Even though the bulk collection of Americans’ telephone records has ended, calls and emails are still being swept up by U.S. surveillance work targeting foreigners. Congress is making a renewed push to find out how many.
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A Focus On Liberty by Bill B. May, PhD
The goal of the NewsBalance site is to educate readers on politics and economics using the principles of Liberty. If we think that schools fail us in basics like math and English, think about sending our children into the real world with virtually no education in economics. The education in politics is little better because it lacks any substantive discussion of the unintended consequences of well-meaning politicians or the monopoly nature of government. Both of which fail the citizenry compared to free enterprise where mistakes are either soon corrected or the business fails so that another one with better ideas can take its place.
Liberty is a fundamental yearning of humans, right behind satisfying hunger and comfort. People as young as two yearn want to do things their way. If we must be governed to keep an orderly society, that government should focus on protecting people’s liberty and we should not allow government to violate our liberty itself. That is the focus.
Just days before Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul D. Ryan meet to bridge differences and unify the Republican Party, the billionaire businessman again broke GOP economic orthodoxy and one of his most prominent and earliest supporters said she would work to oust Mr. Ryan from his post.
Robert P. Murphy writes: Does Airbnb allow landlords to run unregulated hotels? A January report from the American Hotel and Lodging Association says yes: “From Air Mattresses to Unregulated Business: An Analysis of the Other Side of Airbnb.” But the terms chosen for the report assume a choice between political regulation and no regulation. This is a false choice.
President Obama is designating three more national monuments Friday totaling about 1.8 million acres of Southern California desert, nearly doubling the amount of public land that he has given the status with the stroke of his pen since taking office.
by Bill B. May We posted an article today by Larry Diamond, associated with the conservative Hoover Institution, that says we must not give up our principles in fighting ISIS. Largely the article was a slam at Donald Trump. But let’s think about his comments a bit. Basically, he is saying that even in war, we should uphold our basic principles which is fine…
by Bill B. May The big difference between Democrats and Republicans, between progressives and conservatives, is the progressive belief that an economy (or any other endeavor) can be planned in advance. That’s not to say that I’m against planning but it should be recognized for what it is. It is nothing more than the best guess as to the future given what one…
While President Obama responds to the most deadly terrorist attack on American soil since 9/11 by urging Americans to “reject discrimination” and embrace gun control, French authorities are actually taking the real and present danger of radical Islamic terrorism seriously. Over the last few days, they kicked down doors, closed three mosques (with plans to close potentially more than a hundred), and in the process found an alarming…
Nate Jackson says: Facts are stubborn things. In the wake of the Islamist attack in San Bernardino, Barack Obama trotted out the usual blame-the-gun rhetoric: “We have a pattern of mass shootings in this country with no parallel anywhere else in the world.” That was after he claimed in a Tuesday press conference (in Paris, of all places), “This just doesn’t happen in other countries.”…
An expanded version of America’s annual Thanksgiving travel saga has begun with gas prices low and terrorism fears high.