Government continues to reduce the people's options. Nearly four years after it began regulating cigarettes, the Food and
Drug Administration is poised to extend its reach to a broader range of
tobacco products. At the top of that list: cigars, which have
experienced a boom in recent years even as cigarette sales have
declined, in part ... MOREBrady Dennis: FDA To Roll Out New Cigar Regulations
Government continues to reduce the people's options. Nearly four years after it began regulating cigarettes, the Food and
Drug Administration is poised to extend its reach to a broader range of
tobacco products. At the top of that list: cigars, which have
experienced a boom in recent years even as cigarette sales have
declined, in part ... MORE26 Big Gov Republicans Vote For Internet Sales Tax
by Daniel Horowitz. Early Saturday morning, the Senate adopted its first concurrent budget
resolution in four years. Democrats cleverly made sure to hand out
enough hall passes to vulnerable red state senators so they could vote
against the $1 trillion tax increase, while ensuring that it ultimately passed 50-49.
Senators Baucus, Begich, Hagan, and ... MOREObama's Tyranny: Petty Or Something More Sinister
by Matt Holzmann. Last week, headlines informed us that, because of the Sequester, the FAA will be reducing the number of Air Traffic Controllers and closing 149 control towers completely. Earlier, the Department of Homeland Security released hundreds of illegal aliens awaiting deportation because they could not afford to hold them ... MORECurrent Laws May Offer Little Shield Against Drones
So much for limits on search and seizure. Targeted killings have made drones controversial, but a new class of tiny aircraft in the United States — cheap, able and ubiquitous — could engage in targeted snooping that existing laws are inadequate to address, witnesses and members of the Senate Judiciary Committee said in a hearing on ... MOREKyle Becker: The Power Motive And The Profit Motive
Which one should you trust? The most common misconception in America's warped political culture is that modern liberals tend to be altruistic and compassionate, while conservatives are self-centered, greedy old misers. On the contrary, not only are many modern liberals driven by a personal profit motive via the aegis of government, but they are ... MORE
Eric Holder: If The President Does It, It's Legal
by John W. Whitehead, Rutherford Institute. “I never thought I would see the day when a Justice Department would claim that only the most extreme infliction of pain and physical abuse constitutes torture and that acts that are merely cruel, inhuman and degrading are consistent with United States law and policy, that the Supreme Court would have ... MOREObamaCare Forces Companies To Think About Lay Offs
by Julie Weed, NY Times. The company is one of thousands of small businesses that employ more than 50 full-time employees and thus will be required to offer health insurance to their workers — or pay into a government fund — beginning Jan. 1. Rachel Shein and Steve Pilarski, the married owners of the bakery, which employs 95 people, ... MORE
Rich Trzupek: Obsessive-Compulsive Environmentalism
Focused on the next big scare. America’s massive and well-funded environmental industry is always in need of new worlds to conquer, or at least to attack with broom and dustpan. But the irony behind the modern-day environmental movement in America is that the more successful the movement is, the more petty subsequent goals necessarily ... MOREPoliticians Prefer Scare Tactics To Sensible Reform
by Steven Greenhut. Not many of my friends or neighbors are sitting on pins and needles, worrying that the world as we know it will end as the federal government “slashes” spending as part of the automatic sequester cuts mandated by a previous budget bill. And not many people have been thinking, “Geesh, there’s nothing we need more than ... MOREFeds Begin Lowering Expectations On ObamaCare
from the Washington Examiner editorials. A month before the final passage of his health care law, President Obama convened a summit the Blair House. During the staged event, which was aimed at resurrecting the bill, he touted the legislation's insurance exchanges. Obama said, "[I]f you join one of these exchanges, you will have choice and you'll ... MOREGary M. Gales: The Clenched Fist & The General Welfare
A clenched fist cannot create. If we asked what we want government to do to advance the general welfare, the answer boils down to determining what advantages accrue from organizing people and resources via government power as opposed to allowing them to organize voluntarily. Of course, government has no resources it has not ... MOREJacob Sullum: Obama's Cloak Of Invisibility
Secrecy frustrates challenges to counterterrorism tactics. Back in 2007, when he was running for president, Barack Obama
criticized George W. Bush's expansive vision of executive power,
saying, "I reject the view that the president may do whatever
he deems necessary to protect national security." The day after
taking office in 2009, Obama ... MOREJohn Stossel: The Blob That Ate Children
Why are they so scared of competition? Shortly after I did my first TV special on education, "Stupid in America," hundreds of union teachers showed up outside my office to yell at me. They were angry because I said union rules were a big reason American kids don't learn. The union is a big reason kids don't like school and learn ... MORENew York State Offers $500 Reward To Gun Tattletails
Government subsidizes citizen defenselessness. For more than a year, New York state has maintained a tip line allowing people to report illegal gun owners and collect a $500 reward. CBS-6 news reported the existence of the tip line on Wednesday. It was previously a “well-kept secret” that received little promotion from state officials or ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: No More Asking Permission To Speak
Violations of liberty named the Patriot Act. In 1798, when John Adams was president of the United States, the feds enacted four pieces of legislation called the Alien and Sedition Acts. One of these laws made it a federal crime to publish any false, scandalous or malicious writing -- even if true -- about the president or the federal government, ... MOREWe Should Be Embarrassed By The Sequester Debate
by Yaron Brook and Don Watkins. The sequester debate is a national embarrassment - though not for the reasons you might think. We are debating whether shaving a few percent off the government's bloated budget will bring the country to its knees. It's a good thing the Founders are long dead, because if George Washington or James Madison ... MORE
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