Thomas Sowell: A Primer On Race
The state against blacks. Back in the heyday of the British Empire, a man from one of the colonies addressed a London audience. "Please do not do any more good in my country," he said. "We have suffered too much already from all the good that you have done." That is essentially the message of an outstanding new book by Jason ... MOREWalter E Williams: Spending And Morality
Politicians reflect moral rot. During last year's budget negotiation meetings, President Barack Obama told House Speaker John Boehner, "We don't have a spending problem." When Boehner responded with "But, Mr. President, we have a very serious spending problem," Obama replied, "I'm getting tired of hearing you say that." ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Spying On Innocence
More evidence the government is not us. In what appears to be one of Edward Snowden's final revelations, the former CIA and NSA agent has demonstrated conclusively that the National Security Agency has collected and analyzed the contents of emails, text messages, and mobile and landline telephone calls from nine non-targeted ... MORE
John Stossel: Important Slow News
On perspective. Wars, plane crashes, mass murder — it's easy to report news that happens suddenly. Reporters do a good job covering that. But we do a bad job telling you about what's really changing in the world, because we miss the stories that happen slowly. These are usually the more important stories. Recently, President Barack Obama ... MORELook at Online Privacy Tools? NSA Labels You ‘Extremist’
by Joshua Kapstein. The government is not us. Online privacy tools like Tor have become incredibly popular in the wake
of Edward Snowden’s surveillance revelations. But according to an
analysis of leaked source code from the National Security Agency, using or merely searching for information about those tools is enough to label someone ... MOREHow Government Forces the Poor Into Black Markets
by Peter St. Onge. From the left we often see tension between those who want to help the poor, and those who want to help the government. One recent example of this is the proposal to ban cash forwarded by Harvard’s Ken Rogoff. The gist of Rogoff’s beef with cash is that cash fuels the black market,
and it makes it harder for the ... MORESheldon Richman: A Slippery Slope in the Right Direction?
Or, did the blind squirrels in robes merely find a nut. As far as it went, the Supreme Court generally got it right in
the Hobby Lobby Obamacare contraception case. Unfortunately it
didn't go nearly far enough. The court ruled that "closely held corporations" whose owners have religious convictions against certain kinds of contraceptives ... MOREReal Impact of the NYC Soda Ban's Well-Deserved Defeat
by Baylen Linnekin. The option-destroyers lose one. Last week, the New York State Court of
Appeals—the state's highest court—dealt a final
death blow to New York City's reviled soda ban. The decision,
which upheld two lower court rulings, drew an important line in the
sand across which New York City's activist health department may no
longer ... MOREVIDEO: Cop Fishing In A Revenue Collection Trap
Is the issue public safety or simply separating citizens from their money?
The Shocking Way That Some Prisons Are Kept Full
by Brandon Weber. Crony capitalism hits a new low. Let's see: Privatize prisons so companies make profits on them, create a financial penalty for the state or city they're located in if they don't keep them full, and bribe members of Congress to keep the system humming ... hmmm, can't possibly see how this could go wrong! ... MORE
Jason Snead: Civil Forfeiture Criticized in Congress
Politician comes out against legalized theft. The growing national chorus in favor of civil asset forfeiture reform
gained new allies in the halls of Congress last week. Denouncing civil
forfeiture as an “ugly development,” Representative Tim Walberg (R–MI) took to the floor of the House of Representatives to call for the practice to be ... MORE
Do Americans Still Choose Freedom Over Slavery?
by John W. Whitehead. Imagine living in a country where armed soldiers crash through doors to arrest and imprison citizens merely for criticizing government officials. Imagine that in this very same country, you’re watched all the time, and if you look even a little bit suspicious, the police stop and frisk you or pull you over to search you ... MOREThis Independence Day, America Again Has a Monarch
by Andrew Napolitano. After a brief holiday last week, I returned to some heavy reading courtesy of the federal government. Some of the materials that I read were gratifying, and one was terrifying. In one week, the Supreme Court told the police that if they want to examine the contents of our cellphones, whether at traffic stops or serious ... MORE
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