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New Obama Regs For Gas To Add Up To 9 Cents A Gallon
by Rick Moran. Because it's for the kids, don't ya know? The new regs would remove 90% of sulfur from gasoline and tighten emission standards on cars. AP: An oil industry study says the proposed rule being unveiled Friday by the administration could increase gasoline prices by 6 cents to 9 cents a gallon. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates ... MOREMarta H. Mossburg: Food Regulations Of The Future
A sneak preview of the coming War on Obesity. March 29, 2020: The federal government today announced new regulations for buying fast food. Starting June 1, upon entering a national fast food chain restaurant or before ordering via a drive-thru each patron must undergo a Body Mass Index (BMI) analysis. The score will ... MOREProtect The Defenseless, Abolish Minimum Wage
by Don Watkins. A few years ago, I was in need of some extra cash so I decided to sell my laptop on eBay. A few days later, I got an offer. It wasn’t great, but then neither was my laptop. But before the payment went through, I got a call from the government. “We have decided that the offer you got was too low. We’re not going to let you sell your ... MOREObamaCare Gets Juicy As Employees Recognize Cost
The heavy cost of government health care. Yesterday, some person (or group) tweeted to me a link to a campaign (allegedly) by and for the current and former employees of Juicy Couture to demand “just hours.” You see, according to the campaign, the hip and trendy Juicy is doing what other companies are doing in an effort to cope ... MOREExpect These 8 Steps From The Government's Playbook
by Simon Black. To anyone paying attention, reality is now painfully obvious. These bankrupt, insolvent governments have just about run out of fingers to plug the dikes. And history shows that, once this happens, governments fall back on a very limited playbook: 1. Direct confiscation - As Cyprus showed us, bankrupt governments are quite happy to ... MOREMatt Taylor: Legalization Movement Plots Its Next 4 Years
Yes, we cannabis. Last November, with voters in Colorado and Washington state leading the way, ballot initiatives legalizing, taxing, and regulating recreational marijuana use passed for the first time ever. In Colorado, legalization actually outperformed President Obama. An Oregon effort would almost certainly have prevailed, too, if ... MORE
Gun Control Efforts Persist But Public Support Dims
Polls find fewer favor gun rights restrictions. Vice President Joseph R. Biden, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi
and other gun control advocates insisted Wednesday that both momentum
and public opinion are on their side, but recent polling shows Americans
turning against stricter laws as more time elapses since the Newtown ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Hope For The Dead
Without freedom, we are nothing. What does freedom have to do with rising from the dead? When America was in its infancy and struggling to find a culture and frustrated at governance from Great Britain, the word most frequently uttered in speeches and pamphlets and letters was not safety or taxes or peace; it was freedom. ... MOREThe Manufactured Authority Of The Nanny State
A core American concept, corrupted and ignored. Lately, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been the chief spokesman touting the merits and necessity of a Utopian nanny state. In a moment of honesty, he said while making a recent appearance on NBC, "I do think there certain times when we should infringe on your freedom." ... MOREJacob Sullum: Proactive Policing Becomes Harassment
NYPD's stop-and-frisk program is unconstitutional. The first time David Floyd was stopped and frisked, on a Friday afternoon in April 2007, he was walking down Beach Avenue a few doors from his house in the Bronx when two police officers confronted him, demanding to know who he was, where he was going, what he was doing, and ... MORE
Supreme Court Limits Drug-Sniffing Dog Use
Cops deprived of one warrantless search capability. The use of a drug-sniffing dog by police outside of a home where they suspected drugs were being grown constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment, the Supreme Court said in a decision handed down Tuesday. The case, Florida v. Jardines, dealt with whether ... MOREForbes Op-Ed: Feinstein Shoots-Off Mouth, Hits Foot
Gun control misses the mark. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) engaged in a shoot-out over the constitutionality of her proposed Senate bill to ban “assault weapons” and “high-capacity” magazines. Although it passed the Senate Judiciary Committee on a party-line 10-8 vote, it has virtually no chance of passing the ... MORERand Paul And Ted Cruz Threaten Filibuster On Guns
by Jonathan Allen. Sens. Rand Paul, Ted Cruz and Mike Lee are threatening to filibuster gun-control legislation, according to a letter they plan to hand-deliver to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s office on Tuesday. “We will oppose the motion to proceed to any legislation that will serve as a vehicle for any additional gun restrictions,” ... MOREJohn Stossel: Imperial Washington
Where public servants go to become masters. The Senate did something this past weekend it hasn't done in four years: passed a budget. The law requires the Senate to pass a budget, but Congress often ignores its own laws. For most of Barack Obama's presidency, a series of continuing resolutions kept the money — your money ... MORE
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