Senator wants a warrant to precede drone searches. Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has introduced a bill requiring the government to obtain a warrant prior to using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV or drone). The bill, S.3287, also known as The Preserving Freedom from Unwarranted Surveillance Act is a good start for the public debate about how to regulate ... MOREGreg McNeal: Rand Paul's Attempt To Rein In Drone Usage
Senator wants a warrant to precede drone searches. Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has introduced a bill requiring the government to obtain a warrant prior to using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV or drone). The bill, S.3287, also known as The Preserving Freedom from Unwarranted Surveillance Act is a good start for the public debate about how to regulate ... MOREAnti-Obesity Efforts Are Fattening Government
by Julie Gunlock. Left unchecked, 42 percent of American adults will be obese by 2030. That was the headline grabbing conclusion of a 400-plus page report released by the Institute of Medicine (IoM) last month, which also found that two-thirds of adults and one-third of children are already overweight or obese. Yet the federal government has ... MORELisa De Pasquale: The EPA Against America
Opposition to the economic interests of Americans. In 1995, the VENONA project revealed that there were pro-Soviet, anti-American saboteurs and spies who infiltrated the State Department, Treasury, Office of Strategic Services, and the White House during the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations. The project revealed that the infiltration into ... MOREJohn Stossel: Improving Health Care
Denial of reality is no longer an option. Any day now, the U.S. Supreme will rule on whether the Obamacare insurance mandate is constitutional. Seems like a no-brainer to me. How can forcing me to engage in commerce be constitutional? But there's a deeper question: Why should government be involved in medicine at all? Right before ... MORE
Jon N. Hall: What 'Every Economist' Says
Except for the ones that disagree. The expression "every economist" is one of the most widely abused in politics. In various formulations, one hears a lot of this rhetoric. You see, there's no disagreement among economists. Keynesians, Austrians, Marxists, classical economists, Rastafarians, you name it...they all say the same thing. Here are ... MOREChristopher Chantrill: A Pre-Revolutionary Situation
Unsettling rumblings among the peasants. Once upon a time, there was a nation that had trouble paying its bills. The people were restless. So the king called for his advisors, and they advised a little inflation to stimulate trade. A few months passed, and the people were still restless. So the king called for his advisors once again and asked ... MOREDomestic Drones And The Need For New Privacy Laws
by Gene Healy. Last week, in its report on the 2013 Defense Authorization bill, the Senate Armed Services Committee called for allowing drones to operate "freely and routinely" in U.S. airspace. "Large numbers of [UAVs] now deployed overseas may be returned to the United States as the conflict in Afghanistan and operations elsewhere wind down in ... MORELaffer & Moore: Obama's Real Spending Record
Stimulating a disaster. President Obama shocked us the other day when he said, "Since I've been president, federal spending has risen at the lowest pace in nearly 60 years." Having heard him champion the "multiplier effects" of deficit-financed stimulus spending, we saw him as an enthusiastic supporter of throwing other people's money at just about any ... MOREThomas Sowell: Socialist Or Fascist?
It is not quite accurate to call Obama a socialist. It bothers me a little when conservatives call Barack Obama a "socialist." He certainly is an enemy of the free market, and wants politicians and bureaucrats to make the fundamental decisions about the economy. But that does not mean that he wants government ownership of the means of production ... MORENew EPA Power Grab To Regulate Private Property
Ditches and gullies in the crosshairs. Lawmakers are working to block an unprecedented power grab by the Environmental Protection Agency to use the Clean Water Act (CWA) and control land alongside ditches, gullies and other ephemeral spots by claiming the sources are part of navigable waterways. These temporary water sources are often created by ... MOREMark Hyman: The NCAA Political Correctness Witch Hunt
Luckily, the Fightin' Whities are going strong. Now in its seventh year, the National Collegiate Athletic Association's battle with the University of North Dakota may be reaching a final conclusion. In 2005, the NCAA announced a complete ban on hosting post-season competition by 18 colleges that were using Native American mascots, logos, or ... MOREWalter E. Williams: Duped By Congressional Lies
In the name of fairness or generational theft? Some of the responses to my column last week, titled "Immoral Beyond Redemption," prove that Americans have been hoodwinked by Congress. Some readers protested my counting Social Security among government handout programs that can be described as Congress' taking what belongs ... MORE
David Klepper: Efforts Growing To Decriminalize Marijuana
Medical pot in 17 states, penalties rolled back in 14. Catharine Leach is married and has two boys, aged 2 and 8. She has a good job with a federal contractor and smokes pot most every day. While she worries that her public support for marijuana decriminalization and legalization could cost her a job or bring the police to her door, the 30-year-old ... MOREHow Minimum Wage Laws Do More Harm Than Good
by Bryan Hyde. Most of us remember our first minimum wage job with a sense of fondness. Mine was delivering prescriptions for Magic Valley Drug for a whopping $3.35 an hour. As far as I was concerned, that was pretty decent pay for driving my boss’s Thunderbird and singing along with the radio. At the time I was too young to vote, so the thought of lobbying politicians ... MOREAlicia M. Cohn: Dems Twice As Likely To Be Nannies
And, twice as likely to back the Big Gulp ban. Democratic voters are more than twice as likely as Republicans to back a proposal by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (I) to ban super-sized sugary drinks in the Big Apple, according to a new poll for The Hill. Amid national scrutiny over Bloomberg’s so-called Big Gulp ban plan, the national survey found ... MORE
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