The Best Gun Control Measure Is Always A Job

by Thomas J. Basile.         The President is in full campaign mode crisscrossing the nation talking about the need to curb gun violence through a host of new gun control measures.  Characteristically he’s using children and families as props, and in homage to public employee unions no doubt, is throwing first responders into the mix at his events as well.    ... MORE

Founder: Subway Would Not Exist If Started Today

Company would have been strangled by regulations.      The founder of Subway restaurants is slamming the government for harsh regulations he says hurt small businesses, saying he would not have been able to successfully start his company in today's climate.  Fred Deluca told CNBC Wednesday that he believes government regulations are    ... MORE

VIDEO: Thomas Sowell - Human Capital

Gene Beato: Government-Issued Comics For Propaganda

How government turned comic books into propaganda.  Comic books, psychiatrist Fredric Wertham argued in a 1953 Ladies Home Journal article that preceded his 1954 best-seller, Seduction of the Innocent, were instruction manuals for everything from shoplifting in department stores to tween lust-murder. If one were to set out how to teach children   ... MORE

Rasmussen Poll: 6% Rate News Media As Very Trustworthy

What are they thinking?        Most voters still get their news from television and consider the news reported by the media generally trustworthy. Fifty-six percent (56%) of Likely U.S. Voters say they get most of their news from TV, including 32% who get it from cable news networks and 24% who get it from traditional network news. A new        ... MORE

VIDEO: 13 Obama Tax Hikes on the Middle Class in 2013

What Does DOJ REALLY Think About Gun Control?

by Melancton Smith.   According to a DOJ memo obtained by the NRA, Washington really knows that assault weapons are infrequently used in crimes and that banning high capacity magazines really will not change anything. These are just drums beat by the administration to get the public in a frenzy over the “epidemic” of gun violence. So what do they    ... MORE

Why Blacks And Women Should Not Have Guns

by William A Levinson.     The Democratic Party believes that it owns the African-American vote, and it also looks to women for much of its support.  This support requires serious reconsideration.  The Colorado Democratic Party, as represented by State Rep. Joe Salazar, has said openly that women are too mentally unstable to handle firearms       ... MORE

J Sullum: Where Does A Cop With An 80-lb Dog Search?

Answer: Anywhere he wants.   Imagine that a police officer, after taking it upon himself to search someone's car, is asked to explain why he thought he would find contraband there. "A little birdie told me," he replies. Most judges would react with appropriate skepticism to such a claim. But substitute "a big dog" for "a little birdie," and you've ... MORE

America In Denial As Fiscal Tsunami Appoaches

by Gene Healy. It's hard to hear yourself think over all the caterwauling on Capitol Hill about the looming sequestration "crisis." For opponents of the spending cuts—at $85 billion, 2.3 percent of the $3.6 trillion federal budget—the rallying cry is half Lord Keynes, half St. Augustine: "Grant me chastity and continence—but not yet." But the time for a little  ... MORE

VIDEO: Do Homeowners Really Need An Assault Rifle?

Cop Recorded Punching Woman In Face Found Not Guilty

Judge declares he meant no harm.   Despite being caught on video violently punching a small woman in the face, police officer Jonathan Josey was found not guilty by Philadelphia Municipal Judge Patrick Dugan in a nonjury trial after telling the judge he didn't mean to punch the woman in the face, we was only trying to knock a beer out of her hand.    ... MORE

Jeffrey Lord: Abolish The Department Of Education

Do it for the children.    The Washington Post was alarmed. And House Republicans seem to be asleep. On Monday’s front page was the latest Obama horror story of what lay ahead for the fifty states if the sequester went into effect. Wrote the Post: The White House on Sunday detailed how the deep spending cuts set to begin this week would affect   ... MORE

VIDEO: Ruger on Freedom and Tyranny

IBD: EPA Ups Mandate For Nonexistent Fuels

Bureaucrats impose more pain at the pump.   In yet another green folly, the lawless Environmental Protection Agency continues to fine gasoline producers for not using cellulosic biofuels in quantities that don't exist, making only more pain at the pump. Last month, a federal court dealt a serious blow to the Environmental Protection Agency's renewable  ... MORE

John Stossel: Libertarian's Awkward Bedfellows

Limited government advocates are not morally suspect.    Last week, Conservative pundit Ann Coulter told me and a thousand young libertarians that we libertarians are puss- -- well, she used slang for a female body part. We were in Washington, D.C., at the Students for Liberty conference, taping my TV show, and she didn't like my questions  ... MORE

Thomas Sowell - Shepherds And Sheep

Sheep are easily led astray.     John Stuart Mill's classic essay "On Liberty" gives reasons why some people should not be taking over other people's decisions about their own lives. But Professor Cass Sunstein of Harvard has given reasons to the contrary. He cites research showing "that people make a lot of mistakes, and that those mistakes can prove ... MORE

Shawn Mitchell: On Disarming American Women

Whistle while your raped.       Freshman lawmaker Joe Salazar, (D. Thornton) became an embarrassing distraction for the liberal juggernaut in Colorado last week when he blurted out what he really thinks of the Second Amendment, the right of self defense, and the faculties of women in peril.  Hint: His views are appalling. As backlash developed, Salazar  ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - Leave The Gamblers Alone

Phil Kerpen: Government Spending Hurts People

The money comes out of their hides.    We should not accept the statist premise that most government spending helps people. Government spending is not just wasteful or inefficient, but all too often serves to crush the private economy and individual freedom. In the coming days the media will provide a constant stream of purported victims of   ... MORE

Dan Dagget: Using Gun Violence To Get Elected

Why liberals have no interest in real solutions.      The most frustrating aspect of the continuing verbal marathon about guns and gun control is that no one is talking about the real cause of our continuing problem with mass, meaningless murder. That means no one is talking about real solutions that will have real results. Instead,  we are ... MORE

VIDEO: Federal Entitlement Spending Since 1950

Tristan Higgins: Why I Hate The TSA

Ignorance and humiliation "public servant-style."    Some days are worse than others. I've talked a lot on my blog about what I experience as a butch lesbian, specifically how people interact with me when they see that I don't conform to the gender identities that they expect. I feel all lined up on the inside -- I am a woman physically, and I feel like  ... MORE

A. Barton Hinkle: The Bogus Case Against Junk Food

Anti-food nannies launch their latest attack. A recent cover story in The New York Times Magazine offers a shocking exposé of Big Food. In granular detail it relates the food conglomerates' "hyper-engineered, savagely marketed, addiction-creating battle for 'stomach share.'” If you don't have the time to slog through the nearly 10,000 words,   ... MORE

Katie Kieffer: Scaring The Ghost Of El Chapo

El Chapo haunts the streets of Chicago.    His ghost hoards cash in Los Angeles stash houses. His shadow darkens underground tunnels between Mexico and the U.S. His spirit drives his clan to bloodshed. The world’s most-wanted kingpin may be dead. But the Sinaloa cartel will thrive until America legalizes drugs. Guatemalan authorities are currently ... MORE

Walter E Williams: Higher Minimum Wages

A maximum folly.     In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama proposed raising the minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $9 an hour. That would be almost a 25 percent increase. Let's look at the president's proposal, but before doing so, let's ask some other economic questions. Are people responsive to changes in price? For example, if the price of  ... MORE

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Robert Zurbin: Imposing Misery By Environmental Devotion

Green anti-humanism.      On February 11, 2013, the Denver Post ran a guest commentary of great clinical interest. In the piece in question, Colorado State University philosophy professor Philip Cafaro advanced the argument that immigration needs to be sharply cut, because otherwise people from Third World nations will come to the United States and  ... MORE

Richard Berman: Raising Minimum Wage Is Bad Magic Trick

Presto, change-o and workers will be hurt.   Apparently America’s employees were better off in 1968 than they are today. At least, such is the claim of the labor-backed activists and the AFL-CIO’s chief economist. By their telling, the minimum wage has lost value — if it were fairly adjusted since the late 1960s, it would today be set at $10.58.  ... MORE

VIDEO: Conan Shows How Media Reads From Same Script

Barry Farber: BHO And His Magic Shield

No failure the media won't ignore.    There are bookies in London who will take your bets on who will be the next pope. As long as they’re such sports, will they make book on this: Is there anything President Obama can do or say that will pierce his magic shield and turn American mass media reverence into rage? Obama is the most incredible    ... MORE

Brad Hamilton: Nanny Bloomberg's War On Free Choice

NYC bans 2-liter bottles of soda with pizza delivery.   Take a big gulp, New York: Hizzoner is about to give you a pop. Nanny Bloomberg unleashes his ban on large sodas on March 12 — and there are some nasty surprises lurking for hardworking families. Say goodbye to that 2-liter bottle of Coke with your pizza delivery, pitchers of soft drinks at your     ... MORE

The Key Is Not Regulation, But Individual Rights

Michael B. Kitz-Miller on guns.   I have been going back and forth regarding the issue of gun control, until recently. In the service, I qualified as expert with numerous weapons, including the M-1, M-14 and M-16 which we field tested, so I have some knowledge of weapons and their use. The assault weapon in question for government control and used at  ... MORE

John White: The Feds Want Your Retirement Accounts

Politicians eyeball new money pot.  Quietly, behind the scenes, the groundwork is being laid for federal government confiscation of tax-deferred retirement accounts such as IRAs. Slowly, the cat is being let out of the bag. Last January 18th, in a little noticed interview of Richard Cordray, acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, ... MORE

VIDEO: Murray Rothbard: Involuntary Servitude - Taxation

Push For Minimum Wage Ignores Economic Reality

by Steve Chapman.  President Barack Obama and Democrats in Congress want to raise the minimum wage to improve the lot of the working poor. But they've got the wrong idea. The problem is not that these workers earn so little; it's that the things they buy cost so much. I propose instead to outlaw high prices. No one, after all, likes paying too much.      ... MORE

Kent McManigal: Following Orders Is NOT Honorable

Don't become a mindless tool.   There is no good in following orders.  None. To pretend this personality defect is a sign of an "honorable person" is disgusting and dishonest. Any idiot can manage to follow orders.  It takes a real human to evaluate those orders, and decide if they should be followed or ignored.  Or even to decide if the one giving the orders ... MORE

VIDEO: Perspective And The Boston Massacre

G. Donald Allen: Drones And The American Future

Their utilization is evolving as the minutes tick. Drones are a tool of the modern age. They have benefits. They have faults. They have become the equivalents of the secret agents of the past whose role was to observe and thwart as needed. They are a modern technology with which no governmental leader has a real, life-long experience.         ... MORE

Husna Haq: Why Is Wal-Mart Worried?

Tax increases gouge low-income consumers.      Retailers are preparing for a triple whammy as the restoration of the payroll tax, surging gas prices, and stagnant employment and wages take a bite out of consumers’ disposable income, leaving them with less cash to spend on clothing, groceries, and eating out. As a result, more than three   ... MORE