by John W. Whitehead. Who pays the price for the police shootings that leave unarmed citizens dead or injured, for the SWAT team raids that leave doors splintered, homes trashed, pets murdered, and family members traumatized and injured, if not dead? I’m not just talking about the price that must be paid in hard-earned dollars, whether ... MOREThe High Cost Of Living In A Police State
by John W. Whitehead. Who pays the price for the police shootings that leave unarmed citizens dead or injured, for the SWAT team raids that leave doors splintered, homes trashed, pets murdered, and family members traumatized and injured, if not dead? I’m not just talking about the price that must be paid in hard-earned dollars, whether ... MOREJohn Stossel: Crumbling Constitution
Does the Constitution still matter? When it was written, Ben Franklin said the Founders gave us a republic, "if you can keep it." Few people thought the republic would last another 227 years, but it has. The Constitution's limits on government power helped create the most free and prosperous country on earth. But now, some Americans, ... MOREWalter E Williams: Officially Killing Americans
Incentives of the drug bureaucrats. The Food and Drug Administration can make two types of errors. It can approve a drug that has dangerous unanticipated side effects, or it can reject or delay approval of a drug that is safe and effective. Let's look at these errors, because to err on the side of under- or over-caution is costly. ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: Local Or National Elections?
The stakes are high. Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill once said, "All politics is local." That may have been true in Tip O'Neill's day, but some elections are decisively on national issues — and the Congressional elections this year are overwhelmingly national, just as the elections of 1860 were dominated by one national issue, namely slavery. ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: The Government And Freedom
Don't trust your freedom to the government. Earlier this week, FBI Director James Comey gave an interview to "60 Minutes" during which he revealed a flawed understanding of personal freedom. He rightly distinguished what FBI agents do in their investigations of federal crimes from what the NSA does in its intelligence gathering, when the ... MOREEric Peters: Rebalancing The Scales
We are peculiarly at the mercy of police. Which goes a long way toward explaining why police are increasingly merciless. After all, they can get away with it. Physically. Financially. Legally. Consider: You are walking down the street, minding your business. A citizen accosts you. He physically assaults you. You have every legal right to defend ... MOREThe Academic Mob Silences Free Speech, Again
A Washington Times editorial. Inconvenient truths not welcomed. Arithmetic continues to be a puzzle in certain precincts of academia. Scripps College,
an all-female school in Claremont, Calif., founded on the principle
that “the paramount obligation of a college is to develop in its
students the ability to think clearly and independently,” ... MORE30 Ways To Avoid The Penalty For Not Buying ObamaCare
by Krystal Steinmetz. Tens of millions of Americans without health insurance risk being fined by the IRS as part of the Affordable Care Act, which imposes a tax penalty on those who didn’t purchase medical insurance. But tax experts say up to 20 million people are eligible for a waiver. According to Inuit, maker of TurboTax, there are 30 ... MOREHorror Of Horrors! Jimmy Carter Identifies Obama As Wimp
by Alex Seitz-Wald. Another day, another defection from a high-profile Democrat on President Obama’s approach to combating the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). And the latest apostasy must be particularly painful for the White House considering its source, Jimmy Carter, a former Democratic president who supported Obama over Hillary ... MOREVIDEO: The Transparency Of Our Public Servants
Senator Harry Reid is asked how he got rich on a government salary.
This 29-Year-Old Is Choosing to End Her Own Life on Nov. 1
by Hillary White. An affirmation of self-ownership. Brittany Maynard plans on celebrating her husband's Oct. 30 birthday, and then just two days later, she will pass on quietly in her Oregon home, with a close friend and immediate family at her side. "There is not a cell in my body that is suicidal or that wants to die," she told People. "I want to live. ... MORE5-Year Old Girl Points Crayon at Classmate; Government School Makes Her Sign Contract Promising Not to Kill
by Robby Soave. The relentless march of government nitwittery. NBC NewsStories
of public schools dishing out ridiculous punishments to students
who did absolutely nothing wrong generally fail to shock me at this
point. They have to clear a very high bar of absurdity to be even
noteworthy, given how common they are. Okay, brace ... MORERules of Engagement For Resisting The Police State
by John W. Whitehead. The language of freedom is no longer the common tongue spoken by the citizenry and their government. The perils of resisting the police state grow more costly with each passing day, especially if you hope to escape with your life and property intact. The thing you must remember is that we’ve entered an age of ... MORENSA's Parallel Reconstruction Trumps Fourth Amendment
by Andrew Napolitano. While the political commentators in the nation's capital are wrapped up in the debate over what to do about ISIS, and as one third of the Senate and nearly all members of the House campaign for re-election, the president's spies continue to capture massive amounts of personal information about hundreds of ... MOREReports Suggest FCC Poised To Regulate Internet
by John Gizzi. There has been mounting evidence in the last two weeks that the Internet, one of the last unregulated venues for communication, might well be headed for federal regulation. What makes the specter of Internet regulation (or "net neutrality," as its proponents prefer to call it) all the more ominous is that it might become ... MORE
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