VIDEO: Peter Schiff: Obama 2.0 & The Fiscal Cliff

This important video contains vital information for your future! 

Implications for America, the Markets, the Dollar and Gold.
Should we go all out to avoid the fiscal cliff or just take the dive? 

Federal Government To American People: Screw Your Will

Feds vow to limit individual liberty.     Votes making Colorado and Washington the first U.S. states to legalize marijuana for recreational use could be short-lived victories for pot backers because the federal government will fight them, two former U.S. drug control officials said on Wednesday. They said the federal government could sue to block    ... MORE

Vegas Employer: Obama Won -- So I Fired 22 Employees

Election results begin being felt.   A Las Vegas business owner with 114 employees fired 22 workers today, apparently as a direct result of President Obama’s re-election. “David” (he asked to remain anonymous for obvious reasons) told Host Kevin Wall on 100.5 KXNT that “elections have consequences” and that “at the end of the day, I need to survive.” ... MORE

VIDEO: Ayn Rand - The Toxic Partner

Voters Kick The Fiscal Can Down The Road

by David Davenport.     After all the money (a campaign spending record exceeding $2 billion), hard work, negative campaigning and wall-to-wall advertising, Americans have voted to kick the can down the road.  They don’t want to take their medicine yet.  They want to continue to live in a suspended reality where government can keep growing and spending ... MORE

Civil Asset Forfeiture, Government's Right To Steal

Taking property based on suspicion, not conviction.   Innocent until proven guilty carries a lot of weight if you are accused of a crime. But it can be a different story when state agencies seize the property or assets of those suspected of criminal activity. A procedure known as civil asset forfeiture allows law enforcement agencies in many states to   ... MORE

VIDEO: The Real Things To Cry Over

Steve Chapman: Situation Lousy, Don't Change A Thing

Voters seem to like the status quo.   Republicans are mystified that in a nation they know as fundamentally conservative, a president they regard as deeply radical has been re-elected. But Americans didn't vote for Barack Obama because they are liberal. They voted for him because they are conservative. Not conservative as defined by modern         ... MORE

Obama's Benghazi Scapegoat Gets A Year Of Prison

Politically incorrect speech trumps free speech.   The filmmaker behind an anti-Islam YouTube video that was initially blamed for sparking deadly protests in the Muslim world admitted today violating his probation and was sentenced to a year in federal prison. Mark Basseley Youssef, 55, who previously used the name Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, admitted     ... MORE

14 Ways Legal Marijuana Could Boost The Economy

by Harry Bradford.   Two states became the first to legalize marijuana for recreational use Tuesday, but it's not just users that may get a high as a result. Colorado and Washington state voted Tuesday night to legalize marijuana, sparking celebrations distinct but not mutually exclusive from those rooting for Barack Obama. But it's not just stoners and     ... MORE

Obama May Levy New Tax On Energy To Pay Deficit

by Mathew Carr. Barack Obama may consider introducing a tax on carbon emissions to help cut the U.S. budget deficit after winning a second term as president, according to HSBC Holdings Plc. A tax starting at $20 a metric ton of carbon dioxide equivalent and rising at about 6 percent a year could raise $154 billion by 2021, Nick Robins, an analyst at the bank in      ... MORE

VIDEO: Gas Lines, Gouging, and Hurricane Sandy


Keeping prices low means nobody gets fuel.

Nathan Vardi: Obama Win Makes Wall Street The Big Loser

Market looks to future with dread.  In October, Wall Street hosted a rich fundraiser at the Hilton New York for Mitt Romney. Hedge fund, private equity and investment banking big shots were among the nearly 200 co-chairs of the event that cost $1,000 to attend. Those who shelled out $5,000 got to leave with a photo with vice-presidential hopeful Paul Ryan,  ... MORE

National Review Online: Sandy And Climate Change

Complex science meet simpleminded politics.    The case for climate change, formerly the case for global warming, entails a series of propositions that begin with the unobjectionable and escalate to the absurd: that the climate is changing, that these changes are likely to be dangerous and destructive, that these changes are in the main     ... MORE

VIDEO: America Reaffirms The Status Quo

Jay Nordlinger: The People's Choice

“Mitt Romney: Not one of us.”  That was the slogan of an Obama ad. And, yes, Mitt Romney is not one of us. Who’s “us”? Whoever we are, or they are, Romney isn’t one of them. And I’m not either. Fine with me, in a way. I don’t think much of Obama’s “us.” I’m very sorry that Obama has won again, because I think he’s a bad president, and I’ve also come to think ... MORE

Long Lines Caused By Government Price Gouging Laws

by Karl Dickey. New York and New Jersey are not much different from Florida when it comes to one aspect of reacting to a hurricane or major storm - price gouging laws. What is often hailed as a great idea by the masses and politicians looking for re-election has become another of government's unintended consequences. And what dire            ... MORE

More Years For Obama, More Tears For America

by Charles Hurt.   All that for nothing. It was the billion-dollar election that did not decide one single damned thing. Republicans control the House. Democrats control the Senate. And the White House remains in Democratic hands with absolutely no mandate whatsoever. Another four years with no hope of change. In this environment with this   ... MORE

Ethan Nadelmann: States Right To Legalize Marijuana

Washington state and Colorado lead the way. Washington State and Colorado made history tonight by becoming the first states in the United States - to approve the legal regulation of marijuana. These victories likely represent the beginning of the end of marijuana prohibition in this country and many others as well. Just as the repeal of alcohol   ... MORE 

VIDEO: Walter E Williams - Economic Rape And Seduction

A. Barton Hinkle: The $4,000 Trash Can

$56.6 billion in compliance costs imposed since Jan 1. According to conventional progressive wisdom, regulation is the means by which a compassionate government protects the weak and innocent from the strong and malevolent. Try telling that to Brad Jones. Jones is one of the owners of Buckingham Slate, a Virginia business a little over an hour’s drive   ... MORE

ObamaCare Drops Full-Time Employment

by Walter Russell Mead. Many businesses anticipate that Obamacare will deal a blow to their bottom line in the form of fines and penalties. Some are now planning to evade the law’s fine for uninsured full-time employees by  pushing full-time employees to part-time status. The Wall Street Journal reports: Several restaurants, hotels and retailers    ... MORE

VIDEO: Proof that Big Government Is Failing America

Katie Kieffer: Cleaning Obama's Bloodstains

Blood is staining the globe.    Not the blood of terrorists (enemies of America), but the blood of innocent Americans. We cannot resuscitate our loved ones. We can only attempt to clean President Obama’s bloodstains by removing him—and all who think like him—from public office. There is no need to “judge” Obama’s heart to realize that he is unfit to lead;   ... MORE

Thomas Sowell - Waiving Freedom

Arbitrary waivers provide political favors. Among the objections to ObamaCare, one that has not gotten as much attention as it should is the president's power to waive the law for any company, union or other enterprise he chooses. The 14th Amendment to the Constitution provides for "equal protection of the laws" for all Americans. To have a law  ... MORE

Fred Barnes: Why Romney Will Win

Let us count the reasons Mitt Romney will win.   The tie in the polls goes to the challenger. Here’s why: Enthusiasm. It matters enormously, and it’s disproportionately on the Republican side, in good measure because of an intense desire to defeat President Obama. True, enthusiasm doesn’t guarantee an edge in turnout, but it’s        ... MORE

Onkar Ghate: A Liberal Ayn Rand?

Maybe liberals should think a little more long term. It's no secret that the right is awash in Ayn Rand. Tea Partiers carry signs like "Who is John Galt?" and, astonishing for a novel published 55 years ago, sales of Atlas Shrugged topped 445,000 last year. All of this has prompted researchers like Yale historian Beverly Gage to wonder, "Why is there no liberal    ... MORE

VIDEO: Policing For Profit - Civil Forfeiture Laws


Feds try to take innocent elderly couple's Mom-and-Pop motel.

John Stossel: In Praise Of Price-Gouging

Getting goods where they are needed most.    Desperate New Jersey drivers wait in long lines to buy gasoline. One line was two miles long The media blame “a lack of electricity” and report that “Governor Christie has acted to boost supplies of gasoline…by directing Treasury officials to waive licensing requirements that affect merchants’  ... MORE

Benghazi A Barometer Of Obama's Incompetence

by Robert Maginnis.    The Sept. 11, 2012 Benghazi, Libya terrorist attack left four Americans dead including our ambassador, destroyed our consulate, compromised sensitive information, and made America look weak.  This story lingers because it is a barometer on President Barack Obama’s competence. The Benghazi attack exposed Obama’s foreign policy  ... MORE

VIDEO: Cop Ruptures Woman's Breast During Arrest


The woman had a headlight out and an old warrant for a speeding ticket.

Walter E Williams: Our Deviant Society

Watch out for falling standards.    Here's one usage of the term gentleman: The gentleman helped the fallen lady to her feet. Here's another, one we might hear from a newscaster or a police spokesman: Tonight we report on the arrest of two gentlemen who raped, sodomized and murdered an 80-year-old woman. During earlier times, to be c  ... MORE

Sheldon Richman: Life Without FEMA?

There is a better way.     Advocates of big government never miss a chance to capitalize on a natural disaster. Even before the storm has passed, they will boast that without activist government, recovery would be impossible. Peddlers of this line ask us to imagine what life would be like today—in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy—without FEMA and the   ... MORE

Obama Proves Himself Unworthy As Commander-In-Chief

from the Las Vegas Review-Journal.     U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three other Americans died in a well-planned military assault on their diplomatic mission in Benghazi seven weeks ago, the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. So why are details surfacing, piecemeal, only now? The Obama administration sat by doing      ... MORE

Karin McQuillan: Why Obama Chose To Let Them Die

What if al-Qaeda is not "on the run?" The burning question is why Obama didn't give orders to defend our consulate and American lives in Benghazi.  The answer is becoming clearer each time President Obama and Secretary of Defense Panetta issue a denial or explanation of their inaction.  To the president's surprise, he chanced on an honest   ... MORE

VIDEO: Milton Friedman - The Road To Serfdom

Marijuana Legalization Could Cut Cartels' Earnings 30%

by E. Eduardo Castillo and Kristen Wyatt.     A study released Wednesday by a respected Mexican think tank asserts that proposals to legalize the recreational use of marijuana in Colorado, Oregon and Washington could cut Mexican drug cartels' earnings from traffic to the U.S. by as much as 30 percent. Opponents questioned some of   ... MORE

Civic Duty Vies With Cynicism as 2012 Election Approaches

by Steven Greenhut.    It’s been years since I cared deeply about any election, yet I find myself back to old habits—tracking polls and dealing with those conflicting feelings that emerge this time of year. My sense of deep cynicism, born from years of reporting on government venality and stupidity, collides with my sense of civic duty. Few people can    ... MORE

VIDEO: October 2012 Nanny Of The Month

The Choice -- Free Market Or Socialist-Driven Democracy

by Charles Krauthammer.   "Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did not." That was Barack Obama in 2008. And he was right. Reagan was an ideological inflection point, ending a 50-year liberal ascendancy and beginning a 30-year conservative ascendancy. It is common for one   ... MORE

Matthew Yglesias: Why Price Gouging Is Necessary

Getting supply to where it is needed most.     Some more words on price gouging, as New York and New Jersey are increasingly afflicted by gasoline shortages. There are three issues we need to look at here. One is allocation, one is short-term supply, and one is long-term supply. A lot of people seem to want to look at this purely as an allocative      ... MORE