Katie Kieffer: Santa Baby, Bring Me Coal
Solar on the naughty list. I want coal for Christmas, and not because I’ve been a naughty girl. I want coal so I can affordably power up the high-tech toys Santa is bringing me, including an electronic butler who cleans and cooks and a modern, coal-fired steam locomotive that will allow me to bypass the TSA Snooper Troopers when I travel ... MOREThomas Sowell: Attacking The Truth
They just can't take the inconvenient truth. Among the many sad signs of our time are the current political and media attacks on Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, for speaking the plain truth on a subject where lies have been the norm for years. The case before the High Court is whether the use of race as a basis for admitting students ... MOREWalter E Williams: Our Timid Military Leaders
Sending the weaker sex to battle. This month, President Barack Obama's defense secretary, Ashton Carter, decreed that there will be 220,000 combat military jobs offered to women — including in Army special operations forces and the Navy SEALs. He said, "They'll be allowed to drive tanks, fire mortars and lead infantry soldiers into combat ... MOREThomas Sowell’s Christmas Gift Recommendations
by Thomas Sowell. People who want to buy Christmas gifts, without having to confront the crowds at the local shopping mall (or shopping maul) can take a load off their feet by buying books or movies on the Internet, while sitting in the comfort of their own homes. In addition to old standbys like gorgeous coffee table books of Ansel Adams’ ... MOREMan Charged With A Felony For Passing Out Jury Right Flyers Demands The Names Of These 'Tampered Jurors'
by Bob Unruh. Defending a First Amendment assault. A lawyer representing a Michigan man accused of jury tampering for handing out brochures about the concept of jury nullification – essentially jurors voting their conscience no matter their instructions from prosecutors and judges – now wants to talk to potential jurors who may have been in the ... MOREHow Cops Turn Young, Low-Level Drug Offenders Into "Confidential Informants," A Job That Might Kill Them
by Jacob Sullum. Drug war draftees. On November 22, 2013, his 20th birthday, Andrew Sadek sat down across a table from Richland County Sheriff's Deputy Jason Weber at the Law Enforcement Center in Wahpeton, North Dakota. It was the day after cops had searched Sadek's dorm room at the North Dakota State College of Science, finding "an orange ... MORE
Drug Czar Wants More $ To Spend On Taking Your Stuff
by Nick Gillespie. The Washington Post reports that the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) wants more money "to identify assets, prosecute cases and 'manage the massive paper flow associated with forfeiture.'" Asset-forfeiture, in which law enforcement seizes property, cash, and goods that it says is connected to drug ... MORE
Guess What Marijuana Is Being Blamed For Now
by Sean Willliams. We're less than three weeks away from the calendar ticking over to a new year -- a year that very well could be the most important for the marijuana industry to date. We can certainly look back on some of the milestone events within the marijuana industry over the past two decades and argue that they've been pivotal ... MORE
Scott Shackford: The Middle Class Is Shrinking!
Because They’re Getting Rich! Success is seen as a disaster when you care more about income inequality than mobility. "The American Middle Class is Losing Ground," is the title of Pew Research Center's new report on income inequality. That headline informed the headlines that other media outlets have settled on as well. The Los Angeles ... MOREThat Obamacare Penalty Will Be Bigger Than You Think
by Dan Mangan. The stick's getting a lot bigger — but it's not clear that many more people will choose the carrot as a result. Households that opt to go without health insurance in 2016 are set to get hit with an average Obamacare fine of $969. That is 47 percent higher than the average $661 penalty per uninsured household for this year, a new analysis ... MOREMontana Man Walks Thanks To Jury Nullification
From the Tenth Amendment Center. In Montana, citizens rendered a marijuana law unenforceable through jury nullification. Recently, a man was arrested for possessing a small amount of marijuana, but the judge could not find one single person willing to sit on a jury and convict him. Unable to seat a jury, the judge was forced to give up and offer ... MORE
William N. Grigg: Police Chiefs Across The US Admit Armed Citizens, Not Cops, Is The Best Deterrent Against Terrorism
“If you’re a terrorist, you want unarmed citizens." If you want to be protected from potential terrorist attacks like the recent massacre in Paris, and suspected domestic terrorist incidents such as the murder of three people at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood facility and fourteen more at an office party in San Bernardino, you ... MOREJerry Brown Pimps 'Coercive Power of the State' In Paris
by Rob Nikolewski. For the public good as determined by political elites. California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) raised some eyebrows while attending the United Nations Climate Summit
in Paris, proclaiming the "coercive power of the central state" is
needed to promote good public policy, specifically when it comes to a
cleaner environment. ... MORE
Please Don't Say Radical If You Mean Violent
by Sheldon Richman. It's about time someone challenged the phrase radical Islamic terrorism. The most objectionable part is the word radical, since it is now popularly associated with aggression—violence against innocents—as an acceptable means to politico-religious ends. But nothing about the word radical implies approval of aggression or ... MORE
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