Overspending, overregulation impedes freedom. Health care policy can be tricky to navigate. One reason stems from the difficulty of measuring its intangibles — differences in the quality of life, for example, or the social value of extending life for a few days. A new report from Canada's Fraser Institute has does the hard work of putting a number on a ... MOREChristopher J. Conover: Study Finds US Slips In Freedom
Overspending, overregulation impedes freedom. Health care policy can be tricky to navigate. One reason stems from the difficulty of measuring its intangibles — differences in the quality of life, for example, or the social value of extending life for a few days. A new report from Canada's Fraser Institute has does the hard work of putting a number on a ... MORECyberbullying Law Threatens Student Speech In N.C.
by John K. Ross. This summer, prompted
by complaints from teachers, North Carolina legislators passed a
law
criminalizing student-on-teacher cyberbullying. The measure creates
a Class 2 misdemeanor—on par with simple assault or resisting
arrest and punishable by up to 60 days in jail or a $1,000 fine—for
students who use computers with ... MORE
Julian Sanchez: Our Dishonest Debate Over NSA Spying
Secret FISA court rules the Fourth Amendment be damned. The House of Representatives recently signed off on another five years of sweeping warrantless surveillance by the National Security Agency, voting by a wide margin to extend the controversial FISA Amendments Act of 2008. But the debate on the House floor showed that the law’s ... MOREThomas Sowell: Obama Vs. Obama
Obama 2 pulls the curtain on Obama 1. Many voters will be comparing Mitt Romney with Barack Obama between now
and election day. But what might be even more revealing would be
comparing Obama with Obama. There is a big contrast between Obama based
on his rhetoric ("Obama 1") and Obama based on his record ("Obama 2"). ... MOREEyder Peralta: 2012 SAT Reading Scores Lowest In 40 Years
Based on 1.7 million test scores. NPR's Claudio Sanchez brings us this bit of bad academic news: The class of 2012 scored the lowest average SAT reading score since 1972. A bit of good news is that math scores were up. Claudio filed this report for our Newscast unit: "Writing, too, is down nine points since the SAT introduced a writing section in 2006. ... MOREJuror Says Religion Not A Factor In Nullification Decision
A system coming down on peaceful men isn't right. It wasn’t Douglas Darrell’s Rastafarian religion that persuaded a Belknap County Superior Court jury to acquit him of growing marijuana recently, according to a woman who served on that jury. “It was the fact that the system was coming down on a peaceful man, and it wasn’t right,” ... MOREE Spitzer: We Must Defend Even The Ugliest Free Speech
-- Especially when there are riots. At the annual meeting of the U.N. General Assembly this week, plenty of voices will be heard, including that of the hateful president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and not one of those voices will be censored. Rarely has the value of free speech been so threatened. The arc of the unfortunate story is now well-told: ... MOREIra Stoll: Obama's Fact-Challenged Tax Claim
Where are the “fact-checkers” when you need them? On CBS News’s “60 Minutes” Sunday night, President
Obama said,
“Taxes are lower on families than they've been probably in the last
50 years. So I haven't raised taxes.” As of Monday morning, neither the Washington Post’s
Pinocchio-awarding Fact-Checker,
nor the Annenberg Public Policy ... MORE
Katie Kieffer: Economics Of Peace
Freedom allows wealth; wealth allows freedom. How would a free market entrepreneur approach Afghan foreign policy? After all, our politicians seem incompetent on foreign policy given the soaring suicide rate among active duty U.S. military personnel, increasing insider attacks against NATO troops by our Afghan “allies” and numerous civilian ... MOREWalter E Williams - Understanding Economics
Here's a question: If there's a disaster, a war, a severe drought or
some other calamity that restricts future supplies of a commodity — such
as oil, coffee or corn — what is the intelligent thing for people to do
right away? If you said "use less now and try to produce more," you'd
be absolutely correct. That's not rocket science, but ... MOREStanley Kurtz: California's Dangerous Proposition 31
The revolution will not be publicized. We are two months away from fundamentally transforming the State of
California, and barely anyone knows it. With a five to six point lead
in the latest poll, Proposition 31 has a solid shot at passage. The
measure is meant to bail out California’s failing cities by creating
regional super-governments empowered to raid ... MOREWisconsin Raw Milk Advocates Hope For Jury Nullification
Citizens look for tyranny protection. Supporters of a Wisconsin dairy farmer facing a criminal trial for
selling raw milk hope they can turn up interest in jury nullification
among residents of Sauk County who might be seated to hear his case. As Rick Barrett reports in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, a
Washington-based group defending the ... MORE
VIDEO: Heavy-handed Cops Detain Citizens At Gunpoint
Cops pull innocent women and children from their cars for warrantless searches.
Robert Knight: Appeasement Trumps First Amendment
Submitting to mob censure whips up violence. I was driving into Washington the other day when a radio clip of Hillary Rodham Clinton got my attention. The secretary of state was emoting hotly, using terms such as “disgusting” and “reprehensible.” At first, I thought Bill Clinton
might have released a candid memoir, but I soon realized that the ... MORENick Hankoff: NDAA And Its Nullification
Insisting the Constitution be followed. Once the US Constitution is rendered unenforcebale, America becomes a mere wish. A republic of a free people ceases to exist except as delusion. The 2012 National Defense Authorization Act, with its billions in wel(war)fare and military kidnapping powers against Americans on their own soil, marks a sign of the ... MORESteve Chapman: Teachers' Strike Shows Need For Choice
An impediment to innovation, efficiencies and standards. On Monday, Sept. 10, the first day the Chicago Teachers Union
was out on strike, 350,000 public-school students—and their
parents—were left high and dry. But for 52,000 other youngsters
enrolled in public schools, it was just another day of learning.
They attend charter schools, of which ... MOREAvik Roy: AARP Made $2.8 Billion Selling Out Seniors
Why the AARP supported MediCare cuts. As you know if you’ve been reading this blog, Obamacare cuts $716 billion from Medicare in order to pay for its expansion of coverage to low-income Americans. It’s one of the reasons why seniors are more opposed to the new health law than any other age group. So why is it that the group that purports to ... MORE
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