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Global Warming: Another Broken Promise From The Left
from Brian Lada, meteorologist. A fresh blast of arctic air will deliver some of the coldest weather in 20 years to the country's midsection during the second half of the weekend and into the start of this week. This brutal cold will bring danger to millions from the northern Plains to the Midwest and down into the Tennessee Valley. ... MOREWynton Hall: 7 Minimum Wage Facts That Worry Democrats
As they run from Obamacare. With the midterm elections just over 300 days away, nervous Democrats reeling from the Obamacare debacle are hoping a big push to raise the minimum wage will be the silver bullet that will spare them from the historic losses they suffered in 2010. Democrats and unions are busy working to get minimum ... MORE
California Gun Law Paves The Way For Confiscation
by Steven Greenhut. Gun registration had always seemed like the “line in the sand” — a proposal that would so offend the nation’s gun-rights advocates that they would bring out their full political muscle to stop it. Yet a California law mandating government record-keeping for all new long-gun purchases goes into effect on Jan. 1 and few ... MOREJohn Goodman: Five Myths About Income Inequality
Repeating a fallacy does not make it true. “Inequality is the defining challenge of our time,” according to President Obama. It’s certainly the topic of the day for Paul Krugman, Joe Stiglitz and a whole raft of liberal pundits. But have you noticed that hardly anyone else is talking about it? When is the last time you heard a shoeshine ... MOREMore Evidence The Fourth Amendment Is Dead
Minor traffic violations cause for cell phone searches. A judge decided last week that Oklahoma City, Oklahoma police were in
the right when they downloaded information off the mobile phone
belonging to Noe Vergara Wuences who was pulled over on March 22, 2012
because the temporary paper license plate on his new car ... MORETerence P. Jeffrey: Uncle Sam's New Year's Binge
Gov't borrows $1,088 per household in just 1 day. Uncle Sam—AKA the federal government—went on a New Year’s Eve binge,
adding a net of $125,202,709,546.99 to its total debt in just the one
day of Dec. 31, 2013, according to the U.S. Treasury. That equals approximately $1,088.60 for each of the 115,013,000 households the Census ... MOREAmerican Taxpayers Blew $7.45 Billion On What?
Fighting global warming in other countries. American taxpayers spent $7.45 billion to help developing countries cope with climate change in fiscal years 2010 through 2012, according to a federal government report submitted to the United Nations on a subject that Secretary of State John Kerry described as “a truly life-and-death challenge.” ... MORESecret Court Approves More NSA Phone Snooping
Stephen Dinan on gov't giving gov't more power. The secret court that oversees the nation’s intelligence activities renewed its approval of the National Security Agency’s
telephone-records program on Friday, granting the government a new
three-month window to collect data on all Americans’ phone calls. Director of National ... MORE
101 Reasons To Move To New Hampshire
Freedom lives in the Granite State. Among the many advantages of moving to New Hampshire, these 101 reasons are at the top. New Hampshire has no general sales tax. New Hampshire has no general personal income tax. Dividends and interest are taxed at only 5%. New Hampshire state law prohibits the use of eminent domain for ... MOREMake 2014 The Year Of Freedom For Low-Wage Workers
Sheldon Richman on licensing. The federal budget deficit was big in 2013, but not as big as the freedom deficit. We should all resolve to make 2014 the year that we secure our freedom from government, the biggest threat we face. We can start with freedom for low-wage workers. Hundreds of occupations are closed shut unless one has a
license. To get ... MOREIan Kirkwood: Big Brother Is Phoning
2014 is 1984. When mobile phones first came into use, the big fear was radiation. Governments and the big phone companies said everything was safe but the worry remained that all of that electromagnetic energy pouring in and out from our ear-held phones would cause brain tumors. More recently, the biggest controversy over the new era of ... MOREThe Ten Worst Colleges For Free Speech: 2013
Freedom of expression is under assault. College is where inquisitive minds go to be exposed to new ways of
thinking. But on some campuses, the quest for knowledge is frustrated
when administrators censor speech they would prefer be kept out of the
marketplace of ideas. To close out the year, we at the Foundation for Individual Rights ... MOREJoseph Cox: The Privacy Threats Of 2014
The obliteration of privacy. After Edward Snowden released some of the most significant national
security leaks ever, we've been fed a constant stream of sickening
revelations. Snowden's message has mostly been listened to, and the
year culminated with him even getting a spot on prime time TV to tell us that “a child born today ... MOREThirteen States Make Low-Skill Workers Less Employable
The cost of hiring has just been arbitrarily increased. The minimum wage rose in 13 states as 2013 drew to a close. As many as 11 states and Washington, D.C., are expected to consider increases in 2014, and approval is likely in more than half of the 11, according to the National Employment Law Project, says USA Today. On January 1, ... MORE
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