by Bob Livingston. "Government is not reason: it is force. Like fire, it’s a dangerous servant and a fearful master…” — George Washington. If there are two words in the English language that we need to understand, they are the words “police power.” Government is police power. Government by definition, by nature, by history and by practical ... MORE
Under Obama, U.S. freedom ranking slips below France. A new study shows shows that citizens of France now feel that they enjoy more personal freedom… Americans’ assessments of their personal freedom have significantly declined under President Obama, according to a new study from the Legatum Institute in London, and the ... MORE
What Comcast and Time Warner paid Obama to do. The principle of net neutrality is easy to understand and support; to treat the delivery all data equally. This has been the status quo. Works great. Few oppose that, but supporting the principle of net neutrality is not the same thing as supporting the government's plan to enforce that ... MORE
by Matthew Burke. The supporters of Obamacare knew they had to lie. In what should be considered a shameful admission, Democrat Senator Kirsten Gillibrand admitted on ABC’s This Week that all democrats knew that Obama was lying when he fraudulently repeated over 30 times that, “If you like your insurance plan, you can keep it, period.” When ... MORE
by Chris Edwards. Under the U.S. Constitution, the powers delegated to the federal government are “few and defined,” as James Madison noted in Federalist 45,
while the powers of the states “will extend to all the objects which,
in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and
properties of the people.” That decentralized ... MORE
by Lenore Skenazy. California school district considers candy a drug. At least three New Mexico middle school students have been suspended for 10 days for inappropriately consuming Smarties. No, that's not code for some hip new drug; we are talking about the sweet-and-sour candies sold in a roll and given out to unlucky kids on Halloween. The ... MORE
Or does it need more freedom? During turbulent times like the present, Americans make fervent appeals to “democracy,” which they equate with freedom. President Bush is eager to impose democracy on Iraq and other countries whose governments he disapproves of. Woodrow Wilson only wanted to “make the world safe for democracy” ... MORE
Lies our government tell us in school. Apparently according to a homework sheet being given to our 2nd graders in this country about how to be good citizens, the government gives us our rights. Did you know that? This is what eight-year-old kids are being taught in this country. Wait, did I say taught? I meant being indoctrinated to blindly ... MORE
by Rick Newman. Taxes are bad enough when you know they’re coming—and much worse when they arrive unexpectedly. As the Affordable Care Act enters its second year of operability, a key and controversial element of the plan will begin to affect several million Americans for the first time. People who didn’t have health ... MORE
by Marie Dennis. A Cleveland Ohio woman was pronounced dead 2 hours after being assaulted by Cleveland cops
outside her family’s home. Counter Current News reported that during an
argument, Tenesha Anderson’s family contacted police after being unable
to calm the bi-polar and schizophrenic woman down. After initially
agreeing ... MORE
After last week’s voting it just might. Americans are angry with their politicians but nuanced in their political opinions. Voters in Alaska simultaneously ousted their Democratic Senator and legalized the use of marijuana. Floridians gave 505,000 more votes medical use of pot than they did in re-electing Republican Gov. Rick Scott. Which makes ... MORE
