Are the watchers worthy of our trust? Three months after Edward Snowden’s leaks began to reveal the extent of the U.S.’s mass surveillance program, “serious people” are beginning to make the case that it’s time for the outrage and indignation to subside and give way to a “national conversation” about the future of surveillance. ... MOREJerry Brito: How Much Surveillance Can We Accept?
Are the watchers worthy of our trust? Three months after Edward Snowden’s leaks began to reveal the extent of the U.S.’s mass surveillance program, “serious people” are beginning to make the case that it’s time for the outrage and indignation to subside and give way to a “national conversation” about the future of surveillance. ... MOREThomas Sowell: High Risk, Low Yield
Can ObamaCare be defunded? This has been the worst time, politically, for President Barack Obama since he took office. Recent polls reveal that public confidence in both his domestic and foreign policies has been falling, amid revelations about their defects and dangers. Even people who once supported and defended him have now turned ... MOREBiden Recruited To Hand Out Free Joints
by Radley Balko. The Denver Westword reports
that a pro-pot group fighting a new proposal to impose a 30 percent tax
on the drug -- which is now legal under Colorado law -- wants Joe
Biden's help. Earlier this month, a group opposed to Proposition AA, the measure to
establish tax rates on recreational marijuana sales in Colorado, staged a
rally at Civic ... MOREWalter E Williams: Honesty And Trust
Two under-appreciated virtues. Dishonesty, lying and cheating are not treated with the right amount of opprobrium in today's society. To gain an appreciation for the significance of honesty and trust, consider what our day-to-day lives would be like if we couldn't trust anyone. When we purchase a bottle of 100 pills from our pharmacist, how many ... MOREGrowing Phenomenon Of Police Shooting Unarmed Citizens
by John W. Whitehead. Here’s a recipe for disaster: Take a young man (or woman), raise him on a diet of violence, hype him up on the power of the gun in his holster and the superiority of his uniform, render him woefully ignorant of how to handle a situation without resorting to violence, train him well in military tactics but allow him to be ... MOREDestroying The Right To Be Left Alone
by Christopher Calabrese and Matthew Harwood. For at least the last six years, government agents have been exploiting an AT&T database
filled with the records of billions of American phone calls from as far
back as 1987. The rationale behind this dragnet intrusion, codenamed
Hemisphere, is to find suspicious links between people with ... MOREFree Speech Is So Annoying To Elected Officials
by A. Barton Hinkle. “There’s just way too much money in politics,” said a candidate for governor earlier this month. Since the candidate was Terry McAuliffe, a political fundraiser of Brobdingnagian proportions, the remark could go down as the funniest line from this year’s contest. McAuliffe had just been asked if he would ... MOREKatie Kieffer: Pour Me A Vodka, Putin
Bad news for Barack. For the first time in five years, the conventional media prefers Russian President Vladimir Putin over U.S. President Barack Obama. Has Vladimir sent American journalists cases of Russian vodka? Or are they fed up with Barack? It’s amusing to imagine Putin shipping cases of Russian vodka to American journalists ... MORE
Brenden Moore: California To Hike Minimum Wage
Increased labor price means increase unemployment. The question over whether to raise the minimum wage has been brought back to national attention as California prepares to pass a measure setting the highest minimum wage rate in the country. By 2016, the state’s price floor will be $10 per hour. By comparison, the national minimum ... MOREJacob Sullum: The Injustice Of Mandatory Drug Minimums
Rand Paul is right. Toward the end of a hearing
at which the Senate Judiciary Committee heard about the jaw-dropping
injustices caused by mandatory minimum sentences, John Cornyn sounded a
note of caution. “We have to be careful not to legislate by anecdote,”
said the Republican senator from Texas. Why start now? Congress ... MOREChris Hedges: The Origins Of The Police State
We should realize, their fate will soon become ours. JaQuan LaPierre, 22, was riding a bicycle down a sidewalk Sept. 5 when he noticed a squad car pulling up beside him. It was 8:30 on a hot Thursday night at the intersection of Bond Street and Jackson Avenue here in Elizabeth, N.J. LaPierre had 10 glass vials of crack cocaine—probably what ... MOREDr. Helen Smith: The War On Football
Putting risk in perspective. Sadly, I saw that a former Amazon CFO, Joy Covey, died in a bike crash on Wednesday: She died Wednesday after colliding with a minivan while
riding her bicycle downhill on Skyline Blvd. near Portola Valley,
Calif., according to Art Montiel, a public information officer at the
California Highway Patrol in Redwood ... MOREEd Krayewski: Four Washington Scandals That Still Matter
Despite the distractions. President Obama’s attempt to lead the United States into an intervention in Syria may have provided the White House a distraction from the summer of scandal, but they’re still there, festering. As the president waddles toward lame duck status, the various scandals will increasingly come to shape Obama’s second term. ... MORELarry Elder: Political Correctness In A Gun-Free Zone
A deadly combination. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., after another mass shooting, predictably wasted no time in demanding still more gun control legislation. This week, a killer with a valid ID entered the Washington Navy Yard in southeast D.C., a military facility where 16,000 people -- mostly civilians -- work. He killed 12 people ... MOREKen Braun: The Biggest Of Big Government Programs
The war on marijuana. Some conservative supporters of the War on Drugs like to believe this biggest of Big Government programs is mostly about harder drugs and that marijuana users are not targets. The evidence shows otherwise. Every hour last year, America’s police officers arrested 59 rapists, murderers or other violent criminals. During that ... MOREWho Should Make Medical Choices For You?
by Lawrence W. Reed. Almost a decade ago, I went to Canada to obtain a customized medical procedure on both of my eyes—a procedure not yet approved by federal authorities in the United States. It involved a new “wavefront” LASIK technology designed for patients with a combination of astigmatism and very thin corneas. For more ... MORE
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