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Daily Mail: Predator Drones Used By Domestic Police
North Dakota family targeted by militaristic vehicles. Meet the Brossarts, a North Dakota family deemed so dangerous that the local sheriff needed to unleash an unmanned Predator drone to help bring them in. The Brossart's alleged crime? They wouldn't give back three cows and their calves that wandered onto their 3,000-acre farm this summer. The same aerial ... MOREInternet Piracy Bill Would Be A Free Speech Kill Switch
by Bill Wilson. What began as an attempt to restrain foreign piracy on the Internet has morphed into a domestic “kill switch” on First Amendment freedom in the fastest-growing corner of the marketplace of ideas. Proposed federal legislation purporting to protect online intellectual property would also impose sweeping new government mandates on internet service providers ... MOREJerry Brown's Disastrous Plan For California
by Steven Greenhut. Gov. Jerry Brown last Monday released “An Open Letter to the People of California,” in which he called for the state’s taxpayers to approve tax-raising initiatives to “fix” the state’s structural deficit. Here is the letter and my translation of what Brown really meant to say. Brown: When I became governor again … California was facing a ... MORERichard M. Salsman: Capitalism Isn't Corporatism
What is capitalism, exactly? Capitalism is the greatest socio-economic system in human history, because it’s so moral and so productive – the two features so essential to human survival and flourishing. It’s moral because it enshrines and fosters rationality and self-interest – “enlightened greed,” if you will – the two key virtues we all must consciously adopt and practice if ... MOREU.S. Agents Launder Big Bucks For Drug Cartels
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from the New York Times. Undercover American narcotics agents have laundered or smuggled millions of dollars in drug proceeds as part of Washington’s expanding role in Mexico’s fight against drug cartels, according to current and former federal law enforcement officials. The agents, primarily with the Drug Enforcement Administration, have handled shipments of ... MORE
James Kellogg: EPA Has No Business Regulating Fracking
EPA continues its war against domestic energy. Domestic natural gas provides nearly 25 percent of electricity in the United States. This proportion stands to increase as additional shale gas deposits become accessible due to the combination of directional drilling and hydraulic fracturing (fracking). This vast resource can provide the nation with ... MORESheldon Richman: Who's Afraid Of Friedrich Hayek?
Economist has modern critics running scared. I’m sensing some panic in the air. Certain people seem mighty concerned that other people are...discovering Hayek. As a W. S. Gilbert character might say, Oh horror! Economics and business reporter David Warsh is getting much attention for suggesting that F. A. Hayek, far from being one of the two most ... MOREVIDEO: Brad Newman - One Million Dots
About possibility, potential, incentive, reason and the pursuit of happiness.
John Hinderaker: Is Rain Water An Industrial Pollutant?
Millions of permits may be needed. We have written repeatedly about the EPA’s war on energy and, more generally, on economic growth. But a case that may soon make its way to the Supreme Court is, critics argue, even more extreme than anything mandated by the Agency. The case is Georgia-Pacific West, Inc. et al. v. Northwest Environmental Defense Center. ... MOREATF Used "Fast and Furious" To Pimp Gun Regulations
by Sharyl Attkisson, CBS News. Documents obtained by CBS News show that the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) discussed using their covert operation "Fast and Furious" to argue for controversial new rules about gun sales. In Fast and Furious, ATF secretly encouraged gun dealers to sell to suspected traffickers for Mexican drug cartels to go after ... MOREGary Jason: A Cure For What Doesn't Ail You
Taxpayers shovel $433 billion to Obama's crony for nothing. The Obama Regime is best known for its crony car and crony green energy capitalism, but there is scarcely any industry it hasn’t tried to corrupt for its own interests. An unlikely source has now informed us of an especially egregious new variety — what can only be described as crony drug capitalism. ... MOREStar Parker: Payroll Tax 'Cut' Is Another Welfare Scam
An effective means of stimulating debt. Last year, a one-year cut in the payroll taxes that working Americans pay to finance Social Security was enacted in the name of so-called economic "stimulus." But, like the rest of the economic stimuli that have come from Washington over the last three years, the only thing that has been stimulated is the growing hole of ... MOREVIDEO: Beck's Enlightening Interview With Newt Gingrich 2
Newt Gingrich argues for government healthcare and green policies.
David Harsanyi: Saving The Middle Class By Enslaving It
The promise of Obama. In Teddy Roosevelt's era, President Barack Obama explained to the nation this week, "some people thought massive inequality and exploitation was just the price of progress....But Roosevelt also knew that the free market has never been a free license to take whatever you want from whoever you can." And he's right. Even today there are people who ... MORE
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