A federal pot tax? An effort is building in Congress to change U.S. marijuana laws, including moves to legalize the industrial production of hemp and establish a hefty federal pot tax. While passage this year could be a
longshot, lawmakers from both parties have been quietly working on
several bills, the first of which Democratic Reps. Earl Blumenauer ... MOREGene Johnson: Effort Building To Change US Pot Laws
A federal pot tax? An effort is building in Congress to change U.S. marijuana laws, including moves to legalize the industrial production of hemp and establish a hefty federal pot tax. While passage this year could be a
longshot, lawmakers from both parties have been quietly working on
several bills, the first of which Democratic Reps. Earl Blumenauer ... MORERand Paul To Take On TSA Once Again
Privatize security. We’ve complained long and hard about the TSA and it’s terrible “security” practices for years. It’s a horrible agency that should have never been instituted. Fortunately, Rand Paul is on the case: Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said he will very likely re-introduce legislation to drastically scale back the Transportation Securities ... MOREAll You Need To Know About "Assault Rifles"
Scare terms and reality. There are many articles
on the internet where people can learn the origins of the term “assault
rifle”, so I won’t go into that here. Nor will I get into the topic of
gun control effectiveness. Larry Correia has done such a good job here that anything I add would be redundant. “You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what ... MOREIRS: Cheapest ObamaCare Plan Will Be $20,000 Per Family
by Matt Cover. In a final regulation
issued Wednesday, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) assumed that under
Obamacare the cheapest health insurance plan available in 2016 for a
family will cost $20,000 for the year. Under Obamacare, Americans will be required to buy health insurance or pay a penalty to the IRS. The IRS's assumption that the ... MOREDavid Bier: The Coming National Identification System
Big Brother is watching you. “Maybe we should just brand all the babies.” With this joke, Ronald Reagan swatted down a national identification card — or an enhanced Social Security card — proposed by his attorney general in 1981. For more than three decades since, attempts to implement the proposal have all met with failure, but now ... MOREBaylen Linnekin: Food Freedom Vs. Regulatory Busybodies
The state of things are looking up. While national stories like the multi-pronged
assault on energy drinks and the FDA’s
proposed Food Safety Modernization Act rules rightly grab
headlines—and often my attention—it’s perhaps too easy to overlook
the fact that much of what’s good and bad in the area of food law
and policy is taking place in our backyards ... MOREMike Riggs: The Pot Reform Movement Picks Up Speed
Four more states to reform pot laws in 2013. It's been only two months since Washington and Colorado voters
legalized recreational marijuana, but the advocates who raised
millions to pass Amendment 64 and Initiative 502 aren't wasting
time celebrating. In addition to helping craft the rules and
regulations in the Centennial and Evergreen ... MOREVIDEO: Nanny of the Month - Jan 2013
Busybodies minding your own business. Will it be permits for strippers or prison for smokers?
Devin Brian: Price Gouging On Guns?
Where is the outrage? Every time there is a natural disaster of some sort, gas station owners
are considered monstrous for raising prices to coincide with increased
demand of their scarce resources. However, I have not heard anyone
calling for the immediate lynching of those greedy gun shop owners who
have doubled or even tripled prices on ... MOREDonald Lambro: Economy Progresses Downward
Americans re-elected this recession. When millions of voters went to the polls in November to narrowly re-elect Barack Obama, the economy was rapidly shrinking toward recessionary levels. In the last three months of 2012, the gross domestic product — the
measurement of everything America produces — fell to an annualized rate
of 0.1 percent, the ... MORETibor Machan: On Rape And Pragmatism
Principles in the age of the pragmatist. Something not often noted in the discussion of rape across the globe is that in an age that prizes pragmatism
as opposed to firm principles of conduct, even rape can be excused
based on the expected benefit to the rapist versus injury to the victim. If one doesn't care about the basic principle of consent, ... MOREJohn Harvey: Trusting Your Own Government (Or Not)
The masters who pose as servants. Earlier this month, Geraldo Rivera asked a caller: "How could you not trust your own government?" Putting aside big and little episodes of untrustworthy government in the history of this country like the Trail of Tears, the internment of Americans of Japanese descent, Kent State, Waco, ... MOREWalker Baird: It Is Time To Reclassify Marijuana
Introducing common sense to American drug policy. Recent voting in Colorado and Washington exposes a striking discrepancy in the national legal status of marijuana. Under current federal law,
marijuana is classified as a Schedule I Controlled Substance, which
places it in the same category as heroin, peyote, LSD and Ecstasy. To be
qualified as a ... MOREJillian Kay Melchoir: The EPA Vs. Reality
Push toward cellulosic biofuel is out of control. The Environmental Protection Agency has been demanding the impossible of refiners and then penalizing them when they fail to comply. A new ruling from a federal appeals court stops this shakedown. For the past few years, the EPA has required refiners to purchase vast quantities of cellulosic biofuel, ... MOREDavid Harsanyi: Stagnation, The New Normal
The only growth is in Obama's popularity. So, U.S. consumer confidence unexpectedly plunged in January to its lowest level in more than a year. The U.S. economy unexpectedly posted a contraction in the fourth quarter of 2012 -- for the first time since the recession -- "defying" expectations that economic growth is in our future. If the ... MOREJohn Stossel: Obama Is Not King
A dangerous agenda putting the country at risk. Watching President Obama’s inaugural, I was confused. It looked like a new king was being crowned. Thousands cheered, like subjects worshipping nobility. At a time when America faces unsustainable debt and terrible economic troubles, why such pomp? Maybe it’s because so many people tell ... MOREBarry Farber: Females At The Flanks?
Tim Kelly: Who Will Protect Us From Our Protectors
The crisis is the government power grab. It didn’t take long for the megalomaniacs and opportunists in Washington to exploit the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut, as a pretext for another attempt to annul the Second Amendment and expand their power. Never one to let a good crisis go to waste, President Obama signed a series of executive ... MORE
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