An American's right to travel vs the TSA. The Transportation Security Administration needs reform. For those unfamiliar with their track record, here are some of the more recent controversial things the TSA has done: A 95 year old woman was supposedly required to remove her adult diaper before being cleared for flying in June; In May, an 8 month old child was ... MOREArt Bailly: How Much Tyranny Will Americans Accept?
An American's right to travel vs the TSA. The Transportation Security Administration needs reform. For those unfamiliar with their track record, here are some of the more recent controversial things the TSA has done: A 95 year old woman was supposedly required to remove her adult diaper before being cleared for flying in June; In May, an 8 month old child was ... MOREObama Administration's New Job-Killing Regulations
Hundreds more in July alone. It's hard to take President Obama seriously when he talks about job growth being a "top priority." Soon, Obama will embark on yet another "jobs tour" where he will talk a lot about the need for job creation, but back in Washington his bureaucrats will be drafting more job killing regulations. During a Senate GOP caucus lunch this week, a report was ... MOREVIDEO: Cop Overrules Freedom Of The Press
A 30 year cop makes up the law as he goes to insulate police from media scrutiny.
Aaron Klein: Some Can Appreciate The President's Efforts
Obama gets thumbs up from the Communist Party. It may be early in the campaign season, but the Communist Party USA already has seen fit to endorse Barack Obama for the 2012 election. While noting he is disappointed with "some aspects" of the Obama administration's domestic and foreign policy, Sam Webb, chairman of the Communist Party USA, threw his support ... MOREWendy McElroy: Security Theater Adds A New Act
Coming soon: The Interview. “Where are you going? What is the purpose of your trip? Where will you be staying? Who will you see there? How do you know them?” Anyone familiar with international travel will recognize such questions as a particularly unpleasant aspect of being “processed” by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Soon Americans ... MOREG. Murphy Donovan: The American Animal Farm
Political ideology that would make Orwell cringe. George Orwell wrote his famous Animal Farm allegory about the corrupting potential of socialism in 1943. The novel was not published for two years because the liberal Bloomsbury establishment did not want to offend the new Labour Party majority in London or Stalinist allies in Moscow. After WWII, Orwell ... MOREShikha Dalmia: Expanding the State By Executive Order
Obama's top four power grabs. Candidates never keep their promises once in office. But even by the unlovely standards of his political peers, President Obama has pulled a rather impressive switcheroo from the anti-Bush to Bush-plus. He ran on a platform to undo President George W. Bush’s legacy and restore government accountability, even signing the pledge from the ... MOREWalter E Williams: Cruel Laws
With friends like government, who needs enemies? What does it take to be able to own and operate a taxi and earn $30,000, $40,000 or more a year? You need to purchase a used car and liability insurance. Compared with other businesses, the startup cost to become a taxi owner/operator is modest; that's until you have to come up with money for a license. In May 2010 ... MOREIain Murray: Time To Promote Economic Climate Change
Steve Wynn is right! Among the long string of bad economic news from the last few years, there is something to celebrate: The political consensus in Washington that government could keep on growing at no cost to the growing economy has finally broken down. The size and scope of government is now the defining issue of our time. It is a welcome debate. However, it has ... MOREMark Steyn: 'Life On This Planet' Is About To Change
More change than hope ahead. That thoughtful observer of the passing parade, Nancy Pelosi, weighed in on the "debt ceiling" negotiations the other day: "What we're trying to do is save the world from the Republican budget. We're trying to save life on this planet as we know it today." It's always good to have things explained in terms we simpletons can understand. ... MOREVIDEO: Andrew Napolitano - The Story of Money
Judge Napolitano attacks the wisdom of central banking.
Matt Patterson: America - Time To Start Over
Pale and poor are the hands that hold the reigns of state in these times of peril. This must have been what it was like living the 1930's; politicians running around, fingers in their ears, unwilling or unable to confront a rising conflagration that they helped light. Back then, the threat came from a revivified and revanchist Germany. Western leaders stood by while ... MOREA. Barton Hinkle: Does Your Body Belong To You?
Food nannies want the government to control your diet. “Perhaps you’ve noticed the trend among certain people these days,” wrote Neil Genzlinger in The New York Times the other day, “to decide that certain other people are not living acceptable lives and must be reformed.” Yes. There certainly is a lot of that going around. You can see it in the comments from ... MOREVIDEO: Walter E Williams - Civil Rights Assumptions
Professor Williams injects reason into conventional assumptions.
Jan Brewer, A Phony Federalist
The Arizona governor is a woman of pragmatism. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican and former U.S. attorney, has never been keen on his state's Compassionate Use of Medical Marijuana Act, which his predecessor, Jon Corzine, signed into law on the last day of his administration. But last week Christie announced that New Jersey will proceed with plans to let ... MOREDoom Sells: Climate Witchcraft & Post-Normal Science
by Norman Rogers. French philosophers invented deconstructionism and postmodernism, or the theory that nothing means what it says. Followers of these ideas are adept at finding hidden messages of capitalist oppression in the most unexpected places. A related ideological disturbance is post-normal science. Post-normal scientists favor relaxing scientific rigor in order to ... MOREAudit of Federal Reserve: $16 Trillion In Secret Bailouts
Ever wonder what legalized plunder looks like? The first ever GAO(Government Accountability Office) audit of the Federal Reserve was carried out in the past few months due to the Ron Paul, Alan Grayson Amendment to the Dodd-Frank bill, which passed last year. Jim DeMint, a Republican Senator, and Bernie Sanders, an independent Senator, led the charge for a Federal ... MOREThe "Balanced Budget Amendment" Is A Trap
by Chip Wood. A lot of good people who believe, as I do, that we need to balance the federal budget have fallen for a very bad idea. I’m referring to the notion that a balanced budget amendment will somehow help solve the fiscal disaster our country faces. I just got a promotional email from Regnery Publishing, one of my all-time favorite book-publishing companies. ... MORE
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