by Tom Jackman. Militarized cops seek to protect society from gamblers. On a quiet weeknight among the stately manors of Great Falls, ten men sat around a table in the basement of a private home last November playing high stakes poker. Suddenly, masked and heavily armed SWAT team officers from the Fairfax County Police Department ... MOREMasked SWAT Team Raids Poker Game, Terrorizes Players
by Tom Jackman. Militarized cops seek to protect society from gamblers. On a quiet weeknight among the stately manors of Great Falls, ten men sat around a table in the basement of a private home last November playing high stakes poker. Suddenly, masked and heavily armed SWAT team officers from the Fairfax County Police Department ... MORE
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John Stossel - Owning Ideas
Thinking about copyrights. For most of history, people suffered in miserable poverty. Then, in a few hundred years, some new ideas made life hugely better for billions of us — things like running water, the printing press, the steam engine, electricity, the Internet. We want people to keep coming up with new and better ideas. But there's a problem: ... MORE
John W. Whitehead: Handcuffs, Leg Shackles and Tasers: The New Face of Punishment in the Public Schools
The police state at school. Roughly 1500 kids are tied up or locked down every day by school officials in the United States. At least 500 students are locked up in some form of solitary confinement every day, whether it be a padded room, a closet or a duffel bag. In many cases, parents are rarely notified when such methods are used. On any ... MOREDavid Martosko: Obamacare Program Costs Taxpayers $50,000 For Every American Who Gets Health Insurance
So says the Congressional Budget Office. It will cost the federal government – taxpayers, that is – $50,000 for every person who gets health insurance under the Obamacare law, the Congressional Budget Office revealed on Monday. The number comes from figures buried in a 15-page section of the nonpartisan organization's new ten-year budget ... MOREObama's Massive Land Grab Has Alaska Furious
by Michael Bastasch. 'We will fight back' President Obama announced Sunday that his administration plans to lock up the oil-rich 1.5 million acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge coastal plain and offshore areas in Alaska from oil and gas exploration. Obama is asking Congress to designate 12 million acres of ANWR as a “wilderness” to keep it off-limits to ... MORE
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Home Appliances Could Soon Be Controlled By Government
by Daniel Barker. Increasingly, our freedom and autonomy are threatened by those who seek to monitor and control every aspect of our daily lives. George Orwell’s “Big Brother” from the novel 1984 is a pale threat in comparison to the dystopian reality our leaders which have created for us since that book was published more than six ... MOREND Legislator Calls For End Of Sobriety Checkpoints
by Karee Magee. Warrantless searches are an inefficient infringement. A bill that would eliminate sobriety checkpoints in North Dakota will appear before the Judiciary Committee Monday. House Bill 1084 says law enforcement would need reasonable suspicion before halting a vehicle. Sponsor, Rep. Rick Becker, R-Bismarck, said the bill questions ... MOREThomas Sowell: Random Thoughts On The Passing Scene
The observations of a genius. Who says President Obama doesn't promote bipartisanship? His
complicity in Iran's moving toward nuclear bombs has alarmed some top
Senate Democrats enough to get them to join Republicans in opposition to
the Obama administration's potentially suicidal foreign policy. Before the current measles outbreak, ... MORENH Bill Would Promote Jury Nullification Defense
The power to stand up to tyranny. A bill in the New Hampshire State House would make it illegal for a
judge to stop a defendant from telling the jurors about their ability to
nullify unjust or immoral laws. House Bill 246 (HB246)
would make it “an act of maladministration for a judge to deny or limit
the right of the accused to inform the ... MORE
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Police Union: Don't Mess With No-Knock Warrants
by Bernard Watson. Carrie Mills is a retired Atlanta Police officer with 30 years on the job - primarily in APD's drug unit. Mills is now a union rep for the International Brotherhood of Police Officers. She considers herself an expert on search warrants, particularly no knock warrants, which allows officers to enter a structure without knocking first. Mills says ... MORETed Cruz Details Path To Victory With "Miracle Of America"
Let freedom ring. In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News backstage at the Iowa Freedom Summit, potential 2016 GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) detailed the pathway to victory for Republicans in 2016—and he explained a new phrase he started using in his speech minutes earlier. Cruz introduced a new major theme, ... MOREWalter E Williams: Defense Against Demagogues
Economic ignorance used as a political tool. When gasoline sold at record prices, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said, "I think it's time to say to these people, 'Stop ripping off the American people.'" When the average price of regular gas was close to $4 a gallon, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called for Congress to look into breaking up giant oil companies. ... MORE
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VIDEO: Utah Bill Would Turn Off Water To NSA Data Center
Standing up to unconstitutional federal surveillance.
End Obamacare And People Could Die -- That’s Okay
by Michael R. Strain. We make such trade-offs all of the time. Say conservatives have their way with Obamacare, and the Supreme Court deals it a death blow or a Republican president repeals it in 2017. Some people who got health insurance as a result of the Affordable Care Act may lose it. In which case, liberals like to say, some of ... MOREJeffrey Rogers Hummel: How The Fed Got Huge
Financial crisis changed the nature of central banking. Before he became chair of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke agreed with the free market economist Milton Friedman that central bank policy played a key role in making the Great Depression the most severe in U.S. history. But the two parted ways on the reason why. And that ... MORE
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