How did Americans get so soft and lazy?
Jacob Sullum: New York's Illegal Pot Crackdown
Largely an outgrowth of "stop and frisk" programs. Thirty-five years ago, New York's legislature decriminalized marijuana possession. Numbers released last week show the New York Police Department continues to flagrantly flout that policy, wasting resources on a pointless, unjust, and illegal crusade against pot smokers. Under the Marijuana Reform Act ... MOREJosh Peterson: Democrats To Continue Internet Assault
A new cyber bill emerges. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, following a recent anti-piracy legislative debacle with SOPA and PIPA, will lead his second effort of 2012 to push Internet-regulating legislation, this time in the form of a new cybersecurity bill. The expected bill is the latest attempt by the Democrats to broadly expand the authority of executive branch ... MORESen. Rand Paul: The President's War On Religious Freedom
ObamaCare cannot be allowed to trump our first liberty. In his 1991 encyclical Centesimus Annus, Pope John Paul II delivered a scathing critique of socialism, declaring that “the fundamental error of socialism is anthropological in nature. Socialism considers the individual person simply as an element, a molecule within the social organism, so that the good ... MOREInfowars: FEMA Training Camp Activity In Missouri
"Incredible activity" at civilian internment facility. An anonymous source, going by the name of Sam, has sent photos to Infowars.com of a FEMA training camp located at Ford Leonard, Missouri. Sam will talk with Alex Jones on his nationally syndicated radio show today. Sam was contracted to work at the camp. He describes it as a “civilian inmate training ... MOREJohn Stossel: Government Can't Make Us Happy
There's only one way government helps. In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson called the pursuit of happiness an unalienable right. This was a radical idea. For most of history, most people didn't think much about pursuing happiness. They were too busy just trying to survive. Then came the liberal revolution based on the idea of ... MOREWSJ Op-Ed: HHS Tells Religious Believers To Go To Hell
ObamaCare's great awakening. The political furor over President Obama's birth-control mandate continues to grow, even among those for whom contraception poses no moral qualms, and one needn't be a theologian to understand why. The country is being exposed to the raw political control that is the core of the Obama health-care plan, and Americans are seeing ... MORERichard Doerflinger: Mandatory Abortion Coverage?
What the HHS mandate was about all along. The fact is, neither PPACA nor the president’s order erects any barrier whatever to health-insurance plans’ including abortion coverage — in fact, for the first time ever in federal law, they declare that plans covering abortion can even receive federal funds. (Section 1303 of the federal law provides for a ... MOREGreg Moran: Judge Weighs PETA's Whale Slavery Lawsuit
A new emancipation proclamation? A federal judge appeared skeptical Monday of arguments that the killer whales that perform at SeaWorld are being held as slaves and that their confinement violates the constitutional ban on slavery. After an hour of arguments, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Miller said he would take the case under advisement and ... MORE
John Merline: Dependency Index Surges Under Obama
Up a whopping 23 percent to 67 million citizens. The American public's dependence on the federal government shot up 23% in just two years under President Obama, with 67 million now relying on some federal program, according to a newly released study by the Heritage Foundation. The conservative think tank's annual Index of ... MOREChris W. Bell: Understanding Unemployment Statistics
How is the rate calculated? It may come as a surprise that according to the federal government, an out-of-work person who put in an application at every place in town more than thirty days ago, who scours every available newspaper's want ads every morning, and who visits every job search website on the web with no luck is not counted as unemployed. ... MORERoger Stone: For Energy Independence, Frack We Must
For jobs and cheap energy for millions of Americans. As the price of oil shoots through the roof because of political instability, and the inability of the Obama Administration to say yes to Canadian oil and thousands of jobs, we have to turn to other energy sources. Fortunately, there’s a cleaner and safer opportunity in natural gas right here in the United States. ... MORECharles Murray: Why We Dislike The Rich
It's not just the money. The Pew Foundation discovered in a recent poll that tensions over inequality in wealth now outrank tensions over race and immigration. But income inequality isn’t really the problem. A new upper class is the problem. And their wealth isn’t what sets them apart or creates so much animosity toward them. He is not just in the 1%; ... MORECharles Kadlec: FED Seeks To Devalue The Dollar By 33%
Purchasing power of dollar headed downward. The Federal Reserve Open Market Committee (FOMC) has made it official: After its latest two day meeting, it announced its goal to devalue the dollar by 33% over the next 20 years. The debauch of the dollar will be even greater if the Fed exceeds its goal of a 2 percent per year increase in the price level. ... MORELeah Barkoukis: Health Records Hacked
Your health history for all to see. In his Address to Joint Session of Congress in February of 2009, President Obama stated that, “our recovery plan will invest in electronic health records and new technology that will reduce errors, bring down costs, ensure privacy, and save lives.” But Redspin, a leading IT security assessment company, determined quite the ... MORERich Lowry: Introducing The Cupcake Cops
Snicker-free school zones are on the horizon. First they come for the alcohol, then for the tobacco, then for your sugar. When the day arrives when you have to undergo a background check and endure a three-day waiting period to enter a Dunkin’ Donuts, you can trace the loss of your unrestricted access to a Boston Kreme or French Cruller to this moment. Namely ... MORE
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