Liberty 101: Exam Time » All
right, everyone; take out your pencils and put away your books.
Professor Ben is here to take stock of just how much you've managed to
retain from the reams of knowledge proffered by the rest of the faculty
here at the Personal Liberty Digest™ Institute for Higher Learning and General Awesomeness. More »
Outside The Asylum
Meet The 'Press' » Tim Russert spent decades building NBC News'
"Meet the Press" into the benchmark of Sunday morning appointment
television. But his replacement, David Gregory, has fallen into the same
pit of partisanship that has turned the rest of NBC's news apparatus
into a weird little carnival of mealymouthed mendacity. More »
Arguments For, Against Gay Marriage Laws Before SCOTUS Today » A
pair of cases in which challenges to existing laws have made it all the
way to the U.S. Supreme Court will inch closer to resolutions this
week, with possible implications for sweeping changes to the way
same-sex marriage is treated, both by the Federal government and by each
State. More »
Rand Paul's Libertarian Vision On Display: Lighten Up On Pot, Get Tough On Federal Budget » In
the eyes of many people, the left-right political paradigm has served
little purpose beyond saturating political debate with conversations
about moral issues, over which legislation has little affirmative power.
If Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) gets his way, these conversations may
become a thing of the past. More »
EPA Empowers Environmental Extremists To Attack American Farmers » A
number of farmers are worried that Environmental Protection Agency
records containing personal information about agricultural producers in
more than 30 States will be used maliciously by environmental
extremists. More »
A group of
California beekeepers and environmental groups filed suit last week to
force the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to restrict insecticides
they say has a detrimental effect on honeybees.
The groups filed their lawsuit against the EPA in the Northern District
Court of California, demanding that the regulatory agency suspend the
use of pesticides clothianidin and thiamethoxam. The pesticides, which
are part of a class of systemic insecticides known as neonicotinoids,
are absorbed by plants and transported throughout a plant's vascular
tissue, making the plant potentially toxic to insects, the groups said.
Neonicotinoids are chemically related to nicotine, the harmful
ingredient in tobacco products. More »
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