“The 2016 Senate appropriations bill forbids the use of federal funds, which many law enforcement agencies receive and rely on, to prohibit the growing, processing or distribution of properly licensed industrial hemp.”
“Former Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) discusses Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ decision to rescind the Obama-era policy of non-interference in marijuana-friendly states.”
“States with the largest expansion of Medicaid also saw the highest increase in opioid overdose deaths. Medicaid schemes pumped opioids into communities and got doctors and pill pushers rich in the process.”
Read more: http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/how-medicaid-funds-and-fuels-the-opioid-epidemic/
“Local, state, and federal agencies have a long history of targeting, harassing, and entrapping fans of untraditional music. Because so many innocuous activities have become criminalized in recent decades, it has never been easier for the feds to tar any group they please.”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/guilt-musical-association/
“In a recent Ted Talk, investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson says it all started when Obama gave the media their marching orders. She gives two main ways to tell if powerful interests are trying to manipulate opinion.”
“This is serious business when a law is written as to be incomprehensible to 99%+ of the population.”
Read more: http://rubinontax.floridatax.com/2017/12/the-internal-revenue-code-jumps-shark.html
“The rules run to thousands of pages, and tax experts themselves, including those employed by the tax collection agencies, cannot agree on the amount of tax liability associated with even a moderately complicated tax return.”
Read more: http://blog.independent.org/2018/02/13/roving-bandit-stationary-bandit-and-income-tax/
“The good news is that the recently passed Republican tax reform package partially shifted the country to a territorial tax system. The bad news is that it only benefits companies.”
Read more: https://reason.com/archives/2018/02/12/americas-punishing-worldwide-t
“The officer who shot McDonald, Jason Van Dyke, was charged with first-degree murder. Van Dyke’s lawyers sought to compel me to testify on the basis of their claim, for which they offered no evidence, that the source had given me documents protected under the Garrity rule, which protects public employees from being compelled to incriminate themselves during internal investigations conducted by their employers.”
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/02/07/laquan-mcdonald-case-first-amdendment/
“Under so-called ‘legitimate’ circumstances, such as seeking higher wages, union members can potentially get away with slashing tires or detonating pipe bombs in order to coerce their opponents.”
Read more: https://fee.org/articles/close-the-loophole-legalizing-union-violence/