Richard E. Ralston: The Hydra Of Government Medicine

Only the right principles can save us.  We value physicians for their ability to optimize the length and quality of our lives. They value treating and preventing illness, relieving pain and curing disease. Yet the relationship between doctors and patients is increasingly under attack by a relentless government. A hydra-headed monster of multiple    ... MORE

Domestic Drones To Hunt Gun Carriers In America For DHS

by Cheryl K. Chumley. The Department of Homeland Security has an unmanned drone fleet with technology that can root out civilians who are carrying guns, government documents show. “I am very concerned that this technology will be used against law-abiding American firearms owners,” said Alan Gottlieb, founder of the Second Amendment ... MORE

VIDEO: Buckley & Alinsky - Mobilizing The Poor


Saul Alinsky - The 2nd most influential community activist of all time.

Erik Rush: The Rise Of America's Gestapo

The enemies of the Constitution.  On March 4, despite hundreds of Coloradans flooding the State Capitol in Denver and honking horns on the streets that encircle the building all day long, and the presence of 25 county sheriffs opposed to seven Democratic gun-control proposals, the measures all passed the Colorado House along party-line votes. ... MORE

Brian Domitrovic: The Sequester That Saved The Economy

Remember stimulus spending? That’s the stuff that the government is supposed to come up with when the economy goes into recession. The idea is that since government expenditures are one part of overall economic output, when private activity wanes, aggregate output, or “GDP” can be maintained. It’s intriguing as a theory, perhaps, but in     ... MORE

VIDEO: Shortage or Surplus? Resetting the Energy Outlook

If You're Reading This, You're Surviving The Sequester Cuts

by John Stossel. That may surprise you, since President Obama likened the sequester to taking a "meat cleaver" to government, causing FBI agents to be furloughed, prosecutors to let criminals escape and medical research to grind to a halt! The media hyped it, too. The NBC Nightly News said, "The sequester could cripple air travel, force       ... MORE

Robert Higgs: Don't Rely On A Quack Doctor

Some prescriptions can have adverse actions.    A man goes to his doctor for a routine checkup. The doctor performs a perfunctory examination and informs him that unless he receives an experimental treatment the doctor has devised, he will soon become disabled. “What’s it cost, Doc?” the man asks. “Well, unfortunately it’s not cheap,  ... MORE

Andrew Napolitano: The Right To Self-Defense

To right to self-protect preceded government.   In all the noise caused by the Obama administration's direct assault on the right of every person to keep and bear arms, the essence of the issue has been drowned out. The president and his big-government colleagues want you to believe that only the government can keep you free and safe, so to them, ... MORE

Guy F. Caruso: Recognizing America's New Energy Reality

Energy trade, not restrictions/taxes, will advance growth.   In less than a decade, the role of unconventional oil and gas has dramatically changed the energy outlook in the United States. Over the next 20 years, US natural gas and coal exports will increase and oil imports will decline steadily. Abundant domestic energy can be a huge driver of the   ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - Libertarians And Republicans

Red State: Political Correctness, Bullying And Other BS

Some lessons need to be learned: You can tell your child a million times, “don’t touch the stove, it’s hot,” or you can tell them once, let them touch it, and they quickly figure it out.  Some will think I am evil, but the fact is it’s effective. Choices are a part of life; the wrong ones will burn you. Traditionally in America, we have always tried to make ... MORE

Amy Payne: Busting 5 Myths About The Minimum Wage

It hurts, not helps, low-skill workers.      When someone says “minimum wage,” what comes to mind? Do you think of teenagers flipping burgers? Or a single parent trying to feed several kids? While President Obama and other proponents of a higher minimum wage want you to visualize that single parent, the truth is that a burger-flipping      ...  MORE

VIDEO: Tax Inequality in America

U.N. Pushes Efforts To Force Pot Criminalization In U.S.

Just how sovereign are we?     A United Nations-based drug agency urged the United States government on Tuesday to challenge the legalization of marijuana for recreational use in Colorado and Washington, saying the state laws violate international drug treaties. The International Narcotics Control Board made its appeal in an annual drug report. ... MORE

Gene Healy: Washington, DC, Capital Of The Absurd

Why the nation's capital is a clown show.       Like most of this company town, I'm addicted to Netflix's Beltway "telenovela," House of Cards, starring Kevin Spacey as a conspiratorial House majority whip. But the show unwittingly flatters D.C., depicting a city of ruthless, steely competence. The real thing is a clown show consumed by       ... MORE

The Architects Of The American Police State

John W. Whitehead on the U.S. Supreme Court.  “The unspoken power dynamics in a police/civilian encounter will generally favor the police, unless the civilian is a local sports hero, the mayor, or a giant who is impervious to bullets.”—Journalist Justin Peters  From time to time throughout history, individuals have been subjected to charges   ... MORE

Tibor Machan: The Libertarian Public Interest

Libertarians understand the public good.   A particularly irksome rhetorical ploy against the free society’s champions is that they refuse to acknowledge that there is such a thing as the public interest (or public good or general welfare or some such goal). Critics of these champions routinely wag their fingers charging that those who insist that the free    ... MORE

VIDEO: FOX NEWS - Here Come The Mini Drones

Thomas Sowell: Economic Mobility

Taking advantage of opportunity.      Most people are not even surprised any more when they hear about someone who came here from Korea or Vietnam with very little money, and very little knowledge of English, who nevertheless persevered and rose in American society. Nor are we surprised when their children excel in school and go on to ... MORE

Mitch McConnell & Rand Paul Join Forces To Legalize Hemp

Push to legalize industrial hemp is gaining steam.  Supporters of industrial hemp gained a powerful ally in Washington several weeks ago when Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) joined fellow Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul and Sens. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) as a co-sponsor of S.359, the Industrial Hemp Farming Act ... MORE

VIDEO: Social Justice and Its Critics

Doug Bandow: Fewer Taxpayers, More Spending

Those who still pay income taxes will pay even more.   Under economic pressure, the Obama administration has pursued an increasingly vigorous class war strategy. At the same time people continue to be dropped from the income tax rolls. This likely expands government and increases what the rest of us will have to pay. Throughout its early   ... MORE

Budget Cuts Could Pull Navy Out Of The War On Drugs

Tail-chasing activities may have to be curbed.  U.S. Navy frigates will stop patrolling for drug runners by April because of forced sequestration budget cuts, a Navy spokesman told USNI News on Monday. On Saturday, U.S. 4th Fleet was informed by Navy leadership it would suspend deployments of two ships—part of the Joint     ... MORE

Walter E Williams: Mandated Wages And Discrimination

Let's work through an example.     Suppose 100 yards of fence could be built using one of two techniques. You could hire three low-skilled workers for $15 each, or you could hire one high-skilled worker for $40. Either way, you get the same 100 yards of fence built. If you sought maximum profits, which production technique would you employ? ... MORE

Why Does Anyone Need A High-Capacity Magazine?

by Mark Almonte.     This article focuses on pistols with high-capacity magazines (a magazine that holds more than ten bullets).  The same arguments in my recent article on assault weapons could apply to high-capacity magazines for rifles. There are several reasons for civilians to own high-capacity magazines: the right to possess the necessary    ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - The Libertarian Way

Can Judges Overrule Free Speech When Criticized?

Conservatives, liberals and media advocates say no.  A group of free-speech advocates is rallying behind an Indiana inmate serving two years for his online rants against a judge who took away his child-custody rights during a divorce case. There’s no disputing that Daniel Brewington’s words were strong and angry -- found in hundreds of emails over ... MORE

Baylen Linnekin: Crony Capitalism Vs. American Food

The deadly duo of big government and big food.    On Thursday this week I took part in a great panel discussion on crony capitalism in food and agriculture at the American Enterprise Institute. Crony capitalism in this area, to me, means that a food business’s success is often wrongly contingent upon the business maintaining a close relationship    ... MORE

VIDEO: Obama's $9/Hour Minimum Wage


Economics Professor Robert P Murphy looks at the proposal.

DHS To Purchase Almost 3,000 Tanks For Use In America

This is getting a little creepy.     According to one estimate, since last year the Department of Homeland Security has stockpiled more than 1.6 billion bullets, mainly .40 caliber and 9mm. DHS also purchased 2,717 Mine Resistant Armor Protected Vehicles (MRAP). Modern Survival Blog reported: The Department of Homeland Security (through ... MORE

Bill Sanderson: TSA Guys Hard On Sex Toys

Airport screeners love rifling through sex toys.    Airport-security screeners apparently get a kink out of rifling through your sexy baggage. “My checked bag is searched almost every time I fly. I guess I’m just lucky, or look suspicious!” said sex blogger Rori Sweet of the DC area. Kitty Stryker, a California sex educator, added, “They always ... MORE

Charles C. W. Cooke: Repeal the 17th Amendment!

Re-empower the states. In our grubby, unhelpful political lexicon, certain words exist solely to end conversations. The most prominent such word is “racist.” Less popular, but by no means less potent, are “democracy” and “rights.” When welded together as “democratic rights,” the pair becomes all-powerful — strong enough to send ... MORE

Harvard Economist: Legalizing Drugs Suits American Ideal

An interview with Professor Jeffrey Miron. Harvard University professor Jeffrey Miron has advocated the legalization of drugs for decades. In a SPIEGEL ONLINE interview, he explains why prohibition is more dangerous than selling drugs in supermarkets. SPIEGEL: Mr. Miron, why should heroin, cocaine and marijuana be legal? Miron: The     ... MORE

VIDEO: Walter E Williams - Theft, Debt And Politics

Capitalism In No Way Created Poverty, It Inherited It

by Yaron Brook and Don Watkins.   The nineteenth century, many people believe, was an era in American history when workers were forced to toil in sweatshops twenty-eight hours a day for starvation wages. It was only when governments intervened, either directly on behalf of workers or indirectly by empowering unions, that conditions improved.      ... MORE

Deportation Case Has Chilling Effect On Homeschooling

by Bryana Johnson.    In 1938, the practice of homeschooling was outlawed in Germany by Adolf Hitler and the infamous Third Reich. It was a rough period in German history, as thousands of young people were being pried from their parents’ direction and authority and drafted into the Hitler Youth program, where they were supposed to be     ... MORE

VIDEO: Nanny of the Month For February


Busybodies minding YOUR own business.

Andrew Napolitano: Obama's False Alarms

Playing politics with blue smoke and mirrors.      In an effort to remove the hot-potato issue of excessive government spending from the 2012 presidential campaign, and calling the bluff of congressional Republicans who always seem to favor domestic spending cuts but increased military spending, President Obama suggested the     ... MORE

IRS Moves To Collect Billions In Fees From Healthcare Law

by Ben Goad.    The Internal Revenue Service on Friday unveiled its proposal to raise tens of billions of dollars through annual fees on health insurers, prompting fierce criticism from industry groups who warn the costs will be passed along to consumers. The proposed rule from President Obama's healthcare law will be published for public    ... MORE