Jay Ambrose: Some Still Stand Up For Free Speech

Even when unpleasant truths are not sugar coated. Leftists are killing free speech by calling disagreements hate speech and finding ways to intimidate even those who facilitate debate. But one victim recently fought back, showing us some Americans will stand up for a principle giving truth a chance to emerge. Mark Stevens, I think, is someone to emulate. ... MORE

Randall Hoven: In Search Of The Dreaded Austerity

In 2011, all government in the US spent 41.4% of GDP.   To paraphrase Indigo Montoya of Princess Bride: You keep using that word, "austerity." I do not think it means what you think it means. Defining austerity. My 1976 Webster's Unabridged Dictionary includes this definition of austerity: "lack of luxuries: enforced or extreme economy."  ... MORE

VIDEO: Milton Friedman - The Negative Income Tax

Erik Kain: The New Face Of Terror ... Or Something

TSA removes 18-month old mini-terrorist from plane. You have to hand it to the TSA. When they discovered that eighteen-month-old Riyanna was on the no-fly list (or at least someone with the same name was) they didn’t bat an eye. They didn’t stop and think about whether a one-and-a-half year old posed a security threat, or whether it could possibly be a  ... MORE

Michael Flood McNulty: Obama Wants UN Gun Control

A backdoor attempt to impose gun right restrictions.   Kansas Senator Jerry Moran introduced legislation to prohibit the Obama administration from negotiating away our gun rights as part of the UN Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). The ATT is a backdoor attempt to impose massive restrictions on U.S. gun rights.  While negotiations on the treaty are ... MORE

VIDEO: Americans on Obama's Wasteful Spending

Wayne Allyn Root: How To Win The Battle For Capitalism

Remember what produces our high standard of life.   I was recently asked to deliver a lecture about the virtues of capitalism, entrepreneurship, and the rules of business success at Harvard University. I am thrilled to report that capitalism and entrepreneurship are alive, well, and still celebrated — even at one of the world’s greatest       ... MORE

Andrew Napolitano: What Constitutes A Fair Trial?

Hard questions and inconvenient truths.   The trial of the alleged masterminds of 9/11, which began last week at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will address some of the most profound issues of our era. Are natural rights truly inalienable, as Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence, or can the government take them  ... MORE

Pete Kasperowicz: House to Eric Holder: Stop Lying To Us

Stonewalling Operation Fast and Furious.   The House Wednesday evening voted overwhelmingly to prevent the Justice Department from using taxpayer funds to lie to Congress. The vote came in a Wednesday evening series of amendments to a bill, H.R. 5326, funding the Justice Department for 2013. Members approved the language in a 381-41 vote; all 41 "no"  ... MORE

Katrina Trinko: Paul's Delegate Scramble

Why Ron Paul's delegate count remains relevant. Mitt Romney was declared the initial winner of the Iowa caucuses. Then, after a recount, Rick Santorum was announced as the actual victor. But it’s Ron Paul who may be having the last laugh in the Hawkeye State — and elsewhere. While media and voter attention has shifted to the general election, Paul  ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - Fighting Censorship With FIRE

Jim Holt: Results Lead To Questions On DUI Checkpoints

3,279 motorists detained, 3 drunk drivers arrested. Checkpoints set up to intercept drunken drivers are still worthwhile — despite only three impaired driving arrests made out of more than 3,600 motorists stopped during three recent checkpoints, local sheriff’s officials said Tuesday. Monthly since March, deputies with the Santa Clarita    ... MORE

George F Will: Proposal Would Mow Down Bill Of Rights

The First Amendment under assault. Controversies can be wonderfully clarified when people follow the logic of illogical premises to perverse conclusions. For example, two academics recently wrote in the British Journal of Medical Ethics that “after-birth abortions” — killing newborn babies — are matters of moral indifference because newborns, like fetuses, “do  ... MORE

VIDEO: Are Corporations People?

Chris Moody: The Libertarians' New Choice For President

Gary Johnson is back. You might remember him best as the scrappy long-shot Republican presidential candidate who made a "dog poop" joke from the far end of the debate stage in Florida last year. Perhaps his name rings a bell as the only Republican not named Ron Paul who supported marijuana decriminalization. Or maybe you recall that he's a super athlete and ... MORE

Why Immigrants Make Better Entrepreneurs

by George Anders.   What makes immigrants twice as likely to launch a high-tech startup, compared with their native born peers? Consider the rise of Christian Gheorghe, an entrepreneur who started life in Romania and now is thriving as a Silicon Valley CEO. Gheorghe’s latest company, Tidemark Systems, is in the spotlight this month. The Redwood City, Calif., maker of   ... MORE

John Stossel: Creating A Risk-Free World

A child leaving home alone for the first time takes a risk.    So does the entrepreneur who opens a new business. I no more want government to prevent us from doing these things than I want it to keep us in padded cells. Everyone has a different tolerance for risk. One person takes out a second mortgage to start a business. Another thinks that  ... MORE

Ronald Bailey: Obama Losing The Keystone Pipeline Battle

Between an environmentalist rock and a labor hard place. The Keystone XL pipeline is roiling U.S. electoral politics again. TransCanada refiled its application for a permit to build the pipeline with the State Department last week. Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has vowed, “I will build that pipeline if I have to do it    ... MORE

VIDEO: Jerry Brown - Limits To Government

Aaron Goldstein: Obama Targets The Tea Party

In his view it's supposed to be dead. The Obama 2012 campaign is in full gear and playing from the Saul Alinsky playbook that has served it so well. You know the drill. Pick a target, freeze it, personalize it and polarize it. Obama's re-election team has set it sights on the Tea Party. Of course, it's not the first time the Tea Party has been in Team  ... MORE

Katie Kieffer: How Bill Gates Rips Off Babies

Stealing from babies is easy and low. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates makes himself feel powerful while negligently ripping off babies. I am a capitalist. I defend entrepreneurs. However, I think young people and their parents should know that Gates is a sham entrepreneur. Gates openly uses his wealth and influence to push policies that will make entrepreneurial ... MORE

VIDEO: Should You Need Government Permission to Work?

Arthur Herman: Death Of Europe Is America's Opportunity

A vindication of our free market system. Elections Sunday in France and Greece prove once and for all that the European Union is headed off the cliff, and its voters don’t care.  In the short term, that’s going to mean some heartburn in US markets and global financial centers.  No one likes to watch a major portion of the world’s industrialized economies, commit    ... MORE

Wynton Hall: Justice For Sale At Holder's DOJ

A look into the Chicago way. In an explosive Newsweek article set to rock official Washington, reporter Peter Boyer and Breitbart contributing editor and Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer reveal how Attorney General Eric Holder and the Department of Justice are operating under a “justice for sale” strategy by forgoing criminal    ... MORE

Jay Ambrose: Regulation A Mess -- Action Needed Soon

The dictates of our betters.   Always fearful there might be some human activity left unregulated, the federal government was recently getting ready to stop children from doing some farm chores, causing farmers to grumble. This is an election year. Farmers vote. And President Barack Obama's electoral caregivers responded to the grumbling by ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: The Moral Infrastructure


Neglect in the short term invites disaster in the long term. The "Occupy" movement, which the Obama administration and much of the media have embraced, has implications that reach far beyond the passing sensation it has created. The unwillingness of authorities to put a stop to their organized disruptions of other people's lives, their      ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - Free People Vs Government

Property Rights And The Religion Of Control Freaks

by Jonathan DuHamel.  Individual rights are inseparable from property rights. The United States of America is the most prosperous nation on the planet because the land contains abundant natural resources and the people have been free to use those resources to create wealth. Those rights have been increasingly diminished by the environmental movement and  ... MORE

Walter E Williams: Leftist Race-Baiters

Ever vigilant at fanning the flames of racism.    MSNBC's Chris Matthews, in a recent debate with former Republican National Chairman Michael Steele, called the Republican Party the "grand wizard crowd." Grand wizard is the title given to the leader of the Ku Klux Klan. It is truly misinformed to call Republicans the party of the Klan. Throughout   ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel On Journalism, Energy And More

Joseph DeAvila: Connecticut Nears Marijuana Legalization

Another state legislature backs individual rights.   After years of stalled efforts, Connecticut is close to legalizing medical marijuana. The state Senate approved the bill early Saturday morning following nearly 10 hours of debate. The measure passed the House of Representatives in April, and Gov. Dannel Malloy, a Democrat, has said he would sign it.   ... MORE

Andrea Stone: Government Surveillance Requests Increase

The FISA Court is a government rubber stamp mechanism. The federal government submitted 1,745 applications in 2011 to a secret intelligence court to investigate -- mostly through wiretapping -- suspected cases of terrorism and espionage, a 10.5 percent increase over the year before, according to a Justice Department report    ... MORE

Paul J Larkin Jr: How Well Do You Know The Law?

Overcriminalization in America.  You’ve been invited to participate on a new game show called Do You Know the Law? Two wrong answers eliminate you. “Why not?” you say to yourself. “I know as much law as the next person. What’s the worst that could happen: embarrassment?” The first panelist correctly answers the question, “Can you steal your neighbor’s car?” ... MORE

Deanne Waldman: Choose Your Poison!

Personal medicine or population medicine?   Which will be for you? Personal medicine starts with you and your doctor discussing what is the best care for you. After considering long-term medical effects as well as financial costs, you and your provider decide what to do. Population medicine means that some panel, committee, or group determines what it     ... MORE

VIDEO: Harry Browne - Smaller Government

Steven Greenhut: How Government Makes Life Worse

Another day means more waste, fraud or abuse.   Occupy Wall Street protesters are reminiscent of writer R. Emmett Tyrrell’s criticism of radical feminists: They don’t know what they want, but they want it very badly. On May Day, the protesters tied up the streets of Oakland, San Francisco, and elsewhere. They are mad as hell and they are not  ... MORE

Phil Kerpen: Republicans Need To Stand For Free Market

And, that includes agriculture. I once saw a very conservative member of Congress, someone I respect and with whom I have worked on many issues, tell a room full of free-market activists that he considers himself 99 percent free market capitalist and 1 percent socialist – when it comes to agricultural subsidies. This is a pretty common mentality in     ... MORE

VIDEO: How the Drug War Creates Collateral Damage

Michelle Malkin: Julia Embodies Obama's Ideal Citizen

Completely dependent on government.     Quick, hide under the covers. The nation’s storyteller, Barack Obama, unveiled a frightening new fable on the Internet intended to scare women away from supporting fiscal conservatives in November. But as is increasingly common with Obama’s social-media propaganda initiatives, “The Life of Julia” immediately ... MORE

David Grant: Rand Paul Wants To Abolish The TSA

Petition to establish a passenger bill of rights. Forget the Fed, for now – Sen. Rand Paul wants to shut down the TSA. The Kentucky Republican is drafting legislation to end the Transportation Safety Administration and to establish a passenger bill of rights, according to a spokesman from his office. When those bills hit, they'll likely be accompanied by a deluge of ... MORE