using Asset Seizure To Bolster Budgets
by Katie Rucke. The police department's license to steal. The rights afforded to people by the U.S. Constitution do not extend to their property. This means that when a law enforcement official suspects that someone’s property — including his or her car, money, home or gun — was involved in a crime, the official can seize that property and ... MORECops Defend Needless Murder Of Homeowner's Dog
by Ryan Gorman and Jill Reilly. Unbelievable video from the pet owner. Dramatic video has emerged of the moment the owner of a dog shot dead by a policeman searching for a missing boy confronted cops over the killing. Sean Kendall, 27, berated the officers only minutes after his dog was shot in the head last week by a Salt Lake City ... MORECharles Krauthammer: Government By Fiat
The Constitution means nothing to the current regime. The Supreme Court this week admonished the Environmental Protection Agency for overreaching in regulating greenhouse gases. The Clean Air Act covers polluters that emit 250 tons per year (or in some cases, 100 tons). This standard makes no sense if applied to greenhouse gases. ... MOREThe Free State Project: A Libertarian Testing Ground
by Kashmir Hill. Long before billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel dreamed up the idea of a floating libertarian island nation, a 24-year-old Yale grad student named Jason Sorens proposed
a far more down-to-earth experiment for those who wanted to live the
limited government lifestyle: that a critical mass of “freedom-loving
people… ... MOREWalter E Williams: The Education Establishment's Success
Pigeons make for easy prey. Many view America's education as a failure, but in at least one important way, it's been a success — a success in dumbing down the nation so that we fall easy prey to charlatans, hustlers and quacks. You say, "Williams, that's insulting! Explain yourself." OK, let's start with a question or two. Are you for or against ... MOREJohn Stossel: Omission Control
The American Pravda. Reporter Sharyl Attkisson's story sounds familiar to me: A major network got tired of her reports criticizing government. She no longer works there. The CBS correspondent reported on Fast and Furious, the shifting explanation for the Benghazi, Libya, attacks and the bungled rollout of the Obamacare website. ... MOREMeet The 7 IRS Employees Whose Computers ‘Crashed’
by Patrick Howley. A coverup with transparency. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is currently claiming that seven different IRS officials experienced computer crashes that erased their emails and made it impossible for the IRS to cooperate with congressional investigations into the IRS targeting matter. The wave of computer crashes ... MOREGet A Warrant!: John Roberts Gives The Cops A Benchslap
by Damon Root. High Court decides police must obey the Fourth Amendment. The
Fourth Amendment protects our "persons, houses, papers, and
effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures." Today, in the
case of
Riley v. California, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled
unanimously that this constitutional protection extends to ... MORESupreme Court Marches in Lockstep with the Police State
by John W. Whitehead. The U.S. Supreme Court was intended to be an institution established to
intervene and protect the people against the government and its agents
when they overstep their bounds. Yet as I point out in my book A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State,
Americans can no longer rely on the courts to ... MORENanny Uses California Law To Assist In Home Invasion
by James Nye. California today, America tomorrow. The first few weeks she was awesome,' said Bracamonte to ABC News about her squatter. 'She would come places with us, help out the kids. She was really great.' But overnight things changed for the stay at home mother and her electrical contractor husband. 'All of a sudden she ... MOREThe Scandal Of Fiddled Global Warming Data
by Christopher Booker. A very cold truth. When future generations try to understand how the world got carried away
around the end of the 20th century by the panic over global warming, few
things will amaze them more than the part played in stoking up the scare by
the fiddling of official temperature data. There was already much evidence ... MORE
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