Has since earned promotion. The Transportation and Security Administration (TSA) didn’t bother to do a background check on a priest who had been defrocked for molesting girls before they gave him a job, which included doing pat downs on children at Philadelphia International Airport. The Philadelphia Inquirer on Monday reported that ... MOREPriest Accused Of Molestations Landed TSA Pat Down Gig
Has since earned promotion. The Transportation and Security Administration (TSA) didn’t bother to do a background check on a priest who had been defrocked for molesting girls before they gave him a job, which included doing pat downs on children at Philadelphia International Airport. The Philadelphia Inquirer on Monday reported that ... MORESupreme Court Opens Door To ObamaCare Challenge
Could America get a reprieve? Tucked inside the Supreme Court's lengthy list of orders on Monday was an indication that the fight over President Obama's health care law soon could be back before the high court. Since the court's June decision upholding the law's individual mandate to buy insurance, one of the first Obamacare plaintiffs ... MOREVIDEO: Nanny of the Month Faceoff - Romney/Obama
Special interactive edition - Time for you to vote.
Walter Galvin: Suppressing Our Economic Power
Should America have the highest corporate tax rate? Sweden may be best known among Americans as home of the Nobel Prize and IKEA but astute politicians would be wise to take a closer look at what this Scandinavian nation is doing economically. Last month, Sweden announced plans to lower its corporate tax rate to 22% from 26.3%. ... MOREObama Spending Plans Will Hit Middle Class Hard
Politicians to seek more control of your earnings. A new study by Douglas Holtz-Eakin of the American Action Forum finds
that President Barack Obama's spending plan would raise taxes on the
middle class. "Taxpayers making as little as $30,000 will carry
$1,500 more in taxes annually over the next 10 years," the study finds. The significance ... MOREObama Increases Warrantless Surveillance Of Citizens
US spies on political activists without probable cause. The U.S. government has been “spying on political activists without probable cause” for decades, a practice that has been exacerbated in recent years, says Kris Hermes, a spokesman for the National Lawyers' Guild in Chicago. “The U.S. government has had a history of spying on political activists for ... MOREWhy ObamaCare Has Doctors Depressed And Discouraged
by Dr. Marc Siegel. Wednesday night the first presidential debate will take place in Denver.
The focus will be on domestic policy. But it’s a safe bet, while you’ll
likely hear about ObamaCare, you won’t hear about the doctors on the
front lines of medicine in the United States today. President Obama has
said he likes the term ObamaCare because ... MOREGuantanamo Bay: Model For An American Police State?
NDAA helps connect the dots. For most Americans, the detention center at Guantanamo Bay—once the topic of heated political debate by presidential hopeful Barack Obama but rarely talked about by the incumbent President Obama—has become a footnote in the government’s ongoing war on terror. Yet for the approximately 167 detainees ... MORESteve Chapman: Will Pot Become Legal?
Good luck to feds trying to enforce the federal law. Judging from recent history, any young person who aspires to be president should be aware that certain attributes seem to be critical. You have to be male. You have to have an Ivy League degree. You have to have been a governor or senator. And, don't forget, you have to have smoked ... MOREWalter E Williams: Trickle Down And Tax Cuts
"Tax cuts for the rich" rhetoric works on the gullible. Dr. Thomas Sowell's "'Trickle Down Theory' and 'Tax Cuts for the
Rich'" has just been published by the Hoover Institution. Having read
this short paper, the conclusion you must reach is that the term
"trickle down theory" is simply a tool of charlatans and political
hustlers. Sowell states ... MOREKaty Kieffer: Grab A Glass Of Bacardi!
Dealing with "Washington lemons." When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When Washington gives you lemons, make lemonade and don’t forget the rum. D.C. lemons make it challenging to remain upbeat. “Lemon legislation” coming out of Washington, D.C. is effectively shredding the Constitution (think Obamacare or the Patient ... MORELee Harris: Stop Apologizing For Our Liberties
You cannot apologize to a fanatic. It only serves to convince him that he was right all along, and that is the last course the United States should be pursuing at this critical juncture of world history. The last few weeks have witnessed a peculiar and disturbing spectacle: An American administration that has spent a great deal of time and energy ... MORETSA Pat-Down Horror Stories Prompt Private-Screener Plan
One way to reign in an out-of-control bureaucracy. The congressman who held 22 hearings over a year and a half that tracked public backlash against the Transportation Security Administration says he's ready to offer legislation to save the agency from itself. "The truth is this is a very dangerous world," Rep. Mike Rogers, chairman of the House ... MOREMichelle Jamrisko: Business Activity In US Is Shrinking
Only government remains a growth industry. Business activity in the U.S. unexpectedly contracted in
September for the first time in three years, adding to signs
manufacturing will contribute less to the economic recovery. The Institute for Supply Management-Chicago Inc. said today its business barometer fell 49.7 this month from 53 in August. ... MOREBuilding Safely Without Government Building Codes
by Brian Phillips. Most people accept building codes as a necessary government intervention. One website states: "Codes provide minimum standards for building construction in order to safeguard the public’s safety, health, and welfare." Another website states: "If we searched we could find examples of people having built things that ended up falling on ... MOREVIDEO: The Morality Of Using Force To Distribute Wealth
Philip DeFranco is uncomfortable thinking about government and morality.
Andrew A. Morgan: Why The Left Hates The Laffer Curve
A self-evident economic truth. For those who are familiar with the "Laffer Curve," the name generally brings on an immediate and politically charged opinion related to the inherent implications the curve has historically had on the topic of the government's tax rate policies. However, the underlying points illustrated by the curve deserve serious and ... MOREJoan Lowy: Privacy Worries On Domestic Drone Use
Drones to be routinely deployed over the next 3 years. More than a third of Americans worry their privacy will suffer if drones like those used to spy on U.S. enemies overseas become the latest police tool for tracking suspected criminals at home, according to an Associated Press-National Constitution Center poll. Congress has directed ... MORE
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