Obscured by cloudy thinking. At my first real journalism job, I started off covering personal finance. Not having the first clue about financial topics going in, I ended up asking patient sources a lot of questions like, "So tell me who should consider an REIT—and also what are they?" In my naivety this seemed very crazy to me, that people ... MOREElizabeth Nolan Brown: What Libertarianism Isn't
Obscured by cloudy thinking. At my first real journalism job, I started off covering personal finance. Not having the first clue about financial topics going in, I ended up asking patient sources a lot of questions like, "So tell me who should consider an REIT—and also what are they?" In my naivety this seemed very crazy to me, that people ... MOREThomas Sowell: Lawsuits And Impeachment
Foredoomed symbolic actions are overrated. Whenever Democrats are in real trouble politically, the Republicans seem to come up with something new that distracts the public's attention from the Democrats' problems. Who says Republicans are not compassionate? With public opinion polls showing President Obama's sinking approval ... MORETammy Bruce: America Is Turning In To A Police State
The stench of tyranny is in the air. With so much happening internationally and the number of scandals, crises and general screw-ups of the Obama administration here at home, it’s worth noting a disturbing development here on the domestic front: a rapidly expanding police state. On my radio program last week I had the pleasure of ... MOREWhite House: Marijuana Is An Issue Of ‘States’ Rights
By Mike DeBonis. Obama administration gets something right. In its bid to fend off congressional interference with a pending marijuana decriminalization law, the District might have prompted President Obama to make an interesting declaration. The White House on Monday said it “strongly opposes” the amendment attached last month ... MOREWalter E Williams: Our Unwillingness To Defend Ourselves
Welcoming the barbarians. The U.S. Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics reports that 2012 losses because of personal identity theft totaled $24.7 billion. The money losses from identity theft pale in comparison with the costs of paperwork, time and inconvenience imposed on the larger society in an effort to protect ourselves. ... MORENullification: The Secret Weapon Against Harsh Sentencing
by Molly Knefel. What if justice was the goal? On July 2, Occupy Wall Street protester Cecily McMillan was released from Rikers Island, completing a sentence that her jury never wanted her to serve. On May 19, that jury of twelve convicted McMillan of felony assault against police officer Grantley Bovell. The verdict came after a four-week ... MORE
The NSA's Ultimate Goal: Total Population Control
by Antony Loewenstien. 80% of all audio calls, not metadata, are recorded and stored. William Binney is one of the highest-level whistleblowers to ever emerge from the NSA. He was a leading code-breaker against the Soviet Union during the Cold War but resigned soon after September 11, disgusted by Washington’s move ... MORE
These White Boxes Could Track Your Every Move
by Paul Detrick. In fall 2013, Seattle, WA, residents noticed mysterious white boxes installed on street corners throughout downtown Seattle. Their interest only grew when curious WiFi networks with the names of those street corners began to pop up on their mobile phones as available networks to connect to. The boxes and WiFi turned out ... MOREReport Shows Police Using Asset Seizure To Bolster Budgets
by Katie Rucke. The government is not us. The rights afforded to people by the U.S. Constitution do not extend
to their property. This means that when a law enforcement official
suspects that someone’s property — including his or her car, money, home
or gun — was involved in a crime, the official can seize that property
and keep it. ... MORE
Why Government Should Never Control The Internet
by Robert M. McDowell. Tomorrow is the deadline for the public to comment on the Federal
Communications Commission’s (FCC) attempt to regulate the Internet under
the seemingly innocuous moniker of “net neutrality.” The architect of this movement, and the man who coined the term “net neutrality,” is Columbia law professor Tim Wu. ... MORE
Officer Robert Eloff's Third Victim
by Scott H. Greenfield. Police protect dangerous cops from public scrutiny. It would be bad enough, actually beyond bad enough, had this been all
that one can point to when it comes to Buffalo Police Officer Robert
Eloff’s exercise of power. You see, this man, Christopher Kozak, was beaten by mistake. A cellphone video has surfaced that ... MOREThe Naked Truth About the American Police State
by John W. Whitehead. It’s vogue, trendy and appropriate to look to dystopian literature as a harbinger of what we’re experiencing at the hands of the government. Certainly, George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm have much to say about government tyranny, corruption, and control, as does Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and Philip K. Dick’s ... MORE
Jacob Sullum: The NSA's Online Dragnet
Warrantless surveillance hits the target. As an Illinois senator running for president in 2008, Barack
Obama
promised there would be no more "wiretaps without warrants"
under his administration. He abandoned that position even before he
was elected to the White House, voting for legislation
that amended the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance ... MOREThomas Sowell: A Primer On Race
The state against blacks. Back in the heyday of the British Empire, a man from one of the colonies addressed a London audience. "Please do not do any more good in my country," he said. "We have suffered too much already from all the good that you have done." That is essentially the message of an outstanding new book by Jason ... MORE
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