Vermont Could Be Next State To Legalize Recreational Pot
by Matt Ferner. Vermont could become the first state in history to legalize recreational marijuana via state legislature with a new bill submitted Tuesday that aims to end prohibition of the plant. Senate Bill 95
would legalize the possession, use and sale of recreational marijuana
in the state for those 21 and older. Adult residents could possess ... MOREQuestions Over Missing Cash After Warrantless Search
by Kumi Tucker. A local attorney says Albany police broke the law when they went into her client's apartment without a warrant. Her client says he is now missing thousands of dollars in cash. Attorney Cheryl Coleman's client, Joshua Horne, was arrested on a drug charge in June. She says police took his keys and then used them to get See video ... MOREGilbert Ross: The Madness Of The War On E-Cigs
Corruption + distorted facts = clampdown on vaping. Is it mass insanity, or something even darker, that has led America’s public-health leaders to engage in a mass assault on electronic cigarettes? To put this in perspective, their target is not smoking, our number-one preventable health problem, but a product that could prove to ... MOREJohn Stossel - No Gatekeepers
Crowdsourcing works. For years, people assumed encyclopedias had to be created by professionals. Then Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales attempted to create an encyclopedia without central planners. That sounded like a terrible idea to the old gatekeepers — people who hired experts to carefully fact-check and edit every encyclopedia ... MOREProgram That Enables America To Spy On EVERY Home Computer In The world Is Uncovered By Outraged Russia
by Reuters reporter and Chris Spargo. America caught violating everyone's privacy. The National Security Agency has figured out how to hide spying software deep within hard drives, allowing them to monitor and eavesdrop on the majority of the world's computers - even when they are not connected to the internet. The Moscow-based security ... MORE
Businesses Find Ways To Cope With Minimum Wage Hikes
by Chris Kirkham. Low-skill workers, consumers pay the price. When the minimum wage in San Jose went from $8 to $10 an hour in 2013,
Adolfo Gomez started sending kitchen staff at his Mexican restaurant
home early. His mother and brother handled the extra work. In
Albuquerque, Myra Ghattas told cooks and hostesses to come in later when
the ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: Glib, 'Happy Talk'
Presidential ignorance is not bliss. When Alfred E. Neuman said "What me worry?" on the cover of Mad magazine, it was funny. But this message was not nearly as funny coming from President Barack Obama and his National Security Advisor, Susan Rice. In a musical comedy, it would be hilarious to have the president send out his "happy talk" message ... MORE
Walter E Willliams: Shame
Poetic victimization is politically correct. Today's liberals are not racists, but they often behave that way. They would benefit immensely from considering some of the arguments in award-winning scholar Dr. Shelby Steele's forthcoming book, "Shame: How America's Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country." Steele, a senior fellow at the Hoover ... MORE
Montana Poised To Ban Government License Plate Cameras
by J.D. Tuccille. Cops in Big Sky Country aren't happy about it,
but Montana lawmakers look ready to ban the use of license plate
cameras by government agencies to track motorists' movements.
The legislative move comes after a stream of revelations of local,
state, and federal tracking and databasing of Americans' movements
by car, without cause ... MORECongressman Blasts San Francisco Medical Pot Prosecutions
by David Downs. Calling out the feds. Congressman Dana Rohrabacher blasted San Francisco’s local U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag Sunday, saying she was “breaking the law” in her attempts to seize major Bay Area dispensaries Harborside Health Center and Berkeley Patients Group. The libertarian-leaning Republican from Huntington Beach has ... MOREJohn W. Whitehead: Creepy, Calculating and Controlling
All of the ways Big Brother is watching you. None of us are perfect. All of us bend the rules occasionally. Even before the age of overcriminalization, when the most upstanding citizen could be counted on to break at least three laws a day without knowing it, most of us have knowingly flouted the law from time to time. Today, however, ... MORESheldon Richman: The Inherently Humble Libertarian
Libertarianism has humility baked in. You would think that the advocates of a philosophy of political
economy that embraces spontaneous social order, bottom-up
rule-making based on peaceful voluntary exchange, and even
competing polycentric law at least at some level would be
safe from the charge of conceit. How conceited can ... MOREJacob Sullum: 'Drugged' Drivers Who Aren't
What if the risk ratio is statistically insignificant? Last year, during a congressional
hearing on the threat posed by stoned drivers, a
representative of the National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration (NHTSA) was asked how many crash fatalities are
caused by marijuana each year. "That's difficult to say," replied
Jeff Michael, NHTSA's ... MOREDemocrats Seek Relief From Obamacare Penalties
by Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar. Politicians fear the ugly truth. The official sign-up season for President Barack Obama's health care law may be over, but leading congressional Democrats say millions of Americans facing new tax penalties deserve a second chance. Three senior House members told The Associated Press that they plan to strongly ... MORETammy Bruce: FCC, FEC Look To Ruin The Internet
The left lifts its boot toward the free flow of information. We knew this was coming. Within the last couple of weeks, both the Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Election Commission
declared their intention to regulate the Internet. Fascists always
explain their actions as efforts to either make something more
efficient, ... MORE
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