Busybodies minding your own business. Children's book author Kari Anne Roy was recently
visited by the Austin police and Child Protective Services for
allowing her son Isaac, age 6, to do the unthinkable: Play outside,
up her street, unsupervised. He'd been out there for about 10 minutes when Roy's doorbell
rang. She opened ... MORELenore Skenazy: 'Just Don't Let Your Kids Play Outside'
Busybodies minding your own business. Children's book author Kari Anne Roy was recently
visited by the Austin police and Child Protective Services for
allowing her son Isaac, age 6, to do the unthinkable: Play outside,
up her street, unsupervised. He'd been out there for about 10 minutes when Roy's doorbell
rang. She opened ... MOREWashington Is Trying To Get Your Retirement Account
by Charles Payne. Big government's next big reach. Tuesday was another anxious day for the market, ahead of three major events beginning with the Fed decision getting announced today, Scotland’s vote on Thursday, and the debut of Alibaba on Friday. All along, I have felt that the past few sessions have been an orchestrated attempt to ... MORE
Bill Would Abolish Civil Asset Forfeiture In Wyoming
by Laura Hancock. An attempt to repeal legalized theft. The state legislative committee will sponsor a bill in the 2015 session that would prohibit law enforcement and prosecutors from seizing property unless the owner has been convicted of a crime. Wyoming’s civil asset forfeiture laws currently allow authorities to take money, weapons, ... MOREProperty Rights and Property Taxes: To Possess Not Own
by Nick Giambruno. Do you really own something that you are forced to perpetually make payments on and which can be seized from you if you don’t pay? I would say that you don’t. You would possess such an item, but you wouldn’t own it—an important distinction. A ridiculous perversion of the concept of ownership and property rights has ... MOREWalter E Williams: Multiculturalism Is A Failure
Western culture and values are superior. German Chancellor Angela Merkel declared that in Germany, multiculturalism has "utterly failed." Both Australia's ex-prime minister John Howard and Spain's ex-prime minister Jose Maria Aznar reached the same conclusion about multiculturalism in their countries. British Prime Minister ... MORESharia Law Compatible With Constitution Says Rep. Waters
by Sara Noble. Political nitwittery on parade. Maxine Waters is under the impression that Shariah Law can be implemented while our U.S. Constitution is in effect. Anyone who disagrees is an Islamophobe and a hater according to her. Last week, the Council of Pakistan Affairs and Islamic
Society of Orange County welcomed Maxine Waters to a ... MORE
Jacob Sullum: Federal Appeals Court Rebukes Florida Cops for Using SWAT-Style Raids to Check For Barbers' Licenses
Government pit bulls tethered by court. Today a federal appeals court rebuked police in Orange County, Florida, for mounting a warrantless, SWAT-style raid on a barbershop under the pretense of assisting state inspectors. "We have twice held, on facts disturbingly similar to those presented here, that a criminal raid executed ... MOREJohn Stossel: Immigration Is America
Guess who built this country? Conservatives rightly point out that America is a nation of laws. No one should be exempt. That's why many oppose amnesty and other paths to citizenship for illegal immigrants who are here now. "If they want to be in America," the argument goes, "they ought to return to their own countries and apply for a visa ... MORECanada Warns Citizens Of America's Cash-Hungry Cops
A heads up on asset forfeiture schemes. On its official website, the Canadian government informs its citizens that “there is no limit to the amount of money that you may legally take into or out of the United States.” Nonetheless, it adds, banking in the U.S. can be difficult for non-residents, so Canadians shouldn’t carry large amounts of cash. ... MORELeo Vs. Science: Vanishing Evidence For Climate Change
The incandescent ignorance of a Hollywood star. In the runup to the Sept. 23 UN Climate Summit in New York, Leonardo DiCaprio is releasing a series of films about the “climate crisis.” The first is “Carbon,” which tells us the world is threatened by a “carbon monster.” Coal, oil, natural gas and other carbon-based forms of energy are causing ... MORESurveillance States Have Placed Us In An Invisible Prison
by John Twelve Hawks. Going untracked in the digital dystopia. The continuing revelations by Edward Snowden have convinced many of us that we are living in a modern surveillance state. And the problem isn’t just the activities of the National Security Agency and Great Britain’s GCHQ. “Trickle Down Surveillance” has provided spy technology ... MOREEmails: EPA Rules Part Of The Progressive Agenda
Mice trying to become rats through body building. Emails between top Environmental Protection Agency officials reveal
they saw their fight against global warming as putting them at
“forefront of progressive national policy.” “You are at the forefront of progressive national policy on one of the critical issues of our time. ... MOREScott DeSapio: Thank you, John Aglialoro
Atlas Shrugged III - Who Is John Galt? A vision of liberty. On September 6th, 2014, I stood up in front of a packed house in Las Vegas, NV, and stated, “This is not the movie that’s been playing in your head since you closed the back cover. This is however, without question, a celebration of Ayn Rand’s ideas.” That packed house was filled ... MORE
Katie Kieffer: Why Farmers Need Keystone XL
It’s harvest time! But oil shipments out of the Bakken are causing dangerous and costly rail delays for farmers. The oil boom in the Northern Plains is a boon to the U.S. economy, creating thousands of jobs and increasing our supply of American energy. With nearly 3 million Americans out of work, the Bakken is like a pool of cool water in an arid ... MOREJacob Sullum: How Cops Became Robbers
Supreme Court helps cops trolling for loot. One afternoon in August 2012, Mandrel Stuart was driving with his girlfriend into Washington, D.C., when a Fairfax County cop pulled him over on Interstate 66, ostensibly because the windows of his SUV were too dark. Lacking the device necessary to check whether the tinting of the ... MORE
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