President Barack Obama isn't talking about it and neither is Mitt Romney. But come January, 163 million workers can expect to feel the pinch of a big tax increase regardless of who wins the election. A temporary reduction in Social Security payroll taxes is due to expire at the end of the year and hardly anyone in Washington is pushing ... MOREPsst, Taxes Will Go Up For 163 Million Workers in 2013
President Barack Obama isn't talking about it and neither is Mitt Romney. But come January, 163 million workers can expect to feel the pinch of a big tax increase regardless of who wins the election. A temporary reduction in Social Security payroll taxes is due to expire at the end of the year and hardly anyone in Washington is pushing ... MOREJohn W. Whitehead: Smile, The Government Is Watching
Next generation identification. “You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement was scrutinized.”—George Orwell, 1984. Brace yourselves for the next wave in the surveillance state’s steady incursions into our lives. It’s ... MOREIlana Freedman: Chavez, Castro and Putin Agree: Obama!
In the birds of a feather department .... The latest [dictator] to publicly announce his support for the
commander-in-chief’s reelection bid was Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, who
this week assured he’d vote for Obama if he were from the United States.
The America-bashing strongman made the announcement on state-owned
television, saying “Obama is a ... MOREDeborah Weiss: The War Against Free Speech Rages On
The president should defend American principles. The Obama administration conveniently scapegoated a short, anti-Islam video for the murderous attacks on the US consulate on September 11, 2012. Now that the State Department has confessed its knowledge that Benghazi was the result of a pre-planned terrorist attack, many in both the mainstream ... MOREKatie Kieffer: Eliminate The TSA
What if we wanted to return to the Constitution? I’m reading the Constitution and I do not see a “Grope or Scan” clause. The TSA is unconstitutional. Let’s eliminate the TSA. If you read my columns regularly, you know that I consider the TSA to be a carcinogenic petting zoo.
I nearly always opt out. I object to the scanners on principle of their ... MORELaurence M. Vance: The War On Private Property
Do you want to live in an authoritarian society? Do you desire an intrusive government? Do you wish for a government that is a nanny state? Do you yearn for government bureaucrats to tell you what you can and cannot do? Do you like puritanical busybodies telling you how to live your life? Do you believe that the government should define and ... MOREHow Government Workers Profit At Taxpayer Expense
by Steven Greenhut. Stockton, California city workers who attended the unveiling of a new report detailing the trends in public-employee compensation in California on Wednesday night complained about cuts in their compensation packages that are causing hardship for them and their city. But the report, prepared on behalf of the Howard Jarvis ... MOREMike Riggs: Why Firing A Bad Cop Is Damn Near Impossible
It'a law enforcement that has the real protection. Over the summer, a still from a surveillance camera showing a police officer kicking a handcuffed woman in the head went viral on Facebook and email. The text below the picture read, "Rhode Island police officer Edward Krawetz received no jail time for this brutal assault on this seated and ... MOREArthur C. Brooks: Making A Moral Case For Capitalism
Freedom requires it. Earlier this month in the first presidential debate, Mitt Romney made an unusual argument by modern political standards: that long-term deficit spending is not just an economic issue, but a moral one. "I think it's . . . not moral for my generation to keep spending massively more than we take in, knowing those ... MOREThe EPA Moves Goalposts After The Game Has Started
by Merrill Matthews. Football fans would be outraged if every time one team was preparing to kick a field goal the officials moved the goalposts further back, making it harder to score. And yet the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) frequently moves the goalposts further away for companies and industries trying to abide by ... MORETop Underreported Story: The Expanding Police State
by Yael Chanoff. People who get their information exclusively from mainstream media sources may be surprised at the lack of enthusiasm on the left for President Barack Obama in this crucial election. But that’s probably because they weren’t exposed to the full online furor sparked by Obama’s continuation of his predecessor’s overreaching approach ... MOREMan Arrested For Telling Citizens Of Their Jury Rights
Police seek to ban jury nullification information. A Pennsylvania man said he will pursue legal action against the Burlington County Sheriff’s Department and individual officers for his arrest Wednesday while handing out fliers about jury rights outside the county complex. Fernando Antonio Salguero and five others were handing out pamphlets from ... MORE
Caroline May: Welfare Now Costs $1,030,000,000,000
Welfare is now the single largest national expenditure. The government spent approximately $1.03 trillion on 83 means-tested
federal welfare programs in fiscal year 2011 alone — a price tag that
makes welfare that year the government’s largest expenditure, according
to new data released by the Republican side of the Senate Budget
Committee. ... MOREBrendan O'Neill: Britain's High-Tech Thought Police
Bloggers, tweeters and t-shrit wearers targeted. What country has just sentenced a man to eight months in prison
for wearing an anti-police t-shirt, and another man to three months
in prison for telling an “abhorrent” joke on Facebook? Iran,
perhaps? China? No, it’s Britain. Something has gone horribly wrong in Britain in ... MORE
VIDEO: Did Mitt Romney Violate The Constitution?
MSNBC political commentator asserts Mitt is getting our founding document wrong.
Obama's Energy Policy Led To Higher Gas Prices
by Dave Juday. At Tuesday night’s debate, President Obama said gas prices were under two dollars per gallon when he took office because the “economy was on the verge of collapse.” And that if Mitt Romney were elected he “could bring down gas prices, because with his policies we might be back in the same mess.” The inference of President Obama’s ... MOREJohn Aglialoro: Rand's Fight For The Rational Mind
Stop wasting time with the irrational. In three weeks we will be voting in, what many consider, the most important election of our lifetime, the 2012 Presidential election. If you’re reading this article, chances are you’ve already made up your mind whom you’ll be voting for. Good. But, what about your friends and family who haven’t? Are you going to take ... MORE
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