Andrew Napolitano: Obama Expands His Power To Kill
While reducing our capacity to defend ourselves. Does the government work for us, or do we work for the government? How can the president claim the lawful power to kill whomever he wishes and at the same time ask Congress to incapacitate our ability to defend ourselves against those who might seek to kill us? Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul ... MOREBob Taylor: Jackie Robinson And Political Correctness
Society is an ever-evolving process. Jackie Robinson did more than simply change the face of baseball when he broke the race barrier in the sport sixty-six years ago. Robinson changed the course of history. He opened the gates for African American athletes to compete in all team sports, not just baseball and, in the process, he was also a major catalyst in ... MORERobert Higgs: ABC's For Today's Public School Students
A is for Alzheimer’s Disease. If you eat lots of vegetables and floss your teeth, you will live a long time and get this condition as your reward. B is for Baconator. If thou shouldst ever eat one, thou shalt surely die. C is for Crumbling Infrastructure, an incantation government officials mutter when they want to spend more of the public’s money ... MOREMatthew Walther: Rand The Realist
The Kentucky senator is his own man. Rand Paul’s shirts always seem to fit. Look at almost any
picture of him: The jacket lapel is always touching the tip of his
collar, if only just barely. His untamed curls notwithstanding, he
looks professional, put together, serious. The junior senator from
Kentucky wasn’t wearing a jacket when I sat down ... MORETibor R. Machan: Corruption Of Individual Rights
Now we have the 'right' to coerce. Whenever a good idea surfaces, there will surely be many who will try to hitch their wagon to it filled with corrupt versions that aim to serve numerous purposes having little to do with the original good idea. One example is the idea of individual natural human rights. Some simply disagree with the idea, like Jeremy ... MORECharles C. W. Cooke: A Tax On Freedom
High taxes on guns and ammo punish the law-abiding. ‘I’m not asking to take away people’s guns,” Maryland legislator Jon Cardin nervously told Politico this week. “I’m just saying that for an activity that is relatively dangerous, obviously, people who participate in that activity should pay the full costs of that activity.” America, witness a ... MORETechdirt: Crusader Feinstein Looks To Limit More Options
This time it's violent video games. Dianne Feinstein, whose post-Newtown assault weapons ban was defanged by Sen. Harry Reid before its inclusion in the Democrats' gun control bill, has decided to switch scapegoats. Now, she's determined to do something about violent video games, apparently unaware that the Supreme Court has already ... MOREDana Loesch: When Tryanny Masquerades As Stupidity
The belief that criminals will abide gun laws. When Democrats passed the assault weapons ban in 1994 it didn’t
prevent further gun-related crime or stop the Columbine massacre.
Connecticut’s own assault weapons ban did nothing to prevent Adam Lanza from committing theft (another crime) to illegally
posses a gun that he used illegally. The small ... MOREJacob Sullum: Obama's Abuse Of Dead Children
The master opportunist strikes again. "This is about doing the right thing for all the families who
are here that have been torn apart by gun violence," President
Obama
declared on Monday, promoting his "common-sense gun safety
reforms" in a speech at the University of Hartford, where the
audience included parents of children who ... MOREThomas Sowell: Tests And Tiger Moms
Inducing poverty with political correctness. New York City's Stuyvesant High School is one of those all too rare public schools for intellectually outstanding students. Such students are often bored to death in schools where the work is geared to the lowest common denominator, and it is by no means uncommon for very bright ... MOREFBI Warrantless Cellphone Tracking 'Very Common'
Can you hear me now? FBI
investigators for at least five years have routinely used a
sophisticated cellphone tracking tool that can pinpoint callers’
locations and listen to their conversations — all without getting a
warrant for it, a federal court was told this week. The use of the “Stingray,” as the tool is called, “is a very common practice” by ... MOREMan Facing Charges For Self-Defense Against Bear
What would they have done to Daniel Boone? A 76-year-old Auburn, Massachusetts man Richard Ahlstrand had spotted a
black bear in his backyard last Thursday around his bird feeders. On
Friday, he went to fill up his bird feeders, and as a precaution, he
took his shotgun. Sure enough, the black bear showed up and started to
chase the old ... MOREThomas Sowell: 'Proportional Response'
Lowering the prospective cost of aggression. Since when has it been considered smart to tell your enemies what your plans are? Yet there on the front page of the April 8th New York Times was a story about how unnamed "American officials" were planning a "proportional" response to any North Korean attack. This was spelled in an example: If ... MOREWashington Times Editorial: Burying Crony Capitalism
The courts strike a blow for economic freedom. An established business knows that the most direct way to dominate the
market is to enlist government assistance. Trade groups frequently seek
the imposition of licensing requirements — in the name of public safety,
of course. Requiring someone who wants to be a barber, tour guide ... MORE
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