More prudence with tax dollars. Seven months after federal officials fired CGI Federal for its botched work on Obamacare website Healthcare.gov, the IRS awarded the same company a $4.5 million IT contract for its new Obamacare tax program. CGI is a $10.5 billion Montreal-based company that has forever been etched into ... MORERichard Pollock: IRS Has Active Contract For MILLIONS With The Same Bunch Of Nitwits That Botched Healthcare.gov
More prudence with tax dollars. Seven months after federal officials fired CGI Federal for its botched work on Obamacare website Healthcare.gov, the IRS awarded the same company a $4.5 million IT contract for its new Obamacare tax program. CGI is a $10.5 billion Montreal-based company that has forever been etched into ... MOREVIDEO: More Guns, Less Murders
The USA has, by far, the highest per capita gun ownership in the world.
Andrew Napolitano: Who Will Keep Our Freedoms Safe?
It won't be the government. While the Western world was watching and grieving over the slaughter in Paris last week, and my colleagues in the media were fomenting a meaningless debate about whether President Obama should have gone to Paris to participate in a televised parade, the feds took advantage of that diversion to reveal even more ... MOREFederal Court Upholds Unconstitutional Car Search
No warrant required. Text of the Fourth Amendment. A federal judge decided earlier this month to accept evidence from an automobile search that a state court magistrate had declared unlawful. US District Judge Jerome B. Simandle insisted that there was nothing wrong in accepting the evidence deemed tainted by the New Jersey Superior Court. ... MORESteve Chapman: Conservatives Rethink Liberty vs. Order
The Giuliani vs Paul thing. This week, the Supreme Court made a decision that was somewhat newsworthy: upholding the right of a prison inmate to do something the prison authorities prohibit. What made it really unusual is that the decision was unanimous, with all the conservative justices signing on, and that the opinion was written by one of ... MOREJames Bovard: America's Fading Love Of Freedom
A very docile populace. Tea Party protesters, some Republicans, and many libertarians perceive the federal government as a vast engine of oppression. But are anti-Obama activists mistaken in presuming that most Americans still care about freedom? A Gallup poll released in July asked a thousand Americans, “Are you satisfied or dissatisfied with your ... MORENullification, Now Coming To The Supreme Court?
by David A. Graham. When the Tea Party wave arrived in 2010, it swept away much of the
Republican Party's existing structure, and instituted a more populist
approach. But as waves tend to do, it left some even older debris in its
wake. "Nullification,"
the theory that states can invalidate federal laws that they deem
unconstitutional, had its ... MORENJ Cops Murder Man With Hands Up At Traffic Stop
by Nina Golgowski. A newly released video capturing the police shooting death of a New Jersey man shows an officer warning the suspect not to move or he'll be "f---ing dead" before the man steps out of his car. Jerame C. Reid, 36, is seen exiting the vehicle with his hands raised at shoulder height when a Bridgeton police officer, who recognizes ... MORE
Robby Soave: Abolish the Federal Drinking Age
Stop incentives to drink recklessly. Activists, administrators, and national policymakers concerned about a supposed epidemic of rape on college campuses should stop trying so damn hard to regulate students' sex lives. Instead, their efforts would be better spent lobbying Congress to abolish a law that puts students at risk of sexual assault by ... MOREJacob Sullum: The Persistence Of Policing For Profit
Holder's plan does not go far enough. Money-hungry cops are angry about the forfeiture reform that
Attorney General Eric Holder announced last Friday, which suggests
it's a move in the right direction. But contrary to
initial press reports, the new policy represents a modest
change to the rules governing civil forfeiture, which allows ... MOREThomas Sowell: 'Diversity' In Action
Not all cultures are compatible. Islamic terrorist attacks in Europe, and European governments' counter-attacks are more than just a passing news story. Europe is currently in the process of paying the price for years of importing millions of people from a culture hostile to the fundamental values of Western culture. And this is by no means the last ... MOREBritain May Be Forced To Abandon Free Healthcare
by Bill Gardner. Britain’s most senior doctor has said the under-pressure NHS may be forced to abandon the concept of free healthcare for all. Prof Sir Bruce Keogh, medical director of the NHS in England, said there were doubts over whether the taxpayer-funded model was “sustainable in the longer term”. He added that huge changes ... MOREBrad Health: New Police Radars Can 'See' Inside Homes
Cops get new warrantless search tool. At least 50 U.S. law enforcement agencies have secretly equipped their
officers with radar devices that allow them to effectively peer through
the walls of houses to see whether anyone is inside, a practice raising
new concerns about the extent of government surveillance. Those agencies, including ... MOREWalter E Williams: Will The Left Defend Itself?
Multiculturalism and Sharia Law. Leftists and progressives believe that the U.S. should become more like Europe. They praise Europe's massive welfare state, socialized medicine and stifling economic regulation and accept its unwillingness to defend itself against barbarism. I wonder whether America's leftists and progressives want to ... MORERadley Balko: The Flashbang Menace
Officer safety always trumps citizen safety. ProPublica has just published a long investigation of the use of flashbang grenades, an issue I’ve written about quite a bit, including here at The Watch. These
are the incendiary devices intended to temporarily stun, blind and
deafen everyone within range. They have some limited appropriate ... MORE
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