End the rule-making orgy. “If you have 10,000 regulations,” Winston Churchill said, “you destroy all respect for law.” He was right. But Churchill never imagined a government that would add 10,000 year after year. That’s what we have in America. We have 160,000 pages of rules from the feds alone. States and localities have probably doubled that. We have so many ... MOREJohn Stossel: Complex Societies Need Simple Laws
End the rule-making orgy. “If you have 10,000 regulations,” Winston Churchill said, “you destroy all respect for law.” He was right. But Churchill never imagined a government that would add 10,000 year after year. That’s what we have in America. We have 160,000 pages of rules from the feds alone. States and localities have probably doubled that. We have so many ... MOREJohn Merline: The Myth Of Scare Oil In The U.S.
We have 60 times more than Obama claims. When he was running for the Oval Office four years ago amid $4-a-gallon gasoline prices, then-Sen. Barack Obama dismissed the idea of expanded oil production as a way to relieve the pain at the pump. "Even if you opened up every square inch of our land and our coasts to drilling," he said. "America still has only ... MOREJames Rosen: New Study Finds Obama 'No. 1 Regulator'
The supreme commander of regulation nation. One week after he signed Executive Order No. 13563, mandating that all executive branch agencies “identify and consider regulatory approaches that reduce burdens,” President Obama delivered his 2011 State of the Union Address: “When we find rules that put an unnecessary burden on businesses, we will fix them,” ... MORECan The Secret Service Tell You To Shut Up?
by Andrew Napolitano. The First Amendment to the Constitution prohibits the government from infringing upon the freedom of speech, the freedom of association and the freedom to petition the government for a redress of grievances. Speech is language and other forms of expression' and association and petition connote physical presence in reasonable ... MOREVIDEO: Real Estate Agents And You
Does your real estate agent agent have your best interests in mind?
Jeffrey A Singer: The Coming Medical Ethics Crisis
The medical profession and your health put at risk. For the past several years, the medical profession has been undergoing a disturbing transformation. The process was begun by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in an effort to control exploding Medicare costs, and was accelerated by the passage of the Patient Protection and ... MOREMarketWatch: Liberty Guard Files Lawsuit Against TSA
Civil liberties vs. TSA intrusive searches. Liberty Guard, a national, non-profit, non-partisan organization with more than 4,000 members dedicated to protecting and defending individual liberty, has filed suit in the Superior Court for the Eastern District of Virginia against the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and the United States Department of .. MOREWashington Times: Global Warming Greed
641 programs throw tax dollars at windmills/solar panels. It’s only now becoming clear how many people have become rich thanks to the global-warming scare. Politicians from both parties have been so afraid of being labeled a “denier” that they’ll vote for any piece of legislation bearing the trendy green label. The numbers are adding up fast. ... MOREMatthew Holliday: Capitalism Distorted By 3 Myths
Did you really think America had a free market? The confluence of the 2012 presidential election, high unemployment, the Occupy Wall Street movement and high gas prices has led to an intensifying debate over the economic future of the U.S. In turn this has lead to many misunderstandings and mischaracterizations of how free markets ... MOREVIDEO: John Stossel - Conspiracy Theories
Why are so many Americans eager to embrace conspiracy theories?
Emily DiCicco: NYPD Surveillance And American Principles
Don’t mention that! Remember to edit out those words! Don’t discuss that event! Under authoritative governments, citizens are forced to censor not only their emails, but their daily conversations, for fear of government action against them. Unfortunately, for students at 15 northeastern universities, including the University of Pennsylvania ... MORE
Steve Forbes: Chuck Schumer, Know-Nothing Senator
The wind behind an absurd approach to oil policy. Chuck Schumer (Democrat–New York), the headline-loving U.S. senator who hasn’t disguised his ambition to succeed Harry Reid as the Senate Majority Leader, garnered some press attention the other day by calling on Saudi Arabia to boost its oil production in order to help suppress a politically ... MORESandra Fabry: EPA Is Flexing Its Job-Killing Muscle
Where environmentalism isn't a 'spectator sport.' Lisa Jackson’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is at it again. Already having been called out on flawed science for its ground water studies in Wyoming in the fight over the practice of hydraulic fracturing, the agency is now clashing with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, which charges the EPA with ... MOREChuck DeVore: Texas Vs. California
Why many go from the Golden State to the Lone Star State. One in five Americans calls California or Texas home. The two most populous states have a lot in common: a long coast, a sunny climate, a diverse population, plenty of oil in the ground, and Mexico to the south. Where they diverge is in their governance. For six years ending in 2010, I ... MOREPhilip Klein: CBO Estimates ObamaCare Will Cost $1.76T
Cost estimate already twice the original forecast. President Obama's national health care law will cost $1.76 trillion over a decade, according to a new projection released today by the Congressional Budget Office, rather than the $940 billion forecast when it was signed into law. Democrats employed many accounting tricks when they were ... MORERonald Bailey: Newt's Despicable Gasoline Price Promise
Newt imagines he can control the law of supply and demand. Former House Speaker and current Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich has promised voters that gasoline will be $2.50 per gallon after he becomes president. In fact, Gingrich thinks he may even be able to get the price down to $1.20 per gallon. "His promise to go the moon is ... MORE
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