The Patriot Act has a bad pedigree and an evil history. In the fearful days immediately following 9/11, the Department of Justice quickly sent draft legislation to Congress that, if enacted, would have permitted federal agents to violate their oaths to uphold the Constitution by writing their own search warrants. The draft subsequently was revealed ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Saving The Fourth
The Patriot Act has a bad pedigree and an evil history. In the fearful days immediately following 9/11, the Department of Justice quickly sent draft legislation to Congress that, if enacted, would have permitted federal agents to violate their oaths to uphold the Constitution by writing their own search warrants. The draft subsequently was revealed ... MOREMatt Agorist: What Do You Say To Your Children When They See A Video of A Police Officer Killing Someone?
Explaining the nature of the state. The video of Walter Scott being shot in the back by North Charleston Police Officer Michael Slager was plastered across television screens worldwide. It showed a public servant gunning down a man in cold blood. It was a paradigm-shattering moment for people across the US, especially for America’s youth. ... MOREJohn W. Whitehead: One Nation Under Surveillance
The NSA's technotyranny. We now have a fourth branch of government. As I document in my new book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, this fourth branch came into being without any electoral mandate or constitutional referendum, and yet it possesses superpowers, above and beyond those of any other government ... MORESteve Forbes: Income Tax Rate Cuts Work. Always.
The federal government could learn from the states. One of the genius features of our federal system of government is that it allows states to be laboratories for policies, to see what works and what doesn’t. The great welfare reform bill of 1996 came out of the pioneering policies of Wisconsin, which demonstrated that there could be a work ... MOREFarai Chideya: Your Data Is Showing -- Breaches Continue To Wreak Havoc While the Government Plays Catch-Up
Government's incentive is to infiltrate, not protect. When Kansas City, Missouri, real estate appraiser Dave Markus learned he was one of about
80 million people whose personal data was exposed in the Anthem health
insurance breach discovered at the end of January, he immediately signed
up for an identity protection service. But ... MOREErica Werner: Government, What Big You Have!
Obama to Senate: more snooping, please. President Barack Obama called on the Senate Tuesday to extend key Patriot Act provisions before they expire five days from now, including the government's ability to search Americans' phone records. "This needs to get done," he told reporters in the Oval Office. "It's necessary to keep the ... MOREJohn Stossel's Advice On College: Don't Go
It's graduation time! Have we learned much? No. College has become a scam. Some students benefit: those with full scholarships and/or rich parents so they don't go deep into debt, those who love learning for its own sake and land jobs in academia and those who get jobs that require a college credential. But that's not most students. Politicians such ... MORERand Paul Says The Republican Brand Is 'Broken'
by Theodore Schleifer. Presidential candidate Rand Paul has christened himself a different kind of Republican, and now he's embracing a unique moniker: tree hugger. In a new book released on Tuesday, Paul said he composts and believes in clean air and clean water. Paul notes that he has planted giant sequoias in his yard and repurposed old ... MOREThe Asset Forfeiture Issue Is Not Going Away
by Peter Dujardin and Ashley K. Speed. It doesn't appear that the asset forfeiture issue is going away any time soon. Civil asset forfeiture — the confiscation of people's money and assets by police without a criminal conviction — has recently been a matter of a U.S. Judiciary Committee hearing. And it seems likely to come up in the forthcoming ... MOREDoug Newman: They Thought They Were Fighting For Freedom But Are Now Abused By America's Police State
Veterans abused by government. It is easy to stand up and cheer for your favorite government activity. It is quite another to acknowledge what it means in the real world. I almost never try to speak for other people. However, I think it is fairly safe to say that the average military recruit firmly believes that he joins the military so that you and ... MOREMark Hemingway: When Open Government Slams Shut
What we don't know does hurt us. On March 2, The New York Times revealed that Democratic Party presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton had used a private email account to conduct official business for her entire four-year tenure as secretary of state. Clinton emailed President Barack Obama on an insecure server hosted in her own home. ... MOREMallory Millett: Why I Love 'Hate Speech'
I love Pamela Geller. I have known and loved her for years. She is a great American! If only everyone who has the honor of calling himself American could grow courage like hers we would be un-terrorizable as a nation. Pamela gets that we are at war and stands as an example for those of us who have lost our way. Many of you under fifty have ... MOREWalter E Williams: Liberals Respect Me
Treated like a white man. During the early years of the Reagan administration, a Washington news conference was held for me for my first book, "The State Against Blacks." Before making summary statements about the book, I offered the reporters assembled that they could treat me like a white person. They could ask me hard, pressing questions. ... MOREThomas Sowell: Graduation Gifts
Education might be nice. This is the season of college graduations, and many people may be wondering what kinds of gifts would be most appropriate for young people leaving the world of academia and heading out to face the challenges and opportunities of adulthood in the real world. Given the narrow range of left to far left views of the ... MORE5 Yes Or No Questions To Determine If You Are A Statist
by Larken Rose. The 5 Questions: 1) Is there any means by which any number of individuals can delegate to someone else the moral right to do something which none of the individuals have the moral right to do themselves? 2) Do those who wield political power (presidents, legislators, etc.) have the moral right to do things which other people do not ... MORE
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