Eric Peters: Unsafe At Any Smoke

You didn't think they'd stop at seat belt laws, did you? Mandatory buckle-up laws set the precedent: Even your own body in your own car is no longer your own personal space. Here's how it works: The government decides that whatever it is you're doing is "unsafe" -- not specifically in your case, just generally -- maybe, might be, could be -- then asserts the legal    ... MORE

RougeGovernment: Is America Crazy Or Is Government?

Psychiatrists invent anti-government phobia. Is America crazy or is the United States government? A new “study” published in The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry suggests that people holding an intense fear of the government may be suffering from “Anti-Government Phobia” (AGP), whose symptoms include “extreme suspiciousness, conspiracy-mongering   ... MORE

VIDEO: Milton Friedman - Who Pays Social Security Tax?

Mike Kelsey: To Protect And Defend, But Not Prefer


This explains a lot.   Conservatives are often ridiculed for criticizing activist judges who fail to respect the Constitution. We are told that it is not conservative originalists (labeled ignorant and extremist) but rather enlightened liberal judges—with their nuanced understanding of constitutional penumbras—who truly respect the spirit of the   ... MORE

Associated Press: Fighting Sioux Nickname Back At N.D.

Free Speech 1 NCCA PC Police 0.    The University of North Dakota resumed using its contentious Fighting Sioux nickname Wednesday even though it triggered NCAA sanctions, leaving some fans weary of the seven-year fight over a moniker that critics believe is demeaning. A law requiring the school to use its longtime nickname and logo, which shows      ... MORE

VIDEO: Chuck Woolery on Class Warfare


How did Americans get so soft and lazy?

Jacob Sullum: New York's Illegal Pot Crackdown

Largely an outgrowth of "stop and frisk" programs. Thirty-five years ago, New York's legislature decriminalized marijuana possession. Numbers released last week show the New York Police Department continues to flagrantly flout that policy, wasting resources on a pointless, unjust, and illegal crusade against pot smokers. Under the Marijuana Reform Act ... MORE

Josh Peterson: Democrats To Continue Internet Assault

A new cyber bill emerges. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, following a recent anti-piracy legislative debacle with SOPA and PIPA, will lead his second effort of 2012 to push Internet-regulating legislation, this time in the form of a new cybersecurity bill. The expected bill is the latest attempt by the Democrats to broadly expand the authority of executive branch ... MORE

Sen. Rand Paul: The President's War On Religious Freedom

ObamaCare cannot be allowed to trump our first liberty.     In his 1991 encyclical Centesimus Annus, Pope John Paul II delivered a scathing critique of socialism, declaring that “the fundamental error of socialism is anthropological in nature. Socialism considers the individual person simply as an element, a molecule within the social organism, so that the good    ... MORE

Infowars: FEMA Training Camp Activity In Missouri

"Incredible activity" at civilian internment facility. An anonymous source, going by the name of Sam, has sent photos to Infowars.com of a FEMA training camp located at Ford Leonard, Missouri. Sam will talk with Alex Jones on his nationally syndicated radio show today. Sam was contracted to work at the camp. He describes it as a “civilian inmate training ... MORE

VIDEO: Andrew Napolitano - Real Hope and Change

John Stossel: Government Can't Make Us Happy

There's only one way government helps.   In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson called the pursuit of happiness an unalienable right. This was a radical idea. For most of history, most people didn't think much about pursuing happiness. They were too busy just trying to survive. Then came the liberal revolution based on the idea of    ... MORE

WSJ Op-Ed: HHS Tells Religious Believers To Go To Hell

ObamaCare's great awakening.   The political furor over President Obama's birth-control mandate continues to grow, even among those for whom contraception poses no moral qualms, and one needn't be a theologian to understand why. The country is being exposed to the raw political control that is the core of the Obama health-care plan, and Americans are seeing  ... MORE

VIDEO: Halftime in America Parody

Richard Doerflinger: Mandatory Abortion Coverage?

What the HHS mandate was about all along. The fact is, neither PPACA nor the president’s order erects any barrier whatever to health-insurance plans’ including abortion coverage — in fact, for the first time ever in federal law, they declare that plans covering abortion can even receive federal funds. (Section 1303 of the federal law provides for a     ... MORE

Greg Moran: Judge Weighs PETA's Whale Slavery Lawsuit

A new emancipation proclamation?   A federal judge appeared skeptical Monday of arguments that the killer whales that perform at SeaWorld are being held as slaves and that their confinement violates the constitutional ban on slavery. After an hour of arguments, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Miller said he would take the case under advisement and   ... MORE

John Merline: Dependency Index Surges Under Obama

Up a whopping 23 percent to 67 million citizens.    The American public's dependence on the federal government shot up 23% in just two years under President Obama, with 67 million now relying on some federal program, according to a newly released study by the Heritage Foundation. The conservative think tank's annual Index of    ... MORE

Chris W. Bell: Understanding Unemployment Statistics

How is the rate calculated?   It may come as a surprise that according to the federal government, an out-of-work person who put in an application at every place in town more than thirty days ago, who scours every available newspaper's want ads every morning, and who visits every job search website on the web with no luck is not counted as unemployed.  ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - Don't Know? Don't Vote!

Roger Stone: For Energy Independence, Frack We Must

For jobs and cheap energy for millions of Americans. As the price of oil shoots through the roof because of political instability, and the inability of the Obama Administration to say yes to Canadian oil and thousands of jobs, we have to turn to other energy sources. Fortunately, there’s a cleaner and safer opportunity in natural gas right here in the United States.   ... MORE

Charles Murray: Why We Dislike The Rich

It's not just the money. The Pew Foundation discovered in a recent poll that tensions over inequality in wealth now outrank tensions over race and immigration. But income inequality isn’t really the problem. A new upper class is the problem. And their wealth isn’t what sets them apart or creates so much animosity toward them. He is not just in the 1%;   ... MORE

VIDEO: Chuck Woolery On Democracy

Charles Kadlec: FED Seeks To Devalue The Dollar By 33%

Purchasing power of dollar headed downward.    The Federal Reserve Open Market Committee (FOMC) has made it official:  After its latest two day meeting, it announced its goal to devalue the dollar by 33% over the next 20 years.  The debauch of the dollar will be even greater if the Fed exceeds its goal of a 2 percent per year increase in the price level.     ... MORE

Leah Barkoukis: Health Records Hacked

Your health history for all to see.  In his Address to Joint Session of Congress in February of 2009, President Obama stated that, “our recovery plan will invest in electronic health records and new technology that will reduce errors, bring down costs, ensure privacy, and save lives.” But Redspin, a leading IT security assessment company, determined quite the   ... MORE

Rich Lowry: Introducing The Cupcake Cops

Snicker-free school zones are on the horizon. First they come for the alcohol, then for the tobacco, then for your sugar. When the day arrives when you have to undergo a background check and endure a three-day waiting period to enter a Dunkin’ Donuts, you can trace the loss of your unrestricted access to a Boston Kreme or French Cruller to this moment. Namely   ... MORE

VIDEO: The Present State American Education

Thomas Sowell: Romney's Defining Moment

Missing a basic understanding.    Governor Mitt Romney's statement about not worrying about the poor has been treated as a gaffe in much of the media, and those in the Republican establishment who have been rushing toward endorsing his coronation as the GOP's nominee for president — with 90 percent of the delegates still not yet chosen — have been trying to ... MORE

Star Parker: Whole Nation Is On Government Plantation

Memo to Mitt Romney:  Here’s free advice for Mitt Romney. Before bringing up the poor again, read my book “Uncle Sam’s Plantation.” Romney has been taking a drubbing about his remarks in a CNN interview that he is “not worried about the very poor…we have a safety net there…If it needs a repair, I will fix it.” And then going on to say it is “..middle    ... MORE

VIDEO: Tom Woods Interviews Walter Williams


The insightful conversation of two world-class economists.

Walter E Williams: Economic Chaos Ahead

Let's think about the kind of mess that we're in.    Federal 2010 Medicare and Medicaid expenditures totaled $800 billion. The projected annual growth of both programs is about 7 percent. Social Security expenditures are more than $700 billion a year. According to the 2009 Social Security and Medicare trustees reports, by 2030, 49 percent of federal revenue will  ... MORE

Wash Examiner: A Coming Mandate To Buy Chevy Volts?

The path of bailouts, regulations and CAFE standards President Obama spent more than $85 billion bailing out General Motors and Chrysler three years ago. Now he claims credit for saving the industry, noting GM's recent return to the top sales spot among automakers worldwide, Ford's record profits (albeit achieved without federal funds), and the recent ... MORE

Steven Greenhut: Property Rights Win In The Golden State

California's redevelopment scam dead at last.    The California Redevelopment Association’s Web site is still up and running and still features job postings for redevelopment jobs, although the site does report that the association’s annual convention and expo has been cancelled. It’s just a matter of time before the news reaches the CRA web-master   ... MORE

Neil Snyder: A World Tax? Keep Your Eyes On The Internet

A compelling reason not to elect Obama.    The United Nations is finally moving toward the creation of a world tax. "No one should live below a certain income level," stated Milos Koterec, President of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. "Everyone should be able to access at least basic health services, primary education, housing, water       ... MORE

VIDEO: Williams With Sowell - Life At The Bottom

Sheldon Richman: Corporatism Is Not The Free Market

The U.S. ceased to be a free market long ago.     When a front-running presidential contender tells the country that thanks to Barack Obama, “[w]e are only inches away from ceasing to be a free market economy,” one is left scratching one’s head. How refreshing it is, then, to hear a prominent establishment economist—a Nobel laureate yet ... MORE

Ted Nugent: The Great Keystone XL Pipeline Massacre

A dead giveaway of Obama's left-wing agenda. President Obama’s decision to put a bullet in the back of the head of the Keystone XL pipeline is all the proof you need to know that his modus operandi is to sidle up to environmental green-energy crackpots instead of creating thousands of American jobs and honestly pursuing energy independence for   ... MORE

VIDEO: The New Deal and The Expansion of Federal Power

Andrew Napolitano: What Is A Just War?

When safety and liberty are threatened.   When President Obama announced last April that he was sending the United States military to bomb Libya, he not only violated the United States Constitution, which he has taken an oath to uphold, but he also violated the moral principles of the just war. The Constitution permits only Congress to declare war and the   ... MORE

Paul Revere: Tax Reality Vs. Liberal Propaganda

How Obama platitudes stand up to real facts. Want to help make a huge step towards balancing the budget, make the tax code fair and equitable and improve the economy? According to President Obama, Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren, and other liberals, the way to do this is to raise taxes on the wealthy: From a CBS partial ... MORE