- The View Hosts Call Anti-TSA Protestors "Terrorists"
As outrageous as these ladies' remarks seem to civil libertarians, we must resist the temptation to demonize them, or anyone else who opposes us ideologically. They're not evil people--they want what we want. Safety. It's up to us to try to explain to them why returning security to the private airline companies (who must have safe and happy customers in order to survive) will result in greater safety than keeping security procedures in the hands of an impersonal bureaucracy (who would just get more funding if a terrorist attack were to succeed). - Big Sis Starts Shutting Down Websites
The DHS has launched a campaign to seize domain names from websites who promote copyright infringement, even if they don't engage in copyright infringement themselves. Regardless of your thoughts on IP law, this is a very dangerous power to allow the government. A). Because the determination of what constitutes a site whose "central" purpose is copypright infringement is entirely subjective, and B). Because this opens the door to further Internet censorship. - NYC Cig Taxes Create Black Market
Just one of the consequences to be expected of prohibition (and stiflingly high taxes on a good are a form of prohibition): they create black markets. Since black market cigarettes are a third cheaper than taxed cigarettes, the city isn't even getting the tax revenue from their absurdly high taxes. If NYC would lower their cigarette taxes, they would--ironically--get more tax revenue, since people wouldn't be as willing to bother with the black market. - FAA Grants First Commercial Space Travel License
The government is already trying to get its fingers into the burgeoning commercial space travel industry, before it even gets off the ground. While it's a positive thing that the Federal Aviation Administration is allowing one private company, SpaceX, to re-enter Earth's orbit after traveling into outer space, one can only imagine the amount of regulations and red tape these courageous enterprises will have to navigate. If Lewis and Clark had had to jump through as many bureaucratic hoops as the commercial space exploration companies of our time do, we'd probably still be settling California right about now. - Taliban Negotiator was Phony
Yet another failure of the government's preposterously misguided strategies in the War on Terror. The idea that the Taliban would actually negotiate with Westerners and what are perceived to be their puppet regimes should have been transparent to anyone with the least bit of knowledge about our enemies. No talks, bribes, or threats will dissuade these people from attacking us. They will continue to fight us as long as our government's troops remain on their "holy" soils, and as long as our government provides material and moral support to the corrupt regimes of the Muslim world. - UK's NHS Won't Back Cancer Drug
Comments David Shellenberger, "The decision of the U.K.'s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence to decline to recommend a cancer drug, based on cost concerns, stands as another warning of the reality that ObamaCare will lead to rationing of health care. The market, not government bureaucrats, should determine the availability of medical treatment."
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