by Elizabeth Harrington. More restrictions, less freedom. The National Transportation Safety Board wants to decrease the legal driving limit to one drink, lowering the legal limit on blood-alcohol content to 0.05 “or even lower.” The agency released its “most wanted list” on Wednesday, a laundry list of policies it would like implemented ... MOREFeds Want To Lower Legal Driving Limit To One Drink
by Elizabeth Harrington. More restrictions, less freedom. The National Transportation Safety Board wants to decrease the legal driving limit to one drink, lowering the legal limit on blood-alcohol content to 0.05 “or even lower.” The agency released its “most wanted list” on Wednesday, a laundry list of policies it would like implemented ... MORE
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Glenn Greenwald: U.S. Radically Changes Its Story Of The Boats In Iranian Waters To An Even More Suspicious One
Government's first instinct is to lie. When news first broke of the detention of two U.S. ships in Iranian territorial waters, the U.S. media — aside from depicting it as an act of Iranian aggression
— uncritically cited the U.S. government’s explanation for what
happened. One of the boats, we were told, experienced “mechanical
failure” and thus ... MOREElizabeth Nolan Brown: Homeland Security Asking Hotel Staff To Report Lodgers That Use Too Many Condoms
Frequent minibar-restock is a no-no. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) continues to pour time and taxpayer money into convincing the American people that there's an epidemic of sex trafficking here. So bad is this alleged epidemic that ordinary crime-control measures won't work, hence the department is recruiting truck drivers ... MORE
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Movie Review: 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers Of Benghazi
by Kurt Loder. Haters of Hillary Clinton may be disappointed to find that there’s no
mention of the former secretary of state in Michael Bay’s new movie
about the 2012 Benghazi attack that left U.S. Libyan ambassador Chris
Stevens dead and ignited a Congressional uproar that continues to this
very moment. But Clinton’s State Department ... MORE
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More Big Fat Lies From Chris Christie At The GOP Debate
by Ed Krayewski. On Sonia Sotomayor, Planned Parenthood, and Common Core. At the last Republican debate, Fox Business host Neil Cavuto asked Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.) to respond to comments attributed to an ad against Gov. Chris Christie (NJ) connected to a political action committee supporting him. It's part of the 2016 cycle debate ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Two Smoking Guns
The FBI investigation of Hillary. The federal criminal investigation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's failure to secure state secrets was ratcheted up earlier this week, and at the same time, the existence of a parallel criminal investigation of another aspect of her behavior was made known. This is the second publicly revealed expansion of ... MORE
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Hillary Clinton,
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A Faster Internet? Not With FCC Regulations
by Steve Pociask. Does the FCC’s public utility-style regulation of wireline incumbent telephone companies (abbreviated here as ILECs)
and their legacy copper-based voice services work to protect consumers
or impede broadband competition? That is the question explored by a new American Consumer Institute study. Telephone service regulations ... MOREPowerball's Biggest Winner: Government
by Michelle Malkin. Government's tax on stupidity. Ka-ching! Wednesday's Powerball jackpot soared to $1.5 billion as get-rich-quick mania seized America this week. But you don't need to wait for the drawing to know who'll score the royal payoff. The biggest winner of the multistate numbers game is — drumroll, please — Uncle Sam. ... MOREMike Hopper: The Federal Government Is Launching A Criminal Investigation Into Chipotle, And It’s A Bad Sign
Criminalizing mistakes. Law enforcement is a growth industry. 2015 was full of high-profile safety cases. Blue Bell Ice Cream had to take all of its products off the shelves after several cases of listeria, Chicago-based Aspen Foods recalled over 2.5 million pounds of frozen chicken over salmonella concerns, and, most recently, Chipotle saw cases of ... MORE
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Individualism Is Battling The Politically Managed Mind
by Richard Ebeling. Eroding the freedom to choose. Wherever we turn we are confronted with politicians, political pundits, television talking heads, and editorial page commentators, all of whom offer an array of plans, programs, and projects that will solve the problems of the world – if only government is given the power and authority to remake ... MORE
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central planning,
choice,
control,
freedom,
individual liberty,
individualism,
politics,
socialism
Stephanie Slade: Why Polls Don't Work
Election predicting hits an accuracy crisis. On October 7, 2015, the most famous brand in public opinion polling announced it was getting out of the horse-race survey business. Henceforth, Gallup would no longer poll Americans on whom they would vote for if the next election were held today. "We believe to put our time and money and brain-power ... MORE
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accountability,
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election,
failure,
information,
performance,
politics,
poll,
statistics,
success
Why Are Angry Ranchers Being Called Terrorists?
by Frank Furedi. It wasn’t long before pundits played the terrorist card in relation to the standoff between a group of ranchers and the US federal government at Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. In the Guardian, Wajahat Ali objected to the description of the ranchers as ‘militiamen’ rather than ‘terrorists’. ‘If the Oregon militiamen were Muslim ... MORE3,000 Business Regulations Coming In 2016
by Shubhomita Bose. Another year, another roll of red tape for small businesses to cut through. According to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, over 3,000 new regulations are in the pipeline for 2016 on top of the 3,300 issued in 2015. Some of the regulations that will have a direct impact on businesses include a possible Environmental Protection Agency ... MORE
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compliance costs,
EPA,
government,
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