Animal Rights Legislation Would Make Eggs A Luxury Food

Government regulators could price you out of breakfast. One day soon, America could wake up to a dozen eggs costing $8 or more.  And unless you are involved in some aspect of farming or agriculture, you would never know that egg prices are about to skyrocket or the reason why.  With food prices already increasing due to high grain and fuel costs   ... MORE

Jacob Sullum: Wealth Creation Is Not The Enemy

Obama's serious misunderstanding of capitalism.   President Obama accuses Mitt Romney of putting profits above people by striving to create wealth rather than jobs during his 15 years at Bain Capital. This critique of Romney's work at the private equity firm, which Obama says will be central to his re-election campaign, betrays a       ... MORE

VIDEO: Thomas Sowell - Intellectuals And Society

Diana Furchtgott-Roth: Parental Choice Is Best Reform

What if America gave its children the best education?     The school year is almost over, but the year's debate over education reform has only just begun. President Obama, who has opted out of DC Public Schools by sending his children to Sidwell Friends, is trying to end funding for Washington D.C.'s Opportunity Scholarship Program, which provides ... MORE

Washington Times: Speed-Cameras Rake In The Loot

Expansion of photo-ticketing raises revenue.    All around the nation’s capital, the use of robotic machines to dish out traffic tickets has surged. Starting next week, the District’s for-profit, Arizona-based vendor will begin mailing citations to unwary motorists from an additional two dozen hiding spots. The public thinks this is all about the money ... MORE

VIDEO: Zoning vs. Eminent Domain


How Ventura County Shut Down The Pine Mountain Inn.

Wayne Crews: Is Privacy Dead?

Yes, if America's surveillance state drones on.  In the sci-fi flick Colossus: The Forbin Project, the all-knowing computer was asked if it understood privacy. “Privacy: Being apart from company or observation,” Colossus intoned. Colossus didn’t really think much of respecting privacy; nor, it seems, do many legislators. Today’s convergence of privacy ... MORE

The 10 Most Powerful Lobbies Behind Higher Education

from the staff writers at Online Colleges. Corporations and big businesses often get the worst of the backlash against political lobbying, but it’s important not to forget that colleges are businesses, too, and they engage in lobbying as well, sometimes in a very questionable manner. Over the past few decades, the strength ... MORE

Andrew Napolitano: Obama's Kill List

The rule of law versus the rule of presidents.    The leader of the government regularly sits down with his senior generals and spies and advisers and reviews a list of the people they want him to authorize their agents to kill. They do this every Tuesday morning when the leader is in town. The leader once condemned any practice even close to this   ... MORE

NY Times: NYC Seeks Prohibition On Big Sugary Drinks

Big government nanny wants to ban the Big Gulp.   New York City plans to enact a far-reaching ban on the sale of large sodas and other sugary drinks at restaurants, movie theaters and street carts, in the most ambitious effort yet by the Bloomberg administration to combat rising obesity. The proposed ban would affect virtually the entire  ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - Is Freedom Fair?

Steven Greenhut: More Perks For California's Ruling Class

Government gives more special privileges to itself. Democrats and Republicans in the California Legislature once again have broadcast this troubling fact: They are far more concerned about the ever-expanding demands of a relatively small group of public-sector union members than they are about the welfare of the citizens of our   ... MORE

Karin Agness: Congratulations, Grad, Your Unemployed

The grim reality for today's graduate. Just when it looked like the job market was going to rebound, recent unemployment numbers revealed a disappointing reality. The April unemployment rate decreased to 8.1 percent from 8.2 percent; however, the percentage of working-age Americans in the labor force dropped to its lowest rate      ... MORE

VIDEO: Is free enterprise social Darwinism?

Jim Picht: Reflecting Badly On The U.S. Government

What Homeland Security does best.    It’s an economic truism that everything we want has a cost. Milk, gasoline, liberty and security all have price tags. We can’t have all the security we want without giving up something for it, anymore than most of us can have a Ferrari without giving up food and shelter. It isn’t just money you give up when you buy a ... MORE

John Stossel: Improving Life For Workers

Let competitive markets work. It seems intuitive that a free market would lead to a "race to the bottom." In a global marketplace, profit-chasing employers will cut costs by paying workers less and less, and shipping jobs to China. It's a reason that progressives say government must step in. So America now has thousands of rules that outlaw wages below $7.25  ... MORE

Jeffrey Tucker: A New Way To Soak The Rich

Incentives for voluntary redistribution. You might have noticed that lots of people are really down on the so-called 1%. It drives many people, especially politicians, absolutely bonkers that there are lots of people out there sitting on millions, billions. Populists imagine that these people do nothing but hoard and count and let out menacing   ... MORE

A. Barton Hinkle: Drop And Give Uncle Sam 20

Government seeks to cure the epidemic it created. At a “Harvard Thinks Big” confab earlier this year, evolutionary biologist Daniel Lieberman offered his own bright idea for tackling the nation’s obesity epidemic. Merely medicating it won’t do, he said, and education is well-meaning but ineffective. His answer? “Coercion. … We should start telling    ... MORE

VIDEO: FOX NEWS - High Court Okays Double Jeopardy

Sarah Burge: Vast Police Databases Raise Privacy Concerns

Databases track movements of law-abiding citizens.    Police departments across the Inland area have embraced a new technology that helps officers on patrol to locate stolen cars, felony suspects and more by instantly scanning the license plate numbers of passing cars. But as these license-plate scanners become more common here and across the  ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: 'Meaningful Work'

No job is menial.   "Education" is a word that covers a lot of very different things, from vital, life-saving medical skills to frivolous courses to absolutely counterproductive courses that fill people with a sense of grievance and entitlement, without giving them either the skills to earn a living or a realistic understanding of the world required for a    ... MORE

VIDEO: A Woman's Security Checkpoint Concerns

Terrence Scanlon: Picking Seniors' Pockets

AARP doesn't care about elderly members. I’m going to come right out and say it: AARP is about money and power. That’s all it’s interested in. Formerly known as the American Association of Retired Persons, the nation’s largest seniors group hasn’t cared about its elderly members’ well-being for eons. It’s been too busy building a financial empire.     ... MORE

Daniel Miller: Words To Avoid Online ...

if you don't want the government spying on you.    The Department of Homeland Security has been forced to release a list of keywords and phrases it uses to monitor social networking sites and online media for signs of terrorist or other threats against the U.S. The intriguing the list includes obvious choices such as 'attack', 'Al Qaeda',   ... MORE

Phyllis Schlafly: It's None Of The Government's Business

Individuals forced to feed personal info to government. What is it about bureaucrats and school personnel that they want to pry into the personal life and habits of American citizens of every age? There seems to be no end to the imperial demands by government and schools to require both grownups and kids to reveal personal information. The use of ... MORE

Walter E Williams: Our Nation's Future

The fruits of Congressional overgrazing. Our nation is rapidly approaching a point from which there's little chance to avoid a financial collapse. The heart of our problem can be seen as a tragedy of the commons. That's a set of circumstances when something is commonly owned and individuals acting rationally in their own self-interest   ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - PC Pressure Groups

Kevin Kelly: Ron Paul Has Already Won

The most underreported story of the political year.     The mainstream media continue to discount Ron Paul as a factor in the race for the Republican nomination, even though he and his supporters could become serious contenders when the convention meets in August. Paul continues to rack up delegates in such states as Iowa, Minnesota ... MORE

TSA To Modify Groping Procedures For Seniors

Must be over 75 to qualify. Surely the TSA is not using some common sense? Maybe humiliating seniors wasn't as successful as they had hoped. I still remain confident that the TSA will still find a way to embarrass their fair share of dangerous grannies. MSNBC.com: Since March, TSA workers at airports in Chicago, Denver, Orlando and Portland, Ore., have been ... MORE

VIDEO: Willie Nelson On Pot And Personal Freedom

Pete Papaherakles: Media Covers Up Black Hate Crimes

No big deal as long as victims are white.   Is the mainstream media deliberately fabricating a myth of white racism in America in order to cover up an epidemic of black-on-white violence? While most Americans are aware of the Trayvon Martin shooting in Sanford, Fla., on Feb. 26, 2012, very few know about the thousands of whites who have been brutally murdered  ... MORE

Austin Hill: California Democrats Party Like It's 1978

Governor Jerry Brown and the same ol' failed ideas.  Taxes must be raised. Either that, or teachers and cops will be laid-off, and the people of California will suffer.  So says Governor Jerry Brown, as he seeks to convince Californians that they should vote themselves higher taxes. The Golden State’s circumstances are dire, yet Jerry Brown is facing the crisis ... MORE

Ted Nugent: Teach Your Children Freedom Isn't Free

Remember those who have paid the price.   Freedom isn’t free. Never has been, never will be. Very special warriors have provided freedom at supreme sacrifice since time immemorial. Good people will never forget, and we celebrate Memorial Day with a hard-charging spirit in appreciation for hard-charging warriors. With his lifeblood pouring ... MORE

Government Beneficiaries And Other Fairly Tales

by Sheldon Richman.   I admit I’m amused by the unceasing economic and political malarkey that flows from the pundits at MSNBC. Many of these gems come during its promos, which, as viewers of the network know very well, promote not its programs but all-pervasive government. The two I have in mind today are from Lawrence    ... MORE

VIDEO: Does Government Make You Safer?

WSJ Op-Ed: Vulture Capitalism? Try Obama's Version

Profit-driven economy beats political favoritism.   President Obama is no fan of Mitt Romney-style "vulture" capitalism. So what's his alternative? All those Republicans grousing about the president's attacks on private equity might instead be seizing on this beautiful point of contrast. Mr. Obama, after all, is no mere mortal president. Even as he's    ... MORE

Ethan Nadelmann: Obama's Hypocritical War On Marijuana

Good for ye, but not for me.    A forthcoming biography on President Obama is making headlines, with new details about the president smoking marijuana with his teenage friends in Hawaii. David Maraniss' book, Barack Obama: The Story, describes Obama as a marijuana enthusiast: "When a joint was making the rounds, he often elbowed his way in, out of turn   ... MORE

VIDEO: What Is Fractional Reserve Banking?

Kinston Free Press: In Changing World, America Prevails


The lesson should be obvious. Ken Langone, a co-founder of Home Depot, said the other morning on the business show Squawkbox that in 10 years, the United States would be energy independent. On Friday, Rich Karlgaard, publisher of Forbes Magazine, observed that "the seeds are being planted now" for America's economic revival, never mind our      ... MORE

Michael G Franc: Is The Constitution A Republican Plot?

Harry Reid's Senate seems to think so.    It’s one of the clearest, easiest-to-understand provisions in the Constitution. And Harry Reid’s Senate flouts it routinely. The Origination Clause in Article I, Section 7 states: “All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.”   ... MORE