Frank Schell: Where Is Joan Baez When We Need Her?

It's the silent Gen Y that needs her most. Much of generation Y seems to sail in denial, like the skipper of the doomed schooner Hesperus who would not heed dire tocsins about the future and an impending hurricane. They seem oblivious about what is happening to nothing more or less important than their future. Those not in denial are in  ... MORE

Global Warming: Was It Just A Beautiful Dream After All?

by Harry Binswanger.    Like most of you, I yearn for shorter winters, more shirt-sleeve weather, less lashing from frigid winds. As a confirmed New Yorker, I’m not willing to do what millions have done: move to the sunbelt. I want warmer weather here in the Big City. But I’ve grown old waiting for the promised global warming. I was 35 when      ... MORE

VIDEO: 2nd Amendment Protection

Social Justice: A Solution In Search Of A Problem

by John Steele Gordon.  The left has always had a knack for the high-sounding phrase, such as New Deal, Great Society, etc.  One that is increasingly in vogue these days is Social Justice.  It sounds noble—everyone’s in favor of justice, right?—but when you look closely, it’s nothing more than the old redistribution of income in the name  ... MORE

Andrew Napolitano: When The Government Goes Bankrupt

What happens when the government goes bankrupt?   This question is one that sounds like a hypothetical exercise in a law school classroom from just a few years ago, where it might have been met with some derision. But today, it is a realistic and terrifying inquiry that many who have financial relationships with governments in America   ... MORE

VIDEO: Thomas Woods - Predatory Pricing

ACLU Says Reid Gun Bill Could Threaten Civil Liberties

by Vince Coglianese. As Senate Democrats struggle to build support for new gun control legislation, the American Civil Liberties Union now says it’s among those who have “serious concerns” about the bill. Those concerns have the capacity to prove a major setback to Sen. Harry Reid’s current gun bill, which includes language from earlier bills introduced by  ... MORE

Conor Friedersdorf: Drug War More Immoral Than Drug Use

The case for liberty as a moral imperative.     In the Washington Post, Peter Wehner advises the Republican Party to reassert itself as the anti-drug-legalization party. "One of the main deterrents to drug use is because it is illegal. If drugs become legal, their price will go down and use will go up," he writes. "And marijuana is far more potent than in     ... MORE 

Jonah Goldberg: Is Disability The New Welfare?

Greater numbers of Americans seek benefits.  The government in Britain recently did something interesting. It asked everyone receiving an “incapacity benefit” — through a disability program slowly being phased out under new reforms — to submit to a medical test to confirm they were too disabled to work. A third of recipients      ... MORE

Terence P. Jeffrey: Stockton Was Murdered

It was an inside job. Were a rational person given the assignment to search this planet to find the best place for human beings to live and build wealth, he might well settle on San Joaquin County, Calif. That is where Americans built a city called Stockton — the municipality a federal bankruptcy judge just declared dead. How did Stockton die?   ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - Robots Smarter Than People

John Stossel - Green Tyranny

Green intentions, black results.     Environmental activists and politicians would like you to think that we must love their regulations -- or hate trees and animals. I love trees and animals. But you can love nature and still hate the tyranny that environmental regulations bring. The Environmental Protection Agency just announced it   ... MORE

Shikha Dalmia: How ObamaCare Is Like The Iraq War

America needs an exit strategy for health care law. Not even the most ardent defenders of Obamacare—aka the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act—claim anymore that the law will lower health coverage costs for Americans. How, then, will it achieve universal coverage, its central goal? The short answer is, it won't.      ... MORE

VIDEO: How Much Gov't Makes Off Your Car In California

DHS Explains Plans To Buy 1.6 Billion Rounds Of Ammo

It is all about saving taxpayer money.      The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has responded to a letter dated November 13, 2012 from Senator Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) regarding the agency's ammunition purchases. Sen. Coburn published the response on the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs      ... MORE

Johnny Green: Juries Can Nullify Charges If Found Unjust

Judging the law as well as the facts. Although its usage is increasing in the American legal system, far too few people know about, and understand one of the biggest weapons we have in our civil-rights arsenal; jury nullification. Jury nullification is a practice that dates back to before our nation was formed, and is the act of a jury acquitting someone  ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: Guns Save Lives

An inconvenient truth for the left.   We all know that guns can cost lives because the media repeat this message endlessly, as if we could not figure it out for ourselves. But even someone who reads newspapers regularly and watches numerous television newscasts may never learn that guns also save lives— much less see any hard facts comparing how  ... MORE

Paul Bedard: Support For Government Spending Plummets

Perhaps we are realizing it comes out of our hide?      Facing an unsteady economy, the public has turned on federal spending for health care, job creation, environmental protection and even veterans' benefits, according to a new poll provided to Secrets. In its latest Obamacare poll, Public Opinion Strategies found that Americans aren't just down   ... MORE

VIDEO: How Much Can We Blame On Slavery?


Walter E Williams, Ronald Walters

Walter E Williams: Minority Student Needs

The bitter results of sweet intentions. Professor Craig Frisby is on the faculty of University of Missouri's Department of Educational, School and Counseling Psychology. His most recent book is "Meeting the Psychoeducational Needs of Minority Students." It's a 662-page textbook covering a range of topics from multiculturalism and home and  ... MORE

U.K. Considers Cutting Minimum Wage To Boost Jobs

by Kitty Donaldson.    The U.K. government is considering cutting or freezing the national minimum wage if it’s shown to be damaging the labor market, Prime Minister David Cameron’s spokesman said. The Daily Telegraph newspaper reported today that the Business Department has changed the remit of the Low Pay Commission, which sets the      ... MORE

VIDEO: California Government Spending Since 1976

Rich Lowry: The New Climate Deniers

Climate change has become an obsession for some. There are few things sadder than the “climate denier.” He ignores the data and neglects the latest science. His rhetoric and policy proposals are dangerously disconnected from reality. He can’t recalibrate to take account of the latest evidence because, well, he’s a denier. The new climate deniers   ... MORE

Gay Marriage Polls Foretell Marijuana Legalization

by Hunter Walker.  With the Supreme Court now at least considering a definitive statement in favor of gay marriage and support for marriage equality now practically a litmus test issue for Democratic politicians, Americans across the political spectrum are expressing surprise at how rapidly this once marginalized idea became something like a    ... MORE

Government Spending And Fiscal Responsibility


William Perry Pendley: A Lawman's License To Steal

Your public servants at work.   Eight years ago, on a sunny and clear, but windy and cold day, near Garryowen on the vast prairie of southern Montana an hour north of the Wyoming border, vans full of armed, SWAT-geared federal agents sped down Interstate 80. Garryowen is a private town owned by Christopher Kortlander that features, ... MORE

Jonathon Moseley: Global Warming? Oops! Never Mind!

What was the Earth's temperature yesterday?  Nobody knows.  In fact, it's a ridiculous question.  Almost every place on Earth today has a different temperature from that of any other location.  So, is our planet's temperature rising?  Do we even know? However, it is officially admitted: Global warming stopped 15-20 years ago.  The mainstream media   ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - Gun Laws That Kill

Tibor R. Machan: Welfare Rights Are Wrong

Turning free agents into serfs.  Ever since John Locke developed the theory of natural individual human rights, there has been an ongoing attempt to change his idea to something very different. For Locke the natural rights all human beings have are basically prohibitions. They forbid people from intruding on other people–from killing, assaulting,   ... MORE

Star Parker: A New Birth Of Education Freedom

Court rules Indiana parents are free to choose.   As the nation has focused on the Supreme Court hearings on the constitutionality of same-sex marriage, news from the state of Indiana could prove far more important regarding the nation’s future. The Indiana Supreme Court has just ruled unanimously, 5-0, that Indiana’s school voucher     ... MORE

VIDEO: Gun Control In America Is Not New


from The Never Again Campaign.

Why Freight Rail Pays And Passenger Trains Flunk

by Michael Barone. Forty years ago, American railroads were in trouble. The Penn Central, the largest railroad, had recently gone bankrupt. American freight rail was technologically obsolescent and hamstrung by union rules and government rate regulation. American passenger rail was unprofitable and unreliable. Freight rail was   ... MORE

Union Greed Drives California To Bankrupcy

by Steven Greenhut.  Few non-local people pay much attention to the goings-on in Stockton, a hard-pressed Gold-Rush-era industrial city of 300,000 that sits in the agriculturally rich San Joaquin Valley at the eastern edge of the California Delta. But bond-holders, taxpayers and government officials throughout the country will be listening to U.S.          ... MORE

John W. Whitehead: Highway Robbery, Government Style

Policing for profit is a bad thing for citizens.     Long before Americans charted their revolutionary course in pursuit of happiness, it was “life, liberty, and property” which constituted the golden triad of essential rights that the government was charged with respecting and protecting. To the colonists, smarting from mistreatment at the  ... MORE

No Surprise, New York Ranks Last In Personal Freedom

from the NY Post. New York's big government - with its hands deep in taxpayers' pockets and regulations controlling everyone's lives - has made the Empire State the worst in the nation for personal liberty, a new study shows. A war on sugary drinks is the least of freedom-loving New Yorkers' worries, according a report by George Mason University,  ... MORE

VIDEO: Thomas Sowell - Multiculturalism

Robert J. Scamardella: Minimum Wage Harms The Economy

Why reduce the market for low-skill labor?       Raising the minimum wage is the latest populist craze. President Obama recently proposed to hike the minimum wage to $9.00 an hour. New York State is poised to enforce such an increase. On its face, raising the minimum wage sounds benevolent. Closer examination shows that it hurts      ... MORE

Moving Gun Control Tyranny Forward Via Executive Power

by Jordy Yager.   President Obama is quietly moving forward on gun control. The president has used his executive powers to bolster the national background check system, jumpstart government research on the causes of gun violence and create a million-dollar ad campaign aimed at safe gun ownership. The executive steps will give federal law    ... MORE

VIDEO: Nanny Of The Month - March 2013


Banning Bikini Baristas, Big Dogs, and Energy Drinks!

New Obama Regs For Gas To Add Up To 9 Cents A Gallon

by Rick Moran.   Because it's for the kids, don't ya know? The new regs would remove 90% of sulfur from gasoline and tighten emission standards on cars. AP: An oil industry study says the proposed rule being unveiled Friday by the administration could increase gasoline prices by 6 cents to 9 cents a gallon. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates   ... MORE

Marta H. Mossburg: Food Regulations Of The Future

A sneak preview of the coming War on Obesity.    March 29, 2020: The federal government today announced new regulations for buying fast food. Starting June 1, upon entering a national fast food chain restaurant or before ordering via a drive-thru each patron must undergo a Body Mass Index (BMI) analysis. The score will     ... MORE