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Relevance: 44% Posted on: April 6, 2012
“Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.”
Relevance: 44% Posted on: March 31, 2022
Based on a quick look at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate’s splash page, I wasn’t immediately sure what, precisely, the institute’s raison d’être might be. On the top menu bar there’s a slogan: “Just Vote.” Big clue? On the About page, though, we are told…
Relevance: 44% Posted on: January 27, 2024
Government agencies that “fight crime” too often engage in criminal behavior to do so. In June of 2021, Common Sense with Paul Jacob reported on an FBI operation that raided safe deposit boxes. In March, the federal government conducted a raid of a safe deposit box company called U.S. Privacy…
Relevance: 44% Posted on: October 23, 2000
One of these things is not like the others. One of these things is just not the same. Can you guess which one? First is the antitrust suit against Microsoft, undertaken at the behest of Microsoft's competitors, like Netscape and AOL. They pushed the Justice Department to do something about…
Relevance: 44% Posted on: December 10, 2009
Suppose I donated bone marrow to help save someone’s life . . . and you, to encourage people like me to step forward, offered college scholarships for such donations. Most folks would applaud us. But not the federal government. It would charge us with a felony and send us to…
Relevance: 43% Posted on: July 9, 2001
We hear a great deal about money corrupting politics these days. But Paul Farago, with the Cascade Policy Institute, says politics is corrupting money. He points out that much of the problem is created by politicians dispensing special favors or threatening to bludgeon the market to shake down contributions from…
Relevance: 43% Posted on: March 6, 2018
by Paul Jacob While the Supreme Court heard oral argument, last week, in Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), the court of public opinion focused not so much on the constitutionality of the law in question, i.e. justice, but instead on the partisan impact of…
Relevance: 43% Posted on: May 22, 2008
The sign said “Beware of the Dance Police.†It graced a wooden post at San Tan Flat, a restaurant in Pinal County, Arizona. It was part of the restaurant’s protest against the county’s busy-bodyish no-dancing rule. Owners Dale Bell and son Spencer appealed that decision. And won. Spencer gladly took…
Relevance: 43% Posted on: December 18, 2013
We have been ruled more by deceit than by force, and we have been degraded more by vice than by superstition. Slavery is the daughter of darkness: an ignorant people is a blind instrument of its own destruction. Ambition and intrigue abuses the credulity and experience of men lacking all…
Relevance: 43% Posted on: April 5, 2016
Last week, the crooks in Washington proved themselves nice enough to let us know that their rip-off machine is back in action. The Obama Justice Department announced the resumption of the “equitable sharing” program, whereby the Feds sing Kumbaya with state and local police while sharing the loot they snatch…