Market Fairness Act imposes an unnecessary burden. At a 2008 shareholders meeting, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos explained why he opposed requiring businesses like his to collect state and local taxes on their interstate sales. "We're not actually benefiting from any services that those states provide locally," Bezos said. ... MOREJacob Sullum: Are Online Sales Taxes Only Fair?
Market Fairness Act imposes an unnecessary burden. At a 2008 shareholders meeting, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos explained why he opposed requiring businesses like his to collect state and local taxes on their interstate sales. "We're not actually benefiting from any services that those states provide locally," Bezos said. ... MORERoss Kaminsky: The Pigs Of Pigford
Most naked taxpayer fleecing in recent memory. The Washington Times covered it in 2001. And so did Fox News. Jennifer Rubin wrote about it in 2008, and many writers on these pages have mentioned it since then. In 2011, Andrew Breitbart made it one of his most cared-about causes, following from his outing of on-again off-again, ... MOREVIDEO: Protecting You From Low-Cost Teeth Whitening
FLOSS: Fighting to protect dentists from fair competition.
‘Held Hostage By The Tyranny Of Political Correctness’
RGIII speaks out. Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III took to Twitter on Tuesday to complain about the “tyranny of political correctness” he believes is holding American culture “hostage.” “In a land of freedom we are held hostage by the tyranny of political
correctness,” the NFL player wrote on his official Twitter account. ... MORENo More Tax Dollars For Presidential Libraries
by Gene Healy. Last week, at the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum, President Obama and former Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter put partisanship aside and descended on the Southern Methodist University campus in Dallas to say nice things about our 43rd president, (They're all in the same racket, after all.) ... MORERituparna Basu: How ObamaCare Fleeces The Young
Paying higher rates to subsidize the old. Starting next year, the Affordable Care Act will limit how much health insurance premiums can vary based on age. Health insurers will be restricted to charging older people no more than three times higher premiums than they charge younger people. This is bad news for the young. It's a fact that ... MOREThomas Sowell - The Art Of The Impossible
Someone called politics "the art of the possible." But, in the era of
the modern welfare state, politics is largely the art of the
impossible. Those people morbid enough to keep track of politicians' promises may
remember how Barack Obama said that ObamaCare would lower medical costs
-- and lots of people bought it. But if you ... MOREJ.D. Tuccille: Print Your Gun Parts At Home
New technology challenges gun control laws. In February, the techie gun-rights group Defense Distributed unveiled a 3D-printed lower receiver for an AR-15 rifle that withstood hundreds of rounds of fire. A YouTube video of the component in action was accompanied by the terse statement, “Does not fail from firing stresses. 600+ rounds.” ... MORECops Take $160,000 In 'Policing For Profit' Scheme
Government-approved highway robbery. NewsChannel 5 has uncovered a brand new "policing for profit" case -- a case that resulted in a New York man losing a $160,000 on a Tennessee interstate. Even more startling, critics said, the case exposes a major loophole around a new law that's supposed to crack down on such abuses. ... MORE
GAO Now Investigating DHS Ammo Purchases
Why over a billion rounds? The Government Accountability Office tells Whispers it is now investigating large ammunition purchases
made by the Department of Homeland Security. Chuck Young, a spokesman
for GAO, says the investigation of the purchases is "just getting
underway." The congressional investigative agency is jumping into the fray ... MOREPeter Schiff: Record Physical Gold Sales
Best hedge against inflation. Peter Schiff appeared on Fox Business this morning to talk about the market’s perception of gold, the extraordinary surge in gold sales this month, and hidden inflation in the US and Japan. “Gold has been up for 12 consecutive years. It’s entitled to a correction. It’s incredible how the media has jumped all over ... MORE
Washington Times: Driving Toward Bankruptcy
Crony capitalism is in the driver's seat. There aren’t many winners in the current economic climate. Most companies are struggling against the burdens of higher taxes, red tape and uncertainty, and there’s no opportunity to expand and prosper. Some companies, however, have found a shortcut through deep political connections to the Obama ... MOREWalter E Williams: Liberal Suffering And Confusion
The liberal world vision and reality are often at variance, for example,
with equal pay for equal work. I've often watched "Lockup," a show that
features California supermax prisons, including Pelican Bay and
Corcoran. Often, a recalcitrant prisoner must be extracted from his cell
through brute force. I've never seen female guards remove a prisoner.
If they are part of the process at all, it's to videotape the ... MORESteve Chapman: When In Doubt, Do Nothing
Credo of the government bureaucrat. Once in a while, a government agency adopts a policy that is
logical, hardheaded, based on experience and unswayed by cheap
sentiment. This may be surprising enough to make you reconsider
your view of bureaucrats. But not to worry: It usually doesn't
last. In March the federal Transportation Security Administration . ... MOREKatie Kieffer: Obama's Secret Gun-Running Program
Introducing BENGHAZIGATE. Liberals don’t want honest Americans like you to have guns. Liberals
just want to arm foreign rebels in crapshoot attempts to “end global
violence.” But liberals feign ignorance when the rebels they arm end up
being criminals who kill innocent Americans like the late U.S.
Ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens. ... MORE
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