Why Government Spending Doesn't Create Jobs

by Robert J. Samuelson. Who creates most jobs? Hint: It's not the government. Almost everyone seems to grasp that the private sector is the true jobs machine. But here's a notable exception to the consensus: the editorial page of The New York Times. The other day, its lead editorial was "The Myth of Job Creation: The government does in fact create  ... MORE

Poll Indicates California Voters To Reject Brown's Tax Hike

Big government at the saturation point.     California Gov. Jerry Brown's $6 billion tax increase initiative is losing steam with state voters as it enters the final stretch of the race, a poll released Thursday shows. Just 46 percent of Californians surveyed plan to vote for the measure Nov. 6, down from 55 percent a month ago, according to a USC Dornsife    ... MORE

VIDEO: Ayn Rand - Government By Consensus

Ralph R. Reiland: Back When Democrats Knew Economics

Who warned us about big government spending?      Eleven months before he was assassinated as he rode with his wife in the back seat of an open convertible in a motorcade through downtown Dallas, President John F. Kennedy delivered a major address to the Economic Club of New York at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on December 14, 1962.    ... MORE

S. Fred Singer: Obama's EPA Plans For 2013

The green vision to trump private property rights. The November elections will determine the direction of US climate policy -- and therefore also energy policy and the pace of economic growth: jobs, standards of living, budget deficits and inflation.  Obama has already promised to make climate change the centerpiece of his concern -- with all that    ... MORE

ViDEO: Money in Politics

GALLUP: Michelle No More Successful Than Barack

Obesity is up in nearly all age groups since 2008.   Americans in nearly every age group today are more likely to be obese than those same age groups were four years ago. Obesity is up the most among older adults. For example, 14.4% of 84- to 87-year-olds are obese today, up from 12.2% in 2008. Obesity remains most prevalent in middle age.    ... MORE

Why Obama's Libya Actions Should Cost Him The Election

by Andrew Napolitano. The final presidential debate earlier this week was a tailor-made opportunity for Mitt Romney to rip into President Obama's inconsistent, value-free and at times incoherent foreign policy. And it was also an opportunity for the president to explain his administration's material misrepresentations on the murders of our ambassador and others    ... MORE

Radley Balko: Bad Cops, Drug Dogs And Asset Forfeiture

Three ingredients that make for a toxic brew.    Last December, filmmaker Terrance Huff and his friend Jon Seaton were returning to Ohio after attending a "Star Trek" convention in St. Louis. As they passed through a small town in Illinois, a police officer, Michael Reichert, pulled Huff's red PT Cruiser over to the side of the road, allegedly for an unsafe    ... MORE

John Fund: When Political Speech Comes Under Fire

What if the truth is politically incorrect?   This month an unnamed private family foundation, apparently concerned with the integrity of elections, paid for 145 billboards in Ohio and Wisconsin. The boards featured a picture of a judge’s gavel and a simple message: “Voter Fraud Is a Felony — up to 3½ years and a $10,000 fine.” That’s it.        ... MORE

VIDEO: FOX NEWS - The ObamaCare Effect On Jobs

Douglas French: Can Jury Slaves Say What's True?

Getting a taste of our jury system.   Until last week, I had managed all of my adult life to avoid jury duty. As a young adult in Topeka, Kan., I was never summoned. For my two decades living in Las Vegas, I was able to call in a couple times declaring economic hardship. Most of the time, I seemed to be off their radar screen. I always suspected it was  ... MORE

Janice Green: Free Enterprise Is Ultimate Empowerment

The power to prosper.    I have, earlier in my life, been simultaneously a student, mother, employee, chauffeur, and jack-of-all-family-related-trades, so I know how difficult it can be to attend to all issues during a campaign season.  However, it is especially concerning to me to hear women, especially young women, announcing their intentions to    ... MORE

VIDEO: The Problem Is Statism

Paul Driessen: EPA Anti-Energy Regulations Killing Jobs

Bogus green schemes harm Americans.     More and more, daily decisions are made less by responsible citizens than by nanny-state government, especially powerful, unelected, unaccountable executive branch agencies in Washington. Among the worst is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Under Administrator Lisa P. Jackson, EPA   ... MORE

John Stossel: Greed

Inequality is a product of freedom.    On TV, my Fox colleague Bill O'Reilly says, "The recession was brought on largely by greedy Wall Street corporations." Give me a break. Bill's smart. If he believes such things, we who care about freedom have done a poor job communicating economics. Blaming problems on "greed" is a mindless cliche.     ... MORE 

The Unintended Consequences Of Minimum Wage

by Luis San Vincente Portes.   New Jersey's Democratic leaders are seeking to include on the 2013 ballot a proposal to increase the minimum wage in the state from $7.25 to $8.25 per hour and to automatically tie it to further increases in the cost of living. The initiative is founded on states’ ability to set a minimum wage apart from the federal under the  ... MORE

Becky Akers: The TSA Gives Us The Finger Again

New ways to monitor the human livestock.      The Thieves and Sexual Assailants are playing musical chairs with their porno-scanners. They’re shuffling carcinogenic backscatter X-ray machines out of larger airports, such as New York’s LaGuardia and JFK International, into smaller ones — but that doesn’t mean they’ve renounced their       ... MORE

VIDEO: Tibor R. Machan - The Libertarian Credo

Walter E Williams: What You Can't Say

Don't attempt to explain slavery to children.     Jon Hubbard, a Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives, has a book, titled "Letters to the Editor: Confessions of a Frustrated Conservative." Among its statements for which Hubbard has been criticized and disavowed by the Republican Party is, "The institution of slavery that the     ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: Libya And Lies

No profile in courage here. It was a little much when President Barack Obama said that he was "offended" by the suggestion that his administration would try to deceive the public about what happened in Benghazi. What has this man not deceived the public about? Remember his pledge to cut the deficit in half in his first term in office? This was followed by the  ... MORE

VIDEO: Cops Taser Man Out Of Tree, Leaving Him Paralyzed


Deputies claimed they acted to "keep him from harming himself."  ... MORE

Ron Paul: The Internet Revolution Is A Liberty Revolution

LibertyPen is just one of the cogs.   Until the late 1990s, individuals interested in Austrian economics, U.S. constitutional history, and libertarian philosophy had few sources of information.  They had to spend hours scouring used book stores or the back pages of obscure libertarian periodicals to find the great works of Mises, Rothbard, Hayek, and other giants  ... MORE

Marijuana Legalization Leads In Washington And Colorado

by Jonathan Martin. Washington is emerging as the most likely state to be the first to legalize marijuana according to new polls. But even with a huge fundraising advantage, and less organized opposition, Initiative 502 is far from a lock as voters begin casting ballots. A poll released today by Strategies 360 finds a 54-to-38 lead for I-502, with about 7 percent ... MORE

Government Displays Contempt For The Will Of The People

"Public servants" will dictate pot policy despite voters.      A top Justice Department official has told "60 Minutes" the federal government is ready to combat any "dangers" of state-sanctioned recreational pot, amid criticism of the Obama administration for its relative silence on legalization drives in three states. Voters in Colorado, Washington state and ... MORE

Steven Milloy: The EPA's Illegal Human Experiments

Agency failed to warn tests potentially lethal.      The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been sued in federal court for allegedly conducting illegal experiments on human beings. The case tests whether a government agency can violate the law and the most sacrosanct ethics of scientific research — and get away scot-free.       ... MORE

VIDEO: Do the Cops Know Your Info?

Psst, Taxes Will Go Up For 163 Million Workers in 2013

President Barack Obama isn't talking about it   and neither is Mitt Romney. But come January, 163 million workers can expect to feel the pinch of a big tax increase regardless of who wins the election. A temporary reduction in Social Security payroll taxes is due to expire at the end of the year and hardly anyone in Washington is pushing  ... MORE

John W. Whitehead: Smile, The Government Is Watching

Next generation identification.     “You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement was scrutinized.”—George Orwell, 1984.   Brace yourselves for the next wave in the surveillance state’s steady incursions into our lives. It’s     ... MORE

VIDEO: The Final Days Of Marijuana Prohibition?

Ilana Freedman: Chavez, Castro and Putin Agree: Obama!

In the birds of a feather department .... The latest [dictator] to publicly announce his support for the commander-in-chief’s reelection bid was Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, who this week assured he’d vote for Obama if he were from the United States. The America-bashing strongman made the announcement on state-owned television, saying “Obama is a ... MORE

Deborah Weiss: The War Against Free Speech Rages On

The president should defend American principles.   The Obama administration conveniently scapegoated a short, anti-Islam video for the murderous attacks on the US consulate on September 11, 2012.  Now that the State Department has confessed its knowledge that Benghazi was the result of a pre-planned terrorist attack, many in both the mainstream     ... MORE

Katie Kieffer: Eliminate The TSA

What if we wanted to return to the Constitution?  I’m reading the Constitution and I do not see a “Grope or Scan” clause. The TSA is unconstitutional. Let’s eliminate the TSA. If you read my columns regularly, you know that I consider the TSA to be a carcinogenic petting zoo. I nearly always opt out. I object to the scanners on principle of their      ... MORE

Laurence M. Vance: The War On Private Property

Do you want to live in an authoritarian society?   Do you desire an intrusive government? Do you wish for a government that is a nanny state? Do you yearn for government bureaucrats to tell you what you can and cannot do? Do you like puritanical busybodies telling you how to live your life? Do you believe that the government should define and  ... MORE

VIDEO: Walter E Williams - A Path Toward Totalitarianism

How Government Workers Profit At Taxpayer Expense

by Steven Greenhut.   Stockton, California city workers who attended the unveiling of a new report detailing the trends in public-employee compensation in California on Wednesday night complained about cuts in their compensation packages that are causing hardship for them and their city. But the report, prepared on behalf of the Howard Jarvis  ... MORE

Mike Riggs: Why Firing A Bad Cop Is Damn Near Impossible

It'a law enforcement that has the real protection.    Over the summer, a still from a surveillance camera showing a police officer kicking a handcuffed woman in the head went viral on Facebook and email. The text below the picture read, "Rhode Island police officer Edward Krawetz received no jail time for this brutal assault on this seated and    ... MORE

VIDEO: One Thing On Which All Americans Can Agree

Arthur C. Brooks: Making A Moral Case For Capitalism

Freedom requires it.     Earlier this month in the first presidential debate, Mitt Romney made an unusual argument by modern political standards: that long-term deficit spending is not just an economic issue, but a moral one. "I think it's . . . not moral for my generation to keep spending massively more than we take in, knowing those    ... MORE

The EPA Moves Goalposts After The Game Has Started

by Merrill Matthews.      Football fans would be outraged if every time one team was preparing to kick a field goal the officials moved the goalposts further back, making it harder to score.  And yet the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) frequently moves the goalposts further away for companies and industries trying to abide by     ... MORE