Update: NSA Analysts spied on love interests
The National Security Agency has admitted that analysts have abused their authority to spy on love interests on several occasions. In response to a letter from Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa),…
Update on NSA gathering data on social connections of U.S. citizens
Since 2010, the National Security Agency has been exploiting its huge collections of data to create sophisticated graphs of some Americans’ social connections that can identify their associates, their locations…
With A Little Creative Thinking, Detroit Can Again Thrive
by Kerri Toloczko House flipping is trendy for American real estate investors, and a spectator sport for those addicted to shows like “Flip This House.” Although Detroit ‘s extreme fiscal…
Now They Tell Us: ObamaCare Has Huge Hidden Costs
Healthcare: Just days before ObamaCare officially launches, the Newspaper of Record discovers that those allegedly low premiums liberals brag about won’t come cheap. At least, not if you want to…
Obamacare Is Going to Come Tumbling Down
The only question is precisely when … by Peter Roff The Republicans are at loggerheads over the issue of health care. Some, believing the party’s commitment to “repeal and replace”…
IRS scandal: Stop the stonewalling – America needs the truth
America can handle the truth. Even if that truth could include a coverup at the powerful IRS. The IRS mission statement pledges to “enforce the law with integrity and fairness…
The Unaffordable Careless Act
Small businesses won’t grow, and more employees will work fewer hours. That’s just for starters. by Karl Rove Harvard (and later Columbia) sociologist Robert K. Merton wrote in 1936 about…
Historic Incompetence
We have a president who delights in delivering partisan speeches to adoring audiences but doesn’t seem interested in whether his administration gets results. by Michael Barone Evidence of the astonishing…
Escaping the death spiral of Blue State taxes
Debt-ridden California needs every cent it can squeeze out of its taxpayers. The government unions that control the state through the Democratic Party are the highest paid state government employees…
NSA employees spy on lovers and former spouses
by Harriet Alexander Staff working at America’s National Security Agency – the eavesdropping unit that was revealed to have spied on millions of people – have used the technology to spy…
The Obama Administration Has Been Using the IRS to Target Political Foes for Years
by Peter Roff The alleged abuse by the Obama Administration of the United States Internal Revenue Service goes back much farther than the current inquiry into whether conservative political groups…
Why get off welfare?
By Michael D. Tanner Contrary to stereotypes, there is no evidence that people on welfare are lazy. Indeed, surveys of welfare recipients consistently show their desire for a job. But…
Abusing the Patriot Act
by Jim Sensenbrenner On Aug. 9, the Obama administration released a previously secret legal interpretation of the Patriot Act that it used to justify the bulk collection of every American’s…
When welfare pays better than work
by Michael Turner Here’s an offer for you: $38,004 per year, tax free. No work required. Apply at your local welfare office. The federal government funds 126 separate programs targeted…
Are We Serious About Education?
by Thomas Sowell Two recent events — one on the east coast and one on the west coast — raise painful questions about whether we are really serious when we…