Chemicals found in drugs are also elsewhere. When I see a police dog inside a train
station or at a public gathering, I feel safer. I figure it is there to
protect us from explosives, and if it sniffs out drugs along the way,
well, that's against the law, too. But what if it turns out that
the dogs aren't all that good at the job the police are ... MOREEmily Bazelton: Do Police Dogs Invade Our Privacy
Chemicals found in drugs are also elsewhere. When I see a police dog inside a train
station or at a public gathering, I feel safer. I figure it is there to
protect us from explosives, and if it sniffs out drugs along the way,
well, that's against the law, too. But what if it turns out that
the dogs aren't all that good at the job the police are ... MOREREPORT: EPA Regs Could Cost 887,000 Jobs A Year
Economic green death dispensed by government agency. Environmental Protection Agency regulations will contribute to projected shutdowns of up to 69,000 megawatts of coal-fueled electric generation and job losses of up to 887,000 jobs per year, according to a report. Total compliance costs for the electric sector could be ... MORE
George Will: Mugging Our Descendants
The entitlement states steals from future generations. The election-eve mood is tinged with sadness stemming from well-founded
fear that America’s new government is subverting America’s old
character. Barack Obama’s agenda is a menu of temptations intended to
change the nation’s social norms by making Americans comfortable with
the degradation ... MORE$60,000 In Welfare Spent Per Household In Poverty
by Daniel Halper. New data compiled by the Republican side of the Senate Budget Committee
shows that, last year, the United States spent over $60,000 to support
welfare programs per each household that is in poverty. The calculations
are based on data from the Census, the Office of Management and Budget,
and the Congressional Research Services. ... MORERobert Moffit & Alyene Senger: MediCare's 'Efficiency'
Private insurance has lower administrative costs. Everybody “knows” that government agencies are more efficient than private health insurance at delivering medical benefits and services. After all, Medicare’s administrative costs, at roughly 2 percent of the cost of benefits, are lower than those of private insurance. In the first presidential ... MOREVoter Initiatives Breathe New Life Into Federalism
by J.D. Tuccille. There's an important constitutional issue on ballots across the country next month, but it's not labeled by its name anywhere that it appears. That issue encompasses concerns traditionally considered both conservative and liberal, even if it is embraced oh-so-selectively by its newfound friends. That's right, federalism ... MOREPolice Union Intimidates California City Council
Shameless tactics by law enforcement unions. Many people were outraged this summer after a private investigator, with ties to a law firm that represents 120 police unions in California, made an apparently false report to the cops claiming that a councilman in the Orange County, California, city of Costa Mesa stumbled out of a bar drunk and ... MORETop Court To Hear Arguments Over Government Spying
by Terry Barnes. A debate over how freely the U.S. government can eavesdrop on international communications reaches a climax on Monday in the country's highest court. At issue is a law passed by Congress in 2008 allowing the government to monitor the overseas communications of individuals without obtaining a warrant for each target. ... MORE
"The New Economic Patriotism" Is Not A Jobs Plan
by David Harsanyi. Fear not; Barack Obama has an economic plan for America, and it's all in a glossy brochure, called "The New Economic Patriotism: A Plan for Jobs & Middle-Class Security"—an antidote, we're told, to the vagueness of Mitt Romney's agenda. This is what the president, according to a campaign official, believes will ensure ... MORE
Brian Domitrovic: Inequality Is The Child Of Fiat Money
The Federal Reserve is the problem. For a while there, it looked like the 2012 election was going to be a referendum on economic inequality. This would have been weird, in that economic growth and its twin, employment, are the clear issues of choice in these years of torpid economic recovery. Had President Obama succeeded in making ... MORE
Supreme Court To Determine Legality Of Reselling
Testing the boundaries of copyright laws. All eyes will be on Justice Elena Kagan on Monday, when the Supreme Court considers a copyright case that some fear could prevent people from reselling certain products they own such as the iPhone, as she may have the deciding vote. In a case that tests the boundaries of copyright law, ... MOREWhy Government Spending Doesn't Create Jobs
by Robert J. Samuelson. Who creates most jobs? Hint: It's not the government. Almost everyone seems to grasp that the private sector is the true jobs machine. But here's a notable exception to the consensus: the editorial page of The New York Times. The other day, its lead editorial was "The Myth of Job Creation: The government does in fact create ... MOREPoll Indicates California Voters To Reject Brown's Tax Hike
Big government at the saturation point. California Gov. Jerry Brown's $6 billion tax increase initiative is losing steam with state voters as it enters the final stretch of the race, a poll released Thursday shows. Just 46 percent of Californians surveyed plan to vote for the measure Nov. 6, down from 55 percent a month ago, according to a USC Dornsife ... MORERalph R. Reiland: Back When Democrats Knew Economics
Who warned us about big government spending? Eleven months before he was assassinated as he rode with his
wife in the back seat of an open convertible in a motorcade through
downtown Dallas, President John F. Kennedy delivered a major address to the Economic Club of New York at the Waldorf-Astoria
Hotel on December 14, 1962. ... MORES. Fred Singer: Obama's EPA Plans For 2013
The green vision to trump private property rights. The November elections will determine the direction of US climate policy -- and therefore also energy policy and the pace of economic growth: jobs, standards of living, budget deficits and inflation. Obama has already promised to make climate change the centerpiece of his concern -- with all that ... MORE
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