by Rand Paul and Tim Walberg. There are many reasons why the Internal Revenue Service is perhaps the
least-loved agency in America -- a tax code so complex that it seems
like you need an advanced degree to understand it, the dreaded audit
process and revelations that certain groups have been targeted based on their political beliefs. ... MOREHow The Feds Can Legally Steal Your Money
by Rand Paul and Tim Walberg. There are many reasons why the Internal Revenue Service is perhaps the
least-loved agency in America -- a tax code so complex that it seems
like you need an advanced degree to understand it, the dreaded audit
process and revelations that certain groups have been targeted based on their political beliefs. ... MORERadley Balko: The Supreme Court's Massive Blind Spot
What can't be seen looking down from high. This term, the Supreme Court heard two cases involving the actions of police officers during traffic stops. How the court comes down on the two cases will likely have significant repercussions far beyond the facts of the cases themselves. The court’s decisions could affect how police target ... MOREAmy Radil: Seattle Will Fine You For Tossing Food In Trash
Government's newest innovation in revenue collection. In Seattle, wasting food will now earn you a scarlet letter — well, a scarlet tag, to be more accurate. The bright red tag, posted on a garbage bin, tells everyone who sees it that you've violated a new city law that makes it illegal to put food into trash cans. "I'm sure neighbors are going ... MOREDustin Volz: Government Privacy Board Tells Obama Administration To Shut Down NSA Mass Spying Now
White House quiet since USA Freedom Act crumbled. An executive-branch privacy watchdog is renewing its call for President Obama to unilaterally end the National Security Agency's domestic phone records dragnet amid growing uncertainty over Congress's willingness to reform government surveillance. The bipartisan Privacy and Civil ... MORE
How Anti-Tobacco Activists Are Very Likely Killing People
by Ronald Bailey. Last week, my colleague Jacob Sullum questioned a
study published in the New England Journal of Medicine purporting
to show that vaping is more dangerous than smoking actual
cigarettes. The reason? Because vaping at high voltage produces
high levels of the carcinogen formaldehyde.
The New England Journal of Medicine even ... MORE
Justice Department Working On Car-Tracking Database
To combat drug trafficking, of course. The Justice Department has acknowledged constructing a database to
track the movements of millions of vehicles across the U.S. in real
time. The program, whose existence was first reported by The Wall Street Journal,
is primarily overseen by the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) to combat ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Shooting Itself In The Foot
Bumbling idiots at work. Ali Saleh al-Marri is a convicted conspirator who entered the United States before 9/11 in order to create a dreaded sleeper cell here that might someday launch an attack on Americans similar to what we witnessed earlier this month in Paris. When the feds woke from their slumber on 9/11, they wisely began to search ... MOREFederal Bill Would Make Americans More Defenseless
by Dan Cannon. Making self protection a felony. Democratic members of Congress apparently aren’t going to be
satisfied until American citizens are completely and utterly
defenseless. Representative Mike Honda (D-CA) has introduced a bill for
consideration of the new Congress which would prohibit the ownership of
certain types of body armor for ... MORELew Rockwell: The Libertarian Principle Of Secession
Break it up! For a century and a half, the idea of secession has been systematically demonized among the American public. The government schools spin fairy tales about the “indivisible Union” and the wise statesmen who fought to preserve it. Decentralization is portrayed as unsophisticated and backward, while nationalism and ... MOREDUI Checkpoints Could Be A Thing Of The Past In N.D.
by Nicole Johnson. If only the Fourth Amendment protected us from warrantless searches. DUI checkpoints in North Dakota could soon be a thing of the past. Sobriety checkpoints are used in North Dakota by police to deter drunk driving. But, lawmakers in Bismarck are talking about getting rid of them, saying there needs to be a reason to ... MORE10 Ways Cops Enriched Themselves From The Drug Trade
by Aaron Cantu. The drug trade is a great place to make tons of money fast. In 2003, the UN estimated the total worth of the global drug trade at $320 billion, a figure that has certainly grown in the last 12 years. So it’s not surprising that some police officers, who interact frequently with the narco-world, decide to go crooked. But what makes ... MORE
Steven Pinker: Why Free Speech Is Fundamental
Ideas matter. More than two
centuries after freedom of speech was enshrined in the First Amendment
to the Constitution, that right is very much in the news. Campus speech
codes, disinvited commencement speakers, jailed performance artists,
exiled leakers, a blogger condemned to a thousand lashes by one of our
closest allies, and the ... MOREGreg Gutfeld: New E-Cig Study Goes Up In Smoke
E-Cig attack vaporizes. The New England Journal of Medicine ran a letter linking e-cigs to
cancer and the panicky media gobbled it up like a pot brownie. But how
sturdy is this research? What might happen if you tapped lightly on
their findings? Yes, under closer scrutiny, this blockbuster collapsed faster than Michael Moore in a spin class. According to ... MOREThorin Klosowski: Carl Sagan's Best Productivity Tricks
How to seek out the truth. Carl Sagan
is a well known astronomer, cosmologist, author, and most obviously,
science communicator and host of the show Cosmos. His views on science
and general living are simultaneously inspirational and galvanizing.
Let's take a look at just a few of his ideas that are useful for all of
us. Sagan was first and ... MORE
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