The Three Most Important Ongoing 2nd Amendment Cases

by Brian Doherty. Since the 2010 Supreme Court case McDonald v. Chicago, which applied the ruling in the 2008 Heller case (which said the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to bear arms) to states and localities, the Court has so far evaded any new case about the limits and meaning of the Second Amendment. Those two cases,       ... MORE

Jeffrey Folks: Obama's Plan To Snatch Your Savings

The next stop on the path to socialism.       In his first term, Obama managed to get his paws on health care, banking, energy, student loans, the auto business, and more.  Now he has his sights set on your 401(k). The left has had its eye on retirement savings for years, but so far takeover attempts have been rebuffed.  One    ... MORE

VIDEO: Ayn Rand - The Rational Mind

Flood Of Regulations Coming From Obama Administration

by Brian Wingfield.             Over the next 12 months, the Obama administration is due to issue regulations governing everything from e-cigarettes to smoke-stack emissions in what experts predict will be a second-term rush to put rules in place before leaving office. “In every administration, these things have to be wrapped up in at least  ... MORE

Guardian Has Only Published 1 Percent Of Snowden Leaks

More transparency ahead for Obama regime?       The editor of the Guardian said Tuesday his newspaper has published just 1 percent of the material it received from former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, and denied the paper had placed lives or national security at risk. The Guardian helped spark a global debate on     ... MORE

VIDEO: The Effect Smoking Bans Is To Ban Freedom

Andrew Napolitano: The Pope And Basic Economics

What is the worst problem in the world today?      Might it be war, starvation, genocide, sectarian violence, murder, slaughter of babies in the womb? Any of these would be a rational answer. But when Pope Francis was asked this question recently, he replied, "Youth unemployment." To be sure, youth unemployment is a serious   ... MORE

Condemn ObamaCare -- No Alternative Needed

by Barry Farber.      The brightest star in Yogi Berra’s Library-of-Life-Lifters is probably “It’s déjà vu all over again.” (Runner-up: “Nobody goes to that restaurant anymore. It’s too crowded.”) It hit me with a comforting force when I suddenly connected what I was hearing these days that rang dim but important bells from long ago. You’ve     ... MORE

Murder Rate Nearly Cut In Half As Gun Ownership Soared

by Awr Hawkins.       A Congressional Research Service (CRS) report shows that while gun ownership climbed from 192 million firearms in 1994 to 310 million firearms in 2009, crime fell—and fell sharply. According to the report, the "firearm-related murder and non-negligent homicide" rate was 6.6 per 100,000 Americans in 1993. Following the      ... MORE

City Stops 11-Year-Old Selling Mistletoe, But She Could Beg

Government: welfare state good, capitalism bad.     An 11-year-old Oregon girl who wanted to help her father pay for her braces by selling mistletoe over the holidays, found herself embroiled in city bureaucracy. On Saturday, Madison Root went to the downtown market to sell fresh mistletoe she cut and wrapped herself from her uncle's farm   ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - War Against The Little Guy

Nathan Embry: Economic Freedom, The Voiceless Victim

The relentless march of the welfare state.     Economic freedom is one of many sacred liberties individuals enjoy in our great country. Economic freedom allows for individuals to trade with others as they see fit and in their own best interest. It also allows for sellers to create and offer products of their own choosing, and buyers then elect       ... MORE

Oh-Oh, Even California's Turning On Obama

by Andrew Malcolm.     As everyone knows, California is the la-de-dah, laid-back land of liberalism that's been Barack Obama's political ATM for six years. Hollywood stars have loved him, fronted multi-multi-million-dollar fundraisers for him. The most populous state (home to 12 of every 100 Americans) has a Democrat governor again, two female     ... MORE

VIDEO: FOX NEWS - The ObamaCare Payment Scheme

John Stossel: Real Charity

'Tis the season for giving.       But when you give, do you know your money will help someone? Social workers say, "Don't give to beggars." Those who do give are "enablers," helping alcoholics and drug users to continue bad habits. It's better to give to charities that help the "homeless." I put "homeless" in quotes because my TV       ... MORE

Katie Kieffer: Hope For A Cure To ObamaCancer

Mr. Forward, Barack Obama, is not forwarding health;     he’s forwarding cancer. He’s on “one more campaign” to pitch ObamaCare, which is quickly metastasizing into ObamaCancer. Where’s our hope for a cure? Two weeks ago, President Obama said: “I’ve run my last political campaign, but I’ve got one more campaign in me, and that’s   ... MORE

Crony Capitalism Drives Airport Security

from The Dollar Vigilante Blog.     There is yet another reason not to fly into or within the US. “Nazi-style detention pods” – that's what opponents of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) have called the new “exit pods” being tested at the Syracuse (NY) airport. But the pods are not primarily a rape of civil rights. Their import       ... MORE

Keith Laing: Bill Would Nearly Double Federal Gasoline Tax

Government continues to make life more expensive.      Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) is introducing legislation that would nearly double the 18.4-cents-per-gallon federal gas tax that is traditionally used to pay for federal transportation projects. Blumenauer's bill would increase the gas tax by 15 cents, matching a proposal that was     ... MORE

VIDEO: Murray Rothbard - The Government Is NOT Us

Kimberley Strassel: How Bureaucrats Wield Anti-Trust Laws

Piano sonata in FTC minor.       Teddy Roosevelt busted Standard Oil. The Obama administration? It's making the world safe from rapacious piano teachers. Every month, it seems, brings a new story of this presidency leveling the intimidating powers of the federal government against some law-abiding citizen. Now comes a terrifying tale     ... MORE

High Court Hides From Online Retailers Tax Case

One government arm serves the other.       Amazon.com Inc and other online retailers with no physical presence in New York State must go on collecting sales tax after the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a legal challenge to the law that requires it. The court order means the New York law remains intact and the high court  ... MORE

VIDEO: Government Is A Little Sensitive About Free Speech


Surprising that shirt maker wasn't charged with passing federal secrets.

Andrew Stiles: ObamaCare And Its Cronies

The best government money can buy.         Despite the myriad problems with Obamacare’s rollout, health-insurance companies are not tempering their support for the controversial law. The industry is even gearing up for an expensive “PR blitz” to enroll people in the exchanges, which should come as no surprise. In the words of former        ... MORE

Peter Suderman: ObamaCare Is Working Fine

As long as no one tries to use it.        In an op-ed for USA Today published yesterday evening, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius touted recent progress the Obamacare tech team has made on repair efforts to the health law’s troubled online insurance portal, HealthCare.gov. “The site is running faster, it's         ... MORE

Forbes: The Bankruptcy Of Modern Economics

Examples of intellectual illness.    The resounding victory of N.J. Governor Chris Christie has people speculating about the 2016 presidential race, particularly on the Republican side, since it’s a given among pols and pundits that Hillary Clinton’s nomination for the Democrats is a foregone conclusion (it isn’t, but that’s another discussion).     ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: A Challenge To Our Beliefs

Do facts matter more than social visions?       Depressing news about black students scoring far below white students on various mental tests has become so familiar that people in different parts of the ideological spectrum have long ago developed their different explanations for why this is so. But both may have to do some rethinking,   ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - Spreading Liberty Online

Doug Altner: Why 1.4 Million Americans Work At Wal-Mart

With many more trying to.        Observe any hiring center for a new Walmart and you will see thousands of individuals eager to become a Walmart associate. Many already have jobs at fast food restaurants, supermarkets, or other retail stores. LaShawn Ross, 29, worked for McDonald’s and Winn-Dixie before taking a job at a brand new  ... MORE

Walter E Williams: Blacks And Obama

The shadow cast by the president's failure.     In a March 2008 column, I criticized pundits' concerns about whether America was ready for Barack Obama, suggesting that the more important issue was whether black people could afford Obama. I proposed that we look at it in the context of a historical tidbit. In 1947, Jackie Robinson, after      ... MORE

VIDEO: Why Are So Many Violent Criminals Walking Free

Bob Livingston: The Extra-Constitutional President

Congress is abdicating its power.         In delaying portions of Obamacare, President Barack Obama — the undocumented usurper currently occupying the people’s house — has taken on powers not granted him under the Constitution. This is very simple to understand, yet most people seem to be turning a blind eye to the fact.      ... MORE

Brian Doherty: Higher Is Healthier?

Surprising findings from psychedelic science.      Despite what you might have learned from old government-sponsored black-and-white educational films or hippie-era exploitation flicks, psychedelic drugs do not drive you inexorably insane. A new study in PLoSOne, an online peer-reviewed journal from the Public Library of Science,          ... MORE

Louisiana Cops Can Force Drivers To Give Blood

The police state ushers in "no refusal."     If you live in Louisiana, be aware that police seem to have a fairly new power. If they suspect you to be driving drunk they can demand your blood for an alcohol test and if you don’t want to give it they have the power to throw you in jail until they get a court order demanding you give them blood.      ... MORE

Pouring Cold Water On San Francisco's Soda Tax

by Baylen Linnekin.       Last month the San Francisco city council introduced a proposal to tax soda at a rate of two cents per ounce. The tax, which would have to be approved by voters, would add a whopping $1.44 to the cost of a six-pack of soda. The council liked the idea so much that they soon introduced a competing proposal to tax soda      ... MORE

VIDEO: Dr. Sanjay Gupta - Is Marijuana Bad For You?

Just How Bad Are Things Going In America Under Obama?

by Rick Moran.      Things are so bad that one candidate for governor in Georgia, Jason Carter, is banking on people being nostalgic for the good old days when his grandfather Jimmy was president. Politico: Carter, a 38-year-old Duke- and University of Georgia-educated lawyer with an attractive young family, is a respected voice in the state Senate,  ... MORE

Boston Herald: IRS Assault On Free Speech

Dictating legislation through regulation.        Remember that huge flap earlier this year about how the Internal Revenue Service was targeting tea party and other conservative groups that had applied for tax exempt status — subjecting them to pages of questions and long delays simply for a reply? Well now the Obama administration has    ... MORE

VIDEO: Nanny Of The Month - November 2013


Signs of the times. 

Monty Pelerin: Is The President Sane?

Obama's action go beyond mismanagement.         Questions regarding President Obama’s competence have mostly been limited to management abilities, laziness, honesty and the like. Allison Martinez, however, opens an issue that many whisper about but dare not speak of publicly — his mental stability: Claims of grandeur that are      ... MORE

3D-Print Your Own Real Gun At Home (See Video)

Gun control, you have to one before you can control it.    The Washington Post has an interesting video and story up about how it is now possible to print a useable gun on a 3D printer. The technology is still in its infancy – as one of the videos below shows, the guns don’t always work long – but they’re getting there. And they permit people to     ... MORE