Big Government

Is there a big rate hike in health care premiums coming to the obamacare">Obamacare exchanges in November? Possibly . . .

Local law enforcement has the power, under federal law, to seize cash, cars, homes - anything they believe may have been used, or might be used - to commit a crime. But they can take all of this property and still never charge you for a crime. And good luck getting your stuff back, because, in a bizarre twist, what the police have done is arrest your things, not you.

The Pew Research Center recently surveyed Americans on their knowledge of issues in the news and government spending.

And while we're on the topic of the rapid decline of public education, consider this story out of Alabama:

At first, we dismissed this story as too outrageous to be true. There is no way any public school would do something this stupid. But true it is:

Tech companies have complained about federal government demands for information on their customers and insistence that the companies tell no one about it (or else). Some, like google">Google, Apple and LinkedIn, have even tried to push back.

Once upon a time, Republican candidates could be counted on to talk about the need to cut taxes and shrink the federal government. This year, however, the words "tax cuts" are rarely heard:

liberty">Liberty advocates have long alleged that the Federal Reserve is one of the biggest risks facing our financial system.

After six years of trashing the constitution">constitution">Constitution and trampling individual rights, Attorney General Eric Holder has had enough, and