by Nick Gillespie. The last time we took notice of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), it was to inform you that the unpopular, expensive, and ineffectual outfit had decided it could force travelers on domestic airline flights to go through full-body scanners. Previously, TSA had allowed folks to submit instead to a full-body pat-down. ... MORETSA Will Stop Accepting Driver's Licenses From 9 States
by Nick Gillespie. The last time we took notice of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), it was to inform you that the unpopular, expensive, and ineffectual outfit had decided it could force travelers on domestic airline flights to go through full-body scanners. Previously, TSA had allowed folks to submit instead to a full-body pat-down. ... MOREDOJ Suspends Asset Forfeiture Equitable Sharing
by Mikayla Hellwich. Police currently take more of citizens’ assets than thieves do. The Department of Justice released a memorandum addressed to local, state, and tribal law enforcement agencies Monday to announce that the equitable sharing program for asset forfeiture funds has been temporarily suspended due to financial considerations. ... MOREThomas Sowell: Remembering 2015
The lessons we should have learned. How shall we remember 2015? Or shall we try to forget it? It is always hard to know when a turning point has been reached, and usually it is long afterwards before we recognize it. However, if 2015 has been a turning point, it may well have marked a turn in a downward direction for America and for ... MOREJohn W. Whitehead: What’s In Store For Freedom In 2016?
You might want to sit down for this. As I illustrate in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People,
we in the emerging American police state find ourselves reliving the
same set of circumstances over and over again: egregious surveillance,
strip searches, police shootings of unarmed citizens, government spying, ... MOREJohn McAfee Enters Libertarian Party Presidential Race
Anti-virus pioneer throws his hat in the ring. John McAfee is the
70-year-old founder of the antivirus software firm that bears his name
(though he has not been actively involved with it since 1994, and the
company was bought by Intel in 2010).
He's also a colorful world adventurer who has been candid about his
extreme exploits in ... MORELu Wang: 2015 - The Year Nothing Worked
Stocks, bonds, cash go nowhere. Worst year for asset allocation funds since 1937. The idea behind asset allocation is simple: when one market struggles, it’s OK because an investor can jump into another that is thriving. Not so in 2015. In fact, if you judge the past year by which U.S. investment class generated the largest return, a case can be ... MOREMicah J Fleck: New York’s “Misgendering” Law Is Wrong
Another slap at free speech. The Republic just published a very informative report on a new civil rights guideline that could end up with NYC citizens facing hefty fines for what is being called “misgendering.” The idea, as the original news story explains, is that calling a trans person the wrong pronoun or title is now seen as a civil rights violation. ... MOREJacob Sullum: The Puzzling Persistence Of Pee Tests
A favorite tactic of control freaks. Slate columnist Daniel Engber, who was recently "shocked" to discover that workplace drug testing is still a thing, wonders: What's up with that? He finds, as I did back in 2002, that there's little evidence drug testing is a sound investment for employers: As was the case 30 years ago, testing has no solid base of evidence, ... MORESteven Greenhut: Regulation A Sure Bet For Fantasy Games
California's option destroyers never sleep. "Fantasy sports"
has come a long way from the office football pool. Instead of passing
around photocopied spreadsheets and collecting a few bucks from cubicle
mates, players now go to sophisticated web sites, where they can make
daily wagers—and not just trudge through a long sports season ... MOREWas 2015 A Bad Year For Campus Free Speech?
by Robby Soave. Are easily-offended students and their allies within the university
bureaucracy ushering in a new era of censorship on American college
campuses? Even President Obama is worried that excessive political correctness is stifling legitimate debate at universities. Still, it’s hard to say whether the situation on campuses is truly ... MOREMichael Thomsen: Legalizing Weed Isn’t Enough
Permit marijuana use in public. Recreational marijuana use has been legal in Seattle since 2012, but I still felt like I was getting away with something when I walked into a dispensary there this fall. There was a bouncer waiting behind a roped-off entryway on the otherwise quiet Capitol Hill side street. He passed my driver’s license through a ... MOREOur Presidents Are Beginning To Act Like Kings
by Charles C. W. Cooke. If the passage of time were a reliable guarantor of increasing human freedom, we would expect history to look a little different than it does. In school, we would have learned that the Englishmen of Charles I’s reign were better off than their Elizabethan grandparents; that the colonists implicated by the Declaratory ... MORE
Justin Gardner: A Federal Judge Just Shamed The DEA For Fabricating Sham Cases Trying To Justify War On Drugs
Entrapment, law enforcement's favorite tool. Since the War on Drugs began in earnest under Nixon and Reagan, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has ruined millions of lives for nonviolent, victimless behavior. The DEA’s drug crusade is not limited to the homeland either, as it also has sole responsibility for pursing international ... MOREWalter E Williams: Misleading And Using Blacks
Sacrificing blacks in the name of diversity. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia ran headlong into the leftist meat grinder by questioning whether college admission of blacks with academic achievement levels significantly lower than the rest of the student body is beneficial to blacks. His question came up during oral arguments ... MOREDavid Harsanyi: Admit It. You Just Want Your Own Dictator
Leaders are unsavory, dangerous, and unAmerican. This incessant clamoring by voters and punditry for better "leaders" and
more "leadership" is one of the most unsavory, dangerous and
un-American tendencies in political discourse. When Donald Trump was asked last week by Joe Scarborough what he made of
an endorsement from ... MORE
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