by Josh Peterson. Agents from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) are using Google Maps
as part of their tool kit to audit taxpayers and organizations, The
Daily Caller has learned. A redacted
IRS letter dated Sept. 8, 2011 reveals that at least in one case the
IRS’s examiners used photos of a property, obtained through Google Maps,
as ... MOREIRS Using Google Maps To Spy On Taxpayers
by Josh Peterson. Agents from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) are using Google Maps
as part of their tool kit to audit taxpayers and organizations, The
Daily Caller has learned. A redacted
IRS letter dated Sept. 8, 2011 reveals that at least in one case the
IRS’s examiners used photos of a property, obtained through Google Maps,
as ... MORETSA: Parking At Airport Grounds For Warrantless Search
Bureaucratic dictate trumps 4th Amendment. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has now expanded its intrusive searching protocol to include the interior of parked cars left at the airport. Reports of vehicle searches have been reported at multiple airports since this summer. Since roughly June, airports have ... MORECalifornia Taxpayers To Subsidize Green Cars For The Poor
by Steven Greenhut. One longtime critic of federal
transportation spending once concluded that it would be less
expensive for the government to buy every new transit rider a
Jaguar XJ8 than it would be to build certain new rail systems.
Unfortunately, California officials may not have realized that the
idea of buying people new cars ... MOREHumberto Fontova: Caveat On Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela's commitment to liberty. A Martian visiting earth this week, coasting TV channels and perusing papers, would have to conclude that among the items that most interest this planet’s news bureaus is the plight of former political prisoners, especially black ones. Well, many Cubans (many of them black) suffered longer and ... MOREEnvironmentalist Wackos 1 Animal Rights Activists 0
Steven Dinan on govt-permitted eagle chopping. The Interior Department says it will change the rules and issue permits that would let wind farms kill eagles for up to 30 years, or six times longer than the current permits allow. Wind farms — the fields of windmill turbines that dot the landscape — kill about 440,000 birds of all species every ... MORE
Jim Epstein: What We Saw At NYC's Fast Food Strike
More much ado about nothing. Yesterday, Naomi Brockwell and I attended a demonstration
demanding that fast-food restaurants boost their minimum wage to
$15 per hour, or a little more than double the current federal
minimum wage. The strike, which was led by a group called Fast Food Forward that’s
affiliated with the Service ... MOREThe Three Most Important Ongoing 2nd Amendment Cases
by Brian Doherty. Since the 2010 Supreme Court case McDonald
v. Chicago, which applied the ruling
in the
2008 Heller case (which said the Second Amendment
guarantees an individual right to bear arms) to states and
localities, the
Court has so far evaded any new case about the limits and
meaning of the Second Amendment. Those two cases, ... MOREJeffrey Folks: Obama's Plan To Snatch Your Savings
The next stop on the path to socialism. In his first term, Obama managed to get his paws on health care, banking, energy, student loans, the auto business, and more. Now he has his sights set on your 401(k). The left has had its eye on retirement savings for years, but so far takeover attempts have been rebuffed. One ... MORE
Flood Of Regulations Coming From Obama Administration
by Brian Wingfield. Over the next 12 months, the Obama administration is due to issue regulations governing everything from e-cigarettes to smoke-stack emissions in what experts predict will be a second-term rush to put rules in place before leaving office. “In every administration, these things have to be wrapped up in at least ... MOREGuardian Has Only Published 1 Percent Of Snowden Leaks
More transparency ahead for Obama regime? The editor of the Guardian said Tuesday his newspaper has published just 1 percent of the material it received from former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, and denied the paper had placed lives or national security at risk. The Guardian helped spark a global debate on ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: The Pope And Basic Economics
What is the worst problem in the world today? Might it be war, starvation, genocide, sectarian violence, murder, slaughter of babies in the womb? Any of these would be a rational answer. But when Pope Francis was asked this question recently, he replied, "Youth unemployment." To be sure, youth unemployment is a serious ... MORECondemn ObamaCare -- No Alternative Needed
by Barry Farber. The brightest star in Yogi Berra’s Library-of-Life-Lifters is probably “It’s déjà vu all over again.” (Runner-up: “Nobody goes to that restaurant anymore. It’s too crowded.”) It hit me with a comforting force when I suddenly connected what I was hearing these days that rang dim but important bells from long ago. You’ve ... MOREMurder Rate Nearly Cut In Half As Gun Ownership Soared
by Awr Hawkins. A Congressional Research Service (CRS) report shows that while gun ownership climbed from 192 million firearms in 1994 to 310 million firearms in 2009, crime fell—and fell sharply. According to the report,
the "firearm-related murder and non-negligent homicide" rate was 6.6
per 100,000 Americans in 1993. Following the ... MORE
City Stops 11-Year-Old Selling Mistletoe, But She Could Beg
Government: welfare state good, capitalism bad. An 11-year-old Oregon girl who wanted to help her father pay
for her braces by selling mistletoe over the holidays, found herself
embroiled in city bureaucracy. On Saturday, Madison Root went to the
downtown market to sell fresh mistletoe she cut and wrapped herself from her uncle's farm ... MORENathan Embry: Economic Freedom, The Voiceless Victim
The relentless march of the welfare state. Economic freedom is one of many sacred liberties individuals enjoy in our great country. Economic freedom allows for individuals to trade with others as they see fit and in their own best interest. It also allows for sellers to create and offer products of their own choosing, and buyers then elect ... MORE
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