Scalia: We're not stupid

Scalia to solicitor general: we're not stupid

Incarceration Nation

Recently Pat Robertson has called for an end to the criminalization of Marijuana and has pointed to the fact that the US has nearly 10 times the incarceration rate as other developed countries and three times that of crime ridden countries like Brazil and Mexico

ADA: putting people out of business

Some lawyers use the American with Disabilities Act to sue small businesses and force them into settlements for some lawyers its great business, but it is a raw deal for the rest of us.

Fixing the EPA

Fixing the EPA, from the atlantic

Prolonged Detention

Rachel Maddow weighs in on President Obama's prolonged detention program

Spike Lee Tweets Zimmerman address? Oops Wrong House

Spike Lee tweets Zimmerman Address... oops it was a random house and a random woman he may have endangered her life

The State of Milwaukee

It is pretty terrible

Trayvon Martin: Why aren't we discussing Black on Black Crime?

A Case of a Hispanic Man shooting a black teen has captivated the nation, but why isn't anyone discussing the far more prevalent problem of Black on Black crime?

Former NAACP leader accuses Sharpton, Jackson of 'exploiting' Trayvon Martin tragedy

Former NAACP leader accuses Sharpton, Jackson of 'exploiting' the shooting of Trayvon Martin

Scott Walker: Promises Kept

From Politifact: Promises Kept from Scott Walker

Police Report: Filling in the details of Trayvon Martin Case

Police Report is starting to fill in the details of the Trayvon Martin Case

Ron Paul on being a Republican

Ron Paul Fires back about questions of electability

If Obamacare is upheld

If ObamaCare is upheld then how do we answer the question: what is the limit to federal power.

Should the Courts Be Allowed to Repeal Obsolete Law?

Should the Courts Be Allowed to Repeal Obsolete Law?: an excellent interview in the Atlantic

Self-Replicating Regulation: How to Trim Government Overlap

Self-Replicating Regulation: How to Trim Government Overlap, an excellent piece from the Atlantic by Mark Warner

Health Department Run Amok

Health Department Run Amok, ruins nice evening forces food to be thrown out

Defensive Medicine Seeping into Training of Medical Students

Defensive Medicine Is seeping into training of Medical Students

Moving for real labor reform

Real Labor Reform would empower workers

Houston bureaucracy prevents couple from feeding homeless

Houston Bureaucracy stops coupling who had been feeding the homeless

Florida's Chance for Medical Liability Reform

Florida's Chance for Medical Liability Reform

The Deficit?

Is anybody running for president going to talk about the Federal Deficit?

Crippling our economy

How excessive regulation is crippling our economy

The Doctor is out

How fewer doctors in primary care means that it'll be harder to get an appointment

Software patents

The idiocy of our patent law system

Leftist Political Satire?

Is political humor inherently leftist?

Homeless Wifi Hot Spots

Jon Stewart Weighs in on the idea of having Homeless people being Wifi Hot Spots

A Failing Grade

The system that ranks restaurants is failing

Stifling Growth

Why Professional License is a barrier to growth from the atlantic

Novel Idea: Medicare laws that are easy to read.

Here is a novel idea: making Medicare laws easy to read

Auctioning Residency Permits

Auctioning Residency Permits: an interesting take on immigration policy

How did our government get so bad?

How did we get here?

Excessive Regulation: Tangled up in green tape

Excessive Regulation: Tangled up in green tape

$12,000 in paperwork to remove tree from a creek

Government Idiocy at its best

Scale back Zero Tolerance

Lawmakers aim to scale back zero tolerance laws

Teacher Evaluations

Teacher Evaluations

Sledding Bill Fails in Iowa

Bill to protect municipalities against litigation for sledding injuries fails to gain traction

High Cost of Defensive Medicine

High Cost of Defensive Medicine

Socialism

An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had recently failed an entire class. That class had insisted that Obama's socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer. The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama's plan". All grades will be averaged and everyone will receive the same grade so no one will fail and no one will receive an A.... (substituting grades for dollars - something closer to home and more readily understood by all). After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little. The second test average was a D! No one was happy. When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F. As the tests proceeded, the scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else. To their great surprise, ALL FAILED and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great, but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed. It could not be any simpler than that. (Please pass this on) Remember, there IS a test coming up. The 2012 elections. These are possibly the 5 best sentences you'll ever read and all applicable to this experiment: 1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. 2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. 3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. 4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it! 5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.