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Live free or move
Forty-three million Americans moved from one state to another between 1995 and 2010 -- about one-seventh of the population. Moving provides one of the few limits on the megalomania of state bureaucrats. Americans have moved away from high-taxed, heav ...
NY man fighting $60k fine for selling lighters shaped like a gun
The owner of a Midtown shop is firing back at Mayor Bloomberg's crusade against toy guns, filing papers to block a $60,000 fine from the city for selling lighters shaped like small pistols. "We don't have the money," said Fred Shayes, 49, who owns US ...
Drones coming to neighborhood near you!
[caption id="attachment_21959" align="alignright" width="300"] (File Photo)[/caption]For Americans concerned about personal privacy, it's time to wake up. They are far too blase at a time when we're being bombarded by an ever-growing array of high-te ...
Maggie Made a Global Difference
The Iron Lady had some wrinkles. She was a Cold Warrior who helped end that conflict peacefully; a powerful woman who eschewed feminism; a British leader who refused second place in the Anglo-American "special relationship," even though her counterpa ...
Why Do Liberals Fear Success?
There are many successful liberals, so why do so many of them wish to subsidize failure for the poor, instead of showing them how to succeed? Take Dr. Ben Carson, as one example. Dr. Carson, the renowned neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Balt ...
Raising Adam Lanza
[caption id="attachment_7036" align="alignright" width="300"] (File Photo)[/caption]Shortly after her move from New Hampshire to Newtown in 1998, Nancy Lanza had good news about her troubled son. "Adam is doing well here, and seems to be enjoying the ...
Meteorite fragments hit Siberia; 950 hurt
A hail of meteorite fragments hit Russia's Chelyabinsk region Friday, injuring at least 950 people, officials said. The meteorite, which weighed about 10 tons, broke through the atmosphere around 9:20 a.m., traveling at a speed of 33,000 mph, ITAR-Ta ...
Northeast blizzard causes problems
The big blizzard that's pummeling the U.S. Northeast turned deadly and left more than a half million people without power Saturday, authorities said. CNN reported the first confirmed fatality attributable to the monster winter storm was in Poughkeeps ...
Boulder officers arrested, accused of plotting trophy kill of Mapleton elk
After almost three weeks of investigation and community unrest, two Boulder police officers were arrested Friday on nine charges -- including three felonies -- in the shooting and disposing of an elk in the Mapleton Hill area after investigators say ...
Skewed priorities? Boulder residents mourn elk at candlelight vigil
A couple hundred people turned out tonight to light candles, sing and tell stories as they mourned a beloved bull elk killed on Mapleton Hill in Boulder. "He was a beautiful animal," said Nancy Platt, of Boulder. "He was hurting nobody. He didn't des ...
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