Posts by Jon E. Dougherty:
You should love what some GOP presidential candidates are saying about cutting regulations,
(Freedom.news) The exponential growth of the federal bureaucracy has become massively expensive tool that subsequent administrations have utilized to choke liberty and squeeze industry and commerce. So it’s refreshing to hear, in recent days, a growing number of Republican presidential candidates seriously addressing the issue of regulatory reform with specific proposals to cut the Administrative Read More
Police in the U.S. now seizing four times more private property than burglars and thieves,
(Freedom.news) It’s an alarming trend but it’s only getting worse. We’re talking about “asset forfeiture,” and it is increasingly being abused federal, state and local authorities as a way to boost funding for departments and agencies. According to the most recent statistics available, asset forfeiture by U.S. attorneys amounted to $12.6 billion between 1989 and Read More
Gold rush: Record number of Americans buying gold as hedge against heavily indebted government, market flux,
(Freedom.news) Tumultuous times on Wall Street, coupled with the U.S. government’s massive (and growing) debt, led record numbers of Americans to purchase gold bars and gold coins over the summer. As reported by CNN/Money, demand for gold increased 207 percent during the third quarter of this year, according to the World Gold Council. The skyrocketing Read More
Constitutional crisis brewing over Obama plans for admitting Syrian refugees as 27 governors say they’re not welcome in their states,
(Freedom.news) Constitutional experts and scholars see a crisis brewing on the horizon over President Obama’s push to accept thousands of Syrian refugees into the U.S. in the wake of the recent Paris attacks, as more than half of state governors have now said they don’t want refugees resettled in their states. That’s a problem, experts Read More
Climate change hoaxer Bill Nye the ‘science guy’ is the latest to ‘warn’ about the ‘apocalyptic’ nature of so-called ‘global warming’,
(Freedom.news) Desperate to regain control of the narrative after recent polling has shown that the public isn’t buying into the whole “global warming” hoax, pushers of phony science are turning to insults and even threats to silence opposition. One of them is Bill Nye the “Science Guy,” who in his new book, “Unstoppable,” makes the Read More
Federal officials threaten Texas after state decides to cut Planned Parenthood out of Medicaid funding,
(Freedom.news) States don’t have much say in how Medicaid funds are spent or who can qualify for them, but one of the few powers they retain when it comes to managing an entitlement program that absorbs one-third of their budgets is deciding which healthcare facilities can participate in the program. Now, it seems, even that Read More
The results are in: Historic tax cuts in Kansas are spurring growth – and freedom,
(Freedom.news) For months after Kansas legislators passed historic tax cuts a few years ago, big government leftists breathlessly predicted that they would bankrupt the state. But a new study has found just the opposite is taking place, and it reaffirms once again that tax policies aimed at reducing burdens spurs economic growth instead of economic Read More
It’s official: The Department of Education has gone off the deep end,
(Freedom.news) If you still need more proof that the progressives running the federal bureaucracy under the most liberal president in history have lost their collective minds, well, we don’t know what else will convince you. As noted by National Review Online and The New York Times, officials at the civil rights division at the Department Read More
Is Obama set to ignore and bypass federal courts over his unconstitutional amnesty deferral order?,
(Freedom.news) A newly leaked internal Department of Homeland Security memo that was produced as part of an off-the-record policy conclave indicates that the Obama administration is actively planning to bypass a federal court injunction that suspended a portion of last November’s deferral-based amnesty initiative, writes Ian M. Smith, an investigative associate with the Immigration Reform Read More
More Americans are choosing freedom by voting with their feet,
(Freedom.news) About a thousand Americans per day vote with their feet, leaving heavily taxed, overly regulated blue states for more liberty-minded environments in red states, according to The Daily Signal, which cited a recent Heritage Foundation study [Full disclosure: The Daily Signal was founded by the Heritage Foundation]. As noted by economist and Heritage senior Read More