Amy Payne: Ready For Another Increase In The Debt Limit?

Obama's debt ceiling raises have cost families $43,000.    Did you know that since President Obama came into office, the debt limit has been raised seven times? With those increases, Congress has added $43,000 in debt for every American household in just the last four years. And now the debt limit deadline is looming again. Treasury will    ... MORE

John Stossel: Stop Worrying And Learn To Love Technology

Technology keeps making the world better.     Invent something and the first thing that goes through some people's minds -- especially politicians' minds -- is what might go wrong. 3D printers now allow you to mold objects right in your living room, using patterns you find online. It's a revolutionary invention that will save time, reduce shipping     ... MORE

VIDEO: Walter E Williams - Preferences And Prejudice

Ill-Informed Voters Pay Dividends To Democratic Party

by Larry Elder.              Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor is worried. In a recent speech at Boise State, O'Connor said: "Less than one-third of eighth-graders can identify the historical purpose of the Declaration of Independence, and it's right there in the name. ... The more I read and the more I listen, the more apparent       ... MORE

Andrew Napolitano: Is The FISA Court Constitutional?

A court where only one party can make an argument.     After President Richard Nixon left office in 1974, a bipartisan congressional investigation discovered many of his constitutional excesses. Foremost among them was the use of FBI and CIA agents to spy on Americans in violation of federal law and the Fourth Amendment to the       ... MORE

VIDEO: 3 Reasons Kids Should Watch South Park

Victor Davis Hanson: The Late, Great Middle Class

Don't try to sell the recovery notion to them.     The American middle class, like the American economy in general, is ailing. Labor-force participation has hit a 35-year low. Median household income is lower than it was five years ago. Only the top 5 percent of households have seen their incomes rise under President Obama. Commuters are paying      ... MORE

Time To Speak Up Against The NSA's Mass Spying

by Rainey Reitman.       This summer, some of our worst fears and suspicions about the NSA have been confirmed. We now have evidence that the NSA is actively undermining the basic security of the Internet. It is collecting millions and millions of phone records of individuals not suspected of any crime. It is surveilling journalists. The NSA’s  ... MORE

The Land Of The Free Is Now A Nation Of Sheep

by Bill Frezza.        No, this is not another diatribe about the futility of many gun control laws and the geographic correlation between the level of gun crime and the hurdles law-abiding citizens have to surmount to provide for their own defense. Nor is it a rant about the media exploitation of tragedies like the recent Navy Yard shooting.    ... MORE

Cops Kill 95-Year-Old For Refusing To Go To Hospital

by Jonathan Turley.        There is a disturbing report out of Chicago where police were called when 95-year-old world War II veteran John Wrana refused to go to a hospital for a urinary tract infection. Called by paramedics to assist in getting Wrana into an ambulance, the Park Forest police showed up in riot gear and proceeded to shoot Wrana   ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - Middle East Misperceptions

Jacob Sullum: Ignorance Is Ratification

Allowing mass collection of Americans' phone records.    In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Arthur Dent discovers that the plans for a highway project involving demolition of his house have been "on display" in the basement of a government building at "the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on     ... MORE

John Stossel - Innovation And Stagnation

Government vs the free market.     Invent something and the first thing that goes through some people's minds — especially politicians' minds — is what might go wrong. 3D printers now allow you to mold objects right in your living room, using patterns you find online. It's a revolutionary invention that will save time, reduce shipping    ... MORE

VIDEO: 5 Reasons ObamaCare Won't Save You

L. Brent Bozell: Only Propaganda Is 'Good Journalism'?

Why the waterfall of liberal bias keeps flowing.     Why are liberals in so much denial about liberal bias in the news? Why do they think they're bending over backward to be "objective" doing that which Republicans see as partisan activism? Daniel Froomkin of the Huffington Post — formerly of The Washington Post — suggests an answer.  ... MORE

Gene Healy: Be Afraid Of NSA Spying

We've only seen the tip of the iceberg on NSA abuse.    “Dear NSA/CSS family,” begins a Sept. 13, 2013, letter to employees and “extended family” of the nation’s largest spy agency from NSA director Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander, the boss of the family (CSS stands for Central Security Service, an NSA subagency). In the missive, published   ... MORE

Senator Calls To Scrap Key Patriot Act Snooping Provision

by Stephen Dinan.      The Senate’s senior lawmaker said Tuesday that its time to end the Patriot Act power that the intelligence community has relied on to collect all Americans’ phone records, saying it isn’t making the country safer. “In my view, and I’ve discussed this with the White House, the Section 215 collection of Americans’ phone records  ... MORE

Rick Moran: One Family's ObamaCare Nightmare

Premiums jump from $333 to $965 a month.           There has been conflicting information from supporters and opponents of Obamacare over the last few months about just what is going to happen to premiums under the law. Generally speaking - very generally - most employer based policies will either stay the same or increase     ... MORE

VIDEO: ObamaCare May Be Hazardous To Your Health

Paul Roderick Gregory: The Problem Is Obesity, Not Hunger

Thoughts on the food stamps debate.       Throughout history, politicians have fabricated crises to justify their own solution to the crisis they themselves dreamed up. History is strewn with non-existent crises – the population bomb, global cooling, resource depletion,  freon destroying the ozone layer, and so on  – that threaten        ... MORE

Jerry Brito: How Much Surveillance Can We Accept?

Are the watchers worthy of our trust?        Three months after Edward Snowden’s leaks began to reveal the extent of the U.S.’s mass surveillance program, “serious people” are beginning to make the case that it’s time for the outrage and indignation to subside and give way to a “national conversation” about the future of surveillance.       ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: High Risk, Low Yield

Can ObamaCare be defunded?      This has been the worst time, politically, for President Barack Obama since he took office. Recent polls reveal that public confidence in both his domestic and foreign policies has been falling, amid revelations about their defects and dangers. Even people who once supported and defended him have now turned  ... MORE

Biden Recruited To Hand Out Free Joints

by Radley Balko.    The Denver Westword reports that a pro-pot group fighting a new proposal to impose a 30 percent tax on the drug -- which is now legal under Colorado law -- wants Joe Biden's help. Earlier this month, a group opposed to Proposition AA, the measure to establish tax rates on recreational marijuana sales in Colorado, staged a rally at Civic   ... MORE

Walter E Williams: Honesty And Trust

Two under-appreciated virtues.       Dishonesty, lying and cheating are not treated with the right amount of opprobrium in today's society. To gain an appreciation for the significance of honesty and trust, consider what our day-to-day lives would be like if we couldn't trust anyone. When we purchase a bottle of 100 pills from our pharmacist, how many ... MORE

Growing Phenomenon Of Police Shooting Unarmed Citizens

by John W. Whitehead.      Here’s a recipe for disaster: Take a young man (or woman), raise him on a diet of violence, hype him up on the power of the gun in his holster and the superiority of his uniform, render him woefully ignorant of how to handle a situation without resorting to violence, train him well in military tactics but allow him to be   ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - Mandatory Minimums

Destroying The Right To Be Left Alone

by Christopher Calabrese and Matthew Harwood.        For at least the last six years, government agents have been exploiting an AT&T database filled with the records of billions of American phone calls from as far back as 1987. The rationale behind this dragnet intrusion, codenamed Hemisphere, is to find suspicious links between people with    ... MORE

Free Speech Is So Annoying To Elected Officials

by A. Barton Hinkle.           “There’s just way too much money in politics,” said a candidate for governor earlier this month. Since the candidate was Terry McAuliffe, a political fundraiser of Brobdingnagian proportions, the remark could go down as the funniest line from this year’s contest. McAuliffe had just been asked if he would       ... MORE

VIDEO: What You Should Know About Drug Prohibition

Katie Kieffer: Pour Me A Vodka, Putin

Bad news for Barack.            For the first time in five years, the conventional media prefers Russian President Vladimir Putin over U.S. President Barack Obama. Has Vladimir sent American journalists cases of Russian vodka? Or are they fed up with Barack? It’s amusing to imagine Putin shipping cases of Russian vodka to American journalists    ... MORE

Brenden Moore: California To Hike Minimum Wage

Increased labor price means increase unemployment.      The question over whether to raise the minimum wage has been brought back to national attention as California prepares to pass a measure setting the highest minimum wage rate in the country. By 2016, the state’s price floor will be $10 per hour. By comparison, the national minimum   ... MORE

Jacob Sullum: The Injustice Of Mandatory Drug Minimums

Rand Paul is right.           Toward the end of a hearing at which the Senate Judiciary Committee heard about the jaw-dropping injustices caused by mandatory minimum sentences, John Cornyn sounded a note of caution. “We have to be careful not to legislate by anecdote,” said the Republican senator from Texas. Why start now? Congress       ... MORE

Chris Hedges: The Origins Of The Police State

We should realize, their fate will soon become ours.    JaQuan LaPierre, 22, was riding a bicycle down a sidewalk Sept. 5 when he noticed a squad car pulling up beside him. It was 8:30 on a hot Thursday night at the intersection of Bond Street and Jackson Avenue here in Elizabeth, N.J. LaPierre had 10 glass vials of crack cocaine—probably what   ... MORE

VIDEO: A Conversation On The Free Market


From Milton Friedman's "Free To Choose" series.

Dr. Helen Smith: The War On Football

Putting risk in perspective.         Sadly, I saw that a former Amazon CFO, Joy Covey, died in a bike crash on Wednesday: She died Wednesday after colliding with a minivan while riding her bicycle downhill on Skyline Blvd. near Portola Valley, Calif., according to Art Montiel, a public information officer at the California Highway Patrol in Redwood  ... MORE

Ed Krayewski: Four Washington Scandals That Still Matter

Despite the distractions.       President Obama’s attempt to lead the United States into an intervention in Syria may have provided the White House a distraction from the summer of scandal, but they’re still there, festering. As the president waddles toward lame duck status, the various scandals will increasingly come to shape Obama’s second term.   ... MORE

VIDEO: Navy Yard Shooting And Gun Control

Larry Elder: Political Correctness In A Gun-Free Zone

A deadly combination.           Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., after another mass shooting, predictably wasted no time in demanding still more gun control legislation. This week, a killer with a valid ID entered the Washington Navy Yard in southeast D.C., a military facility where 16,000 people -- mostly civilians -- work. He killed 12 people     ... MORE

Ken Braun: The Biggest Of Big Government Programs

The war on marijuana.        Some conservative supporters of the War on Drugs like to believe this biggest of Big Government programs is mostly about harder drugs and that marijuana users are not targets. The evidence shows otherwise. Every hour last year, America’s police officers arrested 59 rapists, murderers or other violent criminals. During that     ... MORE