Ted Nugent: Nut Control, Not Gun Control

Failure to deal with mental illness leads to massacres.   In the wake of the massacre in Aurora, Colo., the left has once again resorted to clamoring for further restrictions on the right of law-abiding citizens to own guns and defend ourselves — even in the face of inescapable evidence that such restrictions are at the root cause of such slaughters.     ... MORE

It's Capitalism, Not Culture, That Fuels Economic Success

by Fareed Zakaria. Mitt Romney has explained that his comments abroad were simply truth-telling. “I tend to tell people what I actually believe,” he said. With regard to one much-debated comment — on the cultural differences between Israelis and Palestinians — many agree with him. The Wall Street Journal editorial page and columnists including     ... MORE

VIDEO: Thomas Sowell - Our Intellectual-In-Chief

Barry Farber: Why Obama's Not 20 Points Down

The president has created a new in-the-bag voting bloc. Barack Obama may go down as one of the greatest political geniuses in history. Sorry; no punch line. This is not a joke. Many politicians get elected by adroit manipulation of existing voting blocs: black, Hispanic, Jewish, women, etc. Some even originate new and effective ways to rally  ... MORE

Lars Walker: Coexisting With Our Forefathers

Will young people understand the mindset of their ancestors? On the Fourth of July a friend and I visited Historic Fort Snelling in St. Paul, a reconstruction of the old fort as it looked about 1820. An interpreter, greeting us in uniform and shako, asked us if we'd ever been there before. I said I had, but it had been a while. "Well, we've made a few    ... MORE

VIDEO: How fast is the federal deficit rising?

Court Demands TSA Explain Why Order Was Defied

TSA wants nude body scanners without public hearings.    A federal appeals court Wednesday ordered the Transportation Security Administration to explain why it hasn’t complied with the court’s year-old decision demanding the agency hold public hearings concerning the rules and regulations pertaining to the so-called nude body scanners     ... MORE

Janice Shaw Crouse: Sacrificing Boys To Promote Girls

Pop culture is producing male losers. Casual observation of popular culture reveals that boys and men increasingly are being portrayed negatively, in contrast to women, who invariably are seen as more competent, efficient, successful and in charge. Television and Hollywood movies are producing a tsunami of negative stereotypes depicting  ... MORE

Guns Are The Last Defense Against Tyranny

by Thomas J. Lucente Jr.  On July 16, a pizza delivery driver in Columbus, Ohio, was delivering a pizza when two men armed with shotguns approached him. The deliveryman, who has a license to carry a concealed handgun, warned the men off. When they ignored his warnings, the pizza driver opened fire, injuring one of the robbers. On July 22, John    ... MORE

Sheldon Richman: Stop Complaining About Outsourcing

Sowing the seeds of a trade war.    When economic times are bad, animosity is directed at foreigners: “They’re taking our jobs!” So it’s unsurprising that the presidential campaigns feature charges and countercharges about outsourcing, the employment of foreign labor by American companies. This is a dangerous game because it sows   ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - Where The Jobs Are

Why Conservatives Should Oppose The Minimum Wage

by Stephen Bronars. Last week Adam Ozimek argued that conservatives should either support the minimum wage or oppose it less.  His analysis correctly reframes the minimum wage as a law that prohibits workers from participating in the labor market if they contribute less than $7.25 per hour to production.  This does not mean that conservatives should  ... MORE

William Grigg: Keep The Guns; Abolish The Police

When society has suffered enough.   On July 23 New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, one of the most implacably totalitarian figures in American political history, suggested that police nationwide should go on strike until the law-abiding public disarms itself. “I don’t understand why the police officers in this country don’t stand up collectively and say ... MORE

VIDEO: TSA Flouts the Law on Body Scanners

Jonathan V. Last: Go For The Gold! (Pay The IRS)

You win the gold, Uncle Sam collects $8,986. Because conservatives are scrooges, the good folks at Americans for Tax Reform have gone through the fine print to find out what our Olympians will have to cough up to the IRS should they be lucky enough to win any medals in London. Even by the standards of our government, the numbers   ... MORE

Adriaan Alsema: Columbia Is Decriminalizing Drugs

Drug addiction recognized as health issue, not crime. Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos has ratified a law deeming drug addiction a public health issue rather than a crime, local media reported Tuesday. The newly-enacted bill recognizes "the consumption and abuse of, or addiction to, psychoactive substances, legal or illegal, as a matter of public ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: Big Lies In Politics

A throwback to a Nazi philosophy.    It was either Adolf Hitler or his propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, who said that the people will believe any lie, if it is big enough and told often enough, loud enough. Although the Nazis were defeated in World War II, this part of their philosophy survives triumphantly to this day among politicians, and nowhere more  ... MORE

John Stossel: Myths We Live By

Why such faith in government? The Olympics have gone smoothly despite -- gasp! -- America's team wearing clothing made in China at the opening ceremony. "I'm so upset," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. "Take all the uniforms, put them in a big pile, and burn them. ... We have people in the textile industry who are desperate for jobs." Here   ... MORE

VIDEO: Thomas DiLorenzo - Myths About Capitalism

Bart Stupak: EPA Jeopardizing Health Of Asthmatics

Apparently, asthmatics need a better lobby. For the almost 20 years I served in Congress, much of my focus was on healthcare issues and holding federal regulators accountable for ensuring the safety and well-being of Americans. Today, I represent a California company that has over one million potentially life-saving inhalers just sitting in a warehouse.      ... MORE

Michael J Hurd: Doctors For Socialized Medicine

Government-guaranteed insurance is like public school. This is perhaps my favorite line from Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged with regard to doctors who support, or tolerate, socialized medicine: “Let them discover, in the operating rooms and hospital wards, that it is not safe to place their lives in the hands of a man they have throttled. It is not safe,  ... MORE

VIDEO: Nanny of the Month, July 2012

Todd Myers: Plastic Bag Bans: Another Feel-Good Eco-Fad

Banning the bags may be net negative for environment. Across the country, cities are joining the latest environmental trend – banning plastic grocery bags. Concerned about the amount of plastic that reaches our oceans and the impact on wildlife, communities have decided that banning the bags is a simple and environmentally responsible    ... MORE

Man Spends 4 Months In Jail Because Cops Lied Under Oath

Watch the video that exposed them.    Rochester, NY Police officers Rob Osipovitch and Ryan Hartley, falsely accused Mr. Barideaux of failing to come to a complete stop in order to have a reason to pull him over. But thanks to the power of video, Osipovitch and Hartley never stopped to think that City of Rochester traffic cameras were recording the whole  ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: Milton Friedman Sorely Needed Today

A believer in the power of freedom.    If Milton Friedman were alive today – and there was never a time when he was more needed – he would be 100 years old. He was born on July 31, 1912. But Professor Friedman's death at age 94 deprived the nation of one of those rare thinkers who had both genius and common sense. Most people would not be able to understand   ... MORE

Ronald Bailey: Government Did Not Build Your Business

No surprise, Obama is wrong again.   “If you’ve got a business—you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen,” declared President Barack Obama at a campaign stop last week in Virginia. Evidently, the president believes that economic growth and job creation are largely the result of actions taken by benevolent government agencies.      ... MORE

Walter E Williams: How Times Have Changed

A devolving society.    Having been born in 1936 has allowed me to witness both societal progress and retrogression. High on the list of things made better in our society are the great gains in civil liberties and economic opportunities, especially for racial minorities and women. People who are now deemed poor have a level of material wealth that would    ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - The War On Interns

Nanny Bloomberg Pushes Breast-feeding On New Moms

He wants NYC hospitals to hide the baby formula. The nanny state is going after moms. Mayor Bloomberg is pushing hospitals to hide their baby formula behind locked doors so more new mothers will breast-feed. Starting Sept. 3, the city will keep tabs on the number of bottles that participating hospitals stock and use — the most restrictive ... MORE

Larry Doyle: Is Free Enterprise Still Free?

You might want to ask Chick-fil-A.   I do not find it surprising that certain political leaders in our nation easily lash out in threatening fashion to those running a free enterprise. Why am I not surprised? In the “Uncle Sam” economy that permeates our nation, the violation of contracts and property rights has become increasingly prevalent. In that vein, we should  ... MORE

VIDEO: America's Business Climate In A Nutshell

Christopher Elliott: Who Are The Real TSA Dissidents?

Liberty-lovers are losing their country.   See the footage of Julio Rausseo, an activist and journalist, at Chicago's Union Station the day after the Fourth of July. Why is he so upset? Because there are TSA agents at the train station, and they're about to set up a screening area. This audio recording was taken a week later, after Rausseo posted the first   ... MORE

David Henderson: The Growing Dangers Of Cronyism

A corrupt game of political privilege.   The 2012 campaign trail has been rife with accusations of “cronyism” from both sides. Anger over backdoor deals between government and business has spurred an uptick in legislation, regulation, and oversight. Here’s the problem: with an increase in government comes an increase in privileges for special interests.  ... MORE

Pat Murphy: Looking Back At Milton Friedman

Tomorrow would have been Milton's 100th birthday.    Milton Friedman would have been 100 this month. Although physically tiny, his professional stature was large. When he died in 2006, the Economist described him as the “most influential economist of the second half of the 20th century.” A Nobel Prize-winner in 1976, Friedman was a    ... MORE

Katie Kieffer: Where Is John Galt?

Where is a man who can save us?  A man of virtue and action who can rebuild our economy and culture? We must find a true-to-life John Galt. I think America’s best shot at economic recovery and restoring constitutional freedom is to nurture men and women who emulate the virtues of John Galt, a hero in Ayn Rand’s magnum opus novel,  ... MORE

VIDEO: Milton Friedman - Free Trade Vs Protectionism

Aaron Dykes: TSA: Filming Checkpoints Is "Terrorism"

Make sure to watch the video.    Evidently, TSA isn’t looking for press coverage in its new roll out of checkpoints at train stations. Citizen journalist Julio Rausseo, a roaming correspondent for WeAreChange.org, was labeled a “terrorist” and threatened with arrest for filming a TSA checkpoint at the Union train station in Chicago. An Amtrack police official   ... MORE

Harry Binswanger: Outsourcing Is America At Its Best

Why Obama and Romney are wrong on outsourcing.    Mitt Romney and Barack Obama are currently fighting over who is the more patriotic. Obama slams Romney for having outsourced jobs to China during his Bain Capital days. Romney punches back by labeling Obama “Outsourcer in Chief.” The latest is that both John Boehner and ... MORE

VIDEO: How Colleges Fight Free Speech

Scott Shackford: The Misguided Assault On Chick-fil-A

A terrible abuse of political power.   As if politicians’ flogging of the fast food industry via Nanny State posturing over calories and nutrition isn’t bad enough, now those businesses are going to be punished for not having the right political beliefs. Chick-fil-A, the 50-year-old fast food chain whose Christian credentials were always apparent in its decision to    ... MORE

Political Correctness Won The First Olympic Medal

Unpopular tweet gets Greek athlete expelled. The 2012 Summer Olympics have not gotten underway as yet and there is already drama taking place in London. Greek triple-jump champion Voula Papachristou caused quite an uproar with a racist tweet that got her expelled from the games. While most athletes look for ways to represent their country ... MORE