Majority Of Young Voters Favor Bigger Government

Public school is serving its purpose. A Pew Research post-election poll found that a majority of young voters who were 18-29 years of age preferred bigger government. According to the survey, 59% of young voters said “government should do more to solve problems” while only 37% felt “government is doing too many things better left to businesses  ... MORE

Defending The World, Bankrupting Ourselves

by Steve Chapman.     The argument for leaving 10,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan after 2014 is more or less reasonable on its face. The Kabul government is fragile; our gains might be reversed; the Afghan military is not ready to stand on its own. Here's the unreasonable, unavoidable part: If we don't leave then, we probably never will. The lesson of the past ... MORE

VIDEO: Thomas Sowell - Obama Going Forward

California's Prop 30 Hits Entrepreneurs Hard

By Ethan Anderson.    Nothing terrifies investors or entrepreneurs as much as the concept of expropriation. When governments decide to expropriate legally obtained assets, entrepreneurs who worked tirelessly to build businesses and investors who risked scarce capital end up with little to nothing for their troubles. In fact, developing countries often   ... MORE

Richard Branson: War On Drugs A Trillion-Dollar Failure

Time for a reality check.    Richard Branson is the founder of Virgin Group, with global branded revenues of $21 billion, and a member of the Global Drug Commission.    In 1925, H. L. Mencken wrote an impassioned plea: "Prohibition has not only failed in its promises but actually created additional serious and disturbing social problems throughout     ... MORE

VIDEO: Public Servants Or The Gestapo?


HOW COPS MANUFACTURE PROBABLE CAUSE. Don't miss this!

John Stossel - Food Bunk

We'll all be poisoned!      With America's "fiscal cliff" approaching, pundits wring their hands over the supposed catastrophe that government spending cuts will bring. A scare newsletter called "Food Poisoning Bulletin" warns that if government reduces food inspections, "food will be less safe ... (because) marginal companies ...    ... MORE

Warren Beatty: Global Warming Meets Economic Reality

Is global warming a myth or a reality?     It all depends upon who you ask. This study says "yes." This study says "no." That world famous climatologist AlGore says that there is a "scientific consensus" that global warming is real. Really? From Skeptical Science, we get this. "There is no consensus. The Petition Project features over 31,000 scientists   ... MORE

Cops To Congress: We Need Logs Of Text Messages

Government's relentless war on privacy.   AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, and other wireless providers would be required to record and store information about Americans' private text messages for at least two years, according to a proposal that police have submitted to the U.S. Congress. CNET has learned a constellation of law enforcement    ... MORE

Thomas Mullen: Juries Can Nullify ObamaCare & Drug War

Nullification and secession?    For libertarians, the reemergence of ideas like secession and state nullification couldn’t be more welcome. Both are attempts to resist the exercise of arbitrary power, which is power never delegated to the party attempting to exercise it. They should remain the last resort for free people to resist tyranny.     ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - Job Killing Regulations

Lucy Madison: Poll Shows Voters Support Pot Legalization

Split on same-sex marriage.  A month after voters in Colorado and Washington voted to legalize the use of recreational marijuana, a new poll from Quinnipiac University shows a majority of Americans support the legalization of pot, signaling potential support for similar ballot measures nationwide. According to the poll, conducted between November ... MORE

Zach Walton: Verizon Patents A DVR That Spies On You

Cameras and microphones that monitor your home.   Verizon is moving into the targeted ad business in a big way. The wireless carrier announced a new campaign yesterday called Verizon Selects that would allow them to share a customer’s info with advertisers. Now the carrier has patented a device that makes its previous tracking efforts       ... MORE

VIDEO: Prohibition and "The Man In The Green Hat"


Meet Congress' Favorite Bootlegger

Sylvia Bokor: Limiting Government

Individual rights have been bastardized.  There is no such thing as "a right to a job," "a right to health care," "a right to a decent home," et cetera. No one can transform the actions of those that create products and/or services into another's purview. Today, violations of individual rights are so pervasive that many Americans are ignorant of    ... MORE

Thomas Sowell - Fiscal Cliff Notes - Part II

Anything to expand the size and scope of government. One of the big advantages that President Obama has, as he plays "chicken" with the Congressional Republicans along the "fiscal cliff," is that Obama is a master of the plausible lie, which will never be exposed by the mainstream media-- nor, apparently, by the Republicans. A key lie that      ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: Fiscal Cliff Notes

Like a laser cutting through fog.     Amid all the political and media hoopla about the “fiscal cliff” crisis, there are a few facts that are worth noting. First of all, despite all the melodrama about raising taxes on “the rich,” even if that is done, it will scarcely make a dent in the government’s financial problems. Raising the tax rates on everybody in the    ... MORE

Larisa Brown: Switzerland Selected Best Place To Be Born

U.S was 1st under Reagan, has now fallen to 16th.  Switzerland is the best place to be born in the world in 2013, and the U.S. is just 16th. A new study produced by the Economist Intelligence Unit says American babies will have a dimmer future than those born in Hong Kong, Ireland and even Canada. The EIU, a sister company of The    ... MORE

VIDEO: Antonin Scalia - Interpretive Principles

Walter E Williams: Future Generations

Behaving like there is no tomorrow.     Is there any reason for today's Americans to care about what happens to tomorrow's Americans? After all, what have tomorrow's Americans done for today's Americans? Moreover, since tomorrow's Americans don't vote, we can dump on them with impunity. That's a vision that describes the actual behavior  ... MORE

Isaiah Thompson: The Philly Cash Machine

The Philly D.A. has a license to steal.    When Philadelphia Police officers stopped Dwayne Marks as he was driving north on Broad Street near Temple University last year, Marks says he wasn’t particularly worried. Marks, who is a black man in his late 30s from East Mount Airy, has faced drug charges in the past — but he’s straightened up,  ... MORE

VIDEO: Social Justice and Its Critics

Supreme Court Makes Ruling In Favor Of Private Property

Government no longer free to cause flooding.      Supreme Court boosted property rights Tuesday, ruling unanimously government is not automatically exempt from liability when it causes flooding. In an Arkansas case, the justices said there is no automatic exemption from the Constitution's takings clause in the Fifth Amendment --      ... MORE

Ira Stoll: Why AT&T's CEO Wants Higher Taxes

They a lot of business with the U.S. government.            AT&T customers, pay attention: your phone company is trying to raise your rates. No, not your phone rates: your tax rates. And therein lies a story. If federal campaign contributions are any guide, the CEO and chairman of AT&T, Randall Stephenson, is, or was, a solid Republican. In         ... MORE 

Katie Kieffer: Push The Fed Over The Cliff

Stop worrying about the ‘fiscal cliff.’    Spending cuts would feel therapeutic after watching Standard & Poor's and Egan-Jones downgrade our credit rating and seeing President Obama add $6 trillion to the national debt. The way to avert another recession and massive inflation is to eliminate the unconstitutional Federal Reserve. There are   ... MORE

Allyson Mitchell: Obama Making Up Drone Rules As He Goes

Americans need transparency of conventional warfare.     The Obama administration has not yet answered concerns regarding the secrecy, legality and efficacy of the drone warfare program. During the presidential elections, to avoid leaving business unfinished, a last-minute effort surfaced in the White House to create a secret rule      ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - The Supremes

Ron Resnick: How Reality TV Saved The 2nd Amendment

An unexpected source promotes liberty.      I used to dream that someday I would make a fortune, retire from whatever business occasioned the fortune, and endow what I would call the Second Amendment Litigation Trust. The sole purpose of this trust would be to finance Second Amendment attorneys to prosecute litigation designed to result   ... MORE

Steve Chapman: Higher Taxes, Smaller Government?

Incentives needed to curb spending.    It comes as no surprise to hear anti-tax activist Grover Norquist talk about tax cuts, but it does come as a surprise to hear him raise the subject of pink unicorns. Pink unicorns are purely imaginary—a trait he says they share with the spending curbs that Republicans hope to get from the administration in exchange ... MORE

VIDEO: 1000 Wrongfully Convicted and Counting

The Government Can Still Black Bag Any American

by Travis Holte. The Senate passed the much ballyhooed Feinstein-Lee amendment last night, which supposedly partially nullifies the provision in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) allowing for Americans to be kidnapped by the government and disappeared without any charge or due process. Senator Rand Paul put out a press release declaring   ... MORE

Drone Crashes Mount At Civilian Airports Overseas

by Craig Whitlock. The U.S. Air Force drone, on a classified spy mission over the Indian Ocean, was destined for disaster from the start. An inexperienced military contractor in shorts and a T-shirt, flying by remote control from a trailer at Seychelles International Airport, committed blunder after blunder in six minutes on April 4. He sent the       ... MORE

J. D. Tucille: The Feds Want To Spy On Everything

They want to read more than just your e-mail. Electronic privacy is all the rage in these post-Petraeus days. Can the government really go pawing through our email at will? Well, pretty much so, it turns out, at least, until the Supreme Court gets around to focusing a little bit of its attention on this newfangled, electronic world of ours. But email ... MORE

Rachel Maddow's Blind Deference To Government Power

by Sheldon Richman.    Is there a difference between government and society? Rachel Maddow seems to think not. Pay close attention to these words from the MSNBC host's promo as she attempts to defend "America" against those who (in her view) believe its best days are in the past: "No, no, no. We're not going to build it. No, No, No. America ... MORE

VIDEO: Murray Rothbard - The Government Is Not Us

NYers Say FEMA Ignored Obama's Cut Red Tape Pledge

"FEMA ain't doing nothing."       Storm-ravaged New Yorkers say President Obama’s promise to cut red tape and get them aid in the aftermath of Sandy has proven to be hot air. Angry citizens vented at FEMA officials at a town hall meeting held by the disaster relief agency Thursday, with tempers boiling over. Some 1,000 people,      ... MORE

Kevin Robillard: Poll Shows Pot Legalization At Record High

Drug czar undaunted by public's will.    Support for marijuana legalization has edged up recently and is now tied with the opposition, according to a CBS poll released Friday — the first time since that survey started keeping track of the issue. Forty-seven percent support legalization, and forty-seven percent oppose it, according to  ... MORE

VIDEO: Nanny Of The Month For November 2012


Why are Texas schools tracking students with RFID chips?  To follow the money.

Rob Wile: Why Everyone Is Losing Hope For Green Energy

Green energy sounds like such a great idea.    Unfortunately, it is extremely costly and requires heavy government subsidies. Last year, the epic downfall of Solyndra — the former solar cell manufacturer backed by the Obama administration — was one of the most notorious blows to the industry. As with most young industries, experts argue that   ... MORE

Jessica Melugin: Internet Sales Taxes Attack States' Rights

Government intervention kills competition.        Proponents of Internet sales taxes are asking the lame-duck Congress to bless their state tax cartel as part of a larger tax reform package by passing the Marketplace Equity Act (H.R. 3179) and its companion in the Senate, the Marketplace Fairness Act (S. 1832). These aren’t your average tax increases,    ... MORE