Never mind the threat to 300 million people. Recently, Time magazine published an article entitled “Ebola Just the Latest Hardship for Liberian Patient in the U.S.” The piece seemed to be written with the intent to elicit sympathy for a man who, in his quest to survive, illegally infiltrated a nation carrying a highly contagious hemorrhagic ... MOREJeannie DeAngelis: Amnesty For Ebola
Never mind the threat to 300 million people. Recently, Time magazine published an article entitled “Ebola Just the Latest Hardship for Liberian Patient in the U.S.” The piece seemed to be written with the intent to elicit sympathy for a man who, in his quest to survive, illegally infiltrated a nation carrying a highly contagious hemorrhagic ... MOREThe Demonization Of American Capitalism
by Jonathan Adelman. In the last seven years, inspired heavily by the Great Recession of 2007-2009, there has been a tidal wave of demonization of American capitalism. From movies (“The Great Gatsby” to the “Wolf of Wall Street”) to large scale social protest movements (“Occupy Wall Street”) to “One Percenters” to much of the ... MORERadley Balko: Another Civil Asset Forfeiture Outrage
Tactics of the profiteers. The Des Moines Register has the story
of William “Bart” Davis and John Newmerzhycky, two gamblers who had
more than $100,000 seized from them after they were pulled over by Iowa
state police. Davis and
Newmerzhycky were westbound on Interstate Highway 80 in Poweshiek
County on the morning of April 15, ... MOREAnother Jury Nullification Success Story
from Tenth Amendment Center: The curious case of Doug Darrell shows the immense amount of power that is possessed by We the People, when we have the courage to use it. Doug Darrell is a resident of New
Hampshire who cultivated marijuana for religious and medical purposes.
After a National Guard helicopter spotted his plants, he was ... MOREPoll: 51% Of Dems Support Criminalizing Hate Speech
First Amendment is so yesterday. Note: Hate speech, not hate crimes. YouGov asked people about hate crimes for its poll too and found bipartisan support for the federal law that provides steeper penalties for crimes motivated by hatred of the victim’s race, religion, gender, or national origin. Sixty-four percent of Dems gave thumbs-up to ... MOREAngela Graham-West: Political Correctness And Ebola
Political correctness brings Ebola to America. Wednesday night, "CNN Tonight" guests Ben Ferguson and Van Jones both agreed on some things: that in light of the Ebola case in Dallas Texas, a travel ban is not called for, that Obama wasn't responsible for the person getting the virus, and that people are “overreacting”. Van Jones then went on ... MORELiberty And Wealth Require Strong Money
by Daniel Oliver Jr. Conservatives hold that wealth and liberty correlate. This proposition was self-evident in the context of the Cold War and remains true today. It is the reason China cannot surpass the West in terms of wealth creation (contrary to the hysterics emanating from The Economist): a repressive country that continues to ... MOREBarry Farber: Obama's U.N. Insult To Every American
Our president seems ashamed to be American. A hen lays one egg and cackles an hour. A sturgeon lays 10,000 eggs and never lets out a peep. We call it “caviar.” President Obama laid at least 10,000 eggs in his U.N. speech last week, but caviar it was not. They were all rotten. At one point Obama reached probably the worst 60 seconds of his a ... MOREGuess What Happened When The Police Went On Strike?
by Jeff Berwick. It all started over a month ago, right here in Acapulco, Mexico, when I commented to a good friend, "Have you noticed how much better traffic has been lately?" He responded, "Yes, traffic flow has been so much better... it's because the Transit Police went on strike." It turned out that was the case. The Transit Police in Acapulco ... MOREHow Liberals Became the New Book Banners
by A. Barton Hinkle. Justice Anthony Kennedy: "Well, suppose it were an advocacy organization that had a book. Your position is that under the Constitution . . . the book itself could be prohibited." Deputy Solicitor General Malcolm Stewart: "If the book contained the functional equivalent of express advocacy."—Exchange during oral arguments over ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Clapper Under The Bus
The buck stops there. When President Obama attributed the rise in Iraq of the Islamic State, or ISIS, to the failures of the U.S. intelligence community earlier this week, naming and blaming directly National Intelligence Director Gen. James Clapper, he was attempting to deflect criticism of his own incompetence. He was discussing the fact ... MORENick Sibilla: This Federal Program Lets Cops Seize Cash, Evade State Laws And Keep Over A Billion Dollars
Police incentives 101. John Yoder and Brad Cates, who headed the Asset Forfeiture Office at the
U.S. Department of Justice from 1983 to 1989, slammed civil forfeiture
as a “complete corruption” and “fundamentally at odds with our judicial
system and notions of fairness,” in an op-ed for The Washington Post. Thanks to civil forfeiture ... MOREWoman Jailed 47 Days For Spahettios-Encrusted Spoon
Another drug warrior just "serving the public." An innocent woman had several months of her life destroyed when she was arrested and charged with a felony because of a spaghetti-encrusted spoon found in her possession. Ashley Gabrielle Huff, 23, had no criminal history and insisted that “there’s no way in hell” that there could have ... MOREDoes Obama Believe He Should Have Gone To Prison?
from Students for Liberty. As President Obama has admitted since long before entering politics, he’s done his fair share of illegal drugs. In his 1995 book, Dreams From My Father, he wrote that he’d used marijuana and “maybe a little blow[1].” Despite this, he continues to oversee a federal war against others who’ve done the same. What I have in ... MOREAmerica’s Dirty Little Secret: Sex Trafficking Is Big Business
by John W. Whitehead. Eighteen-year-old Hannah Graham is not the first girl to vanish in America without a trace—my hometown of Charlottesville, Va., has had five women go missing over the span of five years—and it is doubtful she will be the last. I say doubtful because America is in the grip of a highly profitable, highly organized ... MORE
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