Why no one wants to get convicted of jury duty. Recently I spent the morning in a large room at San Francisco’s Hall of Justice along with several hundred others watching Ideals Made Real, the world’s least convincing infomercial. A 14-minute anesthetic that the state of California administers to anxious citizens to ease the pain of imminent ... MOREGreg Beato: Twelve Apathetic Men
Why no one wants to get convicted of jury duty. Recently I spent the morning in a large room at San Francisco’s Hall of Justice along with several hundred others watching Ideals Made Real, the world’s least convincing infomercial. A 14-minute anesthetic that the state of California administers to anxious citizens to ease the pain of imminent ... MORENile Gardiner: Obama Facing Anti-Government Revolution
Three polls that give Americans hope for change. Three major polls this week will give a jittery White House cause for concern. The first, from ABC News/Washington Post shows a significant rise in public anger towards the federal government. The second, from The Wall Street Journal/ NBC, shows overwhelming disillusionment with President Obama’s handling of the ... MOREVIDEO: Steven Crowder Hobnobs With The Occupiers
Products of the American education system on display.
John Stossel: The FDA Kills
It would be nice if politicians and regulators left us alone. But they don't. They always want to do more. Recently, there have been shortages of some medicines. Cancer patients can't get drugs they need. Why not? One reason is that a big drugmaker shut down for a year in part to meet Food and Drug Administration rules. The FDA makes it so expensive and difficult to sell ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Does The Government Work For Us?
Or do we work for the government? In America, the federal government seems to control everything. Light bulbs, shoe leather, refrigerators, even the water strength in your shower. Your banker, your doctor, your lawyer, your computer all are regulated beyond belief. What is it in America that the feds can't control? The answer is simple: human ... MOREAllen B. West: Economic Freedom For Black Americans
When will black Americans finally be "free at last?" The word "freedom" for many black Americans is inextricably linked with the word "slavery." While it has been 148 years since the Emancipation Proclamation, and 47 years since the landmark Civil Rights Act, for many, the words of Martin Luther King in his famous speech still ring true: "The Negro lives on a ... MOREVIDEO: John Stossel - School Choice = Better Schools
Politicians claim to want better schools, but do they actually vote for them?
Gene Healy: Obama's Solyndra Silence
President hides from green energy boondoggle fallout. On Friday, citing "longstanding and important Executive Branch confidentiality interests," White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler refused a House panel's demand for "all communications among White House staff and officials" relating to Solyndra. Solyndra is one of the administration's pet "green energy" ... MORERobert P. Murphy: Understanding The Price Of Money
On purchasing power. In a money economy, the money commodity is on one side of every transaction, and hence reduces the number of relevant prices. The direct exchange ratio between any two commodities can easily be computed from their respective money prices. The "price" or purchasing power of money is the array of goods and services for which a unit of ... MORERichard A. Epstein: Three Cheers For Income Inequality
More taxes on the top one percent means fewer jobs. The 2008 election was supposed to bring to the United States a higher level of civil discourse. Fast-forward three years and exactly the opposite has happened. A stalled economy brings forth harsh recriminations. As recent polling data reveals, the American public is driven by two irreconcilable ... MOREWalter E Williams: Ignorance Exploited
Workers bear up to 75 percent of the corporate tax. Many Wall Street occupiers are echoing the Communist Party USA's call to "Save the nation! Tax corporations! Tax the rich!" There are other Americans, on both the left and the right — for example, President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner — who call for reductions in corporate taxes. But the ... MOREThomas Sowell: Numbers Games
The relationship of age and income. One of the things that has struck me, when I have gone on luxury cruise ships, is that most of the passengers look like they are older than the captain -- and luxury cruise ships don't have juveniles as captains. The reason for the elderly clientele is fairly simple: Most people don't reach the point when they can afford to travel on... MOREA. Barton Hinkle: Disturbing Agenda of Occupy Wall Street
Protestors are wrong to favor forced equality over liberty. The Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement, obsessed with fairness, has benefitted from the lack of it. The protesters don't think so—but that is because many of them have not thought enough. The demonstrators resent disparity. So consider the disparity in coverage of OWS and the Tea Party. A single ... MORERobert M Goldberg: Obama Orders Drug Shortages
Misguided executive order will hurt Americans. With much fanfare and media attention, President Obama signed an executive order instructing the FDA to step up work to reduce current drug shortages and protect consumers. It's hard to argue with exercising presidential leadership to ensure cancer patients don't die waiting for drugs that could save their lives. ... MOREJoe Palazzolo: The Budding War Against Big Food
Addicted to Coke ... and suing Coca-Cola? Our colleagues Ashby Jones and Shirley Wang had a great story over the weekend about mothers and fathers in custody lawsuits increasingly hurling accusations at each other about the nutrition and obesity of their children. They are using the obesity issue in an attempt to persuade judges that their kids are ... MOREGary Gibson: Why You Should Remember November 5th
Of whiskey and gunpowder. As soon as the noose settled around his neck, Guy Fawkes broke free from the hangman and jumped off the scaffolding — guaranteeing a quick drop with a stop sharp enough to break his neck cleanly… It seems like an odd result for a man to be in such a hurry to get to, at least until you consider the alternative. In a way, it’s an early example ... MOREVIDEO: The Left Can't Tolerate Independent Blacks
The true perpetrators of plantation politics reveal themselves again.
Brent Bozell: Herman's High-Tech Lynching
Media bias on brazen display. No one who followed politics 20 years ago will forget the night when Clarence Thomas sent an electric charge through a Senate hearing room. As liberal Democrats pushed the unproven sexual harassment charges of Anita Hill, in an attempt to destroy Thomas's chance to serve on the Supreme Court, Thomas called them out for conducting ... MORE
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