Fed Court Rubber Stamps Continued NSA Spying For Now
by Dustin Volz. A federal court has again renewed an order allowing the National Security Agency to continue its bulk collection of Americans' phone records, a decision that comes more than a year after President Obama pledged to end the controversial program. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court approved this week a government request to ... MORE
Net Neutrality Is A Triumph of the Ruling Class
by Jeffrey Tucker. A triumph of “free expression and democratic principles”? How stupid do they think we are? It’s been painful to watch the gradual tightening of government
control in the name of net neutrality. The Federal Communications
Commission’s decision to rewrite the rules and declare the Internet as a
public utility seals the ... MORE
Taxes & Restrictions Posing As Federal Dietary Guidelines
by Baylen Linnekin. Last week the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC),
which meets every five years to help set federal dietary policies,
issued its
final recommendations. The recommendations of the committee, first established in 1990, "provide the basis for federal food and nutrition policy and education initiatives." So just what ... MORE
Luke Hilgemann: More Regulations Equals Less Business
Going into business gets tougher and tougher. The health of the American economy can easily be measured by the
health of American businesses — especially the rate at which people like
you and me start new ones. This simple metric shows whether the spirit
of innovation and entrepreneurship is alive in well in our country. It has been for ... MOREHow Gun Control Is Causing Another European Holocaust
by Pedro Gonzales. When Adolph Hitler got into power, he confiscated all the guns owned by Jewish people. Then, once they were defenseless, he sent them all to concentration camps. Now, in 2015, Jews are being slaughtered again because of their religion. And because of strict gun control laws in Europe, they are once again defenseless. ... MORENew Narcotic Painkiller Rules Put The Hurt To Veterans
by Emily Wax-Thibodeaux. Frequent appointment requirements overwhelm the VA. New federal rules that make it harder to get narcotic painkillers are taking an unexpected toll on thousands of veterans who depend on these prescription drugs to treat a wide variety of ailments, such as missing limbs and post-traumatic stress. The restrictions, ... MOREJaana Woiceshyn: ‘Sensitivity’ Versus Freedom of Speech
Weak minds fear free speech. Recently my MBA business ethics class discussed the case of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo as well as the case of the Danish Mohammed cartoons published in 2006. Somebody also brought up Sony and its movie The Interview. We had just covered the virtue of integrity: loyalty to rational principles. ... MOREWhat If The Government Fears Freedom?
by Andrew Napolitano. What if the current massive spying on Americans began with an innocent secret executive order signed by President Reagan in 1986? What if Reagan contemplated that he was only authorizing American spies to spy on foreign spies unlawfully present in the U.S.? What if Reagan knew and respected the history of the ... MOREHome Surveillance Records Cop Assaulting And Abusing Teen Without Cause; Charges Him With Resisting Arrest
Another criminal with a badge. Police in New Jersey are investigating allegations that one of their own officers roughed up and abused a teenager, and the whole thing was caught on camera. It happened Saturday night. The cop was at the teen's house and the young man ended up handcuffed in the snow in a t-shirt and no shoes. Michael doesn't want us to use ... MOREIlya Shapiro: Clearly Worded Contracts Should Be Enforced
A concept that escapes some courts. Freedom of contract—the right of individuals to manage and govern their own affairs—is a basic and necessary liberty. The appropriate role of the government in contract-law disputes is to hold parties to their word, not to enforce its own policy preferences. The New Jersey Supreme Court recently struck a ... MOREFCC Chair Appears To Be Hellbent On Internet Takeover
by Andrew Johnson. Two prominent House committee chairs are “deeply disappointed” in Federal Communications Commission chairman Tom Wheeler for refusing to testify before Congress as “the future of the Internet is at stake.” Wheeler’s refusal to go before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday comes on the eve of the FCC’s vote on ... MOREForced Blood Draws, DNA Collection and Biometric Scans
by John W. Whitehead. What country is this? Our freedoms—especially the Fourth Amendment—are being choked out by a prevailing view among government bureaucrats that they have the right to search, seize, strip, scan, spy on, probe, pat down, taser, and arrest any individual at any time and for the slightest provocation. Forced cavity ... MORE
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