Now we have the 'right' to coerce. Whenever a good idea surfaces, there will surely be many who will try to hitch their wagon to it filled with corrupt versions that aim to serve numerous purposes having little to do with the original good idea. One example is the idea of individual natural human rights. Some simply disagree with the idea, like Jeremy ... MORETibor R. Machan: Corruption Of Individual Rights
Now we have the 'right' to coerce. Whenever a good idea surfaces, there will surely be many who will try to hitch their wagon to it filled with corrupt versions that aim to serve numerous purposes having little to do with the original good idea. One example is the idea of individual natural human rights. Some simply disagree with the idea, like Jeremy ... MORECharles C. W. Cooke: A Tax On Freedom
High taxes on guns and ammo punish the law-abiding. ‘I’m not asking to take away people’s guns,” Maryland legislator Jon Cardin nervously told Politico this week. “I’m just saying that for an activity that is relatively dangerous, obviously, people who participate in that activity should pay the full costs of that activity.” America, witness a ... MORETechdirt: Crusader Feinstein Looks To Limit More Options
This time it's violent video games. Dianne Feinstein, whose post-Newtown assault weapons ban was defanged by Sen. Harry Reid before its inclusion in the Democrats' gun control bill, has decided to switch scapegoats. Now, she's determined to do something about violent video games, apparently unaware that the Supreme Court has already ... MOREDana Loesch: When Tryanny Masquerades As Stupidity
The belief that criminals will abide gun laws. When Democrats passed the assault weapons ban in 1994 it didn’t
prevent further gun-related crime or stop the Columbine massacre.
Connecticut’s own assault weapons ban did nothing to prevent Adam Lanza from committing theft (another crime) to illegally
posses a gun that he used illegally. The small ... MOREJacob Sullum: Obama's Abuse Of Dead Children
The master opportunist strikes again. "This is about doing the right thing for all the families who
are here that have been torn apart by gun violence," President
Obama
declared on Monday, promoting his "common-sense gun safety
reforms" in a speech at the University of Hartford, where the
audience included parents of children who ... MOREThomas Sowell: Tests And Tiger Moms
Inducing poverty with political correctness. New York City's Stuyvesant High School is one of those all too rare public schools for intellectually outstanding students. Such students are often bored to death in schools where the work is geared to the lowest common denominator, and it is by no means uncommon for very bright ... MOREFBI Warrantless Cellphone Tracking 'Very Common'
Can you hear me now? FBI
investigators for at least five years have routinely used a
sophisticated cellphone tracking tool that can pinpoint callers’
locations and listen to their conversations — all without getting a
warrant for it, a federal court was told this week. The use of the “Stingray,” as the tool is called, “is a very common practice” by ... MOREMan Facing Charges For Self-Defense Against Bear
What would they have done to Daniel Boone? A 76-year-old Auburn, Massachusetts man Richard Ahlstrand had spotted a
black bear in his backyard last Thursday around his bird feeders. On
Friday, he went to fill up his bird feeders, and as a precaution, he
took his shotgun. Sure enough, the black bear showed up and started to
chase the old ... MOREThomas Sowell: 'Proportional Response'
Lowering the prospective cost of aggression. Since when has it been considered smart to tell your enemies what your plans are? Yet there on the front page of the April 8th New York Times was a story about how unnamed "American officials" were planning a "proportional" response to any North Korean attack. This was spelled in an example: If ... MOREWashington Times Editorial: Burying Crony Capitalism
The courts strike a blow for economic freedom. An established business knows that the most direct way to dominate the
market is to enlist government assistance. Trade groups frequently seek
the imposition of licensing requirements — in the name of public safety,
of course. Requiring someone who wants to be a barber, tour guide ... MOREMatt Welch: When The Madness Began To Lift
The fruits of Rand Paul's historic filibuster. The 2004 Republican National Convention, held in New York City as close as possible to the three-year anniversary of the day the World Trade Center was pulverized by terrorists, was a three-day festival of chest-thumping snarls directed at anyone who’d dare mention the concepts of civil liberties or ... MORE
Cal Thomas: Gun Laws And Human Nature
Sometimes, the best defense is a good offense. In 1983 when President Reagan ordered the deployment of missiles in Europe as part of his "peace through strength" strategy to counter the Soviet Union, the very liberal town of Takoma Park, Md., declared itself a "nuclear free zone." City officials passed an ordinance known as The Takoma Park Nuclear ... MOREPaul Craig Roberts: The Assault On Gold
The Federal Reserve's last stand? For Americans, financial and economic Armageddon might be close at
hand. The evidence for this conclusion is the concerted effort by the
Federal Reserve and its dependent financial institutions to scare people
away from gold and silver by driving down their prices. When gold prices hit $1,917.50 an ... MOREWalter E Williams: Black Unemployment
Let's look at the causes. A couple of weeks ago, Black Entertainment Television founder Bob Johnson, speaking at The National Press Club, said the nation "would never tolerate white unemployment at 14 and 15 percent." Black unemployment has been double that of white Americans for more than 50 years. The black youth unemployment rate is more ... MORETravis Holt: The Medical Police State
Who is the real terrorist here? Recently I posted the story
of a Connecticut man who was abducted by the state and thrown into a
psych ward after a doctor found his answering machine greeting to be
"peculiar." Can it get any more evil than that? I'll let you be the judge. In Iowa
a man who complained to his physical therapist about the ... MOREJed Morey: Hang The Jury
The secret that shouldn't be. A single juror has the ability to acquit a defendant in a trial for any reason. Even if the juror believes the defendant is guilty. This is called jury nullification. This is not a loophole. Nor is it illegal. But it’s a secret and it shouldn’t be. With that said, let’s begin. A cursory review of prison statistics illustrates the ... MORE
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