Andrew Napolitano: Should You Vote For President?

Vote your conscience, don't waste it. Can you vote by not voting? In a presidential election year in which the critical issues have been how much personal behavior the federal government should regulate and how much private wealth it should transfer and consume, rather than whether it should do so, many folks who are fed up with what George W. Bush ... MORE

Derek Robertson: Negative Versus Positive Rights

Just what is a "human right"?     The phrase “healthcare is a human right” displays a profound ignorance of basic terminology, as well as a contradictory, self-imploding notion of what qualifies as a “right.” A poll once indicated that many Americans believe healthcare to indeed qualify as a right, probably mistaking themselves to possess compassion     ... MORE

VIDEO: PC Is Never Having To Say You're Sorry


WARNING: Members of the ethnic or gender grievance industries will be offended.

John Stossel: Coulter Defends Romney

Her defense goes only so far.  Mitt Romney tells people he won't fire federal workers or cut education spending. He says he'll spend more on the military. He sounds like a big-government guy. Or is he just pandering for votes? Ann Coulter came on my TV show to defend Romney. "What you call pandering is called getting elected," Coulter said. Romney says     ... MORE

In Seattle, Nothing Says 'Liberal" Like Being Unarmed

by Dave Workman.   If there were any lingering doubts about the City of Seattle being the Evergreen State’s biggest liberal stronghold, they vanished Monday with KIRO’s revealing report about concealed carry across Washington. As this column reported the same day, there are more than 382,000 active concealed pistol licenses in the state, according to ... MORE

VIDEO: Three Reasons U.S. Drone Policy Is Scary

Doug Doan: Homeland Security - What Next?

What we should do next.    So far, none of the presidential candidates have mentioned much about Homeland Security. With so many other problems, issues surrounding how best to organize, manage and lead the vast DHS bureaucracy are just not that important. Too bad. I would have liked to see the candidates talk about what they might do. Here is an agenda ... MORE

Ioan Grillo: Hit Mexico's Cartels With Legalization

Death by prohibition.  Whenever I’ve interviewed Mexican cartel killers, the aspect that I’ve found most disturbing about them is that they appear to be sane. Even though they have described to me such unfathomable actions as hacking off the heads of still-living victims, it is something other than mental illness that drives their violence. Their sanity is      ... MORE

President Obama Jabs At Ayn Rand, Knocks Himself Out

by Wendy Milling.    In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, President Obama stated, “Ayn Rand is one of those things that a lot of us, when we were 17 or 18 and feeling misunderstood, we’d pick up.” I’m not trying to mock the President here – he is just repeating an old propaganda line that was hatched by Rand’s opponents – but I have to ask the “adults”  ... MORE

Dylan Scott: Pot Legalization Close To Passage In 2 States

The times they are a changin'. Barring an abrupt reversal in support among likely voters on Nov. 6, at least two states will become the first to legalize marijuana for recreational use. Colorado’s Amendment 64 would allow adults 21 and over to possess marijuana and requires the state to license and regulate cultivation and retail centers. In essence,   ... MORE

VIDEO: FOX NEWS: What Next From TSA?

Edward Cline: "Hate" Laws Are Criminal

The First Amendment should not be a felony offense. The end of freedom of speech began with the invention of “hate crimes” as a means to deter and punish crimes committed against an individual or members of a designated or protected “minority.” Hate crimes had their conspicuous genesis under the Civil Rights Act of 1968, which  ... MORE

Jacob Sullum: Pick Your Constitutional Poison

Obama and Romney share a disdain for civil liberties.     During the final presidential debate, the moderator asked Mitt Romney about President Obama's policy of killing suspected terrorists, including U.S. citizens, with missiles fired from unmanned aircraft. "I believe we should use any and all means necessary to take out people who pose a      ... MORE

VIDEO: How to Vote Well

50 Obama-Backed Companies Are Financially Troubled

by Micheal Bastasch. The October bankruptcy of solar company Satcon Technology Corp. puts the number of bankrupt or troubled green energy companies as high as 50, according to one estimate. During the first presidential debate, Republican candidate Mitt Romney said the Obama administration had doled out $90 billion to green energy        ... MORE

The 10 Most Unexpected Marijuana Reform Supporters

by Tom Angell. With less than one week before we find out how voters in Colorado, Oregon and Washington will decide on ballot measures to regulate marijuana like alcohol, polls indicate there's a very good chance at least one of these states will make history by enacting the world's first-ever marijuana legalization law. While the movement to reform marijuana laws    ... MORE 

Quarter-Billion-Dollar Stimulus Creates Just 400 Jobs

by Jim McElhatton. Battery maker A123 Systems vowed thousands of new jobs when it received a nearly quarter-billion-dollar stimulus grant in late 2009, but federal job-tracking figures show only a few hundred positions were created before the company joined a growing list of federally backed energy businesses that ended in bankruptcy.    ... MORE

VIDEO: Thomas Sowell - Price Controls

Brian Phillips: Zoning Versus The Internet

The key to success is freedom.     The stated purpose of zoning is to control land use within a community to prevent “incompatible” land uses and to promote planning. Most Americans accept zoning as a “necessary evil” that prevents pawn shops and factories from operating in residential neighborhoods. Most Americans are, to paraphrase Benjamin     ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: 'Cooling Out' The Voters

Playing the electorate as chumps.  Confidence men know that their victim — "the mark" as he has been called — is eventually going to realize that he has been cheated. But it makes a big difference whether he realizes it immediately, and goes to the police, or realizes it after the confidence man is long gone. So part of the confidence racket is creating a    ... MORE

VIDEO: The Truth About Outsourcing

Walter E Williams: Black and White Standards

Black people should not keep accepting excuses.  The Washington Post (10/25/2012), in giving President Barack Obama an endorsement for another four years, wrote, "Much of the 2012 presidential campaign has dwelt on the past, but the key questions are who could better lead the country during the next four years — and, most urgently, who is likelier   ... MORE

Robert Poole: The Libertarian Case For Mitt Romney

He will be significantly less bad than Obama.   Should libertarians like me declare a pox on both major parties’ houses by voting for the Libertarian Party candidate, Gary Johnson? Or should we opt for the Republican Mitt Romney, who I think would be significantly less bad than the Democratic incumbent, Barack Obama? Over the decades since    ... MORE

Greg Lukianoff: Feigning Free Speech On Campus

Our political correctness zones.   Despite high youth voter turnout in 2008 — 48.5 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds cast ballots that year — levels are expected to return to usual lows this year, and with that the usual hand-wringing about disengagement and apathy among young voters. Colleges and universities are supposed to be bastions   ... MORE

Emily Bazelton: Do Police Dogs Invade Our Privacy

Chemicals found in drugs are also elsewhere.     When I see a police dog inside a train station or at a public gathering, I feel safer. I figure it is there to protect us from explosives, and if it sniffs out drugs along the way, well, that's against the law, too. But what if it turns out that the dogs aren't all that good at the job the police are   ... MORE

VIDEO: Obama Supporters Actually Hate Obama's Policies

REPORT: EPA Regs Could Cost 887,000 Jobs A Year

Economic green death dispensed by government agency. Environmental Protection Agency regulations will contribute to projected shutdowns of up to 69,000 megawatts of coal-fueled electric generation and job losses of up to 887,000 jobs per year, according to a report. Total compliance costs for the electric sector could be  ... MORE

George Will: Mugging Our Descendants

The entitlement states steals from future generations.   The election-eve mood is tinged with sadness stemming from well-founded fear that America’s new government is subverting America’s old character. Barack Obama’s agenda is a menu of temptations intended to change the nation’s social norms by making Americans comfortable with the degradation ... MORE

VIDEO: Government Checkpoint - Am I Free to Go?

$60,000 In Welfare Spent Per Household In Poverty

by Daniel Halper. New data compiled by the Republican side of the Senate Budget Committee shows that, last year, the United States spent over $60,000 to support welfare programs per each household that is in poverty. The calculations are based on data from the Census, the Office of Management and Budget, and the Congressional Research Services. ... MORE

Robert Moffit & Alyene Senger: MediCare's 'Efficiency'

Private insurance has lower administrative costs.     Everybody “knows” that government agencies are more efficient than private health insurance at delivering medical benefits and services. After all, Medicare’s administrative costs, at roughly 2 percent of the cost of benefits, are lower than those of private insurance. In the first presidential     ... MORE

Voter Initiatives Breathe New Life Into Federalism

by J.D. Tuccille. There's an important constitutional issue on ballots across the country next month, but it's not labeled by its name anywhere that it appears. That issue encompasses concerns traditionally considered both conservative and liberal, even if it is embraced oh-so-selectively by its newfound friends. That's right, federalism  ... MORE

Police Union Intimidates California City Council

Shameless tactics by law enforcement unions. Many people were outraged this summer after a private investigator, with ties to a law firm that represents 120 police unions in California, made an apparently false report to the cops claiming that a councilman in the Orange County, California, city of Costa Mesa stumbled out of a bar drunk and  ... MORE

VIDEO: Margaret Thatcher - Capitalism and a Free Society

Top Court To Hear Arguments Over Government Spying

by Terry Barnes. A debate over how freely the U.S. government can eavesdrop on international communications reaches a climax on Monday in the country's highest court. At issue is a law passed by Congress in 2008 allowing the government to monitor the overseas communications of individuals without obtaining a warrant for each target.        ... MORE

"The New Economic Patriotism" Is Not A Jobs Plan

by David Harsanyi. Fear not; Barack Obama has an economic plan for America, and it's all in a glossy brochure, called "The New Economic Patriotism: A Plan for Jobs & Middle-Class Security"—an antidote, we're told, to the vagueness of Mitt Romney's agenda. This is what the president, according to a campaign official, believes will ensure ... MORE

VIDEO: When Dialing 911 Leads To An Unnecessary Death

Brian Domitrovic: Inequality Is The Child Of Fiat Money

The Federal Reserve is the problem. For a while there, it looked like the 2012 election was going to be a referendum on economic inequality. This would have been weird, in that economic growth and its twin, employment, are the clear issues of choice in these years of torpid economic recovery. Had President Obama succeeded in making  ... MORE

Supreme Court To Determine Legality Of Reselling

Testing the boundaries of copyright laws.    All eyes will be on Justice Elena Kagan on Monday, when the Supreme Court considers a copyright case that some fear could prevent people from reselling certain products they own such as the iPhone, as she may have the deciding vote. In a case that tests the boundaries of copyright law,    ... MORE