So, The British System of Medicine is Better Than The US Free Market Sysrem?

This is a sad story. It seems that in the UK the government knows better than parents about the care of children.

They are going to basically execute a ten month old boy rather that let his parents take him to the US for experimental treatments. 

A Hospital Will Kill This Boy Today Even Though His Parents Want Him to Live

Call To Action Scholars Statement

We have great respect for judges. We have even greater respect for law. When judges behave lawlessly, it is the law that must be honored, not lawless judges.

The Supreme Court is supreme in the federal judicial system. But the justices are not supreme over the other branches of government. And they are certainly not supreme over the Constitution.

In Obergefell v. Hodges, five justices, without the slightest warrant in the text, logic, structure, or historical understanding of the Constitution presumed to declare unconstitutional the marriage laws of states that maintain the historic and sound understanding of marriage as the conjugal union of husband and wife.

Obergefell is not “the law of the land.” It has no more claim to that status than Dred Scott v. Sandford had when President Abraham Lincoln condemned that pro-slavery decision as an offense against the very Constitution that the Supreme Court justices responsible for that atrocious ruling purported to be upholding.

Lincoln warned that for the people and their elected leaders to treat unconstitutional decisions of the Supreme Court as creating a binding rule on anyone other than the parties to the particular case would be for “the people to cease to be their own rulers, having effectively abandoned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.”

Because we stand with President Lincoln against judicial despotism, we also stand with these distinguished legal scholars who are calling on officeholders to reject Obergefell as an unconstitutional effort to usurp the authority vested by the Constitution in the people and their representatives. At the same time, we stand with the four dissenting Supreme Court justices in Obergefell who rightly noted that the judicially imposed redefinition of marriage is a judicial power grab that will — as Justice Alito wrote in his dissent — “vilify Americans who are unwilling to assent to the new orthodoxy.”

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S.C. Funeral Licensing Panel Discourages Sales Of Cheap Caskets, Critics Contend

Death isn’t cheap these days.

Critics say regulations of South Carolina’s funeral industry block competition for those who want to buy an inexpensive casket. But they likely won’t get a sympathetic ear from a state lawmaker-funeral director who has successfully pushed funeral-related bills in recent years.

The nonprofit Funeral Consumers Alliance of South Carolina (FCASC) wants Gov. Nikki Haley’s regulatory-review task force to push reforms in an industry where nine of 11 members of the state Board of Funeral Service are, according to the alliance, industry insiders. Alliance President Gere Fulton has contended that the board’s makeup creates a “cartel” against competition.

“South Carolina’s a right-to-work state unless you want the right to build a casket, and then you have to join the union (comply with all state rules),” Fulton told The Nerve earlier this week.

A wooden casket can sell for $300. In comparison, the cost of a metal casket in the Columbia area ranges from $957 to $11,000, according to a 2012 pricing study of Columbia-area funeral homes conducted by the FCASC. One Columbia-area funeral home listed a casket for $32,700, that study revealed.

South Carolina's funeral industry has its supporters in the state General Assembly. A review by The Nerve of recently passed laws impacting the funeral industry found that Rep. Bill Sandifer, R-Oconee and chairman of the House Labor, Commerce and Industry Committee, has been particularly successful in that area. Sandifer is a licensed funeral director and embalmer, S.C. Labor, Licensing and Regulation (LLR) records show.

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Citizen To Agency: I'm Prepared To Take This To Court

DALEN STILL WON'T PAY FOR BIZ LICENSE

Readers may recall John Dalen, the contractor and Westminster resident who refuses to purchase a business license on the grounds that running one’s business is a protected right, not a privilege to be paid for. Dalen’s case strikes us as logical. Imprudent, possibly, but principled and logical.

If his case were to be tried in court, we have no idea what would happen, but the implications are potentially far-reaching. And so we were interested to receive his latest update, reprinted below.

I thought I would update readers on my adventures with local and state authorities who feel I should have to pay a fee in order to exercise a constitutionally guaranteed right – the right to own and run my own business.

You’ll remember I defeated the City of Clemson’s attempt to fine me $500 for not having a business license.

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Why We're Losing Liberty

Published on Sep 7, 2015

Was the Constitution written in a way that was designed to protect freedom and limit the government's size? Has it been effective in doing that? And what's the Supreme Court's record when it comes to protecting our rights? Robert George, Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, answers these questions and more.

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Credit Card Breach At A Zoo Near You

Service Systems Associates, a company that serves gift shops and eateries at zoos and cultural centers across the United States, has acknowledged a breach of its credit and debit card processing systems.

ssaSeveral banking industry sources told KrebsOnSecurity they have detected a pattern of fraud on cards that were all used at zoo gift shops operated by Denver-basd SSA. On Wednesday morning, CBS Detroit moved a story citing zoo officials there saying the SSA was investigating a breach involving point-of-sale malware.

Contacted about the findings, SSA confirmed that it was the victim of a data security breach.

“The violation occurred in the point of sale systems located in the gift shops of several of our clients,” the company said in a written statement. “This means that if a guest used a credit or debit card in the gift shop at one of our partner facilities between March 23 and June 25, 2015, the information on that card may have been compromised.”

SSA said it has been working with law enforcement officials and a third-party forensic investigator, Sikich, to investigate the breach.

“Though the investigation into this attack continues, the malware that caused the breach was identified and removed,” the statement continued. “All visitors should feel confident using credit or debit cards anywhere in these facilities.”

The company declined to name the individual locations that were impacted by the breach, but financial industry sources say the breach likely involves SSA concession and gift shops at zoo locations in at least two dozen cities, including:


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Guide to Protecting Yourself from 5 Types of Identity Theft

Identity theft is growing, and it’s not just your credit and debit card numbers you have to worry about. Hackers hit the jackpot when they cracked the network at the U.S. government’s Office of Personnel Management and accessed Social Security numbers, dates of birth and other personal information on more than 4 million federal workers. A second OPM breach, announced in June, involved applicants for security clearances who had revealed intimate details about their lives. That incident brings the total number of people affected to about 22 million.

In January, health insurers Anthem and Premera Blue Cross discovered that Social Security numbers, dates of birth and insurance ID numbers of tens of millions of customers might have been stolen. Not long after tax-filing season came to a close, the IRS announced that thieves had used stolen data to log in to IRS.gov and access more than 100,000 taxpayer accounts to generate bogus refunds.

All of those breaches came to light in just the first six months of 2015. In 2014, the Identity Theft Resource Center tallied a record-breaking 783 breaches that exposed more than 85 million records. Among them were debit and credit card numbers of customers of Home Depot, Neiman Marcus and Dairy Queen, as well as the names, mailing addresses, e-mail addresses and phone numbers of JPMorgan Chase clients. All told, 76 million households were affected.

To add insult to injury, you may not even know your data has been hacked. In most cases, the gap between a breach and the attacked organization’s discovery of it is months or even years. Still more time passes before the victims are notified, as the company launches an investigation and braces for bad publicity.

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