You can trust the government to lie. When Edward Snowden first revealed the spying the NSA has been conducting on what was then thought to be only customers of Verizon, the government was embarrassed, but it reluctantly acknowledged that Snowden revealed a truth. He had, after all, displayed an accurate and faithful copy ... MORE
B Doherty, S Shackford & R Bailey: Be Very Afraid
Why innocent people have plenty to fear. In early June, former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden jump-started a national debate on government spying when he leaked information about several top-secret mass surveillance programs in the U.S. and Britain. Snowden fled his home in Hawaii ahead of the ... MORE
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John Stossel: Make Trade, Not War
Cooperation can achieve what force cannot. What's up with so many Democrats wanting missile strikes on Syria, while Republicans balk? I'm told Republicans are the war party. Is this just hypocrisy? Politicians change their position on military intervention when their own party controls the White House? Historian Thaddeus Russell says ... MORE
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Steve Chapman: Nullification Makes A Comeback
The 21st century is the golden age of gun rights. All 50 states allow the carrying of concealed weapons. The once-toothless Second Amendment finally has real potency. Even after the Newtown massacre, Congress rejected new restrictions on firearms. Monday's Washington Navy Yard shooting is not likely to change that. ... MORE
Florida Man Killed By Police Over Seatbelt Violation
Public servant runs over suspected wrongdoer. The family of a Florida man killed by a police cruiser during a pursuit released shocking dash cam footage of the incident on Wednesday, described by their attorney as an 'execution in a vegetable garden.' Marlon Brown, 38 and a father of three, died on May 8 under the car driven by DeLand ... MORE
Michelle Malkin: Government Is A Threat To Public Safety
Forget gun control. America needs government control. Have you noticed the common thread among several mass killings and homeland security incidents lately? Time and again, it's the control freaks in Washington who have fallen down on their jobs, allowing crazies, creeps and criminals to roam free and wreak havoc while ignoring ... MORE
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The Republican Argument For Legalizing Marijuana
by Ryan Schuette. “Children are growing up with a total lack of respect for the
Constitution and for the law," Pauline Sabin, the first woman to sit on
the Republican National Committee, said in regard to prohibition in
1932. "The young see the law broken at home and upon the street," she
added. "Can we expect them to be lawful?” ... MORE
Sheldon H. Danziger: The Mismeasure Of Poverty
We are officially losers in the war on poverty. THE Census Bureau reported yesterday that the poverty rate in America
held stable between 2011 and 2012, at about 15 percent. According to the
official measure, poverty today is higher than it was in 1973, when it reached a historical low of 11.1 percent. To many, this dismaying fact ... MORE
Jacob Sullum: Tolerating Pot With A Frown
Why the feds had to let legalization happen. Last month, 296 days after voters in Colorado and Washington
decided to legalize marijuana, the U.S. Justice Department responded
with a memo that leans toward accommodation rather than
confrontation. Last week, testifying before the Senate Judiciary
Committee, the author ... MORE
Give Back? It's Time For The 99% To Give Back To The 1%
by Harry Binswanger. It’s time to gore another collectivist sacred cow. This time it’s the
popular idea that the successful are obliged to “give back to the
community.” That oft-heard claim assumes that the wealth of high-earners
is taken away from “the community.” And beneath that lies the perverted
Marxist notion that wealth is accumulated ... MORE
W A Beatty: What John Adams Foretold Has Come True
Obama ushers in the 2nd president's dire prediction. John Adams, in 1787, said: Property is surely a right of mankind as really as liberty. ... but the time would not be long before courage and enterprise would come, and pretexts be invented by degrees, ... in sharing it equally with its present possessors. Debts would be abolished first; ... MORE
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Thomas Sowell: Minimum Wage Madness
Revisiting well-intended idiocy. Political crusades for raising the minimum wage are back again.
Advocates of minimum wage laws often give themselves credit for being
more "compassionate" towards "the poor." But they seldom bother to check
what are the actual consequences of such laws. One of the simplest and most fundamental ... MORE
A Majority Of Americans Oppose The Internet Sales Tax
Our "representatives" continue to pursue it anyway. Public support is waning for the Marketplace Fairness Act, according to a new poll commissioned by the National Taxpayers Union and the R Street Institute. The poll,
which was released last week, found that 57 percent of all likely
voters oppose legislation like the Marketplace ... MORE
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Rand Paul: 'We Went Crazy On The War On Drugs'
by Jacob Sullum. During a community meeting in a mostly black neighborhood of Louisville yesterday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) pressed his case for
sentencing reform. “We went crazy on the War on Drugs,” he said. “We
have people in jail for life for nonviolent drug crimes. I think this is
a crime in and of itself.” Paul is sponsoring legislation ... MORE
Walter E Williams: Student Indoctrination
Teaching what to think, not how to think. The new college academic year has begun, and unfortunately, so has student indoctrination. Let's look at some of it. William Penn, Michigan State University professor of creative writing, greeted his first day of class with an anti-Republican rant. Campus Reform, a project of the ... MORE
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