Chinese Man Fights Eminent Domain With Fireworks
In 2005 the U.S. Supreme Court, in the case of Kelo v. City of New London, ruled that governments in the United States have the right to steal their...
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Guns for Butter?
The Austin, Texas, Police Department conducted its first “Guns4Groceries” drive on June 5. Modeled “on programs in Chicago, Los Angeles, Oakland, Calif., and Philadelphia that have successfully removed thousands...
Are Commercial DNA Tests DOA?
Want to know if your genes put you at greater risk for heart disease, cancer, or adverse drug reactions? For just $269 you can pick up a genetic testing...
When Preventing Beauty Discrimination Turns Ugly
Shortly after he won the Republican primary for U.S. Senate in Kentucky, Rand Paul was subjected to an all-out media assault for daring to suggest that the Civil Rights...
Study Misused to Expedite ObamaCare Passage
“In selling the health care overhaul to Congress, the Obama administration cited a once obscure research group at Dartmouth College to claim that it could not only cut billions...
Little Improvement in U.S. Employment in May
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics just released its employment figures for the month of May, and they would appear to be very encouraging indeed: 431,000 new jobs were...
Canadian Healthcare Continues Its Collapse
With the passage of ObamaCare, the United States has taken another fateful step down the road to fully socialized medicine, the ultimate goal of the American political class with...
Christian Conservatives Court California Voters
According to the Associated Press, “A group of conservative attorneys say they are on a mission from God to unseat four California judges in a rare challenge that is...
Dr. Ron Paul’s Cure for ObamaCare
When the U.S. financial system went into cardiac arrest in 2008, most Washington politicians raced to the nearest microphone to declare that one of the most heavily regulated sectors...
Let’s Follow the Brits’ Lead in Restoring Civil Liberties
Here in the United States, liberal Democrats claim to be defenders of civil liberties, yet since taking power in January 2009 they have done little to restore lost liberties...
Private Wages Shrink — Government Programs Swell
“Paychecks from private business shrank to their smallest share of personal income in U.S. history during the first quarter of this year,” according to USA Today. “At the same...
How Not to Waste a State Budget Crisis
Shortly after the 2008 Presidential election, President-elect Barack Obama’s Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, told the Wall Street Journal, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.”...
Long-term Healthcare, Long-term Deficits
In a January 2008 debate among Democratic presidential candidates, Barack Obama promised that his healthcare reform plan would be debated publicly, “not negotiating behind closed doors … and broadcasting...
Consumer Protection or Consumer Prying?
It seems that every day we learn of some new horror in the financial reform bill currently before Congress. This is not surprising given that the Senate version of...
Have a DNA Sample on the House
“Millions of Americans arrested for but not convicted of crimes will likely have their DNA forcibly extracted and added to a national database, according to a bill approved by...
Woody Allen’s “Dictatorship,” Starring Barack Obama
Perhaps it’s his experience as writer, director, and star of several hit movies that has led Woody Allen to prefer one-man operations. That might explain why he told the...
Tweaking Social Security Won’t Solve Its Problems
According to the Associated Press, “Social Security faces a $5.3 trillion shortfall over the next 75 years.” Yes, you read that correctly: FDR’s version of Otto von Bismarck’s socialist...
Obama Seeks $205 Million for Israel’s Defense
CNN reported May 14 that “the White House is asking Congress to approve $205 million to help Israel build a new short-range rocket defense system” called the Iron Dome...
Senate Gives Fed Power to Regulate Debit-card Fees
In the world of American business — the one practically every politician and pundit will tell you is a laissez faire environment — if one doesn’t like the terms...
Afghanistan: Still Getting Worse Before It Gets Better
The United States invaded Afghanistan in October 2001. Six years later then-Senator Barack Obama, in a speech entitled “The War We Need to Win,” called Afghanistan “the right battlefield”...