Terrorists Will Not Be Welcomed At One Christian College
No gun-free zone here. Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. urged students, staff and faculty at his Christian school to get a permit to carry a concealed weapon on campus to counter any copycat attack like the deadly rampage in California just days ago. "Let's teach them a lesson if they ever show up here," Falwell told an estimated 10,000 of ... MOREHome Ownership Not The American Dream For Millennials
Has the American Dream become unattainable? Or has it just changed? Ask your parents what the American Dream meant to them growing up and you’ll probably find it differs from the ideals of millennials today. In fact, according to the Fusion 2016 Issues Poll, only 16 percent of people ages 18 to 35 believe the American Dream is still “very ... MORERestrictions On Adult Alcohol Access Don't Make Us Safer
Data explodes popular fallacy. Violent crime and binge drinking are two potential undesirable outcomes of access to alcohol. But is increased access to alcohol for adult drinkers a sufficient precondition for these attendant negative externalities of drinking? A recent look at the impact of changes to laws governing pub hours in England and Wales 10 ... MOREObama's Heaping Helping Of Government Regulations
a Press-Enterprise editorial. The Obama administration may have been thankful that people were not paying attention on Thanksgiving to the 2,224 new regulations it is proposing. The government is required to publish an agenda of regulatory activities twice a year and, as the Daily Caller observes, “Obama has developed a habit of releasing ... MORE
TSA Screens Holiday Travelers Once Again, With Feeling
by James Bovard. Flyers must surrender privacy along with boarding passes. If you use hand sanitizer when traveling, the Transportation Security Administration can badger you as if you were a terrorist suspect. TSA is one of the biggest hassles many Americans will encounter this holiday season. I learned that firsthand while flying home from ... MOREPaul Bonneau: Why Renters Are Screwed
The forces are lined up against them. Every now and then my wife and I get the itch to go into property
rental. For example, we look at real estate listings on the Oregon
Coast. A duplex would be nice, because we could take one unit for
ourselves, and rent the other out. The renter could help watch our place
while we were not around, and we ... MORE
Andrew Napolitano: The Spies Who Ruin Us
The Fourth Amendment has numerous virtues. In an effort to draw attention away from the intelligence failures that permitted the attacks of 9/11 and create the impression that it was doing something — anything — to avoid a repeat, the federal government tampered seriously with freedoms expressly guaranteed in the Constitution. ... MORECharles P. Pierce: That Whole "License To Steal" Thing
Civil forfeiture is a civil shitshow. There was a very interesting statistic that popped earlier this month as
regards criminals and criminal justice in the United States. According to economist Martin Armstrong, in
2014, the police seized through civil forfeiture more of the property
of their fellow citizens than was stolen by all the burglars in the ... MOREEd Krayewski: Video Captures A Knife-Wielding Man Surrounded And Executed By A Firing Squad Of Cops
Police admit five of the officers fired their guns. Police in San Francisco shot and killed a man they say was a suspected
stabber after he approached an officer while holding a knife. Video
posted of the incident to Instagram
shows at least nine officers pointing their guns at the man, who
appears to be trying to walk away as an officer moves in ... MORE7 Ways The Government Wasted Your Tax Dollars Last Year
by Bre Payton. The federal government spent millions subsidizing Donald Trump’s
new hotel, building a useless gas station in Afghanistan, and funding a
study on the dating habits of senior citizens, according to a new
report by Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.). The above findings are three of 100 ways the feds blew taxpayer dollars on ridiculous projects ... MOREJacob Davidson: A Criminologist’s Case Against Gun Control
A law professor explains why he is skeptical. In the wake of the recent mass shooting at a Colorado Planned Parenthood
that claimed three lives, President Barack Obama called the incidents
of gun violence in America “not normal.” “Enough is enough,” Obama said.
According to one count,
there have been 351 mass shootings in the United ... MORENY Times Editorial: The Chicago Police Scandal
A conspiracy of concealment. The cover-up that began 13 months ago when a Chicago police officer
executed 17-year-old Laquan McDonald on a busy street might well have
included highly ranked officials who ordered subordinates to conceal
information. But the conspiracy of concealment exposed last week when
the city, under court order, ... MOREShikha Dalmia: Obamacare Is Falling Apart
Insurers are bolting from the exchanges. President Obama has been hammered for his failure on ISIS in the wake of the Paris attacks. But there's at least one bright spot for him in that criticism: At least it deflected the spotlight from the unfolding catastrophe that is Obamacare. Indeed, last month brought arguably the worst news for the ... MORE
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