Bet on the barbarians. An all too familiar scene was enacted on the campus of Swarthmore College during a meeting on May 4th to discuss demands by student activists for the college to divest itself of its investments in companies that dealt in fossil fuels. As a speaker was beginning a presentation to show how many millions of dollars ... MOREThomas Sowell: Wimps Versus Barbarians
Bet on the barbarians. An all too familiar scene was enacted on the campus of Swarthmore College during a meeting on May 4th to discuss demands by student activists for the college to divest itself of its investments in companies that dealt in fossil fuels. As a speaker was beginning a presentation to show how many millions of dollars ... MORESheldon Richman: Abolish The IRS
(and the income tax with it) The Internal Revenue Service has been caught engaging in
political profiling while processing applications for tax-exempt
status. In this case it was against organizations with “tea-party”
or “patriot ” in their names and other right-wing groups. Next time
it could be libertarian or left-wing antiwar and
pro-civil-liberties ... MOREIRS And AP Scandals Cast A Big Chill On Free Speech
by Michael Barone. Chilling effect. That's the term lawyers and judges use to describe the result of government actions that deter people from exercising their right of free speech. There have been plenty of examples in the past 10 days. The Obama administration's Justice Department issued a sweeping demand for two months of ... MORE
Steve Chapman: Obama Is Not Nixon
Are babies like snakes because some have rattles? "The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know,"
said Harry Truman, who made it his task to absorb a lot of it. Many
people who have not followed his example are not averse to using
what little they do know, with the inadvertent effect of exposing
how much they have to ... MOREObama's Scandals Reveal The True Face Of Government
by Steven Greenhut. The Obama administration has gotten itself into a fix between its contradictory stories about the Benghazi incident, reports of the IRS targeting conservative groups, and the Justice Department’s grabbing of phone records from AP reporters. There are few things more fun to watch than arrogant political leaders -- folks ... MOREDid IRS Illegally Seized 60 Million Health Records?
That is what a California lawsuit claims. A lawsuit filed in California accuses the Internal Revenue Service of illegal seizure of 60 million electronic health care records belonging to 10 million Americans. The suit filed in the Superior Court of San Diego by Robert Barnes, a Malibu lawyer representing a corporate client named John Doe ... MOREScott Holleran: A Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy
Based on what we know. Years ago, Hillary Clinton, speaking as the president’s wife, went on NBC’s Today Show and complained of what she called a “vast right-wing conspiracy” without citing evidence. She said there was a conspiracy to discredit her husband over the scandal of his having an affair with an intern. It turned out that there was a ... MOREStop The Imperialization Of America With Nullification
by Danny De Gracia, Washington Times. Some say that President Barack Obama has been having a tough month, rocked by the scandals of Benghazi whistleblowers, IRS harassment and the Associated Press records probe. I say baloney. No matter what egregious offense or incompetence by the federal government erupt into public ... MOREBill O'Reilly: What Happened, Mr. President?
Why all the stonewalling? It hasn't been a great week for the Obama folks, as the scandal du jour tour has firmly taken hold. Every day it seems another federal agency is exposed as having intimidated, snooped, covered up or gone to Vegas on the taxpayer dime. Zimbabwe is even making fun of us. On Jan. 21, 2009, in remarks welcoming his ... MOREJohn Cassidy: A.P. Scandal Raises Spectre Of Big Brother
A reminder that the government is NOT us. If the three-strikes rule were in effect, President Obama would be heading for the dugout, bat in hand. First the alleged Benghazi cover-up, then the kerfuffle about the I.R.S. targeting conservative groups, and now the revelation that earlier this year the Justice Department secretly seized two ... MORERand Paul: A Staggering Abuse Of Power
Obama's disregard for our Constitution. When I filibustered over domestic drone use, critics said that I was being ridiculous. They said that no American had been killed by a drone on American soil and that no one was likely to be anytime soon. President Obama responded that he hadn’t killed anyone yet and didn’t intend to — but he might. ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Storm Clouds Gathering
Government is bad for personal freedom. That argument is premised upon the truism that everything government does interferes with freedom because it either prohibits or compels. Everything it owns it has taken from others. Much of what it says is divorced from the truth. President Obama, like President George W. Bush, has argued ... MOREIRS Seizes 60 Million Medical Records Without A Warrant
Think twice about what you tell the doctor. As we are being swamped with evidence of Administration wrongdoing, we should not forget to prioritize the vast amount of information we are getting. It is beyond peradventure of doubt at this time that the IRS, ordered to scrutinize the tea party closely by Democratic leaders, including ... MOREGarrett Quinn: The Free State Project Grows Up
Libertarians are changing the face of New Hampshire. In 2001 a Yale doctoral student named Jason Sorens published an essay in the small webzine The Libertarian Enterprise, lamenting the failure of libertarian efforts at the ballot box. “Nothing’s working,” he wrote, because libertarians are scattered. The only way to have a real ... MOREGrover Norquist: Obama's Chicago-Style IRS
It’s official. President Obama is worse than Richard Nixon. Richard Nixon’s White House had Chuck Colson compile an “enemies list” of people it believed were opposing the Nixon administration’s politics. The purpose of the list was to encourage the IRS to audit and harass those listed. The IRS refused. Fast forward 30 years. President ... MOREThe Bogus Public Health Attack On Sugar
by Julian Morris. Health activists are in a tizzy over sugar and fast food, which
they blame for the obesity “epidemic.”
Responding to these concerns, politicians have sought to tax or
regulate the alleged culprits. Tort lawyers, smelling
tobacco-settlement-scale greenbacks, have been gearing up to
sue companies producing sugary beverages. Last ... MORE
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