Flashback: When Presidents Respected the Constitution

by Jeffrey Folks.     “I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government and more for themselves.  I want them to have the rewards of their own industry.  That is the chief meaning of freedom.” Those words are taken from Calvin Coolidge’s Inaugural Address of March 4, 1925.  Even then, conservatives like Coolidge were battling   ... MORE

One More Unwarranted, No-Knock Raid Ends In Murder

by Stirling Watts.      Cop gets a pass on killing of 7-year-old. The frequency of civil rights violations carried out daily across this nation by out-of-control police departments is as alarming as is their sickening and shocking natures, but unwarranted no knock raids are the worst kind. Just over four years ago, an innocent seven year old girl was shot in  ... MORE

VIDEO: Citizenfour - The Official Documentary Trailer

The Messy Politics of California's Overcrowded Prison Crisis

by Zach Weissmueller. "A prison that deprives prisoners of basic sustenance, including adequate medical care, is incompatible with the concept of human dignity and has no place in civilized society," wrote Justice Anthony Kennedy for the majority in a Supreme Court ruling against Governor Jerry Brown and the state of California in the   ... MORE

J D Tucille: NH Supreme Court Guts Jury Nullification Law

The judges want more law enforcement, less justice.    State snatches more power from the people. Insisting "It is well established that jury nullification is neither a right of the defendant nor a defense recognized by law," the New Hampshire Supreme Court this morning eviscerated a law that was openly intended and widely     ... MORE

Hollow Justice In Age Of Government-Sanctioned Tyranny

by John W. Whitehead.     “The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of the people.”—Justice William O. Douglas   With every passing day, it becomes more apparent that we live in an age of hollow justice, with government courts, largely lacking in vision and scope, rendering narrow rulings focused on  ... MORE

From ListVerse: Top 25 Ayn Rand Quotes

Insights of a philosophic genius.     Ayn Rand, was a Russian-born American novelist and philosopher. She is widely known for her best-selling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and for developing a philosophical system she called Objectivism. She was an uncompromising advocate of rational individualism and laissez-faire capitalism,    ... MORE

VIDEO: Thomas DiLorenzo - The Real Abe Lincoln

Should NFL Players Be Allowed To Treat Pain With Pot?

Moralists clash with medicine. While Colorado is the first state to fully legalize marijuana, Denver Broncos players are banned from using the drug. However, as CBS News correspondent Barry Petersen reports, a former NFL player said the hits he took on the field made him, and others like him, turn to pot. "Pain is constant when you play       ... MORE

How Asset Forfeiture Allows Cops To Steal From Citizens

by A. Barton Hinkle.   It probably seemed like a bright idea at the time: Let the police seize the ill-gotten gains of alleged drug dealers and other suspected criminals and sell it, using the proceeds to buy much-needed crime-fighting gear. Unfortunately, the process—civil asset forfeiture—did not require convicting anybody of a crime.       ... MORE

VIDEO: Citizen Pulls Washington Cop Over, Gives Warning


A citizen schools a cop on the state law regarding unmarked police vehicles.

No Freedom: Inside The 'Darkest Place In The World'

by Deborah Weitzman.   A hell hole called North Korea. At 21 years old, a girl robbed of her youth, innocence and freedom has finally spoken out against her native North Korea - the 'unimaginable country' she was fortunate enough to have escaped from. In an emotionally charged speech, Yeonmi Park tells a harrowing tale about what life was   ... MORE

Ebola and the CDC's Dangerous Mission Drift

by Jacob Sullum.    Before Tom Frieden became director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2009, his two main nemeses were tuberculosis and smoking. Although both are commonly described as threats to "public health," they differ in ways that may help explain the CDC's stumbling, alarmingly amateurish response to Ebola in the   ... MORE

Doctors Go To Court To Fight Government's Marijuana Lies

by David Downs.      The U.S. government claims marijuana is a dangerous, addictive drug with no medical benefits. But that claim will be up for debate Monday in California when a federal judge is scheduled to hear testimony from doctors that conclude the opposite. Doctors Carl Hart, Associate Professor of Psychology at Columbia University   ... MORE

Justices To Rule On Warrantless Searches Of Hotel Records

Police demand arbitrary access to hotel records.  The Supreme Court agreed Monday to referee a dispute over police access to hotels' guest information without first getting a search warrant. The justices said they will hear an appeal by the city of Los Angeles of a lower court ruling that struck down an ordinance that requires hotel operators to   ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - TSA Vs Private Airport Screeners

John Stossel - Federal Persecutors

A group of Washington overlords       — federal prosecutors — sometimes break rules and wreck people's lives. President Obama may soon appoint one of them to be America's next Attorney General. The prosecutorial bullying is detailed in a new book by Sidney Powell, "Licensed to Lie." She reports that the Department of Justice's  ... MORE

Minimum Wage Backfire: McDonald's Move To Automate

from the Wall Street Journal.       If there’s a silver lining for McDonald’s in Tuesday’s dreadful earnings report, it is that perhaps union activists will begin to understand that the fast-food chain cannot solve the problems of the Obama economy. The world’s largest restaurant company reported a 30% decline in quarterly profits on a 5%    ... MORE

VIDEO: A Rogue Prosecutor Makes The Drug War Personal


Sex, Spice and Small-Town Texas Justice.