FDA Nannies Plan To Reduce Food Options For Americans
by Steve Chapman. Busybodies minding YOUR own business. On Thursday, hundreds of millions of Americans risked obesity, heart disease and indigestion by eating large quantities of food with no precise knowledge of the caloric content. If many of them felt regret on Friday, it was not because they were duped into overeating by the ... MOREMichael Brown, Officer Wilson and The Ferguson Riots
by Thomas Sowell. Everyone seems to have an opinion about the tragic events in Ferguson, Missouri. But, as Daniel Patrick Moynihan used to say, “You’re entitled to your own opinion but you’re not entitled to your own facts.” Soon after the shooting death of Michael Brown, this 285-pound young man was depicted as a “gentle giant.” But, after a ... MORE
A California Rapper Is Facing Life In Prison Over Lyrics
by Rob Hustle. What ever happened to free speech? San Diego rapper Brandon Duncan, aka ‘Tiny Doo,” is sitting in a San Diego County Jail facing life in prison. Brandon Duncan has no criminal record, and prosecutors in the case “admit he has no direct ties” to the crimes he is accused of. And yet, they are charging him with attempted ... MORE
Larry Kudlow: Lower Oil Prices Are a Free-Market Victory
And a big tax cut. Seldom has so much good news been portrayed so
negatively. Oil prices continue to fall in the U.S. and around the
world, but near everyone in the media is grumpy about it. The headlines
today are among the silliest I’ve seen: Energy-company stocks are
declining, oil deflation is an economic threat, the Fed might raise
rates much ... MOREDuh! Texas Warrantless DWI Searches Are Unconstitutional
Court rules Fourth Amendment still applies. A new rule in Texas will stop a warrantless search of a DWI suspect's blood. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals says the move violates the Fourth Amendment. "We hold that a nonconsensual search of a DWI suspect's blood conducted pursuant to the mandatory-blood draw and implied-consent provisions in ... MOREPolicing For Profit: Training Videos Suggest Abuses
by Noah Pransky. A procedure law enforcement agencies use to take cash, cars, and other
personal property away from accused criminals continues to create
controversy nationally as more stories of potential abuse surface. 10 Investigates has been reporting on civil forfeiture, a process designed to let law enforcement seize tools from ... MORE
We Are The Enemy: Is This The Lesson Of Ferguson?
by John W. Whitehead. Should police officer Darren Wilson be held accountable for the shooting death of unarmed citizen Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, on August 9, 2014? Tasked with determining whether Wilson should stand trial for Brown’s shooting, the grand jury ruled that the police officer will not face charges for the fatal shooting. ... MOREGovernment Studies Why Obese Girls Don't Get Much Sex
by Casey Harper. Anyone have a theory? While most Americans put on a few pounds for Thanksgiving, the federal government has been spending hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars researching why obese girls don’t have sex. The National Institute for Health grant allocated $466,642 to the Magee-Women’s Research Institute to study the sexual ... MOREHow The NSA Tampers With US-Made Internet Routers
by Glenn Greenwald. For years, the US government loudly warned the world that Chinese routers and other internet devices pose a "threat" because they are built with backdoor surveillance functionality that gives the Chinese government the ability to spy on anyone using them. Yet what the NSA's documents show is that Americans have been ... MORE
Michael Hursh: The Great Police Violence Cover-Up
Most departments refuse to divulge the data. "Have a 20-year-old son, and I have a 12-year-old son, and I’m so
afraid for them. … This is about a war machine. It is us against the
[expletive] machine!” —Rapper Killer Mike. Perhaps the saddest thing is: We don’t really know what the truth is. We don’t really know if Killer Mike—his voice breaking ... MOREJose Pagliery: Expect Heavy FAA Drone Regulations
Government rapidly seeks to curb new freedom. Farmers want drones to survey fields. Wedding photographers want them for moving aerial shots. They might soon need a pilot's license. By year's end, the Federal Aviation Administration will unveil proposed rules that apply to anyone flying a small drone that's even remotely for business ... MOREPolicing For Profit: Who Says Crime Doesn't Pay?
by Gil Smart and Susan Baldrige. Barbara and Ralph Spring are struggling to raise their two grandsons after their daughter, Jessica Marie Crawford, died from a drug overdose last year. The Quarryville couple wish they had their daughter's Jeep Cherokee to take the kids back and forth to sports events. Or, they wish they could have sold it and ... MOREMinnesota Mom Faces 2 Years In Prison For Saving Her Son
by Matt Agorist. A mother of two is facing jail time for seeking out life saving cannabis oil to treat her son’s horrifying seizures. This nightmare for the Brown family started 3 years ago, when their son Trey, then 12, was hit in the head with a baseball causing a traumatic brain injury. The brain injury has caused severe tremors and episodes in which ... MOREEd Krayewski: World’s Gone Right
Don't believe the hype. Islamist extremists on the loose in the Middle East, drug cartels running wild south of the border, Ebola, nuclear proliferation, ubiquitous surveillance, climate disasters, beheadings. It's easy to imagine things are worse than they have been in a long time. We don't have the benefit of hindsight, yet we can take a step back ... MORE
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