by John Giokaris. "The cupboard is bare ...There’s no more cuts to make." That’s what House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told CNN’s State of the Union in September during an interview about spending reform. Really? She can’t find any spending to cut in the federal budget? Why can’t she start with the $30 billion in government ... MORE20 Dumb Ways Government Wasted Your Money In 2013
by John Giokaris. "The cupboard is bare ...There’s no more cuts to make." That’s what House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told CNN’s State of the Union in September during an interview about spending reform. Really? She can’t find any spending to cut in the federal budget? Why can’t she start with the $30 billion in government ... MOREHow Jury Nullification Accelerates the Drug War’s Demise
by Steve Silverman, Flex Your Rights. I recently had the privilege of joining three jury nullification heavyweights on a panel hosted by the International Drug Policy Reform Conference. The discussion focused on how strategic jury nullification can be used to dismantle the War on Drugs. If you watch this 84-minute panel from
beginning ... MORE
NSA Programs Not About Terrorism, They're About Power
Edward Snowden: "These [NSA] programs were never about terrorism: they're about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They're about power." NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has offered to help the Brazilian government in its investigations around US spying in exchange for permanent asylum in the country. ... MORETop Seven Global Warming Alarmist Setbacks In 2013
by Michael Bastasch. Hold your champagne glasses high this holiday season, because the end of 2013 marks the 17th year without global warming. This year has been trying for climate scientists and environmentalists who have been trying hard to explain away the 17-year hiatus in global warming and link “extreme weather” to rising ... MOREJ. Robert Smith: Crush Phil Robertson, Crush Free Speech
Should political correctness trump individual rights? Poor Phil Robertson, "Duck Dynasty" star. He had the temerity to express opinions to GQ about homosexuality that landed him crosswise the nation's gay jackboots. Out came the truncheons, whacking not just Phil over the head, but anyone, anywhere, who has anything to do ... MOREObamaCare Means Deep Cuts In Home Health For Seniors
by Andrew Mangione. As if ObamaCare’s botched website, coverage cancellations, and higher costs were not bad enough, the Obama Administration has quietly dealt yet another blow – this time striking millions of the nation’s most vulnerable seniors. Specifically, the Obama Administration has decided to deeply cut funding for the ... MORESearch Warrants Based on a "Prediction of a Future Crime"
Eric Nicholoson on tyranny in the lone star state. Police in Parker County had been watching Michael Fred Wehrenberg's home for a month when, late in the summer of 2010, they received a tip from a confidential informant that Wehrenberg and several others were "fixing to" cook meth. Hours later, after midnight, officers walked ... MOREVictor Davis Hanson: Young People Have Been Had
Hornswoggled by hope and change. There are all sorts of time bombs embedded within Obamacare. Will we force doctors to treat the millions of new Medicaid patients who are signing up for services that can be only partially reimbursed? How exactly will the IRS collect penalties from millions of off-the-books youth who choose not to buy ... MOREPassive Smoking -- Another Of The Nanny State's Big Lies
Passive smoking doesn't give you lung cancer. So says a new report publicised by the American Cancer Institute
which will come as no surprise whatsoever to anyone with a shred of
integrity who has looked into the origins of the great "environmental
tobacco smoke" meme. It was, after all, a decade ago that the British Medical ... MOREFederal Judge Acknowledges NSA is "Almost Orwellian"
by Andrew Napolitano. "Almost Orwellian"—that's the description a federal judge gave earlier this week to the massive spying by the National Security Agency (NSA) on virtually all 380 million cellphones in the United States. In the first meaningful and jurisdictionally grounded judicial review of the NSA cellphone spying program, U.S. District Court ... MOREGreg Beato: The Benefits Of Unregulated Pot
The domesticating influence of capitalism. Last September the Washington State Liquor Control Board published a 43-page list of proposed guidelines for the sale of recreational marijuana. A few days later, Colorado issued an even longer set of rules, 136 densely packed pages in all. In the realm of legal, commercialized cannabis, ... MORE
Barry Farber: Tales Of Top Interpreters
Pretend it had all worked backwards. Pretend the president is routinely reading his routine briefing papers and everything looks routine – until he gets to one of the more minor details in his upcoming visit to the Nelson Mandela memorial earlier in December in South Africa. And there he reads: “The sign-language interpreter the South ... MORE
Are You Consenting To Surveillance Right Now?
Jacob Sullum on the perilous condition of privacy. After her purse was snatched in 1976, Patricia McDonough began receiving threatening phone calls from a man who identified himself as her robber. Following one of the calls she saw a car she recognized from the scene of the crime slowly pass by her house in Baltimore. Police later ... MOREPaul Rosenberg: You'll Stop Being A Serf When You Do This
Martin Luther King knew all about it. I hear the same complaints about politicians that you do. And while I understand them (I’ve complained plenty myself), the fact is that complaining accomplishes very little. And there is a very simple reason why complainers have no effect: Because the complainers keep ... MOREJohn Stossel: Look Back In Liberty 2013
This wasn't a great year for liberty. A few disasters that government caused: Obamacare. It was supposed to "bend the cost curve" downward. The central planners had lots of time to perfect their scheme. For a generation, the brightest left-wing wonks focused on health care policy. The result? Soviet-style consumer service ... MORE
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