Edward Cline: "Hate" Laws Are Criminal
The First Amendment should not be a felony offense. The end of freedom of speech began with the invention of “hate crimes”
as a means to deter and punish crimes committed against an individual or
members of a designated or protected “minority.” Hate crimes had their
conspicuous genesis under the Civil Rights Act of 1968, which ... MORE
Jacob Sullum: Pick Your Constitutional Poison
Obama and Romney share a disdain for civil liberties. During the final
presidential debate, the moderator asked Mitt Romney about
President Obama's policy of killing suspected terrorists, including
U.S. citizens, with missiles fired from unmanned aircraft. "I
believe we should use any and all means necessary to take out
people who pose a ... MORE50 Obama-Backed Companies Are Financially Troubled
by Micheal Bastasch. The October bankruptcy of solar company Satcon Technology Corp. puts
the number of bankrupt or troubled green energy companies as high as 50,
according to one estimate. During the first presidential debate, Republican candidate Mitt
Romney said the Obama administration had doled out $90 billion to green
energy ... MOREThe 10 Most Unexpected Marijuana Reform Supporters
by Tom Angell. With less than one week before we find out how voters in Colorado, Oregon and Washington will decide on ballot measures to regulate marijuana like alcohol, polls indicate there's a very good chance at least one of these states will make history by enacting the world's first-ever marijuana legalization law. While the movement to reform marijuana laws ... MORE Quarter-Billion-Dollar Stimulus Creates Just 400 Jobs
by Jim McElhatton. Battery maker A123 Systems
vowed thousands of new jobs when it received a nearly
quarter-billion-dollar stimulus grant in late 2009, but federal
job-tracking figures show only a few hundred positions were created
before the company joined a growing list of federally backed energy
businesses that ended in bankruptcy. ... MOREBrian Phillips: Zoning Versus The Internet
The key to success is freedom. The stated purpose of zoning is to control land use within a community
to prevent “incompatible” land uses and to promote planning. Most
Americans accept zoning as a “necessary evil” that prevents pawn shops
and factories from operating in residential neighborhoods. Most
Americans are, to paraphrase Benjamin ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: 'Cooling Out' The Voters
Playing the electorate as chumps. Confidence men know that their victim — "the mark" as he has been called — is eventually going to realize that he has been cheated. But it makes a big difference whether he realizes it immediately, and goes to the police, or realizes it after the confidence man is long gone. So part of the confidence racket is creating a ... MOREWalter E Williams: Black and White Standards
Black people should not keep accepting excuses. The Washington Post (10/25/2012), in giving President Barack Obama an endorsement for another four years, wrote, "Much of the 2012 presidential campaign has dwelt on the past, but the key questions are who could better lead the country during the next four years — and, most urgently, who is likelier ... MORERobert Poole: The Libertarian Case For Mitt Romney
He will be significantly less bad than Obama. Should libertarians like me declare a pox on both major parties’
houses by voting for the Libertarian Party candidate, Gary
Johnson? Or should we opt for the Republican Mitt Romney, who
I think would be significantly less bad than the Democratic
incumbent, Barack Obama? Over the decades since ... MOREGreg Lukianoff: Feigning Free Speech On Campus
Our political correctness zones. Despite high youth voter turnout in 2008 — 48.5 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds cast ballots that year — levels are expected to return to usual lows this year, and with that the usual hand-wringing about disengagement and apathy among young voters. Colleges and universities are supposed to be bastions ... 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 ... MORE
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