Gary M. Gales: The Clenched Fist & The General Welfare

A clenched fist cannot create.     If we asked what we want government to do to advance the general welfare, the answer boils down to determining what advantages accrue from organizing people and resources via government power as opposed to allowing them to organize voluntarily. Of course, government has no resources it has not     ... MORE

Jacob Sullum: Obama's Cloak Of Invisibility

Secrecy frustrates challenges to counterterrorism tactics. Back in 2007, when he was running for president, Barack Obama criticized George W. Bush's expansive vision of executive power, saying, "I reject the view that the president may do whatever he deems necessary to protect national security." The day after taking office in 2009, Obama    ... MORE

VIDEO: Grow The Economy, Not The Government


Remarks from Sen. Tim Scott at CPAC 2013.

John Stossel: The Blob That Ate Children

Why are they so scared of competition?   Shortly after I did my first TV special on education, "Stupid in America," hundreds of union teachers showed up outside my office to yell at me. They were angry because I said union rules were a big reason American kids don't learn. The union is a big reason kids don't like school and learn   ... MORE

New York State Offers $500 Reward To Gun Tattletails

Government subsidizes citizen defenselessness.   For more than a year, New York state has maintained a tip line allowing people to report illegal gun owners and collect a $500 reward. CBS-6 news reported the existence of the tip line on Wednesday. It was previously a “well-kept secret” that received little promotion from state officials or     ... MORE

VIDEO: Big Sis Refuses To Answer On Bullet Purchases

Andrew Napolitano: No More Asking Permission To Speak

Violations of liberty named the Patriot Act.  In 1798, when John Adams was president of the United States, the feds enacted four pieces of legislation called the Alien and Sedition Acts. One of these laws made it a federal crime to publish any false, scandalous or malicious writing -- even if true -- about the president or the federal government,   ... MORE

We Should Be Embarrassed By The Sequester Debate

by Yaron Brook and Don Watkins.      The sequester debate is a national embarrassment - though not for the reasons you might think. We are debating whether shaving a few percent off the government's bloated budget will bring the country to its knees. It's a good thing the Founders are long dead, because if George Washington or James Madison   ... MORE

Say No To Texting And Driving As A Primary Offense

by Marcella Robinson.    Texting and driving is dangerous and in many cases, deadly. The Virginia General Assembly recently passed a bill that would make texting and driving a primary offense, but a Charlottesville civil rights group wants you to know the law would be devastating to your Fourth-Amendment rights. A press release issued the Rutherford   ... MORE

Medical Marijuana Opposition Supports Socialized Medicine

by Amesh Adalja.  In England, heroin—a potent pain-killer—is available for use by healthcare providers. But in the U.S., the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) classifies it as a schedule I  drug which legally stipulates that it has no clinical use. Marijuana is another Schedule 1 substance that, according to the DEA, has no clinical use.        ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - The Liberal's Case Against Liberty

Sally Pipes: ObamaCare Makes Business Less Likely To Hire

A strong incentive for more unemployment.    Wondering why the unemployment rate has been near or above 8 percent for nearly four years? The Federal Reserve has an answer for you: Obamacare. Earlier this month, the Fed released its latest “beige book”  – a monthly report on economic conditions across the country. The book noted that employers  ... MORE

Charles Hurt: Government Has A Few Questions For You

Big Brother seeks to learn everything about you.  Rage over the waste and injustice of agents sent by the federal government to bang on doors of law-abiding citizens to ask probing, creepy questions is normally something that bubbles up only every 10 years. But ever since the federal government became a cancerous leviathan, the outrage is now   ... MORE

VIDEO: America's Longest War: The Trailer

Brian Phillips: Abolish Public Schools

Make a move toward educational excellence.   In recent years, it has become increasingly popular to argue that government should be operated more like a business. As an example, a manifesto written by sixteen public school executives explains how to fix public schools: Let’s stop ignoring basic economic principles of supply and demand    ... MORE

Jane S. Shaw: The 'P.C.' Dumbing Down Of U.S. Schools

Campuses succumb to groupthink.     U.S. colleges and universities are drowning in a sea of “political correctness,” and many of higher education’s “best and brightest” don’t recognize the danger. Indeed, speech codes and groupthink are so prevalent on American campuses that we now take them for granted. Instead of meekly accepting the   ... MORE

John Stossel: Frack To The Future

The political power of silly people.    Celebrities are now upset about fracking, the injection of chemicals into the ground to crack rocks to release oil and gas. With everyone saying they want alternatives to foreign oil, I'd think celebrities would love fracking. I'd be wrong. Lady Gaga, Yoko Ono and their group, Artists Against Fracking, don't  ... MORE

Garth Kent: 340 Sheriffs Refuse To Enforce Gun Control

Standing up against unenforceable knee-jerk reactions.      A Colorado sheriff has joined the list of at least 340 sheriffs who have vowed to uphold the Constitution against gun-control measures that violate Americans’ Second Amendment rights. Weld County Sheriff John Cooke said he and many other county sheriffs “won’t bother enforcing” laws      ... MORE

VIDEO: Walter E Williams - Why Many Cities Are Broke

Thomas Sowell: A Real Term Limit

For vision beyond the next election cycle.    The main thing wrong with the term limits movement is the "s" at the end of the word "limit." What are advocates of term limits trying to accomplish? If they are trying to keep government from being run by career politicians, whose top priority is getting themselves reelected, then term limits on given   ... MORE

Walter E Williams: Intellectuals And Race

Who creates the greatest hurdle to blacks? After reading Dr. Thomas Sowell's latest book, "Intellectuals and Race," one cannot emerge with much respect for the reasoning powers of intellectuals, particularly academics, on matters of race. There's so much faulty logic and downright dishonesty. Many intellectuals attribute the behavior patterns     ... MORE

VIDEO: Food Stamp Outreach To Illegal Aliens


Sequester or not, politicians find new ways to squander your tax dollar.

'Public Servants' Humiliate American Hero At Airport

TSA demands marine take off his legs for search. Transportation Security Administration inspectors forced a wounded Marine who lost both of his legs in an IED blast and who was in a wheelchair to remove his prosthetic legs at one point, and at another point to stand painfully on his legs while his wheelchair was examined, according to a       ... MORE

Andrew Moylan: Don't Tax The Internet

Beware of the "Marketplace Fairness Act."  Senate Republicans will face a fork in the road this week when Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., forces a vote on a measure paving the way for expanded state sales tax collection for online purchases. The route Durbin would have them take would eventually lead to passage of the so-called “Marketplace Fairness Act,” a bill ... MORE

Sobriety Checkpoints Still Controversial: The Whole Story

America's most popular warrantless search.      This being St. Patrick’s Day weekend, a popular drinking holiday, there is one thing you can count on: A police crackdown on drunken driving. And the Ohio State Highway Patrol did not disappoint. There were at least 15 sobriety checkpoints as well as saturation patrols across the state this     ... MORE

Debra Saunders: Smoke Gets In Your Rights

Making it illegal to smoke in your own home.      California Assemblyman Marc Levine, D-San Rafael, has introduced a bill to make it illegal for people to smoke in their own homes — if they live in an apartment or a condo or a multifamily home. When last I wrote about Levine, he was pushing a statewide law to require grocers to   ... MORE

VIDEO: Stossel - The Conservative's Case Against Liberty


Ann Coulter attempts to explain the faults of libertarianism.

Anti-Drone Devices To Be Going On Sale

Some power for the people.  Domestic drones will soon be soaring through the sky left and right, but a company in Oregon with ties to the US military is marketing a service that they say will make sure private property is safe from surveillance. The team at one-month-old Domestic Drone Countermeasures doesn’t go into many specifics, but says ... MORE

Katie Kieffer: Why Women's Issues Are Men's Issues Too

The reclassification of freedom issues.    President Obama and Sandra Fluke both callthemselves lawyers and “reproductive rights activists” without giving you any indication that they understand the Constitution or basic biology. I’m not a lawyer, but I understand the Constitution. I’m not a reproductive rights activist, but I aced     ... MORE

VIDEO: Jury Nullifcation


How the citizen can protect individual rights.

Ellen Sauerbrey: Raising Minimum Wage Hurts The Poor

Unskilled workers get laid off to offset costs.    Legislators in Maryland are again debating raising the state minimum wage, this time from $7.25 to $10.00 per hour (a 38 percent increase) and indexing it to the cost of living so that future changes would be automatic, with no vote or legislative accountability required. Also included is an increase in  ... MORE

Philly Mayor Calls To Investigate Magazine Article On Race

Freedom of speech and political intimidation. The mayor of Philadelphia has called for an investigation into a controversial article recently published in a local magazine titled 'Being White in Philly.' The story that appeared in Philadelphia Magazine this month features a series of interviews with unnamed white residents living in different ... MORE

David John Marotta: Are Property Rights Human Rights?

The success of a nation depends on the answer. Property rights depend on the principle that you own yourself. If you own yourself, then you own the fruit of your labor. A medieval hunter cuts a branch and sharpens it into a spear. Now he has changed a common stick into a useful tool; he has made personal property. Property rights protect the  ... MORE

Growing Number Of States Defy Federal Gun Laws

by Gregory Gwyn-Williams Jr. Shortly after voters in Colorado and Washington State approved measures that legalized the recreational use of marijuana, President Obama told Barbara Walters that his Justice Department would not prosecute pot users in these states. "We've got bigger fish to fry," Obama said. Although the state measures defy ... MORE

FOX NEWS: Death Panels Back Again

Jeffrey Phelps: American Police State Expanding

Government to snoop through your financial records.  A very startling report emerged Wednesday spelling out another example of the loss of ever-dwindling rights and liberties in the US. According to the report, Obama has decided to allow all US intelligence agencies the ability to “scour American's finances” and dig through the    ... MORE

Rick Moran: Libertarians On The Rise At CPAC

What about the social conservatives? This account by the Daily Beast's Michael Moynihan highlights the virtual libertarian takeover of CPAC this year and what it means for Rand Paul: When Rand Paul addresses those issues that divide libertarians and traditional conservatives-national security, the drug war, immigration, gay rights-he does so      ... MORE

VIDEO: The Next Generation Of Surveillance Capability


ARGUS Featured on PBS Nova. BIG BROTHER IS HERE!

NY State Assemblyman Busted For Pot -- And Hypocrisy

Thomas Kaplan reports on a fallen drug warrior.   A New York State assemblyman from the Hudson Valley was charged with marijuana possession after he was stopped for speeding, the authorities said on Friday. The assemblyman, Stephen M. Katz, 59, a Republican from Mohegan Lake, was found with a “small bag” of marijuana when stopped   ... MORE

House Defeats Minimum Wage Increase

More unemployment avoided.   The House on Friday rejected a Democratic push to raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10, shooting down one of President Obama’s priorities from his State of the Union speech. The 233-184 defeat also exposed divisions within the Democratic Party. Where Mr. Obama called for a hike from the current $7.25   ... MORE