Andrew Napolitano: Guns And The Government

Government is determined to do something. If you have listened to President Obama and Vice President Biden talk about guns in the past month, you have heard them express a decided commitment to use the powers of the federal government to maintain safety in the United States. You also have heard congressional voices from politicians in   ... MORE

Jerry Bowyer: Republican Cave Worse Than Fiscal Cliff

GOP jellyfish offer no protection for liberty.      The fiscal cliff debacle showed conclusively that the GOP establishment is a completely ineffective guardian of our liberties against President Obama and the Washington ruling class. Forget fantasies about reversing the growth of the state, let alone stopping such growth; Boehner’s boys can’t even  ... MORE

VIDEO: Walter E Williams - Up Close And Personal

They're Coming To Take Our Guns Away, Ha-haa!

by Chris Stafko.   You may recall the 1966 cult-classic by Napoleon XIV titled, "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa."  The lyrics of that song describe an individual who is out of his mind and who is being taken "to the funny farm" and to "the loony bin" so he can be attended to by "those nice young men in their clean white coats." The subject of the song   ... MORE

Patrick J. Michaels: Global Warming Apocalypse Cancelled

Inconvenient truth: no 21st century rise in temperature.    My greener friends are increasingly troubled by the lack of a rise in recent global surface temperatures. Using monthly data measured as the departure from long-term averages, there’s been no significant warming trend since the fall of 1996. In other words, we are now in our 17th ... MORE

VIDEO: End Policing For Profit

How A Cop Used A State Database To Steal Pain Pills

by Michael McFall.  A former Vernal police detective now faces criminal charges stemming from his alleged theft of a couple’s pain pills, a month after the couple filed a complaint against him in federal court. Ben Marland Murray, 38, was charged Friday in 8th District Court with unlawful use of the controlled substance database and possession of a controlled    ... MORE

Victor Davis Hanson: The War Between The Amendments

Parity to an all-powerful, centralized government.    The horrific Newtown, Conn., mass shooting has unleashed a frenzy to pass new gun-control legislation. But the war over restricting firearms is not just between liberals and conservatives; it also pits the first two amendments to the U.S. Constitution against each other. Apparently, in the sequential    ... MORE

Jacob Sullum: The Threat Posed By Gun Magazine Limits

Another measure that could endanger victims.      A limit on magazine capacity is emerging as a leading contender for the something that supposedly must be done in response to last month's massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. A ban on "large-capacity ammunition feeding devices" is one of the new gun    ... MORE

Capitalism: Making Tires Safer And Most Things Better

A system where the consumer is king.   Humans have been using tires since the dawn of the automotive age. But today’s tires aren’t much like their predecessors. Instead of being made with natural rubber, for example, they’re fashioned from layers of materials, including textiles and steel. This is a perfect example of what economist Joseph  ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - Citizen Journalism

Susan Duclos: Online Ammunition Suppliers

Time to stock up.   With conflicting accounts as to whether Wal-Mart is putting off the restocking of ammunition after their meetings with the Obama administration and many local gun and ammo suppliers simply running out of ammunition after a massive surge in sales, it seemed prudent to gather a few sources for ammunition from online.    ... MORE

Mark Steyn: In The Absence Of Guns

In Britain, defending your property can get you life.   Celebrity news from the United Kingdom: In April, Germaine Greer, the Australian feminist and author of The Female Eunuch, was leaving her house in East Anglia, when a young woman accosted her, forced her back inside, tied her up, smashed her glasses, and then set about demolishing her   ... MORE

VIDEO: Presidential Election History By State

Florida Senate Panel Votes To Ban Spying With Drones

One state's stand for citizen privacy.    A Florida Senate panel says police should be banned from using drones to spy on citizens. A bill (SB 92) that would prohibit law enforcement agencies from gathering evidence or other information flew through the Criminal Justice Committee with a unanimous vote Tuesday. It also would ban   ... MORE

John Stossel: First, The Bad News

We in the media rarely lie to you.   But that leaves plenty of room to take things wildly out of context. That's where most big scare stories come from, like recent headlines about GM foods. GM means "genetically modified," which means scientists add genes, altering the plant's DNA, in this case to make the crop resistant to pests. Last week,     ... MORE

Walter E Williams: Are Guns The Problem?

Moral values, not laws, make a civilized society.      When I attended primary and secondary school — during the 1940s and '50s — one didn't hear of the kind of shooting mayhem that's become routine today. Why? It surely wasn't because of strict firearm laws. My replica of the 1902 Sears mail-order catalog shows 35 pages of firearm               ... MORE

Jeff Stier: Obesity Police Launch A Needless War

The relentless effort of regulators to reduce options. If there’s agreement about anything in our hotly-politicized environment today it is that while we work to find sensible and principled solutions to real-world problems, we also need to do a better job coming to consensuses. But when it comes to addressing obesity, the most prominent public   ... MORE

VIDEO: Thomas Sowell - A Downward Trajectory

Police Chief Seeks To Nullify Unconstitutional Gun Control

by Alex Newman.    While the Obama administration and some Democrat lawmakers plot ever more extreme assaults on the Second Amendment, state and local officials across the country are working just as hard to find ways to protect the gun rights of law-abiding citizens in their jurisdictions. One local Pennsylvania police chief is helping to lead the way, asking   ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: Liberalism Vs. Blacks

Evidence can be a real inconvenience.     There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds? San Francisco is a classic example of a city unexcelled in its liberalism. But the black population of San Francisco today is less   ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - Gun Laws That Kill

A. Barton Hinkle: Spending Cuts Are Mostly Fiction

Would you like to save $20,000 this year?     Of course you would. Here’s how: Plan a month-long vacation to Disneyland, and budget $20,000 for the trip. Then don’t go. Presto! You just “cut” your family budget by 20 grand. This sounds absurd—because it is. Yet that is precisely how Washington operates. A couple of weeks ago,       ... MORE

Biden: White House Eying 19 Executive Actions On Guns

Obama prepares to deploy tyrannical measures. The White House has identified 19 executive actions for President Barack Obama to move unilaterally on gun control, Vice President Joe Biden told a group of House Democrats on Monday, the administration’s first definitive statements about its response to last month’s mass shooting at Sandy Hook  ... MORE

Robert Anderson: Gun Control And Political Correctness

Gun rights are not about hunting.          Silence rarely conveys knowledge, especially when it’s the result of intimidation. There are moments when it’s prudent to remain silent, but hardly when you’re in the midst of a gun ownership debate. The political class, and its anti-gun proponents, are today engaged in a massive legal assault on       ... MORE

Gary Becker: Have We Lost The War On Drugs?

Monetary costs and human costs are too high. President Richard Nixon declared a "war on drugs" in 1971. The expectation then was that drug trafficking in the United States could be greatly reduced in a short time through federal policing—and yet the war on drugs continues to this day. The cost has been large in terms of lives, money and the     ... MORE

VIDEO: Stossel - Whatever Happened To Transparency?

Michael Barone: Is The Entitlement Era Winding Down?

Are we on the threshold of a new period in U.S. history.   It’s often good fun and sometimes revealing to divide American history into distinct periods of uniform length. In working on my forthcoming book on American migrations, internal and immigrant, it occurred to me that you could do this using the American-sounding interval of 76 years,   ... MORE

Veronique de Rugy: Get States Off The Federal Dole

Stop the growth of government.  In the wake of Hurricane Sandy and the havoc it wrought on New York, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) said they would ask the federal government to cover at least 90 percent—and perhaps all—of the cleanup and recovery costs. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) asked the same for the Garden State. ... MORE

VIDEO: The Death of Savings Since 2001

Sheldon Richman: Against Government Debt

What Thomas Jefferson's favorite economist would say. The last time the debt-ceiling controversy arose, it occurred to me that if the raising the "ceiling" is a mere formality—if in fact the sky's the limit to government borrowing—it's no ceiling at all. Hence, I dubbed this charade the "debt sky." Those who favor automatic increases in the "limit"—or no limit  ... MORE

Kinsley Guy: Time To Re-Think Our War On Drugs

Rampant crime caused by drug war, not drugs.      Now that Colorado and Washington have legalized recreational use of marijuana, it's time for Floridians to start talking seriously about doing the same. Legalization won't come overnight. A recent Quinnipiac University poll found only 42 percent of Florida voters think recreational    ... MORE

Obama Says Gun Control For Thee; A Virtual Army For Me!

Obama gives self Secret Service protection for life.   President Obama signed a law today granting lifetime Secret Service protection to former presidents and their wives. As it stands now, the measure affects only two presidents -- Obama and predecessor George W. Bush. The bill approved by Congress reversed a 1994 law that had ended Secret    ... MORE

Augusta Chronicle: The Moral Face Of Capitalism

Preserving America.   Conservatives are only starting to feel their way around the wilderness. Even in a horrible economy, and facing an administration beleaguered by scandals on the Mexican border, in Libya and in crony “green energy” failures that cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars, the conservative message was rejected at the polls in     ... MORE

VIDEO: Charlton Heston - Resisting Cultural Persecution

Joel F. Wade: Phony Vs. Earned Self-Esteem

Self-esteem is a result, not a vehicle.    A study by Jean Twenge of San Diego State University, published in the current issue of Social Psychological and Personality Science, is getting a lot of news this week. Twenge found that college kids today are more likely to call themselves gifted and driven to succeed, while their test scores and hours    ... MORE

Joe Biden's Political Posturing On Gun Control Measures

by J.D. Tuccille.   We'll have to wait until Tuesday to see the details of Vice President Joe Biden's 2016 presidential campaign platform gun control recommendations, but already we know that it's likely be heavy on pandering to the gun-averse political base, and light on anything that might leave the administration dangling in the breeze when it   ... MORE

VIDEO: The Federal Reserve Balance Sheet


Rated F for frightening reality.

EBT Abuse: Government's Cash-For-Drunkards Program

by Michelle Malkin.        From New York to New Mexico and across the dependent plains, welfare recipients are getting sauced on the public dime. Drunk, besotted, bombed. But while politicians pay lip service to cutting government waste, fraud and abuse, they're doing very little in practice to stop the EBT party excesses. Where's the compassion for taxpayers? ... MORE

Sales Of Guns Soar In U.S. As Tougher Laws Threatened

Citizens react as government plots against them. As Washington focuses on what Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. will propose next week to curb gun violence, gun and ammunition sales are spiking in the rest of the country as people rush to expand their arsenals in advance of any restrictions that might be imposed. People were crowded five deep ... MORE