Jim Harper: Government's Surveillance-Security Fantasies
A high cost in dollars and privacy for the individual. If two data points are enough to draw a trend line, the trend I’ve spotted is government seeking to use data mining where it doesn’t work. A comment in the Chronicle of Higher Education recently argued that universities should start mining data about student behavior in order to thwart incipient ... MOREBrian Phillips: Individual Rights And Government Wrongs
The right to the pursuit of happiness means just that. What does happiness mean to you? Does it mean a career that you love? Does it mean a family? Does it mean discovering a cure for some horrible disease? Does it mean building your dream house? No matter your answer, only you can determine what will bring you satisfaction, joy, and happiness ... MORE
George Melloan: Let's Return To The Gold Standard
Curing the disease of debt. The futile search for El Dorado, the city of gold, is the stuff of legends, among them a sardonic poem by Edgar Allen Poe about a knight who wasted his life in that pursuit. At first glance, the quest for something far more substantial, an international gold monetary standard, might seem equally Quixotic in today's world where those ... MOREStephen Dinan: Amish Farm Shut Down For Selling Milk
Your tax money at work. The FDA won its two-year fight to shut down an Amish farmer who was selling fresh raw milk to eager consumers in the Washington, D.C., region after a judge this month banned Daniel Allgyer from selling his milk across state lines and he told his customers he would shut down his farm altogether. The decision has enraged Mr. Allgyer's ... MOREWalter E Williams: Rising Black Social Pathology
A gross betrayal of the memory, struggle and sacrifice. The Philadelphia Inquirer's big story Feb. 4 was about how a budget crunch at the Philadelphia School District had caused the district to lay off 91 school police officers. Over the years, there's been no discussion of what has happened to our youth that makes a school police force necessary ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: The Progressive Legacy
A restoration of discredited ideas. Although Barack Obama is the first black President of the United States, he is by no means unique, except for his complexion. He follows in the footsteps of other presidents with a similar vision, the vision at the heart of the Progressive movement that flourished a hundred years ago. Many of the trends, problems and disasters of ... MORE
VIDEO: Michael Steele On Wealth Redistribution
Socratic interviewer Jan Helfeld brings the former RNC chairman to the bottom line.
Peter Berger: On Blasphemy Laws
Religious groups raise hell over words. In common usage blasphemy means words and actions which constitute an insult to God or other sacred entities. To the modern mind the term may seem obsolete, a leftover from primitive superstition. It is anything but obsolete to many people in the contemporary world. Toward the end of January two ... MORE
Declan McCullagh: No Fifth Amendment In Cyberspace
Helping to build a case against ourselves. American citizens can be ordered to decrypt their PGP-scrambled hard drives for police to peruse for incriminating files, a federal judge in Colorado ruled today in what could become a precedent-setting case. Judge Robert Blackburn ordered a Peyton, Colo. woman to decrypt the hard drive of a Toshiba laptop computer ... MOREJon Entine: Over-Regulation Fever At The White House
Don’t drink tap water. Beware the coming environmental apocalypse. It’s election season, and advocacy groups are turning up the heat on the Environmental Protection Agency. Will the Obama Administration buckle in this über-political time and give in to alarmism? The target du jour is atrazine, the American farmer’s most popular weed killer, but it’s ... MOREMark Steyn: The Church Of Obama
The president has issued his own Act of Supremacy. Announcing his support for Commissar Sebelius’s edicts on contraception, sterilization, and pharmacological abortion, that noted theologian the Most Reverend Al Sharpton explained: “If we are going to have a separation of church and state, we’re going to have a separation of church and state.” ... MORE
NRA: Obama Wants To Outlaw Guns in 2nd Term
Caution: unbridled liberalism ahead. A top official with the National Rifle Association said Friday that President Obama will move to "destroy" gun rights and "erase" the Second Amendment if he is re-elected in November. While delivering one of the liveliest and best-received speeches at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington ... MOREKen Paulson: Citizens Have A Right To Record Cops
Imagine Rodney King in the YouTube era. The beating captured on a camcorder in 1991 was seen on at least 240 TV stations around the world, impressive for pre-digital days, and served notice on law enforcement officers that cameras could capture them at their best — and worst. Today, when laughing babies can yield 42 million views. ... MORE
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