Terror and Safety

Terror and Safety

This week, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said the National Security Agency’s data mining violates our Fourth Amendment right to be “secure in their persons, houses, papers” and is “tyranny that our founders rebelled against.” Good for him. In an...
Terror and Safety

Green Tyranny

Environmental activists and politicians would like you to think that we must love their regulations — or hate trees and animals. I love trees and animals. But you can love nature and still hate the tyranny that environmental regulations bring. The Environmental...
Terror and Safety

State of the Union?

We’ve heard another State of the Union speech, and my president said grand things like: “Think about … a future where we’re in control of our own energy … I will not cede the wind or solar or battery industry to China … I will not...
Terror and Safety

A Man's Home…

The Obama administration now proposes to spend millions more on handouts, despite ample evidence of their perverse effects. Shaun Donovan, secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, says, “The single most important thing HUD does is provide...
Terror and Safety

Legalize Insider Trading

Insider trading leads the news again, casting a cloud over Steven Cohen’s SAC Capital Advisors $14 billion hedge fund. The SEC charged Mathew Martoma, who used to manage a SAC Capital division, with using inside information about tests on an Alzheimer’s...