New Rand Paul bill makes sure Senators (and public) can read the bills before the vote - Campaign for Liberty

New Rand Paul bill makes sure Senators (and public) can read the bills before the vote - Campaign for Liberty: "Senator Paul’s proposal would forbid the Senate from voting on legislation until after the bill is posted online and the Senate has been in session for at least one day for each 20 pages in the bill. So if a bill is forty pages long, it could not be voted on until 2 session days after the bill is introduced.  If the bill is 500 pages, then it would not be voted on until twenty session days have passed."

Anarchy, State, and Gun Ownership - David Greenwald - Mises Daily

Anarchy, State, and Gun Ownership - David Greenwald - Mises Daily: "the very existence of a government security force will also tend to discourage gun ownership among those who live in more affluent, low-crime areas and who generally trust the efficiency and professionalism of the police. Here we have in view individuals who would become gun owners if there were no government police, but who, because such a force does in fact exist (and because they are compelled to pay for it despite its relatively low marginal utility), elect to forego the added expense of self-defense preparedness. Not surprisingly, most advocates of gun control fall into this category. Since, however, the police response time lag still exists even for them and can never be reduced to zero, the effect may be to induce a false sense of security among such people, leaving them unprepared for those rare instances of violent crime that do occur. Some of the more recent mass shootings may be cited as examples."

Is there a correlation between supporting gun control and having better than average police response/coverage?

Immigration Parole, Not Amnesty | Cato Institute

Immigration Parole, Not Amnesty | Cato Institute: "Instead, unless they go the marriage route, even U.S.-educated scientists, engineers, and other professionals have to find employers willing to spend significant resources playing lawyer games with the Labor Department while the applicant’s life is in a state of suspended animation. The wait takes years, particularly for those unfortunate enough to be from places that export skilled workers, like India.

Unskilled workers — your stereotypical Mexican day laborer — don’t even have that. That’s why it’s so important that any immigration reform have a guest-worker component (which President Obama is resisting because union bosses oppose it). Give people the opportunity to earn an honest living and they’ll take it — and then you can deport the criminals."

"our immigration laws themselves undermine the rule of law"

"If you brainstormed a process for how foreigners enter the country, how long they can stay, and what they can do while here, it would be hard to come up with something worse than our current hodge-podge of often contradictory regulations."

"As long as we screen for criminal records, terrorism, and public health, America should stand for the idea of letting people in who seek a better life, in an orderly way: a funnel, not a necessarily leaky wall."

Fla. high school student reportedly suspended after disarming gunman | Fox News

Fla. high school student reportedly suspended after disarming gunman | Fox News: "The boy's mother told Fox4Now.com her son was suspended because he refused to cooperate with the investigation, adding that he was scared."

Arkansas police photograph license plates, store data | Fox News

Arkansas police photograph license plates, store data | Fox News: ""It bothered me particularly if someone wasn't guilty of a crime or didn't have any active warrants or hadn't committed a crime," city director Ken Richardson said.

However, Little Rock Police Chief Stuart Thomas said the law enforcement benefits outweigh any concerns about possible abuse of the information, which, as a public record, is legally available for anyone to see."

Outlawing Jobs: The Minimum Wage - Murray N. Rothbard - Mises Daily

Outlawing Jobs: The Minimum Wage - Murray N. Rothbard - Mises Daily: "In truth, there is only one way to regard a minimum wage law: it is compulsory unemployment, period. The law says: it is illegal, and therefore criminal, for anyone to hire anyone else below the level of X dollars an hour. This means, plainly and simply, that a large number of free and voluntary wage contracts are now outlawed and hence that there will be a large amount of unemployment. Remember that the minimum wage law provides no jobs; it only outlaws them; and outlawed jobs are the inevitable result."

"the people who will be disemployed and devastated by this prohibition will be precisely the "marginal" (lowest wage) workers, e.g. blacks and teenagers, the very workers whom the advocates of the minimum wage are claiming to foster and protect."

"When they came for the Raw Milk drinkers…" - Campaign for Liberty

"When they came for the Raw Milk drinkers…" - Campaign for Liberty: "the offices of Rawesome Foods in Venice, California, have been repeatedly raided by armed federal and state agents, and Rawesome’s founder, 65-year old James Stewart, has been imprisoned. What heinous crime justified this action? Rawesome sold unpasteurized (raw) milk and cheese to willing customers – in a state where raw milk is legal! You cannot even drink milk from a cow without a federal permit!"

Are armed agents really needed for something like that?

Connecticut school allows student to wear anti-gay shirt | Fox News

Connecticut school allows student to wear anti-gay shirt | Fox News: "The ACLU says it was prepared to sue the school district."

Drone, baby, drone... If you want more terrorists - Campaign for Liberty

Drone, baby, drone... If you want more terrorists - Campaign for Liberty: "[Gen. Stanley McChrystal] points out that, “…if you go back in history, I can’t find a covert fix that solved a problem long term.” He is referring to the reliance of Presidents on the CIA, Special Ops, and covert drone strikes."

Massad Ayoob » Blog Archive » YA CAN’T MAKE THESE FECES UP…

Massad Ayoob » Blog Archive » YA CAN’T MAKE THESE FECES UP…: "Ignore the fact that the ounce of lead you discharge with each pull of the trigger has got to come down somewhere…like a while back when a careless hunter emptied his muzzle-loader into the air, and the projectile came down and killed a teenage Amish girl far from the scene."