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Freedom Caucus Unable to Strip Intrusive Cybersecurity Bill from Omnibus
It appears as though the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA), a.k.a. the Cybersecurity Act of 2015, is going to survive negotiations to pass the omnibus, at least for now. To refresh memories...
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The GOP's Omnibus Spending Binge Will Undermine the Next President
The $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill passed by both the House and the Senate earlier today caps off a year of dreadful budgeting by Republicans in Congress. The bill includes a few reforms, but...
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What the Heck Is the First Amendment Defense Act, and Should We Be Worried?
When "religious freedom" gets invoked in the United States, it can be a mixed bag. It can be a term legitimately be used to describe the right of Americans to express their faith how they choose and...
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Republican Congress Delivers a Year to Forget
A tumultuous year for the Republican-led Congress has come to an end. If you were a supporter of the GOP establishment's shallow goal to show the country that it could "govern" by passing bloated...
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Congress Did Not Legalize Medical Marijuana
"Federal Ban Lifted on Medical Marijuana," says the headline over an Inquisitr article that I came across last week. At first I dismissed it as one overenthusiastic reaction to a spending rider that...
View ArticleCalls For Censorship Are Making a Comeback
Oxford Dictionaries defines "censorship" as "the suppression or prohibition of any books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security." As I've...
View ArticleThe Federal Ban on Medical Marijuana Was Not Lifted
Contrary to what you may have read or heard, Congress did not quietly lift the federal ban on medical marijuana. Nor did it lift the ban loudly. It did not lift the ban at all. Here is what actually...
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Biennial Budgeting Is a Bad Idea That Won't Go Away
Those who pay just casual attention to the annual federal budget process can see that it's a mess. It's rarely completed on time, and it always seems to get bogged down by partisan bickering and...
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Federal LGBT Equality Act Gets First GOP Sponsor
Introduced in the wake of the Supreme Court mandating legal recognition of same-sex couples, the federal Equality Act is intended to expand pretty much all national anti-discrimination laws to add...
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Decades of Big Government Result in Massive Doubts It Fixes Anything
The Obama Administration can insist that it's winning the war on terror and that the Affordable Care Act is working, but Americans don't agree. A new poll from the Associated Press-NORC Center for...
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Shut Up, Explained the Businessman: How Consumers Like You Get SLAPPed Down
Checking out the online reviews of an unfamiliar company's product or service before you buy is now a reflex for most of us. A quick click over to Yelp, Angie's List, TripAdvisor, and Yahoo Local...
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One Culprit in Rand Paul’s Demise: A Unified GOP Congress
Do you remember those big fights back in late October over just waving away the debt ceiling until March 2017, getting rid of the sequestration cuts and goosing federal spending by $80 billion?...
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Fourth Amendment Protections for Emails Inch Forward in Congress
There is a big, huge gap in your Fourth Amendment protection against government searches without a warrant that goes all the way back three decades. That's when Congress passed the Electronic...
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'Three Parent' Babies Are Certainly Ethical: New at Reason
Seeking to cure prospective babies of terrible diseases is clearly ethical, right? Sadly, not everyone seems to agree. Old-fashioned doctor-knows-best paternalism has all too often been replaced by...
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Of Course It's Ethical To Make 'Three-Parent' Babies
Seeking to cure prospective babies of terrible diseases is clearly ethical, right? Sadly, not everyone seems to agree. Old-fashioned doctor-knows-best paternalism has all too often been replaced by...
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