California acknowledges the 2nd Amendment! A procedural decision in a landmark Second Amendment case could spell the end for California laws restricting the issuance of permits to carry concealed handguns. The decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals would bar other law enforcement officials, including state Attorney ... MORENew Court Decision Could Restore Right To Carry In CA
California acknowledges the 2nd Amendment! A procedural decision in a landmark Second Amendment case could spell the end for California laws restricting the issuance of permits to carry concealed handguns. The decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals would bar other law enforcement officials, including state Attorney ... MOREThe FBI Is Openly Defending The Practice Of Lying And Deception In Order To Conduct Warrantless Searches
Feds attempt to dodge Constitutional constraints. The Justice Department says it's perfectly legal for the Federal Bureau of Investigation to cut Internet access of hotel rooms, pose as repairmen, and gather evidence of illegal activity—without a court warrant. The government said in a court filing late Monday that the Caesars ... MORE
Americans Now Understand Guns Make Homes Safer
by Jason Keisling & J.D. Tuccille. "An armed society is a polite society" - Robert A. Heinlein. After Washington state voters passed an initiative imposing
background checks on people willing to subject even their private
and largely untraceable transaction to goverment scrutiny,
opponents of self-defense rights proclaimed that they've
found a ... MOREFBI Report: Americans Less Violent, Except for Police
Violent crime lowest since 1978. According to new FBI statistics released this week, violent crime rates in the US fell over 4% in the past year alone, bringing the amount of violent crimes lower than it has been in nearly 40 years. The statistics showed that there were an estimated 1.16 million violent crimes in the year of 2013, which is the ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Questions For The Nominee
A Constitutional Attorney General or another Eric Holder? Within hours of realizing that his party lost control of the U.S. Senate last week, President Obama nominated Loretta Lynch, the chief federal prosecutor in Brooklyn, N.Y., and an outstanding and apolitical professional, to be the next attorney general. The current ... MORERegulating The Internet Hurts Entrepreneurial Freedom
by Ted Cruz. Never before has it been so easy to take an idea and turn it into a business. With a simple Internet connection, some ingenuity and a lot of hard work, anyone today can create a new service or app or start selling products nationwide. In the past, such a person would have to know the right people and be able to raise substantial start-up ... MORE
John Stossel - Democratic Delusions
Politics vs markets. When the Berlin Wall came down 25 years ago this week, people in the Soviet Bloc gained something even more valuable than a right to vote: a free market. Democracy is definitely better than taking orders from Communist dictators. But real freedom means doing what you choose as an individual, not waiting for the rest of ... MORE
Over A Thousand People Are Killed By Police Every Year
by Joshua Krause. It seems like I can’t go a single day without hearing about someone being
shot and killed by a police officer. It’s become so commonplace in
America, that the news rarely makes national headlines unless police
abuse is suspected; and sometimes not even then. Unless you follow
organizations like Copblock, you’ll only hear about a ... MORE
Shaila Dewan: Cops Prompt Alert Dogs In Grab For Cash
Policing for profit and incentives for theft. SEE THE VIDEO. A traffic stop along Interstate 40 is raising new questions about your constitutional rights. Among the questions: what happens to your right to say "no" to a search when police are looking for cash? The traffic stop occurred west of Nashville, along a stretch of interstate in ... MOREHow Will Congress Respond to D.C. Marijuana Legalization?
by Jacob Sullum. Of the three jurisdictions where voters approved marijuana legalization last week, Washington, D.C., is the smallest but the most symbolically potent. The prospect of legal marijuana in the nation's capital dramatically signals the ongoing collapse of the 77-year-old ban on a much-maligned plant. The passage of Initiative 71, ... MORENet Neutrality: Toward a Stupid Internet
by Raymond C. Niles. The Internet is an achievement of historic importance, arguably rivaling or exceeding the invention of the printing press in its capacity to spread human knowledge and entertainment to the farthest corners of the globe. With the introduction of his printing press in 1450,1 Gutenberg took the books from the hands of ... MORE
U.N. Drug Warriors Challenge Sovereignty Of Americans
Have we become servants to world government? Moves by some U.S. states to legalize marijuana are not in line with international drugs conventions, the U.N. anti-narcotics chief said on Wednesday, adding he would discuss the issue in Washington next week. Residents of Oregon, Alaska, and the U.S. capital ... MOREMore Like A Banana Republic Dictator Than A Lame Duck
by Thomas Sowell. Just what happened last week on election day? And what is going to happen in the years ahead? The most important thing that happened last week was that the country dodged a bullet. Had the Democrats retained control of the Senate, President Obama could have spent his last two years in office loading the federal judiciary ... MOREHow Police Departments Target Which Assets to Seize
by Shaila Dewan. See the Harry S. Connelly Jr. video! The seminars offered police officers some useful tips on seizing property from suspected criminals. Don’t bother with jewelry (too hard to dispose of) and computers (“everybody’s got one already”), the experts counseled. Do go after flat screen TVs, cash and cars. Especially nice cars. ... MORE The Financial Costs of Illegal Immigration
from National Center For Policy Analysis. Over the course of a lifetime, 11.5 million illegal immigrants granted amnesty would receive $9.4 trillion in government benefits after paying just $3.1 trillion in taxes. Many people believe that illegal immigrants receive little government welfare, but that is not the case, contends David Inserra, ... MORE
Walter E Williams: Educational Fraud
Perpetuating the damage. It would be unreasonable to expect a student with the reading,
writing and computing abilities of an eighth-grader to do well in
college. If such a student were admitted, his retention would require
that the college create dumbed-downed or phantom courses. The University
of North Carolina made this ... MORE
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