Entitlements Have Outpaced Job Growth The Last 4 Years

by Daniel Harper.    A new chart provided by the minority side of the Senate Budget Committee details the alarming fact that enrollment in federal social welfare programs like Food Stamps, Medicaid, and Disability have far outpaced job growth over the last four years. In terms of percentage growth, Food Stamp enrollment has jumped 65.2     ... MORE

Andrew Napolitano: Let Gary Johnson Debate

If you want the right questions asked, that is.    President Obama has been a failure. On his watch, the American economy has significantly deteriorated largely because he has stifled free market forces by over-regulating them and because he has laden taxpayers with debt. Those two factors alone -- the federal government increasing the cost of doing ... MORE

VIDEO: Ayn Rand - Statism And Our Mixed Economy

American Interest: A Voter's Guide To Legalizing Marijuana

Time to triage tax dollars and legalize self-ownership.   Current U.S. drug policies have produced mediocre results, at best. Pessimists say that trying to eradicate drug use by making it illegal has failed altogether. Even optimists mostly view the prohibition approach as just holding the line, which is a polite way of saying that we are mired in an ugly   ... MORE

Suzanne Fields: The Immorality Of Feeding Big Bird

Blowing money while hopelessly in debt. For an 8-footer with a lot of yellow feathers and a bird’s brain, Big Bird is a fellow with a lot of friends in medium-high places. President Obama even has commissioned a campaign commercial taking Mitt Romney to task for treating the bird with something less than reverence. The Bird is all he’s talking  ... MORE

VIDEO: TSA Hits New Low; Humiliates Dying Woman

World's Richest Man Cashes In On Obamaphone Giveaway

Top Obama donor supplies 'Obamaphones' to the poor.   A Mexican telecom mogul who holds the title of world's richest man, and one of President Obama's top donors are both getting even richer from the U.S. government program that supplies so-called "Obamaphones" to the poor. Carlos Slim, who has an estimated net worth of $70   ... MORE

Stella Paul: So This IS What "God Damn America" Looks Like

Jeremiah Wright watches dreams come true. Four years ago, our media overlords assured us that President Empty Chair was really Candidate Empty Pew -- a parishioner who sat for 20 years in Reverend Jeremiah Wright's nutty, hate-mongering church and never heard a single word. "God bless America?  No, no, no!  God d*mn America!" thundered      ... MORE

J Tucker: Regulators Are Destroying Your Home Appliances

Say goodbye to automatic dishwashers that work.    Ayn Rand’s novella Anthem, the ebook of the week in the Laissez Faire Club, is a story about a government that hates, fears, and bans technology precisely because it wants to keep the people enslaved in a primitive state of being. Preposterous right? Wrong: this is going on every day right  ... MORE

Steve Baker: Cell Phones And College Tuition

Why do cell phones get cheaper while tuition gets higher?   In 1978, my college tuition was about $1,200 per year.  In 1985 my first cell phone also cost me $1,200, and its sole function was that it could make phone calls -- at about a buck per minute.  (Motorola's first cell phone hit the market at $3,995!) But something interesting happened to    ... MORE

VIDEO: Why U.S. Health Care Costs More Than Canada's


It is why a Mercedes Benz is more expensive than a Toyota corolla.

Thomas Sowell: Race Cards

A powerful tactic to combat independent thought. If you are sick and tired of seeing politicians and others playing the race card, or if you are just disgusted with the grossly dishonest way racial issues in general are portrayed, then you should get a copy of Ann Coulter's new book, "Mugged." Its subtitle is: "Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama." ... MORE

Greg Pollowitz: Al Gore No Longer Investing In Green Tech

One loser identifies another.    Via The Street. Why does Al Gore hate America’s green-tech industry and love China and Bain Capital? When Al Gore talks, people listen. Just ask the folks who hand out Academy Awards and Nobel Peace Prizes. Al Gore also talks to investors. Since 2007, the former Vice President in Bill Clinton’s administration has been   ... MORE

VIDEO: The Case To Re-elect Barack Obama In 2012

Shikha Dalmia: Big Labor Is Going For Broke In Michigan

Making unions more powerful than the legislature. We've seen Gov. Scott Walker's battle in Wisconsin and the Chicago Teachers Union strike next door. Now in Michigan comes another Midwestern political showdown that will carry enormous implications for the role of unions in American life. The Michigan Supreme Court recently approved  ... MORE

Cop Killing Of Innocent Man Deemed Justified By State

Police go to wrong house, kill man protecting home.    WFTV obtained a final report on Tuesday from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement that outlines a fatal deputy-involved shooting that happened in July in Lake County. It comes two months after Andrew Scott was shot and killed when deputies showed up at the wrong apartment  ... MORE

Government's Own Numbers Crunchers See Collapse Ahead

by Ralph R. Reiland.    The way the federal government runs things is already bad enough, but it's officially projected to get only worse, much worse, in the years ahead according to the government's own number crunchers. In fiscal year 2011 -- October 1, 2010 to September 30, 2011-- the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reports that the federal        ... MORE

Walter E Williams: Trickle Down And Tax Cuts

Tickle down demagoguery from the left.    Dr. Thomas Sowell's "'Trickle Down Theory' and 'Tax Cuts for the Rich'" has just been published by the Hoover Institution. Having read this short paper, the conclusion you must reach is that the term "trickle down theory" is simply a tool of charlatans and political hustlers. Sowell states that "no such    ... MORE

VIDEO: FOX NEWS: Useless Trampling Of Civil Liberties

Matt Welch: Four More Years Of War

No matter who wins, we will stay overextended overseas. It’s hard to remember through the fog of constant war, but the 2008 presidential election was a contest between two candidates who were propelled into their nominations by the anti-war vote. Barack Obama, we remember. He was the one who opposed the Iraq war in real    ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: Phony In Chief

True believers may not want to know the truth. When President Barack Obama and others on the left are not busy admonishing the rest of us to be "civil" in our discussions of political issues, they are busy letting loose insults, accusations and smears against those who dare to disagree with them. Like so many people who have been beaten in a verbal    ... MORE

VIDEO: Does Stimulus Spending Work?

Bob Weir: Speed Traps Are Not Proper Enforcement

Deploying cops to squeeze money out of citizens. Let me begin by saying something I learned a long time ago as a cop in New York City; you will never make someone happy by giving him/her a traffic ticket. It doesn’t matter if you catch someone driving 20 miles over the speed limit, or you stop someone for driving an unregistered and uninspected vehicle.  ... MORE

David Rosen: Big Brother Invades Our Classrooms

Frightening new methods monitor students.  The digital tracking and surveillance of school-aged kids has been growing. Much attention has been given to the phenomenon of corporate tracking of kids’ online activities, activities that violate the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).  The law, originally adopted in 1998, requires Web sites    ... MORE

Jennifer Waters: Right To Sell Your Own Stuff Is In Peril

It could even become illegal to resell almost anything. Tucked into the U.S. Supreme Court’s agenda this fall is a little-known case that could upend your ability to resell everything from your grandmother’s antique furniture to your iPhone 4. At issue in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons is the first-sale doctrine in copyright law, which allows you to ... MORE

John Tamny: Why Atlas Shrugged Part II Is A Must-See Film

Who is John Galt?   For those lucky enough to have read Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, they know well that it has a timeless quality to it. Most readers feel, and with good reason, that a book from the 1950s was actually written at the time and place in which they’re reading it. A college friend from Semester at Sea sent me his worn copy in   ... MORE

VIDEO: Stossel - Public Employee Unions Vs Taxpayers

Hou-Yin Chang: Minimum Wage Should Be Lowered

Let the people work even if unions don't like it.     Liberals lack understanding of the minimum wage and the continuing current economic crisis. A study at the University of North Carolina states minimum wage regulations benefit unions at the expense of the entry-level jobs that young workers usually take. Wage floors limit the ability of     ... MORE

Lanny Ebenstein: What Would Milton Friedman Do?

Allowing Americans the freedom to choose.      The question is frequently asked what economist Milton Friedman would recommend regarding the economy if he were alive today. There can be little question that, were he alive, Friedman would endorse the policies he did throughout his career: less government spending, less       ... MORE

VIDEO: Politics, Lies And Internet Videos


The White House Disinformation Campaign on Libya

Glenn Greenwald: The Illusion Of Choice

The issue is how much they agree.    Wednesday night's debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney underscored a core truth about America's presidential election season: the vast majority of the most consequential policy questions are completely excluded from the process. This fact is squarely at odds with a primary claim made about     ... MORE

Motivating Youth To Watch Presidential Debates

by Katie Kieffer. Hit the gym; grab dinner with friends; build a bonfire. These are three evening activities I prefer to watching presidential debates—and I am a political commentator. Few young people watch presidential debates and I understand why. After Wednesday’s initial presidential debate, I realized that Republicans are failing to exploit the debates and   ... MORE

Regulation Led To California's Gas Price Nightmare

Prices surge thanks to EPA bureaucrats. Gas prices have exploded in California, surging 50 cents per gallon in just one week to an all-time high of $4.614. The state's gas supply has been squeezed by refinery outages as well as EPA requirements that prevent certain blends of gasoline from being sold before November. However, the LA     ... MORE

Sam Patterson: Crony Capitalism Hits Uber Small Business

Suppressing competition for political interests.    The upstart car service Uber offers customers in major cities such as Chicago, San Francisco and Washington a smartphone app to call for a car. It’s an innovative idea that many residents love, but not everyone is excited about the new service. The D.C. Taxicab Commissioner declared    ... MORE

VIDEO: Thomas Sowell - A Health Care Crisis

Top 10 Obama Anti-Business, Anti-Job Actions

from Human Events.       President Obama loves to complain that he inherited an economic mess. That may be true, but his wrong-headed policies have only made matters worse, taking actions that hurt businesses and stunt job growth. 1. Obamacare costs Obamacare will impose a new cost on many small businesses that currently do not provide health  ... MORE

Charles Kennedy: EPA Regulation Squelch US Coal Industry

The EPA forces through their agenda.     A group of economists at the Brattle Group have just released a report that studies the impact of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) air regulations on coal fired power plants. The findings predict that between 59,000 and 77,000MW capacity of coal power plants will be forced to retire   ... MORE

VIDEO: LAPD's Brutal Beating Caught On Camera


LAPD contends "public servants" acted appropriately.  You decide

The Latest Scam From California's Public-Sector Unions

by Steven Greenhut.  If California voters grant the state government the massive income-tax and sales-tax increases that Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative Democrats have been demanding via November’s Proposition 30, those same officials will quickly squander the money by shoveling even more benefits to those already well-compensated    ... MORE

Left Wants Multiculturalism To Trump Free Speech

by Victor Davis Hanson.     The American Left used to champion free expression. We were lectured -- correctly -- that the price of being repulsed by occasional crude talk and art was worth paying. Only that way could Americans ensure our daily right to criticize those with greater power and influence whom we found wrong and objectionable.       ... MORE