Billions lost in cozy bureaucratic status quo. A panel of defense-industry executives complained last week to a National Press Club audience about the defense budget cuts known as sequestration. Calling those reductions “irresponsible,” TASC CEO David Langstaff said sequestration would shatter “our ability to execute U.S. national ... MORECol. K Allard: Sequestration Spotlights Real Defense Abuses
Billions lost in cozy bureaucratic status quo. A panel of defense-industry executives complained last week to a National Press Club audience about the defense budget cuts known as sequestration. Calling those reductions “irresponsible,” TASC CEO David Langstaff said sequestration would shatter “our ability to execute U.S. national ... MORESheldon Richman: Romanticizing Taxation
The irresistible temptation to spend other people's money. In the debate over avoiding the "fiscal cliff"—especially over whose taxes should and shouldn't be raised—I detect an annoying attempt to romanticize taxation. I read this as an act of desperation on the part of those who want higher taxes on the wealthy, for there is nothing romantic about ... MOREKatie Kieffer: True Drone Lies
Superheroes often live double lives. But so do super-villains. For
four years, the Obama administration has been living a double-life
regarding drones. Publicly, the president and his leadership tell us they are using
drones to protect our borders and promote national security. The
administration dismisses challenges to its drone policies as ... MORE
Michael Barone: Mexican Migration May Be Over
A historical view. Is mass migration from Mexico to the United States a thing of the past? At
least for the moment, it is. Last May, the Pew Hispanic Center, in a
study based on U.S. and Mexican statistics, reported that net migration
from Mexico to this country had fallen to zero from 2005 to 2010. Pew
said 20,000 more people moved to Mexico from the ... MOREDespite New Taxes, California's Revenues Are In Freefall
The rich are voting with their feet. California State Controller John Chiang has announced that total state revenue for the month of November 2012 fell $806.8 million, or 10.8%, below budget. Democrats thought they could hammer “the rich” by convincing voters to pass Proposition 30 to create the highest state income tax in the nation. But it now ... MOREDavid Rosen: The Police Know Where You're Driving
Cameras focused on collecting license plate data. Departments have already begun deploying Orwellian license-plate reading technologies across the country. A building at 55 Broadway, in lower Manhattan, is home to the Lower
Manhattan Security Coordination Center, the locus of the New York Police
Department’s massive intelligence-gathering ... MOREVIDEO: A Cop Reveals How To Manufacture Drug Busts
The drug war is a war on YOU. Lodging in Collinsville (with Michael Reichert)
Becky Akers: Gutsy Granny Stumps The TSA
How to treat the government groppers. A reader who wished me to identify her by name and location until I talked her out of it offered this advice for Women of a Certain Age who must endure aviation’s gulag: …I never go through the back scatter machine -- and in [the airport closest to her home], there are no options, the regular metal detectors ... MORECaroline May: Food Stamp Use Hits Another Record High
Spending has doubled in last four years alone. Participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or food stamps, reached another high in September, according to new data released by the United Stated Department of Agriculture. The most recent data on SNAP participation were released Friday, and showed that ... MOREScott Holleran: The Bum, The Cop And The Facts
The moral of the story. This is about the barefoot Times Square bum bestowed with a pair of
boots on a cold November night by a policeman whose act of charity was
photographed by an Arizona tourist. The bum, it turns out, was seen last
Sunday on the Upper West Side. The new boots, valued at $100, were
nowhere to be seen. The policeman, ... MORE
There Is A Snitch Riding In Your Car With You
Black boxes in cars raise privacy concerns. Many motorists don’t know it, but it’s likely that every time they get behind the wheel, there’s a snitch along for the ride. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Friday proposed long-delayed regulations requiring auto manufacturers to include event data recorders — better known as “black boxes” — ... MOREBetsy McCaughey: Obama Dives Over Constitutional Cliff
The president's unprecedented power grab. President Obama went over the constitutional cliff this week, demanding more power than the U.S. Constitution allows any president to have. All Americans — regardless of party affiliation — should shudder at the president's attempted power grab and say no. Compromising on taxes and ... MOREAnother State To Consider ObamaCare Nullification
Four and counting. Since the Supreme Court rendered its opinion on the constitutionality of a mandatory federal health care system last summer, many Americans consider the matter settled. But others recognize that despite the pronouncement of five robed federal employees, the Constitution still does not delegate Congress the ... MOREVIDEO: Censorship and "Unlearning Liberty"
Greg Lukianoff (FIRE), spoke with Reason TV's Nick Gillespie about his new book.
The Enterprise Of Law: Justice Without The State
A book review by George C. Leef. Nearly everyone agrees that a few core government functions —foremost among them the provision of law and justice—can’t be performed in a free market. A handful of rogue thinkers, however, questions this conventional wisdom. Foremost among them is Florida State University economics professor Bruce ... MOREPeter Schiff: The Fantasy Of A 91% Top Income Tax Rate
An Edsel of an economic idea. Democratic Party leaders, President Obama in particular, are forever telling the country that wealthy Americans are taxed at too low a rate and pay too little in taxes. The need to correct this seeming injustice is framed not simply in terms of fairness. Higher tax rates on the wealthy, we're told, would ... MOREMajority Of Young Voters Favor Bigger Government
Public school is serving its purpose. A Pew Research post-election poll found that a majority of young voters who were 18-29 years of age preferred bigger government. According to the survey, 59% of young voters said “government should do more to solve problems” while only 37% felt “government is doing too many things better left to businesses ... MOREDefending The World, Bankrupting Ourselves
by Steve Chapman. The argument for leaving 10,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan after 2014 is more or less reasonable on its face. The Kabul government is fragile; our gains might be reversed; the Afghan military is not ready to stand on its own. Here's the unreasonable, unavoidable part: If we don't leave then, we probably never will. The lesson of the past ... MORE
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