What you weren't told about the power of the people. The standard version of the whiskey rebellion story, the one which I believed until I started reading on the topic, goes something like this…. In 1791, the Congress passed a whiskey tax. In 1792, four back-woods counties in western Pennsylvania, unable to cooperate and accept the new ... MOREThe Whiskey Rebellion: True History And Hidden Lessons
What you weren't told about the power of the people. The standard version of the whiskey rebellion story, the one which I believed until I started reading on the topic, goes something like this…. In 1791, the Congress passed a whiskey tax. In 1792, four back-woods counties in western Pennsylvania, unable to cooperate and accept the new ... MOREJohn Stossel: Kochs And Unions
Lots of people sure hate the Koch brothers. The Kochs get death threats like this: "If I had a chance to murder a Koch brother in cold blood, I would surely take it." Jim Dean doesn't want to kill the Kochs, but he does want new laws to limit their influence. Dean's brother Howard was a Democratic presidential candidate, and Dean chairs a group ... MOREChristopher Mathias: NYC Police Commish William Bratton Says Cops Responsible For 'Worst Parts' Of Black History
Pandering attempt fails to impress. New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton acknowledged on Tuesday that police were to blame for "many of the worst parts of black history" in the United States. Yet advocates for police reform say the comments are merely lip service from an official who continues to reinforce the city's ... MORERonald Bailey: The Red Meat, Eggs, Fat And Salt Diet
Government nutrition nannies get it wrong. Progressives tend to believe that government knows best. The unfolding fiasco over government nutrition misinformation should give them pause. For years now the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been recommending that "everyone age 2 and up should consume less than 2,300 ... MOREWhy Should Non-Criminals Care About Justice Reform?
by Julie Borowski. Criminal justice reform has been a hot topic lately. It’s something that both Republicans and Democrats can find common ground on. However, I get the sense that many Americans aren’t convinced that it would benefit them personally. Most of us are probably law-obeying citizens whom would never dream of being involved in illicit ... MOREEdward Snowden's Libertarian Moment: We "Will Remove From Governments The Ability To Interfere With Rights"
by Nick Gillespie. Via
Mark
Sletten comes this thread from yesterday's
Ask Me Anything session at Reddit that featured Edward Snowden,
Oscar-winning documentarian Laura Poitras, and journalist Glenn
Greenwald. The question posed
to Snowden: What's the best way to make NSA spying an issue in the 2016
Presidential Election? It seems like while it was ... MOREPeter Schroeder: Yellen Strongly Opposes Audit Of The Fed
Keeping us peons in the dark. Janet Yellen made a lengthy case Tuesday against legislation to “Audit the Fed.” Yellen
argued that legislation offered by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) would make
the Fed less effective and, as a result, harm the U.S. economy as well. “I
want to be completely clear that I strongly oppose ‘Audit the Fed,’”
she ... MOREPolice State Update: Florida Cops Deployed Warrantless 'Stingray' Cell Phone Surveillance More Than 1,800 Times
A relentless war on personal privacy. Law enforcement officials in Florida have used ‘Stingray’ surveillance to track cell phone locations on more than 1,800 occasions, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). And they did it without obtaining warrants. The discovery was made after the ACLU fileda public records request with over ... MOREBob Livingston: Tyranny And America's Moral Decline
Pushing the collective agenda. Whenever government establishes special “rights” or “privileges” for a perceived aggrieved class (also called a minority class), it does so at the expense of the rights of others. It inevitably leads to law, logic and reason being tied into undecipherable knots, contributes to the power and collectivism of government, ... MOREMarijuana May Be Even Safer Than Previously Thought
by Christopher Ingraham. Compared to other recreational drugs -- including alcohol --
marijuana may be even safer than previously thought. And researchers may
be systematically underestimating risks associated with alcohol use. Those are the topline findings of recent research published in the journal Scientific Reports, a subsidiary ... MOREL.L. Braiser: The Law That Allows Cops To Raid Homes, Steal Money & Seize Property From The Innocent, Elderly
The state of the American police state. Thomas Williams was alone that November morning in 2013 when police raided his rural St. Joseph County home, wearing black masks, camouflage and holding guns at their sides. They broke down his front door with a battering ram. "We think you're dealing marijuana," they told Williams, a 72-year-old, retired ... MOREWalter E Williams: The Cancer Of Multiculturalism
The false premise of moral relativism. President Barack Obama surprised many at the National Prayer Breakfast when he lectured us, "Lest we get on our high horse and think this (barbarity) is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ." Obama went ... MOREObama Thanks Big Government Republican Governors Like John Kasich For Caving To Obamacare Medicaid Expansion
by Charlie Spiering. Stampede of the RINOs. Speaking to governors at the White House, President Obama pointedly praised Republican governors that caved to his Obamacare plan of expanding Medicaid. “I want to thank all the governors, Democrats and Republicans, supporters and some opponents of the ACA who have expanded Medicaid to millions ... MOREThomas Sowell: Giuliani Versus Obama
We all attempt to transform that which we love, right? The firestorm of denunciation of former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani, for having said that he did not think Barack Obama loved America, is in one sense out of all proportion to that remark — especially at a time when there are much bigger issues, including wars raging, terrorist ... MORE
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