Political power is not necessarily economic power. It's not unreasonable to ask how valuable the variously labeled liberal, Democratic or progressive agenda has been to black Americans and whether blacks should proceed in political lock step with this agenda. According to an American Community Survey, by the U.S. Census Bureau, the top 10 poorest ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: Race And Rhetoric
Looking beyond rhetoric to reality. One of the things that turned up, during a long-overdue cleanup of my office, was an old yellowed copy of the New York Times dated July 24, 1992. One of the front-page headlines said: "White-Black Disparity in Income Narrowed in 80's, Census Shows." The 1980s? Wasn't that the years of the Reagan administration, the "decade of ... MORE
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Secret Government: A Patriot Act Warning
What senators say citizens would be "stunned" to know. When two members of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee warn time and again that Americans would be alarmed if they knew how the government is secretly interpreting its surveillance powers under the Patriot Act, it’s time for Americans to, well, get alarmed. Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden and ... MORE
Washington Times: Virginia Attempts To Nullify The NDAA
Standing up to relentless federal tyranny. In a stunning display of patriotism and courage, the state of Virginia is attempting to nullify parts of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), specifically the parts that include giving the federal government the power to arrest suspects on simply the suspicion of being a terrorist and indefinitely detaining suspects ... MORE
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Washington Times: D.C.'s Made-Up Gun Laws
Guns, lies and government. D.C. officials will do just about anything to keep law-abiding citizens from lawfully possessing a gun in the city. The Washington Times’ Emily Miller has found in the “Emily Gets Her Gun” series that the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) has been spreading false information about firearms ownership. As a result, residents ... MORE
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Charles Krauthammer: Seaweed In Your Gas Tank
An energy policy based on fantasy, not reality. Yes, of course, presidents have no direct control over gas prices. But the American people know something about this president and his disdain for oil. The “fuel of the past,” he contemptuously calls it. To the American worker who doesn’t commute by government motorcade and is getting fleeced every ... MORE
An Extremist The Leftwing Media Is Happy To Ignore
Obama fan pleads guilty to Sheriff Joe Arpaio kill threat. A Knoxville, Tenn. man admitted on Tuesday that he threatened the lives of Maricopa County, Ariz. sheriff Joe Arpaio and his family because he feared the lawman might undermine Barack Obama by questioning the legitimacy of his birth certificate — his eligibility to serve as president. ... MORE
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Gene Epstein: Our Cheap Debt Will Come Back To Haunt Us
Fed policy certain to fuel inflation. You may have heard by now of the Federal Reserve's "dual mandate." Not content to merely protect us against the ravages of price inflation (mandate No. 1), our fearless Fed is equally committed to fostering "maximum employment" (No. 2). And right now, with the unemployment rate still at 8.3%—far too high to meet anyone's ... MORE
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John 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 ... MORE
John 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 ... MORE
James 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,” ... MORE
Can 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 ... MORE
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