Angry Birds Transformed Into 'Spying Birds' By Hackers
by Lucian Constantin. The official Angry Birds website was defaced by hackers following reports that U.S. and U.K. intelligence agencies have been collecting user information from the game and other popular mobile apps. Some users trying to access the angrybirds.com website late Tuesday were greeted by an image depicting the Angry Birds ... MOREDerek Olson: Students' Free Speech
ASU cracks down on free speech. Arizona State University expelled the Tau Kappa
Epsilon fraternity last week after it held a Martin Luther King,
Jr.-themed party. Pictures surfaced on social media of students dressed
in hip-hop style clothing with hashtags invoking black stereotypes. To
say the least, it was an inappropriate way to ... MOREMore States Using Nullification To Reign In Federal Power
by Adam Ulbricht. The battle for power between states and the federal government has been raging since the ink was still wet on the freshly signed U.S. Constitution. The struggle continues as state governments look to take back power they claim is rightfully theirs through a process called nullification. Although the application ... MORE
11 Facts About Minimum Wage Obama Forgot To Mention
Raising the hiring cost of teenagers. During his annual State of the Union address before Congress,
President Barack Obama made a big deal about the need to increase the
federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. The move followed months of
promises and rhetoric from the White House about how important it was to
the economy to increase ... MOREJacob Sullum: Let 50 Cannabis Flowers Bloom
Federalism avoids need for national consensus. President Obama says he opposes marijuana legalization but thinks Colorado and Washington should be able to try it. Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who sought to run against Obama in 2012 as a Republican presidential contender, takes the same position. You might call this policy federalism ... MOREJohn Stossel: Re-State Of The Union
What if you owned your body and your mind? President Barack Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday wasn't what I wanted to hear. This is what the president should have said: "I cannot imagine what I was thinking when I pushed Obamacare. I now see it is folly to entrust government, which cannot balance its books and ... MOREPoll Shows Individual Rights Increasingly Valued By Russians
by Anna Dolgov, Moscow Times. The majority of Russians think that individual rights need to be protected even if they contradict the interests of the state, with political rights growing increasingly important in the nation's perception, a recent poll has shown. About 46 percent of Russians think that people have the right to fight for their ... MOREObama Shamelessly Exploits Wounded Vets In Big Speech
by Nick Gillespie. The most
emotionally powerful moment in Barack
Obama’s State
of the Union address was
also its most morally dubious. The nation’s commander in chief drew
attention to a wounded warrior while eliding any responsibility for
placing the young man in harm’s way. A record number of Americans – 60
percent – think the government ... MORE
Will You Choose Dangerous Freedom Or Peaceful Slavery?
by John W. Whitehead. “All governments are run by liars.”—Independent journalist I.F. “Izzy” Stone. President Obama has managed, with singular assistance from Congress and the courts, to mangle the Constitution through repeated abuses, attacks and evasions. This is nothing new, as I’ve documented in my book A Government ... MOREBrittany Varner-Miller: TSA Introducing Police State
Acclimating Americans to an inevitable fate? Ever since the attack on September 11, 2001, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) seems to be introducing Americans to what a police state feels like. After the terrorist attack on the twin towers, the TSA has been strengthening the security of the nation’s transportation ... MORETimothy P. Carney: Crony Capitalism Vs. Market Morality
Life insurance and the death tax. Scenario 1: It's 2005. While Republicans are fighting to permanently repeal the estate tax (or "death tax," in their phrasing), a nonprofit called the Coalition for America's Priorities spearheads the counterattack, deriding the proposed repeal as the Leave No Heiress Behind Act. One television spot, run by a ... MORE
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