The beginning of the end. In respect to liberty, 1913 was a dark year in U.S. history. Three key pieces of legislation were passed that (now 100 years later) have individual liberty seriously on the rocks. They were: The 16th Amendment, which created the Federal Income Tax, The 17th Amendment, which created the Popular Election of Senators, ... MOREChris Rossini: Rolling Back To That Dreaded Year: 1913
The beginning of the end. In respect to liberty, 1913 was a dark year in U.S. history. Three key pieces of legislation were passed that (now 100 years later) have individual liberty seriously on the rocks. They were: The 16th Amendment, which created the Federal Income Tax, The 17th Amendment, which created the Popular Election of Senators, ... MORERick Moran: The Upside To Sequestration?
Government carries forward its own momentum. Matthew Cooper writing at the National Journal: Everyone agrees that sequestration is asinine, but Washington is increasingly resigned to it. Other deadlines have been met by fevered last-minute negotiations and, mercifully, avoidance of calamity. This time there's less urgency and more sighs. There is an ... MOREMichelle Malkin: Disarming American Women
The Left: Fight rapists with pens, urine, vomit, tears. If radical gun-grabbers have their way, your daughters, mothers, and grandmothers will have nothing but whistles, pens, and bodily fluids with which to defend themselves against violent attackers and sexual predators. Women of all ages, races, and political backgrounds should be up in arms over ... MORESupreme Court Approves Search Warrants Issued By Dogs
by Jacob Sullum. The
U.S. Supreme Court unanimously
ruled that "a court can presume" an alert by a drug-sniffing
dog provides probable cause for a search "if a bona fide
organization has certified a dog after testing his reliability in a
controlled setting" or "if the dog has recently and successfully
completed a training program that evaluated his ... MORERobert Robb: Obama And The Death Of Federalism
To the Founders, federalism was big deal. President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address illustrated what a dead letter federalism is among Democrats. Not that further illustration was necessary. Federalism holds that the national government should limit itself to things of truly national scope. Things that are primarily of local concern should be ... MOREObamaCare's Health Exchanges Are Customer Free Zones
by Sally Pipes. Last month, the CEO of the nation’s largest health insurance company warned that he and his peers may balk at participating in Obamacare’s insurance exchanges — online, government-run portals where consumers and small businesses without conventional employer-sponsored coverage may shop for policies starting next year. ... MORE
VIDEO: Why The Price Of Everything Is Going Up
The more money put into circulation, the more there is to bid up prices.
Kurt Nimmo: California Lib Wants To Tax Concealed Carry
The latest scheme of a 2nd Amendment denier. Rep. Linda Sánchez, a California Democrat with a history of attacks on the Second Amendment, introduced H.R. 793last
week. The proposed legislation calls for an excise tax on concealed
carry and a federal buyback program. It is co-sponsored by a number of
Democrats in the House, including the ... MOREJohn Stossel: To Government, Every Penny Is Sacred
President Obama has new priorities. That means new spending. In his State of the Union, he said, "The American people don't expect government to solve every problem." But then he went on to list how, under his guidance, government will solve a thousand problems, including some (like climate change and a loss of manufacturing jobs) that ... MOREStephen J. Dunn: Nothing Civil About Asset Forfeiture
Policing for profit is a license to steal. On receiving his monthly bank statements, a small business owner notices that the United States government has seized the balances of his accounts during the month. He calls the bank, and is given contact information of a Special Agent of the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division. The ... MORE
Katie Kieffer: Staring In Drone Dynasty
You are a reality star. You might think no one sees you in your fenced-in backyard grilling hamburgers in your boxer shorts. But government drones equipped with HD cameras are filming a new reality show starring you: “Drone Dynasty.” In popular reality shows like “Duck Dynasty” and “Keeping Up With the Kardashians,” we essentially ... MOREFull-Body-Pat-Downs In America's Public Schools
How the war on drugs is a war on children. On a warm spring afternoon at American colleges, the intoxicating aroma
of surely medicinal marijuana will be floating like a soft caress in the
breeze, and hard-working students will be stocking up on amphetamine
cocktails to sharpen their overstressed young minds for the coming
exams. ... MOREEmily Miller: Concealed Carry Renewed
Pumping oxygen to the 2nd Amendment. The top legislative priority for gun owners in the previous Congress
was passage of a national concealed carry reciprocity bill. The measure
sailed through the House on a bipartisan 272 to 154 vote only to die at
the hands of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who refused to bring it to the floor. Since President ... MORE
New York Toddlers Cram For Kindergarten Entrance Exam
by Gary North. At age 4, kids are expert test-takers. They have to be. If they don’t score well, they will have to attend a public school. Yes, a public school. A New York City public school. The kid is doomed. Rich parents dread the thought. At $30,000 for kindergarten,
there is still intense competition. Think of $400,000 for a kid’s
education, ... MORE
R Rahn: More Government Control Equals Poorer Nations
A free market tutorial from, of all places, Moscow. An upside down world. Here I am, in my London hotel
room, watching an English-language financial program being broadcast
from Moscow on RT (Russian TV). The program host is correctly berating
the heads of the major Western central banks for acting like socialists
in setting interest rates and ... MORE
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