by Steven Greenhut. California residents should hold on to their wallets. On
Monday, the state legislature headed back to the Capitol for the
new session. Legislators' short stint at the Capitol in December
offered a preview of what's coming down the pike, and some of it
reinforces Judge Gideon Tucker's famous quip: "No man's life, ... MORECalifornia Legislature Is Back To Work & Full Of Bad Ideas
by Steven Greenhut. California residents should hold on to their wallets. On
Monday, the state legislature headed back to the Capitol for the
new session. Legislators' short stint at the Capitol in December
offered a preview of what's coming down the pike, and some of it
reinforces Judge Gideon Tucker's famous quip: "No man's life, ... MORERecord 92,898,000 Americans Not In The Workforce
by Caroline May. But no worries, government also says unemployment rate drops to 5.6%. A record 92,898,000 Americans 16 years and older did not participate in the labor force last month, according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The BLS defines people not in the work force as people 16 years and
up who are not employed and ... MORE"Hands Up Don’t Shoot" Activist Shoots Unarmed Man
Discovers police shootings are not so cut and dry. An outspoken “Hands up don’t shoot” activist in Arizona recently went through multiple police training scenarios, including one, where he shot at an unarmed man. Reverend Jarrett Maupin is a self described progressive baptist preacher and a radical political activist, ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Lamenting Liberty Lost
The road from sovereignty to slavery. A British author, residing in the United States for the past 30 years, created a small firestorm earlier this week with his candid observations that modern-day Americans have been duped by the government into accepting a European-style march toward socialism because we fail to ... MORE
Unintended (But Predictable) Consequences Of Drug War
by Radley Balko. Another drug war success:
Meth is cheaper, more potent than ever, and it’s all coming in through
international drug cartels. But hey, at least we’ve made life difficult
for allergy sufferers and arrested the occasional innocent parent or
grandparent along the way. Meanwhile in Britain, an MDMA crackdown has given rise ... MOREUnion Wants Violence Against Cops To Be Hate Crimes
by Joanna Rothkopf. The sanctity of the badge. On Monday, the National Fraternal Order of Police requested that crimes against its members be officially considered hate crimes,
a classification that means harsher penalties for offenders who have
targeted cops because they are cops. The union represents over 300,000
police officers. ... MOREJohn W. Whitehead: Welcome To The Matrix
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Enslaved by technology and the Internet of things. If ever Americans sell their birthright, it will be for the promise of expediency and comfort delivered by way of blazingly fast Internet, cell phone signals that never drop a call, thermostats that keep us at the perfect temperature without our having to raise a finger, and ... MOREThe Average College Freshman Reads At 7th Grade Level
by Maggie Lit. Dumb down accomplished. The average U.S. college freshman reads at a seventh grade level, according to an educational assessment report. “We are spending billions of dollars trying to send students to college and maintain them there when, on average, they read at about the grade 6 or 7 level, according to Renaissance ... MOREMatt Kaiser: Overpunishment And Rationality
Injustice by prosecutorial discretion. Judge Jed S. Rakoff has launched a firestorm of conversation about his criticism of the federal criminal justice system in the New York Review of Books and his proposal for how to fix it. First, a bit of backstory for those who do not turn to the New York
Review of Books for commentary on the federal ... MORE
Scott Shackford: One Way Congress Can Help Fight Police Abuse Is By Ending The Incentives To Seize Assets
Remove the profit motive from policing. This election year has seen increased attention to the use and abuse of civil asset forfeiture programs by law enforcement agencies. These programs allow officers and federal law enforcers to seize and keep funds and property they claim are connected to crime. Asset forfeiture has been a huge force ... MORELimited Access To Hydrocodone Pushes Abusers To Heroin
Unintended consequences of DEA dictating health care. After the DEA ruled to make hydrocodone a schedule two drug, some health officials became concerned abusers would find more dangerous ways to feed their addiction. Now that hydrocodone isn't easily accessible, those who abused it aren't able to meet their addiction needs, ... MOREJacob Sullum: Legal Pot Slips Through A Loophole
D.C. residents can breathe easier. Harold Rogers, the Kentucky Republican who chairs the House
Appropriations Committee,
says a rider in the omnibus spending bill that Congress enacted
last month stops the District of Columbia from legalizing
marijuana. Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District's congressional
delegate,
disagrees. So do D.C. Mayor ... MORE
Psychiatrists Now Say Non-Conformity Is A Mental Illness
Only sheeple are ‘sane.’ The nail that sticks up will be hammered down. Modern psychiatry has become a hotbed of corruption, particularly the kind that seeks to demonize and declare mentally ill anyone who deviates from what is regarded as the norm. This is abundantly evident in the latest installment of the industry’s Diagnostic and Statistical ... MOREJohn Stossel: Trust
Just check the ratings. Trust — society depends on it. For most of history, our ancestors lived in clans with other family
members, or in small villages. Everyone pretty much knew who was
trustworthy. People behaved better because they wanted good
relationships with family members and neighbors. It's one reason that
today we trust ... MORE
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