David Harsanyi: Liberals Vs. Imaginary Monsters

A noble fight against evil?   New York Times columnist Paul Krugman recently informed us that a national movement is afoot "to punish the unemployed." Remarkably, he went on to write, conservatives think the world is far too easy on those who can't find work, so they're on a mission to make it worse. The right, you see, is not just perpetuating    ... MORE

Thomas Sowell - The Mindset Of The Left (Part 3)

A relentless quest for more government intrusions.     The fundamental problem of the political left seems to be that the real world does not fit their preconceptions. Therefore they see the real world as what is wrong, and what needs to be changed, since apparently their preconceptions cannot be wrong. A never-ending source of     ... MORE

VIDEO: Milton Friedman - Drug War Is A Terrible Thing

Repubs Leaving Party Are Tired Of "Two Evils" Argument

Both parties relentless pimp big government.    A new study by the Frontier Lab, a conservative market research group, found that Republican voters who leave the party do so because they are are tired of being told to vote Republican as the "lesser of two evils." The study, "Switching Behavior: Modeling disaffiliation from the Republican   ... MORE

Political Correctness Costs Big Brother Contestant Her Job

Modeling agency decides free speech good only in theory. A Texas modeling agency is dropping a Big Brother 15 contestant as a client after she spewed racist and homophobic comments on the show’s 24/7 feed. Zephyr Talent of Austin, TX announced on its Facebook page that it will release Aaryn Gries, 22, from her contract after she was   ... MORE

VIDEO: Conservatives BLAST Internet Sales Tax

Emily Goff: Cut Government Spending To Help Economy?

Majority says yes.    A recent Rasmussen poll (subscription required) found that 65 percent of likely voters want the government to cut spending to help alleviate the country’s economic woes. Four years after the official end of the recession in June 2009, the economy is growing sluggishly. As The Wall Street Journal reports today, the     ... MORE

Rick Manning: The Extra-Constitutional ObamaCare Delay

Waiting till after midterms to drive up health costs.     Never has a word better described a man than "audacious" describes the 44th president of the United States, Barack H. Obama. His latest jaw-dropper was delivered via a Treasury Department blog post that the controversial employer mandate section of the ObamaCare law will be delayed  ... MORE

Thomas Sowell - The Mindset Of The Left (Part II)

Promoting envy and a sense of grievance.    The political left has long claimed the role of protector of "the poor." It is one of their central moral claims to political power. But how valid is this claim? Leaders of the left in many countries have promoted policies that enable the poor to be more comfortable in their poverty. But that raises a           ... MORE

Dirty Little Secret About Holiday Traffic Ticketing

by Gary Biller.     One of the most cherished traditions of the American family is the summer vacation. Packing up the car and heading cross-country for a weeklong camping trip, a visit with those distant cousins or an extended stay near a popular theme park is generally the recipe for a refreshing break from the dog days of summer. Little do most   ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - Who's Watching You?

From A Nation Of Laws To A Nation Of Men

by John Whitehead.       With each passing day, America is inching further down the slippery slope toward a police state. While police clashes with protesters, small farmers and other so-called “lawbreakers” vividly illustrate the limits placed on our freedoms, the boundaries of a police state extend far beyond the actions of law enforcement.  ... MORE

The Most Shocking Aspect Of The Aaron Hernandez Case

by Mike Riggs.    Last Wednesday New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez was charged with murder for "orchestrating the execution" of Odin Lloyd, a semi-pro football player who Hernandez had known for about a year. I didn't pay the story much attention—until I saw footage of Hernandez being arrested. Let me paint the scene for you:   ... MORE

VIDEO: 4th Of July Special - Up In My Grill (Remy)

Andrew Napolitano: A Not-So-Happy Fourth Of July

How can we celebrate the degradation of liberty?      Do you have more personal liberty today than on the Fourth of July 2012? When Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, he used language that has become iconic. He wrote that we are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights, and among them are    ... MORE

Raising The Minimum Wage: Bad Ideas Have Consequences

by James Sherk.   Liberals argue that raising the minimum wage boosts the economy without costing jobs. To which conservatives often respond: then why not really hike it and see what happens? Venture capitalist Nick Hanauer appears to have taken this rhetorical point literally. He recently proposed raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour. Hanauer  ... MORE

Thomas Sowell - The Mindset Of The Left

Why it is all about the government.      When teenage thugs are called "troubled youth" by people on the political left, that tells us more about the mindset of the left than about these young hoodlums. Seldom is there a speck of evidence that the thugs are troubled, and often there is ample evidence that they are in fact enjoying themselves, as    ... MORE

Not Wanting To Hire A Criminal Now Makes You A Racist

by Emily Miller.    Not wanting to employ a criminal makes you a racist. At least that is what the Obama administration has determined to be law with a regulation made without congressional approval. Businesses are fighting the charge that not wanting ex-cons on the payroll is illegal discrimination. On June 11, the Equal Employment Opportunity   ... MORE

VIDEO: Fox News - Privacy, Lies, Drones & Snowden

Public Approval Of Supreme Court Falls To All-Time Low

Lawyers in robes seen to ignore Constitution.        The U.S. Supreme Court finished its term with big decisions on voting rights, affirmative action and same-sex marriage. Following those rulings, public approval of the court has fallen to the lowest level ever recorded in more than nine years of polling. A new Rasmussen Reports national     ... MORE

What The Red Sox Know About Immigration Reform

by Ira Stoll.    One of the things I have found reassuringly familiar as I move back to New England after an absence of nearly 20 years is the Red Sox baseball team, still battling for the top of the American League’s East division. It’s just the players who are different. The hottest Boston hitter at the moment has been Jose Iglesias, a 23-year-old infielder    ... MORE

VIDEO: Should The Government Subside ... Silly Walks?

Is Obama A Victim Of Self-Esteem Education?

by Jonathon Moseley.    I never understood Barack Obama -- or even some of my friends -- until I read The Amateur by Edward Klein (Regnery Publishing 2012 -- paperback June 13, 2013). But first you also need to remember the plague of "self-esteem" based education. And finally it all makes sense. The self-esteem movement hurt our public        ... MORE

Yelp Of Pot, Leafly, Is Tip Of Marijuana Missionary's Spear

by Peter Cohan.    Brendan Kennedy wants to make the world safe for investing in marijuana. Kennedy, CEO at Seattle’s $5.5 million (assets under management) Privateer Holdings, believes that he can make a profit and make the world better by investing in marijuana companies. Kennedy earned a BA from the University of California, Berkeley,  ... MORE

Walter E Williams: Distrusting Government

To celebrate our Declaration of Independence.   Recent opinion polls demonstrate a deepening distrust of the federal government. That's not an altogether bad thing. Our nation's founders recognized that most human abuses are the result of government. As Thomas Paine said, "government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil."     ... MORE

Stephanie Simon: Why Our Teachers Can't Teach

Long awaited report reveals an ugly truth.     The U.S. teacher training system is badly broken, turning out rookie educators who have little hands-on experience running classrooms and are quickly overwhelmed by the job, according to a report released Tuesday by the National Council on Teacher Quality. The review found "an     ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel: Gambling Prohibitions

Earl Glynn: How ObamaCare Empowers The IRS

Massive expansion of the controversial tax agency required. While promoting Obamacare, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi encouraged Americans to think of it as a kind of Christmas present. “We have to pass the (health care) bill so that you can find out what is in it,” she told the National Association of Counties in March 2010, days before     ... MORE

Police State: Ohio Cops Not Above Perpetrating Fraud

Anything for a drug bust.    An Ohio police department have come under fire for setting up fake checkpoints to search drivers and their cars for drugs. Police in the city of Cleveland recently posted large yellow signs along Interstate 271 that warned drivers that there was a drug checkpoint ahead, to be   ... MORE      LEARN ABOUT JURY NULLIFICATION

VIDEO: Police State - Cops Forcibly Drawing Blood

Many Gov't Agencies Track Your Credit Card Transactions

by Michael Snyder.   Were you under the impression that your credit card transactions are private?  If so, I am sorry to burst your bubble.  As you will see below, there are actually multiple government agencies that are gathering and storing records of your credit card transactions.  And in turn, those government agencies share that information with     ... MORE

Let's Divorce Marriage From The Government

by Steve Chapman.  As a kid, I remember watching a rerun of the 1952 I Love Lucy Show episode in which Lucy finds her marriage license while cleaning out a closet. She discovers, to her horror, a typo that refers to husband Ricky’s last name as Bacardi rather than Ricardo, which causes her to question the legality of her marriage. The ensuing hijinks ... MORE

Juan Cole: Ten American Steps Toward A Police State

How politicians are making your world into a prison.    The police state, a term first coined in the mid-19th century in German (Polizeistaat), is characterized by a standing political police, by intense domestic surveillance and by restrictions on the movements of citizens. Police states are on a spectrum, and unfortunately in the past   ... MORE

Federal Regs Cut Standard of Living by 75% In 56 Years

The high cost of red tape.   The 20th annual snapshot of the federal regulatory state published by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) last month announced the arrival of an unhappy milestone: Regulatory costs now equal more than half of all federal spending. Put another way, the real cost of government in the United States is half-again as  ... MORE

VIDEO: Thomas Sowell - Progressives, Liberals And Race

Mark Steyn: So Long, Self-Government

Might as well put the Constitution out of its misery.    June 26, 2013 — just another day in a constitutional republic of limited government by citizen representatives: First thing in the morning, Gregory Roseman, Deputy Director of Acquisitions (whatever that means), became the second IRS official to take the Fifth Amendment, after he was   ... MORE

Ronald Bailey: Obama's Five-Year Climate Plan

Central planning as a global warming solution.      The central planners in communist governments were notorious for issuing massively detailed top-down five-year plans to manage every facet of their economies. The accumulating inefficiency and waste produced by this sort of rigid planning led eventually to the demise of those     ... MORE

VIDEO: Reason's Nanny Of The Month - June 2013


Criminalizing free speech is all the rage. 

Marijuana's March Toward Mainstream Confounds Feds

Many dynamics in play.      It took 50 years for American attitudes about marijuana to zigzag from the paranoia of ‘‘Reefer Madness’’ to the excesses of Woodstock back to the hard line of ‘‘Just Say No.’’ The next 25 years took the nation from Bill Clinton, who famously ‘‘didn’t inhale,’’ to Barack Obama, who most emphatically did. And now, in just a  ... MORE

Joseph Lawler: The Money Printers To Work Overtime

Federal Reserve to keep adding stimulus.     Three more Federal Reserve officials reaffirmed Friday that the central bank does not want to take away monetary stimulus too soon, counter to the impressions left by Chairman Ben Bernanke’s press conference last week. The Fed “is not only leaving the punch bowl in place, we’re continuing to spike the ... MORE