New Federal Water Heater Regs Are Tough On Consumers
by Julie Watts. Time to go tankless? New federal regulations for water heaters will go into effect in a few weeks. They are designed to make them more efficient but many people are running out to buy the older remaining water heaters. While new ones will provide savings on energy costs, consumers will have to pay much more in upfront ... MORE
Ronald Bailey: What Evidence Would Be Needed To Persuade You That Man-Made Climate Change Is Real?
Evidence does not mandate any particular policy. In 2005, I changed my mind about climate change: I concluded that the balance of the scientific evidence
showed that man-made global warming could likely pose a significant
problem for humanity by the end of this century. My new assessment did
not please a number of my friends, some of ... MOREJohn W. Whitehead: Jesus Died In A Police State
Challenging power can be dangerous. It is fitting at a time when the nation is grappling with moral questions about how best to execute death row prisoners, whether police should be held responsible for shooting unarmed citizens, and to what extent we allow the government to dictate, monitor and control every aspect of our lives,
that we ... MOREA Lawsuit Pushes To Make Prostitution Legal In California
by Chris Sieroty. When it comes to legal prostitution, Nevada has welcomed brothels in certain counties and in exchange has taxed the industry and demanded strict medical testing for prostitutes to protect both the sex workers and their clients. Even an attempt by Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., to have lawmakers in Carson City ... MOREMore Citizens Refusing to Answer Questions at Checkpoints
by Philip Hodges. We’re told that we have a right to remain silent. How ironic it is that these days we get arrested for doing just that – remaining silent. These particular checkpoints are run by the Border Patrol, but they’re nowhere near the Mexico-U.S. border. They’re within 100 miles of the border. So, the people they end up stopping and ... MOREDOJ Will Not Prosecute IRS's Lois Lerner For Contempt
by Susan Jones. After all, she took one for the team. President Obama's Justice Department is refusing to prosecute Lois Lerner for contempt of Congress, a decision that "is disappointing and exhibits a disregard for the rule of law," said Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform ... MOREVIDEO: NY Cop On A Vulgar Power Trip Reveals Why The General Public Is Seeing Law Enforcement As Them, Not Us
Context: The driver had pulled around and gestured that the officer should use his turn signal, casually and non-offensively, and kept driving. What followed was a horrifying glimpse of power going to someone’s head when they are granted a shiny badge and forget who they work for. ... MORE
Daniel J. Mitchell: Liberty, Morality, and Discrimination
Decent people should not obey immoral laws. When describing their view of government and public policy,
libertarians and constitutional conservatives sometimes use a variation
of this phrase: “Not everything that’s illegal is immoral, and not
everything that’s immoral should be illegal.” To put this in tangible terms, consider the fact that ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Indiana And The Constitution
Clarifying the law of the land. The Indiana Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 2015 is constitutionally infirm and legally troublesome. The circuitous constitutional route that brought about this statute began in 1990 when the Supreme Court ruled that the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment may not be used as a defense to violating the ... MOREA. Barton Hinkle: Courts Let Cops Get Away With Murder
Government protects itself, because it can. The police can break into your home unlawfully and shoot you dead, and nobody is at fault for that except you. The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, once considered one of the most conservative in the country, has moved to the left
in recent years. But if you think that means it is showing a greater ... MOREJohn Stossel: The Next Bubble
They're doing it again! When the last housing bubble burst, politicians blamed "greedy banks." They said mortgage companies lent money recklessly, making loans to people with dubious credit, for down payments as low as 3 percent. "It will work out," said the optimistic bankers. Regulators didn't disagree. Everyone said, "Home prices ... MOREThe Proper Way To Make Mistakes In Drug Policing
by Radley Balko. A couple in Owego, New York was recently wrongly targeted by local
police, who had apparently mistaken them for some pretty big time drug
distributers. From local TV news outlet WNBF: Steven Dunlap says he was pulled over by police while he was on his way to meet some friends for pizza. He says they took him into custody at ... MORE
TSA'S Secret Behavior Checklist To Spot Terrorists
by Jana Winter and Cora Currier. Fidgeting, whistling, sweaty palms. Add one point each. Arrogance, a cold penetrating stare, and rigid posture, two points. These are just a few of the suspicious signs that the Transportation
Security Administration directs its officers to look out for — and score
— in airport travelers, according to a confidential TSA ... MORETed Cruz’s Presidential Campaign Launch: Good And Bad
by Craig Biddle. Senator Ted Cruz—who may prove to be the best (or least-bad) candidate America will see in the 2016 presidential race—just launched his campaign for the presidency in a markedly mixed way. He launched it at Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University and did so with additional pandering to the so-called “religious right” (which, in fact, is not ... MORE
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