Chwick & Eisen: A Jury's Secret Power - Nullification

It is up to you to protect liberty.          With Jury Rights Day just around the corner on September 5, it is a good time to reflect upon a Jury’s Duty. Our Founding Fathers, in all their wisdom, gave us a Constitution with layers of safeguards, so that if we erred, we could correct the error, peaceably – without a shot being fired.      ...MORE

Brad Bannon: Building The American Police State

The Founders' worst nightmare has begun.       These days the Constitution isn't worth the parchment it's written on. The Fourth Amendment is currently under siege in New York City and in Washington, D.C. Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal ran a story which indicated that the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance operation      ... MORE

VIDEO: Milton Friedman - A Conversation On Equality


From the award-winning series "Free To Choose," featuring Thomas Sowell.

Doug McKelway: Cell Phone Data Latest Threat To Privacy

Introducing warrantless searches of your phone.        Amid concerns from privacy advocates about the government’s sprawling surveillance programs, the Obama administration earlier this month petitioned the Supreme Court in support of a federal court ruling that allowed police searches of cell phones records without a warrant. ... MORE

Larry Bell: What The Global Warming Hysteria Ignores

What about 17 years of flat global temperatures?      The New York Times feverishly reported on August 10 that the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is about to issue another scary climate report. Dismissing the recent 17 years or so of flat global temperatures, the IPCC will assert that: “It is extremely    ... MORE

VIDEO: Administration Scandal Game: Nixon Or Obama?

Emily Goff: The Top 10 Ways Washington Wastes Money

Lawmakers have lost control.      Whether it’s negotiating over how much to spend on government operations or the government’s borrowing limit, we hear a familiar refrain in Washington these days: There is absolutely no room to cut federal spending. This is not the case. Many people remember the millions spent on the infamous “Bridge     ... MORE

A Rare Stand For Free Speech Over Political Correctness

Unpopular speech is what needs protection.       Councilwoman Elisa Chan defended anti-gay remarks made during a secretly recorded staff meeting, saying at a news conference Tuesday that she won't change her “values or beliefs for political gain or survival.” The statements mark Chan's first public appearance since San Antonio Express-News    ... MORE

John Stossel: Beware The Warrior Cop

To serve and protect who?      We need police to catch murderers, thieves and con men, and so we give them special power — the power to use force on others. Sadly, today's police use that power to invade people's homes over accusations of trivial, nonviolent offenses — and often do it with tanks, battering rams and armor you'd expect   ... MORE

Jacob Sullum: Seattle Gives Pot Peace A Chance

What the country can learn from Hempfest.       Crossing the West Thomas Street Overpass into Seattle's Myrtle Edwards Park on Friday afternoon, I hear a guy remark, "Next year, I'll be turning 23, and so will Hempfest!" His companion seems unimpressed by this discovery. "That's because Hempfest started the same year we were born," he      ... MORE

VIDEO: Fox News - Creating Dependency

NSA Surveillance Reach Far Greater Than Thought

The spies are everywhere.        The National Security Agency's surveillance network has the capacity to spy on 75 percent of all U.S. Internet traffic, The Wall Street Journal reports. Citing current and former NSA officials for the 75 percent figure, the paper reported that the agency can observe more of Americans' online communications than    ... MORE

Jesse Walker: The Leak Scare

A government afraid of themselves.    In the popular stereotype, conspiracy theorists direct their paranoia at the government: The CIA shot JFK. NASA faked the moon landing. Sept. 11 was an inside job. But the most significant sorts of political paranoia are the kinds that catch on with people inside the halls of power, not the folks on the    ... MORE

VIDEO: School Has Become Too Hostile To Boys

New Zealand Joins America In Spying On Its Citizens

America has always been a trendsetter.       Controversial new legislation allowing the Government Communications Security Bureau to spy on New Zealanders has passed its final vote in Parliament tonight. The GCSB amendment Bill passed its third and final reading by 61 votes to 59 following another heated debate between MPs. National,   ... MORE

UPS Drops Spousal Coverage Due To ObamaCare

Teachers get hours cut for same reason.    Thanks to the delayed employer mandate in ObamaCare, we are now sixteen months away from enforcement of those statutes, even though they go into effect in four months.  Are employers taking a break from ObamaCare prep?  Not hardly.  Today we have three new stories about how the perverse     ... MORE

Forfeiture Laws Turn Public Officials Into Profiteers

by Steven Greenhut.      The federal agents who cracked down on the illegal distribution of alcoholic beverages traditionally were called “revenuers.” I always liked the simple honesty of the term, given that the main goal of the revenuers was, as the name implied, to track down moonshining scofflaws who didn’t pay their taxes.         ... MORE

Bob Barr: The U.N. Comes After America's Guns

A gun control treaty to destroy the 2nd Amendment.      The true scope of the anti-firearm crusade of the United Nations, which began more than a dozen years ago, finally is coming into clear focus, as the White House readies to sign the Arms Trade Treaty adopted with U.S. support this past April by the U.N. General Assembly. The reach  ... MORE

VIDEO: Thomas Sowell - Immigration

ObamaCare Provision: "Forced" Home Inspections

by Joshua Cook.       “Clearly, any family may be visited by federally paid agents for almost any reason.” According to an Obamacare provision millions of Americans will be targeted. The Health and Human Services’ website states that your family will be targeted if you fall under the “high-risk” categories below: Families where mom is not yet 21. ... MORE

ABC TV: America's Speed Traps

Politicians thirst for more dollars to spend.    So many American families are thinking about that last dash of summer. One more road trip during the warm days. But we know the frustration of rolling down the road only to discover you've just sped by a trap you never saw coming. ABC's Steve Osunsami heads out in search of real answers about ... MORE

VIDEO: Joe Friday Speaks For America To President Obama

Rasmussen Poll: 82% Realize U.S. Is Not Winning Drug War

The people seem to be educable.         Americans continue to overwhelmingly believe the so-called war on drugs is failing, but they are more divided on how much the United States should be spending on it. Just four percent (4%) of American Adults believe the United States is winning the war on drugs, according to a new Rasmussen Reports  ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: The Reality Versus Mirages In Egypt

So far, the mirages seem to be winning.      Nothing symbolizes the Utopianism of our times like both liberals and some conservatives calling for us to cut off aid to the Egyptian military, because of the widespread killings in what is becoming a civil war in Egypt. Such utter lack of realism from the left is not new, but hearing some  ... MORE

LA TIMES OP-ED: How Obama Has Abused The Patriot Act

by Jim Sensenbrenner.       On Aug. 9, the Obama administration released a previously secret legal interpretation of the Patriot Act that it used to justify the bulk collection of every American's phone records. The strained reasoning in the 22-page memo won't survive long in public light, which is itself one of the strongest arguments for transparency  ... MORE

Tim Lee: Obama Asks For Warrantless Cellphone Searches

Requests permission to ignore the Fourth Amendment.      If the police arrest you, do they need a warrant to rifle through your cellphone? Courts have been split on the question. Last week the Obama administration asked the Supreme Court to resolve the issue and rule that the Fourth Amendment allows warrantless cellphone searches.    ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - The Gender Pay Gap

Katie Kieffer: AWESOME! TSA Creepers Just Got Creepier

Government gropers to become ubiquitous.   Janet Napolitano’s TSA agents won’t keep their blue, latex-covered paws to themselves. The TSA is now expanding its grope to rodeos, sports stadiums, music festivals and train stations. The TSA’s signature move is like the signature move of a guy who “accidently” brushes his hand against a woman’s   ... MORE

Walter E Williams: Blacks And Progressives

On excuse-making and dependency.    Sometimes I wonder when black people will reject the patronizing insults of white progressives and their black handmaidens. After CNN's Piers Morgan's interview with the key witness in the George Zimmerman trial, he said: "Rachel Jeantel is not uneducated. She's a smart cookie." That's a remarkable       ... MORE

VIDEO: Scott Bullock - End Civil Asset Forfeiture

Steve Chapman: Drug Warriors In Retreat

Their drug-induced haze couldn't last forever.    When it comes to Eric Holder, Republicans are divided between the radicals and the moderates. One group regards him as a lawless black power zealot intent on subverting the Constitution and stripping us of our liberties. Then there are the radicals... So when Holder gave a speech     ... MORE

Regulation Nation: Obama Expands The Regulatory State

By Ben Goad and Julian Hattem.     President Obama has overseen a dramatic expansion of the regulatory state that will outlast his time in the White House. The reach of the executive branch has advanced steadily on his watch, further solidifying the power of bureaucrats who churn out regulations that touch nearly every aspect of American ... MORE

Sen. Rand Paul: The Madness Of Mandatory Minimums

Lives needlessly ruined by rigid sentencing.         I applaud President Obama’s recognition that mandatory minimum sentencing for nonviolent drug offenders needs to end. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.’s announcement Monday to change federal drug-sentencing policy hopefully signaled a significant shift toward justice in         ... MORE

Peggy Noonan: What We Lose If We Give Up Privacy

The danger of amping up what government can do.      What is privacy? Why should we want to hold onto it? Why is it important, necessary, precious? Is it just some prissy relic of the pretechnological past? We talk about this now because of Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency revelations, and new fears that we are        ... MORE

VIDEO: Fox News - The Prying Eyes Of Lawless NSA


Government listens to phone calls and reads e-mails of innocent Americans.

How Political Correctness Is Destroying America

Michael Snyder provides 19 shocking examples.       If you say the “wrong thing” in America today, you could be penalized, fired or even taken to court.  Political correctness is running rampant, and it is absolutely destroying this nation.  In his novel 1984, George Orwell imagined a future world where speech was greatly restricted.      ... MORE

Jacob Sullum: Barack, The Unmerciful Drug Warrior?

Why doesn't Obama pardon more drug offenders?         This week Eric Holder said something that critics of our criminal justice system have been saying for decades but no other U.S. attorney general has managed to say while still in office. “Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long, and for no truly good law enforcement    ... MORE

VIDEO: Radley Balko - Rise Of The Warrior Cop

The NSA Has Violated Privacy Rules At Least 2,776 Times

by Scott Shackford.     The Washington Post has the latest Edward Snowden-provided bombshell: The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to an internal audit and other top-secret documents.  ... MORE

DOJ Seeks To Protect Bernanke From Testitmony

Politicians have each other's back.     The government is trying to block questioning of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke in a lawsuit by the former head of American International Group Inc. The Justice Department told a federal appeals court Friday that high-ranking officials should not have to testify except in extraordinary     ...  MORE