by Ronald Bailey. Last week, my colleague Jacob Sullum questioned a
study published in the New England Journal of Medicine purporting
to show that vaping is more dangerous than smoking actual
cigarettes. The reason? Because vaping at high voltage produces
high levels of the carcinogen formaldehyde.
The New England Journal of Medicine even ... MORE
Justice Department Working On Car-Tracking Database
To combat drug trafficking, of course. The Justice Department has acknowledged constructing a database to
track the movements of millions of vehicles across the U.S. in real
time. The program, whose existence was first reported by The Wall Street Journal,
is primarily overseen by the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) to combat ... MORE
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Andrew Napolitano: Shooting Itself In The Foot
Bumbling idiots at work. Ali Saleh al-Marri is a convicted conspirator who entered the United States before 9/11 in order to create a dreaded sleeper cell here that might someday launch an attack on Americans similar to what we witnessed earlier this month in Paris. When the feds woke from their slumber on 9/11, they wisely began to search ... MORE
Federal Bill Would Make Americans More Defenseless
by Dan Cannon. Making self protection a felony. Democratic members of Congress apparently aren’t going to be
satisfied until American citizens are completely and utterly
defenseless. Representative Mike Honda (D-CA) has introduced a bill for
consideration of the new Congress which would prohibit the ownership of
certain types of body armor for ... MORE
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Lew Rockwell: The Libertarian Principle Of Secession
Break it up! For a century and a half, the idea of secession has been systematically demonized among the American public. The government schools spin fairy tales about the “indivisible Union” and the wise statesmen who fought to preserve it. Decentralization is portrayed as unsophisticated and backward, while nationalism and ... MORE
DUI Checkpoints Could Be A Thing Of The Past In N.D.
by Nicole Johnson. If only the Fourth Amendment protected us from warrantless searches. DUI checkpoints in North Dakota could soon be a thing of the past. Sobriety checkpoints are used in North Dakota by police to deter drunk driving. But, lawmakers in Bismarck are talking about getting rid of them, saying there needs to be a reason to ... MORE
10 Ways Cops Enriched Themselves From The Drug Trade
by Aaron Cantu. The drug trade is a great place to make tons of money fast. In 2003, the UN estimated the total worth of the global drug trade at $320 billion, a figure that has certainly grown in the last 12 years. So it’s not surprising that some police officers, who interact frequently with the narco-world, decide to go crooked. But what makes ... MORE
Steven Pinker: Why Free Speech Is Fundamental
Ideas matter. More than two
centuries after freedom of speech was enshrined in the First Amendment
to the Constitution, that right is very much in the news. Campus speech
codes, disinvited commencement speakers, jailed performance artists,
exiled leakers, a blogger condemned to a thousand lashes by one of our
closest allies, and the ... MORE
Greg Gutfeld: New E-Cig Study Goes Up In Smoke
E-Cig attack vaporizes. The New England Journal of Medicine ran a letter linking e-cigs to
cancer and the panicky media gobbled it up like a pot brownie. But how
sturdy is this research? What might happen if you tapped lightly on
their findings? Yes, under closer scrutiny, this blockbuster collapsed faster than Michael Moore in a spin class. According to ... MORE
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Thorin Klosowski: Carl Sagan's Best Productivity Tricks
How to seek out the truth. Carl Sagan
is a well known astronomer, cosmologist, author, and most obviously,
science communicator and host of the show Cosmos. His views on science
and general living are simultaneously inspirational and galvanizing.
Let's take a look at just a few of his ideas that are useful for all of
us. Sagan was first and ... MORE
Masked SWAT Team Raids Poker Game, Terrorizes Players
by Tom Jackman. Militarized cops seek to protect society from gamblers. On a quiet weeknight among the stately manors of Great Falls, ten men sat around a table in the basement of a private home last November playing high stakes poker. Suddenly, masked and heavily armed SWAT team officers from the Fairfax County Police Department ... MORE
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John Stossel - Owning Ideas
Thinking about copyrights. For most of history, people suffered in miserable poverty. Then, in a few hundred years, some new ideas made life hugely better for billions of us — things like running water, the printing press, the steam engine, electricity, the Internet. We want people to keep coming up with new and better ideas. But there's a problem: ... MORE
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