by Katie Kieffer. Hit the gym; grab dinner with friends; build a bonfire. These are three evening activities I prefer to watching presidential debates—and I am a political commentator. Few young people watch presidential debates and I understand why. After Wednesday’s initial presidential debate, I realized that Republicans are failing to exploit the debates and ... MOREMotivating Youth To Watch Presidential Debates
by Katie Kieffer. Hit the gym; grab dinner with friends; build a bonfire. These are three evening activities I prefer to watching presidential debates—and I am a political commentator. Few young people watch presidential debates and I understand why. After Wednesday’s initial presidential debate, I realized that Republicans are failing to exploit the debates and ... MORERegulation Led To California's Gas Price Nightmare
Prices surge thanks to EPA bureaucrats. Gas prices have exploded in California, surging 50 cents per gallon in just one week to an all-time high of $4.614. The state's gas supply has been squeezed by refinery outages as well as EPA requirements that prevent certain blends of gasoline from being sold before November. However, the LA ... MORESam Patterson: Crony Capitalism Hits Uber Small Business
Suppressing competition for political interests. The upstart car service Uber offers customers in major cities such as
Chicago, San Francisco and Washington a smartphone app to call for a
car. It’s an innovative idea that many residents love, but not everyone
is excited about the new service. The D.C. Taxicab Commissioner declared ... MORE
Top 10 Obama Anti-Business, Anti-Job Actions
from Human Events. President Obama loves to complain that he inherited an economic mess.
That may be true, but his wrong-headed policies have only made matters
worse, taking actions that hurt businesses and stunt job growth. 1. Obamacare costs Obamacare will impose a new cost on many small businesses that
currently do not provide health ... MORECharles Kennedy: EPA Regulation Squelch US Coal Industry
The EPA forces through their agenda. A group of economists at the Brattle Group have just released a report that studies the impact of the Environmental Protection Agency’s
(EPA) air regulations on coal fired power plants. The findings predict
that between 59,000 and 77,000MW capacity of coal power plants will be
forced to retire ... MORE
VIDEO: LAPD's Brutal Beating Caught On Camera
LAPD contends "public servants" acted appropriately. You decide
The 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 ... MORE
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