by Steven Greenhut. If California voters grant the state government the massive income-tax and sales-tax increases that Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative Democrats have been demanding via November’s Proposition 30, those same officials will quickly squander the money by shoveling even more benefits to those already well-compensated ... MOREThe Latest Scam From California's Public-Sector Unions
by Steven Greenhut. If California voters grant the state government the massive income-tax and sales-tax increases that Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative Democrats have been demanding via November’s Proposition 30, those same officials will quickly squander the money by shoveling even more benefits to those already well-compensated ... MORELeft Wants Multiculturalism To Trump Free Speech
by Victor Davis Hanson. The American Left used to champion free expression. We were lectured --
correctly -- that the price of being repulsed by occasional crude talk
and art was worth paying. Only that way could Americans ensure our daily
right to criticize those with greater power and influence whom we found
wrong and objectionable. ... MORE
Conrad Black: Blind Justice
Justice is blind, just not in the way it was intended. An article in the Wall Street Journal last week having pointed out that 97 percent of U.S. criminal prosecutions are now guilty-plea bargains, and that 85 percent of the remaining 3 percent are trials that return guilty verdicts, I return to the spavined bête noire of the justice system. These are totalitarian ... MOREMatt Kibbe & Deenen Borelli: It's A Black And White Issue
Freedom works. Americans coast to coast are victimized daily by an onslaught of hate
and intolerance. But to Van Jones’s dismay, it’s not coming from the
Tea Party movement. Race traitor, Uncle Tom, sell-out, racist, bigot. These are the names that fiscal conservatives, including
ourselves, encounter daily from members of the liberal ... MOREEd Black: Proposed Regulations Threaten Free Internet
We will have to fight to keep free internet. The Internet is the world’s biggest economic and social success story of the past three decades. Citizens, NGOs, engineers and governments have all have joined together to write an amazing narrative. That success story now is under threat. In Dubai this December a group of governments will conclude a treaty ... MOREJohn Stossel: We Fund Dependency
"There are no jobs!" That is what people told me outside a government "jobs center" in New York City. To check this out, I sent four researchers around the area. They quickly found 40 job openings. Twenty-four were entry-level positions. One restaurant owner told me he would hire 12 people if workers would just apply. It made me wonder what my ... MORECampaign To Legalize Pot Gets High-Profile GOP Support
by Gene Johnson. The campaign to legalize and tax marijuana for adults in Washington state is rolling as next month's vote approaches, with more than $1 million in new contributions reported since last week and a surprising endorsement Wednesday from Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Michael Baumgartner. The money, most of it from retired ... MOREExpression Must Be Free Of Government Control
by Gene Policinski. I can say what I want, even if it offends you. And so can you. No American government official, high or low, federal, state or local, can silence our freedom of expression — whether it’s our views on politics, public issues or religious faith. If someone says something we don’t like, we can freely express ourselves in opposition, even if that ... MOREHigh Court Hides From TSA Fourth Amendment Violations
by Jack Kenny. The U.S. Supreme Court on October 1 rejected the appeal of
a Michigan resident who claimed the use of body-imaging scanners and
pat-down procedures by Transportation Security Administration agents at
airports throughout the country violate airline passengers' privacy
rights protected by the Fourth Amendment ... MORE
A. B. Hinkle: Warrantless Spying Skyrockets Under Obama
Is it fascism yet? That was the snarky question glued to the bumper of every self-respecting progressive’s gas/electric hybrid back during the Bush-Cheney administration. It now must be asked again. Back then, liberals were raising the alarm about impending fascism because of post-9/11 policies such as warrantless wiretapping, wars of choice, military ... MOREThomas Sowell: Capital Gains Tax
Do you really think taxes and jobs are unrelated? One of the many false talking points of the Obama administration is that a rich man like Warren Buffett should not be paying a lower tax rate than his secretary. But anyone whose earnings come from capital gains usually pays a lower tax rate. How are capital gains different from ordinary ... MOREPersonal Freedom Tied To Economic Freedom
by Mark LaRochelle. President Obama has chosen to make this election about economic
inequality. As he put it, “the average income for the top one percent of
Americans has risen almost seven times faster than the income of the average middle class family.” To remedy this situation, says Obama, we must increase spending, raise taxes and generally ... MOREJacob Sullum: Slandering Muhammad Is Not A Crime
Pandering to Muslims at the expense of free speech. Addressing the U.N. General Assembly last week, President Obama
tried to explain this strange attachment that Americans have to
freedom of speech. He was handicapped by his attraction to a moral
principle whose dangers the journalist Jonathan Rauch presciently
highlighted in his 1993 book ... MOREThe Painful Truth About Affirmative Action
A dishonest system that hurts minorities. Affirmative action in university admissions started in the late 1960s as a noble effort to jump-start racial integration and foster equal opportunity. But somewhere along the decades, it has lost its way. Over time, it has become a political lightning rod and one of our most divisive social policies. ... MORERalph Benko: Signs Of The Gold Standard Emerging In China
Is the road to prosperity paved with gold? As noted in last week’s column about the rising recognition by authorities in Germany about the virtues of gold, the gold standard is receiving impressive new recognition internationally. The GOP plank calling for a commission to study “possible ways to set a fixed value for the dollar” -- is ... MORE
Thomas Sowell - Cheap Politicians
We get what we pay for. Now that the National Football League has apparently learned that it
can be costly to hire cheap officials, perhaps the rest of us should
learn the same lesson when it comes to government officials, whose bad
calls can do a lot more damage. What do we do when we want a better car, a better home or a better
bottle of wine? ... MORE
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