Walter McLaughlin on Medicaid cost recovery. When a bill the size and scope of Obamacare is dropped onto the desk of the average member of Congress, it’s safe to assume that they haven’t read it cover-to-cover before casting their vote. Had they done so with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, however, they ... MOREObamacare Puts Millions At Risk For Asset Forfeiture
Walter McLaughlin on Medicaid cost recovery. When a bill the size and scope of Obamacare is dropped onto the desk of the average member of Congress, it’s safe to assume that they haven’t read it cover-to-cover before casting their vote. Had they done so with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, however, they ... MOREJohn Stossel: Common Core
Education stagnation vs school choice. My TV producers asked our Facebook audience to vote for a topic they'd most like to hear discussed on my year-end show. The overwhelming winner, for some reason: the education standards program Common Core. Most Americans don't even know what that is. But they should. It's the ... MORENSA Intercepts New Computers; Installs Spying Malware
NSA's spying toolbox. The NSA has a secret unit that produces special equipment ranging from spyware for computers and cell phones to listening posts and USB sticks that work as bugging devices. When agents with the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) division want to infiltrate a network or a computer, they turn to their technical experts. ... MORE
Regulation Nation: 40,000 New Laws Take Effect In 2014
by Greg Toppo. If you're a pale 17-year-old in Illinois, get your indoor tanning sessions in now. Starting Wednesday, they're strictly forbidden. A new state law takes effect Jan. 1 that bans anyone under 18 from using tanning salons in the Land of Lincoln. Illinois becomes the sixth state to keep teens out of the facilities, part of a growing trend of ... MORE
How Government Wasted Taxpayer Dollars In 2013
3-D pizza printing, pole dancing, the $100,000 outhouse ... The federal government spent $680 billion more than it took in during the 2013 fiscal year. But despite shutting down much of Washington in an argument over how much debt to rack up in 2014, Uncle Sam continues to green-light spending on projects that only their contractors ... MORE
Driver Arrested; Has Compartment That Could Store Drugs
Robby Soave reports on drug war tyranny. Civil libertarians are criticizing Ohio police for arresting a driver because his car contained a compartment that could theoretically store illegal drugs, though no drugs were found at that time. The driver, 30-year-old Norman Gurley of Michigan, was pulled over for speeding. A highway patrolman ... MOREWendy McElroy: Is The NSA Changing Bank Accounts?
The capability is clearly there. The question would seem absurd if it were not for a 308-page report on the NSA that
was released on December 12 by an Official White House Panel.
Recommendation 31, “Institutional Measures for Cyberspace,” on page 37
and repeated on page 221 reads: (1) Governments should not use surveillance to steal ... MORE
America's First Marijuana Stores Open In Colorado
Rocky Mountain high gets a new meaning. America's first retail stores selling marijuana open for business in
Colorado on Wednesday, putting the western state in the vanguard of the
country's evolving attitudes on legalizing the drug. Officials in the state famous for its ski resorts and breathtaking
mountain vistas have issued 348 retail ... MOREThomas Sowell: A New Year And Old Problems
Caring is not a matter of words. Whenever we stand on the threshold of a new year, we are tempted to forget the hazards of prophecy, and try to see what may lie on the other side of this arbitrary division of time. Sometimes we are content to try to change ourselves with New Year's resolutions to do better in some respect. ... MORE
Sylvia Bokor: The Trillion-Plus Dollar Heist
Public servants or public masters? Government produces nothing. It creates no wealth. Yet the District of Columbia is ranked as the richest area in the nation. Politicians and bureaucrats shriek that business people are "greedy." But facts show differently. Imagine voting yourself a raise and millions of dollars in allowances. Imagine ... MORERon Paul: Government Policies Hurt Low-Skill Workers
Economic ignorance is not a strategy. Fast-food workers across the county have recently held a number of high profile protests to agitate for higher wages. These protests have been accompanied by efforts to increase the wages mandated by state and local minimum wage laws, as well as a renewed push in some states and localities to pass ... MORE
Bryan Hyde: Utah Cops Can Legally Steal Your Property
New law erodes personal rights. One particularly disturbing aspect of the approaching police state is
the practice of civil asset forfeiture. This is when law enforcement is
empowered to seize a person’s property — most often cash, cars, or
homes — without due process or having to prove it is connected to a
crime. In my ... MOREWalter E Williams: Parting Company
Which approach, civil or barbaric? Here's a question that I've asked in the past that needs to be revisited. Unless one wishes to obfuscate, it has a simple yes or no answer. If one group of people prefers strong government control and management of people's lives while another group prefers liberty and desires to be left alone, ... MORE
Renee Lewis: LAPD Deploys Drug Detection Roadblocks
The state against citizens. The Los Angeles police department has announced a New Year’s
crackdown on intoxicated drivers – with checkpoints to be set up across
the county complete with breathalyzers and cheek swab tests that can
detect recent drug use, the L.A. Times reported. Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer told CBS ... MOREWhat's In Store For Our Freedoms In 2014?
John W. Whitehead on the emerging police state. In Harold Ramis’ classic 1993 comedy Groundhog Day, TV
weatherman Phil Connors (played by Bill Murray) is forced to live the
same day over and over again until he not only gains some insight into
his life but changes his priorities. Similarly, as I illustrate in my
book A Government of Wolves: ... MORE
Global Warming Scientists Trapped In Antarctic Ice
P. J. Gladnick on an inconvenient irony. Somewhere far, far to the south where it is summer, a group of global
warming scientists are trapped in the Antarctic ice. If you missed the
irony of that situation, it is because much of the mainstream media has
glossed over that rather inconvenient bit of hilarity. As an example
here is an Associated ... MORE
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