by Elizabeth Harrington. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) wants hotels to monitor how much time its guests spend in the shower. The agency is spending $15,000 to create a wireless system that will
track how much water a hotel guest uses to get them to “modify their
behavior.” “Hotels consume a significant amount of water in ... MOREEPA Wants To Monitor How Long Hotel Guests Shower
by Elizabeth Harrington. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) wants hotels to monitor how much time its guests spend in the shower. The agency is spending $15,000 to create a wireless system that will
track how much water a hotel guest uses to get them to “modify their
behavior.” “Hotels consume a significant amount of water in ... MOREJeanne Sahadi: The New Debt Ceiling: $18113000000000
The suspense -- or rather, the suspension -- is over. The U.S. debt ceiling has been reset at $18.113 trillion, the Treasury Department said Tuesday. That new limit on public debt is about $1 trillion above where it stood in February 2014, when lawmakers decided to "suspend" the ceiling through this past weekend. That cool trillion reflects how ... MOREWe’re Asking The Wrong Question About Police Shootings
by Radley Balko. The video below depicts the fatal police shooting of 38-year-old Jason Harrison in Dallas last year. Harrison’s mother had told the police that her son had been making threats, and that he was “bipolar schizo.” Police officials have previously said the body camera video backs up the officers’ accounts of self-defense, showing a fast- ... MOREShould Hotel Registries Be Open To Warrantless Searches?
by Rory Little. How does requiring a warrant interfere with surprise police searches of hotel guest registers? The first case argued Tuesday morning, City of Los Angeles v. Patel,
was about whether a Los Angeles ordinance that requires motel operators
to allow the police to examine hotel guest registers, without seeking a
warrant first, is ... MOREJohn Stossel: Chicago Fray
Money can't buy you love, but ... Rahm Emanuel, current mayor of my old hometown, Chicago, is not a gentle soul. But he's smarter than his big-spending predecessor, Richard M. Daley, and the union pawn, Jesus "Chuy" Garcia, who becomes the new mayor if he beats Emanuel in a run-off election April 7. Emanuel was the tough Obama chief of staff ... MOREThe Staggering Cost Of Embedded Regulation: $15K Per U.S. Household, Annual Economic Impact = $1.8 Trillion
by D. Brady Nelson. What you don't see can hurt you. Perhaps due to it not being as readily quantifiable as government taxation, debt, welfare, and money creation; regulation has too often been superficially dealt with. In many ways, the largely “hidden tax” of regulation is a bigger threat to liberty, economy, and morality than other weapons of ... MOREOne in Three Americans Hide Data From Government
by J.D. Tucille. And you should too. My cell phone is encrypted. It also contains two apps—TextSecure and RedPhone—for
conducting secure communications. All I really need in addition is
something worth keeping secret, unless a few notes for articles and
photographs of my kid and my dogs make the cut. Still, it gives me a
warm, fuzzy feeling to ... MOREEPA Targets Backyard Burger And Wiener Roasts
by Paul Bedard. The Environmental Protection Agency has its eyes on pollution from backyard barbecues. The agency announced
that it is funding a University of California project to limit
emissions resulting in grease drippings with a special tray to catch
them and a "catalytic" filtration system. The $15,000 project has the "potential for ... MOREUSA Today Editorial: Policing For Profit Perverts Justice
Ferguson, Mo., is not the only guilty municipality. Most people have never heard the term "policing for profit," but they've certainly seen it in action. Speed traps on roads that run through small towns have long generated money for the local governments. Big cities also police for profit. Washington, D.C., raked in $92 million in ticket revenue ... MOREBruce Walker: Reclaiming Legislative Power
Too many laws created by bureaucrats. The power to make laws rests wholly in Congress – at least that is what the Constitution says. Yet who makes the “laws” in our federal system today? Vast amounts of legislative power have been “delegated” to independent federal regulatory agencies like the Federal Communications Commission or to the ... MOREZero Tolerance For Common Sense: Kid Was Expelled And Charged For Bringing Pot To School, Even Though He Didn't
by Robby Soave. Administrators at a middle school in central Virginia suspended a sixth-grader last September for one-year after discovering a marijuana leaf and a lighter in his backpack. The sheriff's department became involved as well and filed drug possession charges against the 11-year-old boy. Months later, prosecutors had to drop the ... MOREWhy Government Doesn't Like Individual Property Rights
by Laura Lundquist. Government serves agencies, not people. More than two dozen Republican legislators are cosponsoring a bill intended to strengthen private property rights by prohibiting state agencies from taking any action that might affect a person’s enjoyment of their property. But several agencies and attorneys say that could have negative ... MOREBruce E. Levine: 8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How The United States Crushed Youth Resistance
From anti-establishment to obedient sheep. Traditionally, young people have energized democratic movements. So it is a major coup for the ruling elite to have created societal institutions that have subdued young Americans and broken their spirit of resistance to domination. Young Americans—even more so than older Americans—appear to have ... MOREA Slow-Motion Accident Right Before Our Eyes
by Michael Hausam. Seattle's minimum wage chickens coming home to roost. The city of Seattle is providing the nation the economic-planning equivalent of a Funniest Home Video face-plant compilation movie. And it promises to be a doozy. Except for in this case, the face-plant is occurring to an entire city’s population and there’s no hope for a big cash ... MORE
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