A Small Victory for Colorblindness
For over 30 years the middle school in Nettleton, Mississippi, had classified students who wished to run in student elections by race. One year particular offices, such as class...
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Government’s Peep Show Takes to the Road
As bad as the Transportation Security Administration’s full-body scanners are, at least they are avoidable simply by not flying. Opting to drive or ride a bus, however, no longer...
Egg Recalls Bring Statists Out of Their Shells
Government is the only institution whose power and budget grow when it fails. A crisis, real or perceived, is considered an “opportunity” for government to expand, as President Obama’s...
In Philly, Blogging Brings Big Business License Bill
Philadelphia: The City of Brotherly Love. The home of Independence Hall, where the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution were drafted. The town where blogging costs $300. ...
Judge Blocks Federal Funding of Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Chief Judge Royce C. Lamberth of Federal District Court for the District of Columbia issued a preliminary injunction on August 23 blocking further implementation of President Barack Obama’s 2009...
Putting Lipstick on the ObamaCare Pig
In a March 13 op-ed for the Washington Post, President Barack Obama’s lead pollster, Joel Benenson, wrote: “When it comes to health care and insurance, once reform passes, the...
Cost of Government Day No Reason to Celebrate
Congratulations, fellow Americans! As of August 19 you are finally working for your own benefit instead of the government’s. According to Americans for Tax Reform’s Center for Fiscal Accountability,...
Obama’s Order to Close Guantanamo: 19 Months and Counting
Two days after taking the oath of office, President Barack Obama signed an executive order stating that “the detention facilities at Guantanamo … shall be closed as soon as...
Drug War Costs Elderly Woman Her Life and Taxpayers $4.9 Million
On November 21, 2006, 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston of Atlanta suddenly found herself the victim of a home invasion. When several armed men burst into her home with no warning,...
At UNC, Abortion Coverage Is Optional — Paying for It Is Not
ObamaCare in microcosm: Beginning this school year, the University of North Carolina will require all students to have health insurance. Students who are not covered by a private plan...
Obama’s Multigenerational Shadow War
“If George W. Bush is remembered by getting America stuck in Afghanistan and Iraq, it’s looking like Obama wants to be remembered as the president who got America stuck...
Massachusetts Medical-record Dump Serves as Warning for All Americans
“Four Massachusetts community hospitals are investigating how thousands of patient health records, some containing Social Security numbers and sensitive medical diagnoses, ended up in a pile at a public...
Reality of Social Securitys Bankruptcy Sinking In
A new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll finds that “pessimism over Social Security is at an all-time high as six in ten Americans who don’t already receive benefits through the...
And the Next Bailout Goes to … Government Employees
On August 10 President Barack Obama signed into law a $26 billion spending bill that, proponents claim, will save the jobs of 300,000 teachers, police officers, and other public...
Smile! You’re on Red-light Camera
The cornerstone of American jurisprudence is that the accused is innocent until proven guilty. If your car is caught going through a red light by a traffic camera, however,...
Bringing Sanity to the Home Mortgage Market
Most people — except possibly the American political class — know that one of the prime causes of the current economic crisis was government policies that resulted in countless...
British Government Cuts Spending
Here in the United States, with budget deficits ballooning, our government is spending ever more money and creating new entitlements. ...
Medicare Actuary Debunks ObamaCare “Savings”
Medicare’s chief actuary Richard Foster has been a thorn in the side of both Republican and Democratic Presidents. ...
Tylenol’s Maker Suffers Pain From Recalls
According to legend, in the bad old days before the federal government got into the business of regulating pharmaceuticals, Americans routinely fell prey to unsafe “snake oil” products. Consumers,...
Feds’ Lies About Body Scanners Laid Bare
After years of assurances from government officials that the feds’ full-body scans of airline passengers and other persons are discarded immediately and never saved, the truth comes out: Some...