Eric Peters: Here Comes Santa's Last Run

Right down Nanny State Lane.  Santa's been running late because of all the speed traps and sobriety checks out there. Not to mention the endless meetings with his legal team to make sure the factory's in compliance with the latest workplace safety rules -- and the elves happy with the terms of their latest contract. Thank God the sleigh doesn't have to have a catalytic ... MORE

VIDEO: Milton Friedman - The Real Problem

Barry Farber: Occupiers Are Not Heroes, Just Marxists

Mice striving to be rats.     How dare Time magazine link real freedom fighters of the Middle East with the sorry bunch of American "protesters" who shared Time's Person-of-the-Year honors? Whatever happened to the Time magazine that emblazoned its cover in 1956 with the genuinely heroic anti-Communist Hungarian freedom fighters? Protesters in Syria daily... MORE

VIDEO: 17 Miles in Just 78 Minutes!

New Ideas Or Fidelity To Old Principles?

by Andrew Napolitano.   If you've been watching cable television regularly, you've heard from many analysts who know Newt Gingrich personally. They either call him the smartest man in the room or they tell us Gingrich believes he's the smartest man in the room. Gingrich has always been a government ideas man, and whenever he says something odd ... MORE

Conko & Miller: The FDA Vs. Commercial Speech

Agency puts doctors and patients at risk.  The ability of physicians to prescribe approved medicines for purposes not sanctioned by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is one of the most important elements of medical care in the United States. These “off-label” uses are perfectly legal, and doctors rely on them extensively. But the agency views   ... MORE

VIDEO: Cronyism in America

Taxpayers Cough Up $250K Per Vehicle For Chevy Volt

Department of Energy uses tax dollars to fuel idiocy again. Each Chevy Volt sold thus far may have as much as $250,000 in state and federal dollars in incentives behind it – a total of $3 billion altogether, according to an analysis by James Hohman, assistant director of fiscal policy at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. Hohman looked at total state and federal  ... MORE

50 Facts About The U.S. Economy That Will Shock You

The situation is bad -- very bad.   “Even though most Americans have become very frustrated with this economy, the reality is that the vast majority of them still have no idea just how bad our economic decline has been or how much trouble we are going to be in if we don’t make dramatic changes immediately,” writes The Economic Collapse (TEC).   ... MORE

VIDEO: Free Speech vs. Government Tyranny


Local government makes public display of contempt for individual liberty.

John Stossel: Job Creators Fighting Back

Some politicians claim that politicians create jobs.   Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says, "My job is to create jobs." What hubris! Government has no money of its own. All it does is take from some people and give to others. That may create some jobs, but only by leaving less money in the private sector for job creation. Actually, it's worse than that. Since government ... MORE

Jeffrey Folks: The EPA's Unconscionable War On Fracking

Government agency runs roughshod over the law.    The Fifth Amendment of the Constitution guarantees that "no person shall be ... deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law." For government to harm investors in a private business by bringing false charges against that business is most certainly a violation of the Fifth  ... MORE
 

VIDEO: Andrew Napolitano - The Case For Austerity


Denial is should not be an economic policy. 
"We must swallow the bitter pill of austerity now on our own terms, while we are still the undisputed leader of the free world and while we still have a Constitution."

Why Ron Paul's Surge Is Making Them Nervous

by Jacob Horneberger.  While big government statists in both the Republican and Democrat parties remain mystified over Ron Paul's surge in the polls in Iowa, the ones who seem most confounded by this phenomenon are members of the mainstream media, who themselves are statist to the core. They just can't figure out how it's possible that increasing numbers of  ... MORE

VIDEO: A Very TSA Christmas

Walter E Williams: China Trade -- Myths vs. Reality

Congress, not China, is causing our unemployment.   Republicans and Democrats, liberals as well as conservatives, have bought into anti-Chinese trade demagoguery. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested that tariffs against China are a "key part of our 'Make It in America' agenda." During his 2010 campaign, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. ... MORE

Andrew Napolitano: Restraining Orders

Unconstitutional restrictions on our freedom to travel.    Steve Bierfeldt, director of development for Ron Paul’s Campaign for Liberty, thought he was having a good day. At a regional Campaign for Liberty event in Missouri, Bierfeldt had sold thousands of dollars worth of conference tickets, bumper stickers, T-shirts, and books, and was now in the security line at ... MORE

VIDEO: European Crisis Explained

Feds Want Medical Marijuana Patients To Lose Rights

AFT wants to prohibit patients from protecting themselves.   If you are a medical marijuana patient in one of the 16 states (plus the District of Columbia) that allow for it, you’ve got reason to believe lately that the government has it in for you. You’ve got federal raids on the places where you can conveniently buy your medicine, the governor of Arizona  ... MORE

VIDEO: Nullification, The Rightful Remedy (Movie Trailer)

Jeb Bush: Capitalism And The Right To Rise

The risk of failure vs. the certainty of stagnation.   Congressman Paul Ryan recently coined a smart phrase to describe the core concept of economic freedom: "The right to rise." Think about it. We talk about the right to free speech, the right to bear arms, the right to assembly. The right to rise doesn't seem like something we should have to protect. But we do.    ... MORE

AFP: Attorney General Holder Tied To OKC Bombers

He provided the explosives to Nichols and McVeigh.  Eric Holder, current attorney general of the United States, managed an FBI operation that provided explosives to Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols just prior to the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995, according to official documents released during the ongoing ... MORE

David Hogberg: Walter Williams For Christmas

His autobiography is a great American story.   "Racial discriminatory preferences do not explain all they are purported to explain" is the central theme in economist Walter Williams' new book, Race and Economics: How Much Can Be Blamed on Discrimination? That's not surprising to anyone familiar with Williams' work. However, it is somewhat puzzling given his background ... MORE

VIDEO: FDR - Hard Times Redux

Wayne Allyn Root: Obama's New Math Is A Job Killer

President must have missed class on subtraction. President Obama’s math skills leave something to be desired. As a matter of fact, based on Mr. Obama’s recent interview on “60 Minutes,” the president deserves a grade of F in math. When confronted by the reporter with the reality that his economic stimulus package failed, he decided to lie to the American   ... MORE

VIDEO: The Methodical Enslavement of Americans

Jacob G. Hornberger: Vision Of A Free Society

The answers that freedom provides.   If we abolish public schooling, then how will the poor be educated? If drug laws are repealed, won't everyone go on drugs? If Social Security is abolished, won't old people starve to death? If we don't have Medicare and Medicaid, how would anyone afford decent medical care? If we don't have licensing, won't quacks be performing heart ... MORE