by William Lawler. 61 year old Felix Kumi, a school bus driver, was walking to an auto repair shop in his neighborhood to pick up his vehicle when he was gunned down by a New York City Police Department (NYPD) Officer. On the afternoon of Friday, August 29, 2015, New York City Police set up an illegal gun sale in an effort to stem illegal gun sales. ... MOREDeath By Goverment In The Name Of Safety - NYPD Kills Innocent Man In Effort To Protect New Yorkers From Guns
by William Lawler. 61 year old Felix Kumi, a school bus driver, was walking to an auto repair shop in his neighborhood to pick up his vehicle when he was gunned down by a New York City Police Department (NYPD) Officer. On the afternoon of Friday, August 29, 2015, New York City Police set up an illegal gun sale in an effort to stem illegal gun sales. ... MOREA Sneaky Way To Reduce Social Security Benefits
Ponzi's next move: raise the retirement age. Americans like their Social Security benefits quite a bit: They oppose cuts to them by a margin of two to one.
Even Millennials, who won’t be seeing benefits anytime soon, feel
protective of Social Security, according to a poll from the Pew Research
Center. One way to effectively ... MORE
How Capitalism Enriches The Working Class
by Thomas DiLorenzo. In the early days of capitalism there was a mass exodus from farm to
factory. No one forced the masses to work in factories; they did so
because factory work was better and more profitable than the
alternative – sixteen hours a day of backbreaking farm labor for less
money. Or begging, prostitution, crime, and ... MORECalifornia Police Unions Are Fighting Police Accountability
by Steven Greenhut. They fear body cameras like Dracula fears holy water. As a reaction to national news reports about police killings, the California legislature had introduced a flurry of bills designed to provide better oversight of law-enforcement officials. In May, this column was optimistic about the focus on this long-neglected matter, and ... MOREWalter E Williams: Wasn't Always This Way
A conclusion not supported by the facts. Academics and public intellectuals, who should know better, attempt to explain the highly visible and publicized pathology witnessed in cities such as Baltimore, Detroit, Chicago, Ferguson and others as a legacy of slavery. The argument is made that the problems encountered by many black Americans ... MOREJacob Sullum: 5 Popular Drugs Scares Vs. Reality -- The Disconnect Between Drug Use And Public Alarm About It
Dangerous drug use is on the decline. Last year I noted the disconnect between rising public alarm about methamphetamine and falling rates of use. By 2005, when Newsweek identified "The Meth Epidemic" as "America's New Drug Crisis" in a sensational cover story, illicit methamphetamine use had been declining for years. A new ... MOREReplace Political Correctness With Common Sense
by Guillermo Garcia. This group think, political correctness imbecility just hit a new low. Curt Schilling, former professional baseball player and now ESPN color commentator, tweeted that he thought Muslim extremists were no better than Nazis. Mr. Schilling was called on the carpet by the bosses at ESPN and the next day he issued a statement in which ... MOREProtect Free Speech Inside And Outside Of Courtrooms
Because justice is a result, not just a process. In 2012, an 80-year-old retired chemistry professor was indicted on jury tampering charges for passing out brochures in a plaza outside a federal courthouse in New York. Those brochures regarded "jury nullification," an option available to jurors who might agree that a defendant broke the ... MOREAsset Forfeiture: Do Police Seize Innocent People’s Money?
by Clifton Adcock and Ben Fenwick. On a March evening in 2013, William Cicco drove away from his Broken Arrow home with a paper bag on the front passenger seat containing $15,555 in cash. He and his wife had been arguing. Cicco left with what he said was money from their savings and a second-mortgage loan. He never imagined the cash would ... MOREGonzalo Lira: The Coming Middle-Class Anarchy
The reward of playing by the rules. True story: A retired couple I know, Brian and Ilsa, own a home in the
Southwest. It’s a pretty house, right on the manicured golf course of
their gated community (they’re crazy about golf). The only problem is, they bought the house near the top of the market in 2005, and now find themselves underwater. ... MORENYC Unveils Pilot Program To Track Driving Habits
Big Brother comes a knocking. It’s a new city pilot program to track how you drive, when you drive, how fast your drive and how much gas you use. The Department of Transportation says it will help fix street problems. Others say its like Big Brother is watching you, CBS2’s Marcia Kramer reported Friday. It’s a tiny black box about the size of a ... MORERenewed Calls For Gun Control Laws Spur Sales
by Kevin Johnson. Renewed calls for more restrictive gun laws, following a succession of fatal shootings in the United States, immediately appear to be generating a boost for the gun industry. Newly released August records show that the FBI posted 1.7 million background checks required of gun purchasers at federally licensed dealers, the ... MOREDennis Chamberland: The Tyranny Of Consensus
Half science is no science. Never mind that climate change is the single most complex scientific question of human history. Human nature has managed to morph politics and science together into a repulsive, philosophic monstrosity -- half science and half religion -- specifically designed to reduce multifaceted, chaos-based theory and its ... MORE
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