Democrats: fighting crime by instituting just one more tax. Perry Chiaramonte on a new bill introduced by 2 Democratic representatives and co-sponsors of one of the biggest pieces of stupid you’ll read all year: A pair of Democratic lawmakers are proposing steep new taxes on handguns and ammunition, and tying the revenues to programs aimed […]

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Brian Doherty at Reason magazine reading any kind of intervention in Syria exactly right: And remember: how we intervene in our Syria crisis of today will merely be prelude to our Syria crisis of tomorrow, until we return the U.S. military to its constitutional mission of defense and not an endless one of using disruptive […]

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Of course Mayor Bloomberg blames the people in states that are hundreds of miles from New York for New York City’s crime problem. The mayor’s team blasted the state’s existing laws, saying what is in place makes it easier for criminals to obtain firearms, which are sold illegally in New York City’s black market. New […]

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When you set up a web of lies so vast that there is no possible way to keep up with it, drip leaks are the perfect strategy to destroy credibility. The administration’s pattern was in full effect Wednesday, when it got lapped by the National Security Agency news cycle. While three senior officials were explaining […]

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Mark Steyn on Obamacare applying only to those not granted special privilege by the government: So what is it about? On Wednesday, the Nevada AFL-CIO passed a resolution declaring that “the unintended consequences of the ACA will lead to the destruction of the 40-hour work week.” That’s quite an accomplishment for a “health” “care” “reform” […]

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If, in the line of duty as a police officer, you find yourself using a taser on a septuagenarian in a nursing home, you’re doing it wrong.

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I can’t say that I disagree. College-aged support for libertarians and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) represents the United States’ “only hope” in politics, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange told Campus Reform early Friday morning. “The only hope as far as electoral politics… presently, is the libertarian section of the Republican party,” said Assange, in response to […]

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Our government is sick. At the time of the meeting, the boy didn’t know that the United States had decided to kill a man named Adnan al-Qadhi, and had turned to its allies in Yemen for assistance. Now the Yemeni government needed the child’s help. The Republican Guard officers told him what they wanted him […]

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Vietnamese college students much smarter than ours. Market forces are working against college degrees in the ideology of Marx, Lenin and Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam, where the Communist government has resorted to offering free tuition to attract students. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung recently signed a decree giving free tuition to students who agreed […]

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How can this be? I have been assured by those in power that the budget has already been cut to the bone and that if we cut one single thing we’ll end up just like Somalia in no time. The Telegraph: Rooms have to be found for dozens of Secret Service agents, someone has to […]

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