NY Times: The End Of Privacy?
The reasonable expectation of privacy does not exist anymore. Cellphones, e-mail, and online social networking have come to rule daily life, but Congress has done nothing to update federal privacy laws to better protect digital communication. That inattention carries a heavy price. Striking new data from wireless carriers collected by ... MORE
Washington Times: Gov. Moonbeam's 'Hydrogen Highway'
Another half-baked idea to plague Californians. There’s no idea so crazy that you can’t find a government grant to implement it. After all, California voters approved a project to build what’s now a $70 billion bullet train between Bakersfield and Madera — two unremarkable cities situated in the middle of nowhere. Now Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown wants to ... MOREJeff Lipkes: Taking Down The Second Amendment
Fast & Furious connects to the Trayvon Martin case. Very soon after his inauguration, Barack Obama decided to move ahead with plans to use the horrific number of deaths in the Mexican drug wars as a pretext for new gun control laws. On March 26, 2009, Attorney General Eric Holder proposed a ban on "assault weapons" in order to reduce violence ... MOREPeter Ferrara: The Last Nail In The Keynesian Coffin
The only useful function of Obamanomics. Keynesian economics is the false vision of human action which says the way to promote economic recovery and renewed growth is through increased government spending, deficits and debt. If that sounds nuts, that’s because it is. The idea is that the increased government spending and deficits will increase ... MOREKatie Kieffer: GR8, Obama Is Texting Me
President Obama is mass-texting me although I never opted into his texts. I feel like he controls my phone remotely. So, I’m texting him back: HEY PREZ, WILL U PLS STOP TXTING ME?! AND WHILE UR AT IT, STOP SPYING ON ME W/ DRONES. I’D LIKE SOME PRIVACY. THX! Friday, July 6 was the day many Americans were on an extended 4th of July ... MOREBlake Hurst: And The Regulatory State Drones On
What's truly frightening goes unnoticed. Forget the kerfuffle over EPA drone flights; nobody pays attention to the things that the EPA is doing that are truly frightening. Bovines of Nebraska, take cover; Big Brother is watching! The Environmental Protection Agency has been doing aerial reconnaissance flights looking for cows disrespecting U.S. ... MORESteve Greenhut: California's Food Truck Shakedown
How state officials mistreat mobile food vendors. We would all laugh at a man who, sinking in millions of dollars in house payments, car loans, and credit card bills, decided to fix his problem by looking for spare quarters lurking behind the cushions of his sofas. Likewise, we should shake our heads at the way the state of California—with a budget ... MOREThe Dog-Eat-Dog Welfare State Is Lose-Lose
by Yaron Brook and Don Watkins. John Maynard Keynes—not exactly history’s greatest opponent of government spending—is reported to have said he would be worried if government outlays ever surpassed 25 percent of GDP. Well, in recent years both American and British government expenditures have hovered around 40 percent of GDP. The bulk ... MOREJack Kerwick: Liberty-Lovers And Romney
You cannot help but cast a vote for Romney or Obama. Mitt Romney is the presumptive nominee. And libertarians have a decision to make. If they want to make an informed decision, there are several considerations that they need to bear in mind. First, Romney is neither a conservative nor a libertarian. He is perhaps a neo- ... MORERector/Bradley: Ending Welfare Reform As We Know It
Obama declares war on work. This afternoon, President Obama’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released an official policy directive undermining the welfare reform law of 1996. The new policy guts the federal work requirements that have been the foundation of that law — one of the most successful domestic policy reforms in the 20th ... MOREFederal Red Tape Hampers Battle Against Wildfires
by Stephan Dinan. The fire didn’t care what kind of federal land it was burning, but for sheriff’s deputies hovering over a blaze in northwestern Nevada last week, it made all the difference: If it was Bureau of Land Management property, they could legally drop the water they were carrying, but if it was Forest Service land, they were out of luck. ... MOREDeroy Murdock: EPA In Wonderland
Now fines companies for not using nonexistent fuel. Why does America’s economy feel like an SUV that is running on fumes? The Obama administration’s laughably rigid enforcement of a Baby Bush–era ethanol mandate typifies today’s regulatory climate. When Uncle Sam governs with a tire iron in his hand, U.S. companies wisely pull off the road and ... MORECal Thomas: The Stossel Solution
It works if America is still about liberty. In order to get the correct answer to anything, one must ask the right question. That is what former ABC News and current Fox News TV host John Stossel does on his weekly program. If ever there was "must see-TV," this is it. Stossel's show on Saturday, June 30 was a classic. It was called "Government, ... MOREJeff Jacoby: Minimum Wage Laws Costly To Unemployed
Minimum wage is maximum folly. Congress enacted the first federal minimum wage in 1938. A provision of the Fair Labor Standards Act, it covered about 6 million workers and set a wage floor of 25 cents per hour. It also cost a lot people their jobs. The Labor Department reported that as many as 50,000 employees, mostly poor Southern blacks, were thrown out of ... MOREVIDEO: In Transition To A Police State, America 2012
Public servants or the agents of an increasingly tyrannical state? This video displays a troubling dynamic in America. It chronicles a driver detained at three different police roadblock during a commute westbound on I-8 in southern California, a highway that NEVER intersects the international border. Probable cause is not a prerequisite for arbitrary interventions or checkpoint searches.
Laurence M Vance: Why The Drug War Should Be Ended
It should be identified for what it is, a war on freedom. The War on Drugs is a monstrous evil that has ruined more lives than drugs themselves. Taking drugs harms the person who partakes, but not those who abstain; the War on Drugs harms everyone, even those who abstain from taking drugs. Yet the Drug War enjoys bipartisan support in ... MORE
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