Libertarians: Looking For Results Or Self-Congratulation?
by Sheldon Richman. When I was researching my
recent article on Nathaniel Branden, who died last month, I
came across an
audio file of a talk Branden gave at the 1979 Libertarian Party
national convention in Los Angeles. I was at the convention, but I
don't remember attending the talk. I might have been busy with
other things; on the other hand, I ... MOREPeter Suderman: Meet The New Mitt, Same As The Old Mitt
An alternative to integrity. Mother Jones’ David Corn has found
a new "progressive champion" in
a somewhat surprising candidate: Mitt Romney. Corn is not exactly a committed Romney booster: He helped
tank Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential ambitions by publishing
Romney’s
infamous 47 percent remarks, in what was probably the
biggest ... MORERapper Faces Long Prison Stretch Over Unpopular Speech
by Emma Lacey-Bordeaux. If only there was a First Amendment. Song lyrics that glorify violence are hardly uncommon. But a prosecutor in California says one rapper's violent lyrics go beyond creative license to conspiracy. San Diego-based rapper Tiny Doo has already spent eight months in prison, and faces 25 years to life in prison if convicted ... MOREDondi Tiples: Why Edward Snowden Won’t Use iPhones
Beware of Apple secret spyware. NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is adamant about not coming within 10 feet of an iPhone because he claims Apple has installed some nasty secret spyware on their products. Apple may be the world’s leader in smart phones, but NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is steering clear of the popular ... MORERichard Pollock: IRS Has Active Contract For MILLIONS With The Same Bunch Of Nitwits That Botched Healthcare.gov
More prudence with tax dollars. Seven months after federal officials fired CGI Federal for its botched work on Obamacare website Healthcare.gov, the IRS awarded the same company a $4.5 million IT contract for its new Obamacare tax program. CGI is a $10.5 billion Montreal-based company that has forever been etched into ... MOREVIDEO: More Guns, Less Murders
The USA has, by far, the highest per capita gun ownership in the world.
Andrew Napolitano: Who Will Keep Our Freedoms Safe?
It won't be the government. While the Western world was watching and grieving over the slaughter in Paris last week, and my colleagues in the media were fomenting a meaningless debate about whether President Obama should have gone to Paris to participate in a televised parade, the feds took advantage of that diversion to reveal even more ... MOREFederal Court Upholds Unconstitutional Car Search
No warrant required. Text of the Fourth Amendment. A federal judge decided earlier this month to accept evidence from an automobile search that a state court magistrate had declared unlawful. US District Judge Jerome B. Simandle insisted that there was nothing wrong in accepting the evidence deemed tainted by the New Jersey Superior Court. ... MORESteve Chapman: Conservatives Rethink Liberty vs. Order
The Giuliani vs Paul thing. This week, the Supreme Court made a decision that was somewhat newsworthy: upholding the right of a prison inmate to do something the prison authorities prohibit. What made it really unusual is that the decision was unanimous, with all the conservative justices signing on, and that the opinion was written by one of ... MOREJames Bovard: America's Fading Love Of Freedom
A very docile populace. Tea Party protesters, some Republicans, and many libertarians perceive the federal government as a vast engine of oppression. But are anti-Obama activists mistaken in presuming that most Americans still care about freedom? A Gallup poll released in July asked a thousand Americans, “Are you satisfied or dissatisfied with your ... MORENullification, Now Coming To The Supreme Court?
by David A. Graham. When the Tea Party wave arrived in 2010, it swept away much of the
Republican Party's existing structure, and instituted a more populist
approach. But as waves tend to do, it left some even older debris in its
wake. "Nullification,"
the theory that states can invalidate federal laws that they deem
unconstitutional, had its ... MORE
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