Defining moments. The government's fidelity to the Constitution is never more tested
than in a time of crisis. The urge to do something — or to appear to be
doing something — is nearly irresistible to those whom we have employed
to protect our freedom and to keep us safe. Regrettably, with each
passing violent crisis — Waco, Oklahoma City, ... MORE
Paul Shlichta: Choice Of Weapons
The gun grabbers forgot about this one. The advocates of gun control seem to believe that, by restricting or eliminating private possession of guns, all violence can be eliminated. However, recent events have tragically demonstrated that would-be assailants have a wide choice of weapons, including knives, explosives, automobiles, ... MORE
Brian Witte: Pot Legalization Will Not Deter Drug Czar
The will of the people be damned. The nation's drug czar said Wednesday the legalization of marijuana in Washington state and Colorado won't change his office's mission of fighting the country's drug problem by focusing on addiction treatment that will be available under the federal health overhaul. Gil Kerlikowske, director of the ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: Immigration Gambles - Part II
Whose interests are immigration laws supposed to serve -- and whose interests do current immigration reform proposals actually serve? In order to have any immigration policy serve any purpose, the border must first be secured. Otherwise American immigration policy exists only on paper, and is mocked by what happens on the ... MORE
VIDEO: Don't Cops Have Better Things To Do
Sex first, then arrest hooker. Your tax dollars at work!
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Doug Bandow: America On Welfare
Great society needs to be replaced by free society. Living the good life on welfare. Even the Europeans recognize that they pay a high price for creating an increasingly dependent society. Denmark has been transfixed by the revelation of a 36-year-old single mother who collects more in benefits than many Danes earn at work, and has done so ... MORE
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The Good Guys Are NOT Coming To Save Us
by Paul Rosenberg. A lot of Americans know that the US government is out of control. Anyone who has cared enough to study the US Constitution even a little knows this. Still, very few of these people are taking any significant action, and largely because of one error: They are waiting for “the good guys” to show up and fix things. Some think ... MORE
Jacob Sullum: The Bogus 'Public Safety' Exception
The Fifth Amendment doesn't need to be sacrificed. Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, captured last Friday evening, was not informed of his right to remain silent and his right to a lawyer until Monday morning, nearly three days after his arrest. The FBI said the delay was justified under the "public safety" exception to Miranda v. ... MORE
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Robert H. Nelson: The Fractured Left
Good news on natural gas is bad news for Democrats. Much has been said recently about the deep tensions within the
Republican party. Far less has been said about a sharp division arising
inside the Democratic party. That latter tension was front and center recently when former Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell wrote an op-ed piece ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: Immigration Gambles
When political correctness replaces self-preservation. Britain's late Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said it all when she wrote that the world has "never ceased to be dangerous," but the West has "ceased to be vigilant." Nothing better illustrates her point than the fact that the West has imported vast numbers of people who hate our guts and ... MORE
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Peter Ferrara: Fight Back! Privatize The FAA
They are really asking for it this time. If you are an air traveler this week, you might get a dose of how it feels to be deliberately abused by your government to score political points. President Obama and the Democrat Party are so adamantly opposed to any semblance of cuts in government spending that they cannot abide the sequester that ... MORE
Boston: The MSM's Exploded "Journalism"
by Edward Cline. Over the years, I have watched via Internet video countless IED (Improvised Explosive Device) explosions detonated on American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. So, when I read the news of the Boston Marathon bombing of April 15th, and watched the videos of the incident, I was certain that it was a terrorist bombing that killed ... MORE
Caroline May: Pimping Food Stamps To Seniors
Food stamp recruiter must enroll 150 per month. A Florida food stamp recruiter is tasked with enrolling at least 150 senior citizens in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program a month, The Washington Post reports in a profile about SNAP outreach. Following 56 year old recruiter Dillie Nerios perform her task, to appeal to seniors to get them ... MORE
The Gun Rights Revolution You Might Have Missed
by Miranda Green. If you live in Arkansas, you can now carry a concealed gun into a bar, or a liquor store—or a church. College staffers can bring guns on campus. Folks with a permit from other states can pack heat in Arkansas without filing any paperwork. These are among the half-dozen legal changes in the state that passed only four months ... MORE
Federalism Is Good Policy And Good Politics
by Daniel J. Mitchell. It’s a challenge to be a libertarian in Washington because you have to swim against the tide. The vast majority of people in town are looking for excuses to spend money and amass power, and a small band of us are trying to convince them that the federal government should be limited in size and scope. It may ... MORE
David Deming: The Real Deniers Of Climate Change
A political ideology masked as science. The Northern Hemisphere is experiencing unusually cold weather. Snow cover last December was the greatest since satellite monitoring began in 1966. The United Kingdom had the coldest March weather in 50 years, and there were more than a thousand record low temperatures in the ... MORE
Thomas Sowell - Genes And Racism
Subtle factors. During decades of watching both collegiate and professional football, I have seen hundreds of touchdowns scored by black players — but not one extra point kicked by a black player. Is this because blacks are genetically incapable of kicking a football or because racists won't let blacks kick a football? Most of us would consider either ... MORE
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Jonah Goldberg: Big Brother's Blind Spots
It is easiest to inconvenience the law-abiding. During a big chunk of the Bush years, there was a good deal of legitimate concern about the extent to which the government was monitoring us. And then there was some flat out crazy stuff. Naomi Wolf spoke for many when she periodically would come unglued about one imagined violation ... MORE
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Ralph R. Reiland: The Audacity Of Hope
Street level anti-capitalism. It’s not what I signed up for, but I recently got a three hour Marxist lecture while taking a boat ride on the intracoastal waterways of Fort Lauderdale. “That waterfront mansion coming up on our left is Alamo car rental money,” said our guide on the cruise.“Think of that the next time you put down your money to ... MORE
How Government Killed The Medical Profession
by Jeffrey A. Singer. I am a general surgeon with more than three decades in private clinical practice. And I am fed up. Since the late 1970s, I have witnessed remarkable technological revolutions in medicine, from CT scans to robot-assisted surgery. But I have also watched as medicine slowly evolved into the domain of technicians, bookkeepers, ... MORE
Tax-Free Internet Shopping Jeopardized By Politicians
by Stephen Ohlemacher. Tax-free shopping on the Internet could be in jeopardy under a bill making its way through the Senate. The bill would empower states to require online retailers to collect state and local sales taxes for purchases made over the Internet. The sales taxes would be sent to the states where a shopper lives. Under current law, states ... MORE
Why ObamaCare May Cost You Your Job
by John C. Goodman. The best way to understand the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) is to realize that it confers large benefits on some people and imposes large costs on others. If you are one of the ones who will qualify for expanded Medicaid, you will get something for nothing. Although there are quality issues and access problems, ... MORE
Walter E Williams: Academic Cesspools
On prying open closed minds. Over the past 10 years, I have written columns variously titled "Academic Cesspools," "Academic Dishonesty," "The Shame of Higher Education," "Academic Rot" and "Indoctrination of Our Youth." Therefore, I was not surprised by David Feith's April 5th Wall Street Journal article, "The Golf Shot Heard Round the Academic World." ... MORE
Sen. Rand Paul: An Ill-Advised Internet Tax Mandate
Another way for government to separate man and money. The Republican Party is supposed to oppose tax increases and burdensome, unnecessary government regulations. But sometimes, they lose their way. The
most recent example is support by some Republicans for the misnamed
Marketplace Fairness Act, which should really ... MORE
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Steve Tobak: The Real Impact Of Political Correctness
People are defined by their deeds, their actions. Not their words. But the way we communicate can be both reflective of our behavior and an influence on it going forward. What we call political correctness, for example, reflects societal behavior, how our culture has changed. It also influences societal behavior. In that sense, it reinforces the ... MORE
New York Times Op-Ed: The War On Drugs Is A Failure
Ron Paul, Chris Christie perform in video. Could it truly be a coincidence that April 20 lands only five short days after Tax Day? Surely the Internal Revenue Service orchestrated this calendar synchronicity, understanding that after another harrowing round of W-2s, 1099s and 1040s, many Americans relish the hard-earned opportunity to illegally ... MORE
Rich Tucker: Electric Cars And Crony Federalism
Competition is good— but only when it encourages a “race to the top.” That’s true in business and among the states as well. Competition can encourage policy innovation. For example, Pennsylvania carefully (but reasonably) regulates hydraulic fracturing, and it is reaping the benefits as companies create jobs by safely extracting oil and natural gas. ... MORE
In Case You Missed It, Congress Takes Your Internet Privacy
by Kristina Chew. To the disappointent of advocates for civil liberties and internet
freedom, the controversial Cyber Intelligence and Protection Act
(CISPA) passed
the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday by a vote of 288-127. 196
Republicans voted for the measure and almost half the House Democrats. Few would dispute that cybersecurity is not a ... MORE
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James P Gray: Minimum Wage Does More Harm Than Good
Pricing low-skill workers out of the game. The 2012 platform for the Democratic Party promised to raise the national minimum wage from $7.25 to $9.50 per hour and to tie future changes to inflation. Just as with arguments for a "living wage," this sounds like a good and compassionate idea, but it has a false allure. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics ... MORE
A Lawsuit To Reclaim Property Rights From Prairie Dogs
by Michael Bastach. Attorneys representing property owners in Cedar City, Utah filed a lawsuit Thursday arguing that the federal government has overstepped its constitutional bounds by preventing residents from defending their property against a massive prairie dog infestation. “The federal government doesn’t have the authority to regulate a ... MORE
John Fund: Government's Broke, Hooray
Washington has less money for bribes. Imagine what the media reaction would be if in the aftermath of yesterday’s Senate vote blocking new background checks, a leading official of the gun lobby had explained his side’s success by saying: “Bribery isn’t what it once was. The government has no money. Once upon a time you would throw ... MORE
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