Like a laser cutting through fog. Amid all the political and media hoopla about the “fiscal cliff” crisis, there are a few facts that are worth noting. First of all, despite all the melodrama about raising taxes on “the rich,” even if that is done, it will scarcely make a dent in the government’s financial problems. Raising the tax rates on everybody in the ... MOREThomas Sowell: Fiscal Cliff Notes
Like a laser cutting through fog. Amid all the political and media hoopla about the “fiscal cliff” crisis, there are a few facts that are worth noting. First of all, despite all the melodrama about raising taxes on “the rich,” even if that is done, it will scarcely make a dent in the government’s financial problems. Raising the tax rates on everybody in the ... MORELarisa Brown: Switzerland Selected Best Place To Be Born
U.S was 1st under Reagan, has now fallen to 16th. Switzerland is the best place to be born in the world in 2013, and the U.S. is just 16th. A new study produced by the Economist Intelligence Unit says American babies will have a dimmer future than those born in Hong Kong, Ireland and even Canada. The EIU, a sister company of The ... MOREWalter E Williams: Future Generations
Behaving like there is no tomorrow. Is there any reason for today's Americans to care about what happens to tomorrow's Americans? After all, what have tomorrow's Americans done for today's Americans? Moreover, since tomorrow's Americans don't vote, we can dump on them with impunity. That's a vision that describes the actual behavior ... MOREIsaiah Thompson: The Philly Cash Machine
The Philly D.A. has a license to steal. When Philadelphia Police officers stopped Dwayne Marks as he was driving north on Broad Street near Temple University last year, Marks says he wasn’t particularly worried. Marks, who is a black man in his late 30s from East Mount Airy, has faced drug charges in the past — but he’s straightened up, ... MORESupreme Court Makes Ruling In Favor Of Private Property
Government no longer free to cause flooding. Supreme Court boosted property rights Tuesday, ruling unanimously government is not automatically exempt from liability when it causes flooding. In an Arkansas case, the justices said there is no automatic exemption from the Constitution's takings clause in the Fifth Amendment -- ... MOREIra Stoll: Why AT&T's CEO Wants Higher Taxes
They a lot of business with the U.S. government. AT&T customers, pay attention: your phone company is trying to raise your rates. No, not your phone rates: your tax rates. And therein lies a story. If federal campaign contributions are any guide, the CEO and
chairman of AT&T, Randall Stephenson, is, or was, a solid
Republican. In ... MORE
Katie Kieffer: Push The Fed Over The Cliff
Stop worrying about the ‘fiscal cliff.’ Spending cuts would feel
therapeutic after watching Standard & Poor's and Egan-Jones
downgrade our credit rating and seeing President Obama add $6 trillion
to the national debt. The way to avert another recession and massive
inflation is to eliminate the unconstitutional Federal Reserve. There are ... MOREAllyson Mitchell: Obama Making Up Drone Rules As He Goes
Americans need transparency of conventional warfare. The Obama administration has not yet answered concerns regarding the
secrecy, legality and efficacy of the drone warfare program. During the
presidential elections, to avoid leaving business unfinished, a
last-minute effort surfaced in the White House to create a secret rule ... MORERon Resnick: How Reality TV Saved The 2nd Amendment
An unexpected source promotes liberty. I used to dream that someday I would make a fortune, retire from whatever business occasioned the fortune, and endow what I would call the Second Amendment Litigation Trust. The sole purpose of this trust would be to finance Second Amendment attorneys to prosecute litigation designed to result ... MORESteve Chapman: Higher Taxes, Smaller Government?
Incentives needed to curb spending. It comes as no surprise to hear anti-tax activist Grover
Norquist talk about tax cuts, but it does come as a surprise to
hear him raise the subject of pink unicorns. Pink unicorns are purely imaginary—a trait he says they share
with the spending curbs that Republicans hope to get from the
administration in exchange ... MORE
The Government Can Still Black Bag Any American
by Travis Holte. The Senate passed the much ballyhooed Feinstein-Lee amendment last night, which supposedly partially
nullifies the provision in the National Defense Authorization Act
(NDAA) allowing for Americans to be kidnapped by the government and
disappeared without any charge or due process. Senator Rand Paul put out
a press release declaring ... MOREDrone Crashes Mount At Civilian Airports Overseas
by Craig Whitlock. The U.S. Air Force drone, on a classified spy mission over the Indian Ocean, was destined for disaster from the start. An inexperienced military contractor in shorts and a T-shirt,
flying by remote control from a trailer at Seychelles International
Airport, committed blunder after blunder in six minutes on April 4. He sent the ... MOREJ. D. Tucille: The Feds Want To Spy On Everything
They want to read more than just your e-mail. Electronic privacy is all the rage in
these post-Petraeus days. Can the government really go pawing through our email
at will? Well,
pretty much so, it turns out, at least, until the Supreme Court
gets around to focusing a little bit of its attention on this
newfangled, electronic world of ours. But email ... MORERachel Maddow's Blind Deference To Government Power
by Sheldon Richman. Is there a difference between government and society? Rachel
Maddow seems to think not. Pay close attention to these
words from the MSNBC host's promo as she attempts to
defend "America" against those who (in her view) believe its best
days are in the past: "No, no, no. We're not going to build it. No, No, No. America ... MORE
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