The money grabbers. Politicians and lawyers pretend that they are important people doing important work. But often they're important because they are parasites. They feed off others, while creating no wealth of their own. We all complain about businesses we don't like, but because business is voluntary, every merchant must offer us something ... MOREJohn Stossel: The Parasitic Nature Of Politicians
The money grabbers. Politicians and lawyers pretend that they are important people doing important work. But often they're important because they are parasites. They feed off others, while creating no wealth of their own. We all complain about businesses we don't like, but because business is voluntary, every merchant must offer us something ... MOREAP: Obama Relies On Accounting Tricks To Pad Numbers
by Andrew Taylor. President Barack Obama’s budget is relying on a series of familiar accounting tricks to show $1.8 trillion in deficit reduction over a decade, an amount that would shrink by almost half if they were excluded. But so-called “pay-go” rules officially require tax cuts and new spending on the mandatory side of the ledger to be balanced by ... MOREWords Matter In ‘ISIS’ War, So Use ‘Daesh’
by Zeba Khan. The militants who are killing civilians, raping and forcing captured women into sexual slavery, and beheading foreigners in Iraq and Syria are known by several names: the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham, or ISIS; the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL; and, more recently, the Islamic State, or IS. French officials recently declared that ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: To Vaccinate or Not To Vaccinate?
Does the government own our bodies? New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie unwittingly ignited a firestorm earlier this week when he responded to a reporter's question in Great Britain about forced vaccinations of children in New Jersey by suggesting that the law in the U.S. needs to balance the rights of parents against the ... MOREJim Clifton: The Big Lie: 5.6% Unemployment
Official lies from government. Here's something that many Americans -- including some of the smartest and most educated among us -- don't know: The official unemployment rate, as reported by the U.S. Department of Labor, is extremely misleading. Right now, we're hearing much celebrating from the media, the White House and Wall ... MOREWalter E Williams: Scary School Stories
Poor education is not stemming from racism. New York's schools are the most segregated in the nation, and the state needs remedies right away. That was Chancellor Merryl H. Tisch's message to New York's governor and Legislature. She said that minority children are disproportionately trapped in schools that lack teaching talent, ... MOREMichael Heise: 22 Reasons Why You Shouldn't Trust Police
The police aren't making too many friends these days. It seems like there isn't a day that goes by where some tragic and outrageous story doesn't come out involving the cops somehow violating someone's rights, or even killing them. But, no matter how much we see this behavior, no matter how frequent it becomes, there seems to be ... MOREPot Is Making Colorado So Much Money The State May Have To Give Some Of Its $50 Million Windfall To Taxpayers
by David McCormack. Colorado has generated so much money from recreational pot taxes that the state is bound by law to pass some of the tax money directly on to residents. Voters legalized marijuana in 2012 on the understanding that revenue raised would go to schools, but a 1992 voter-approved constitutional amendment means some of the ... MOREPublic Health Nannies Won't Admit: E-Cigs Save Lives
by Bill Godshall. In sharp contrast to the Trib's fear-mongering headlines and Adam Smeltz's news story “Western Pa. cancer specialists call for electronic cigarette crackdown”
, the scientific and empirical evidence indicates vaping is 99 percent
less hazardous than smoking cigarettes, is more effective for quitting
smoking than are FDA- ... MOREHealthcare.gov Shares Your Personal Data With Marketers
by Rob Hustle. HealthCare.gov is sharing your private personal health data with over a dozen online marketing companies. These companies provide tools that allow HealthCare.gov to track, analyze and record anyone who visits the site. But, despite its promise that “no personally identifiable information is collected by these tools,” the ... MOREJacob Sullum: Jurors Can't Know Pot Growers Are Patients
Federal prosecutors determined to hide the truth. Imagine you are a juror in the federal trial of five people charged with growing and distributing marijuana in northeastern Washington. The prosecution cannot present any direct evidence that the defendants sold marijuana to anyone, and the defendants say they were growing all 74 plants ... MOREThomas Sowell: Obama Versus America
Irresponsible and immature. In his recent trip to India, President Obama repeated a long-standing
pattern of his — denigrating the United States to foreign audiences. He
said that he had been discriminated against because of his skin color
in America, a country in which there is, even now, "terrible poverty." Make no mistake about it, there is ... MOREJacob Sullum: Busted Over $80 Worth of Pot, College Student Turns Police Informant, Then Turns Up Dead
This is the way everybody does it, says police chief. Last week North Dakota's Bureau of Criminal
Investigation (BCI) released a report that
finds no wrongdoing in the way an anti-drug task force handled a
young confidential informant who turned up dead last June. Andrew
Sadek, a 20-year-old student at North Dakota State College of
Science in ... MOREDid Border Crisis Trigger Measles Outbreak?
by Joel B. Pollack. More than a coincidence. A quick review of the U.S. State Department visa requirements for immigrant visas
reveals that applicants must be vaccinated for measles prior to their
approval. Measles vaccination is not required for tourist visas, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nor is it required for any ... MORE
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