Search Warrants Based on a "Prediction of a Future Crime"

Eric Nicholoson on tyranny in the lone star state.      Police in Parker County had been watching Michael Fred Wehrenberg's home for a month when, late in the summer of 2010, they received a tip from a confidential informant that Wehrenberg and several others were "fixing to" cook meth. Hours later, after midnight, officers walked       ... MORE

Victor Davis Hanson: Young People Have Been Had

Hornswoggled by hope and change.     There are all sorts of time bombs embedded within Obamacare. Will we force doctors to treat the millions of new Medicaid patients who are signing up for services that can be only partially reimbursed? How exactly will the IRS collect penalties from millions of off-the-books youth who choose not to buy      ... MORE

VIDEO: A Conversation On School Choice

Passive Smoking -- Another Of The Nanny State's Big Lies

Passive smoking doesn't give you lung cancer.        So says a new report publicised by the American Cancer Institute which will come as no surprise whatsoever to anyone with a shred of integrity who has looked into the origins of the great "environmental tobacco smoke" meme. It was, after all, a decade ago that the British Medical      ... MORE

Federal Judge Acknowledges NSA is "Almost Orwellian"

by Andrew Napolitano.     "Almost Orwellian"—that's the description a federal judge gave earlier this week to the massive spying by the National Security Agency (NSA) on virtually all 380 million cellphones in the United States. In the first meaningful and jurisdictionally grounded judicial review of the NSA cellphone spying program, U.S. District Court   ... MORE

VIDEO: Protection From Govt Snoops Hits The Market

Greg Beato: The Benefits Of Unregulated Pot

The domesticating influence of capitalism.     Last September the Washington State Liquor Control Board published a 43-page list of proposed guidelines for the sale of recreational marijuana. A few days later, Colorado issued an even longer set of rules, 136 densely packed pages in all. In the realm of legal, commercialized cannabis,      ... MORE

Barry Farber: Tales Of Top Interpreters

Pretend it had all worked backwards.      Pretend the president is routinely reading his routine briefing papers and everything looks routine – until he gets to one of the more minor details in his upcoming visit to the Nelson Mandela memorial earlier in December in South Africa. And there he reads: “The sign-language interpreter the South      ...  MORE

Are You Consenting To Surveillance Right Now?

Jacob Sullum on the perilous condition of privacy.      After her purse was snatched in 1976, Patricia McDonough began receiving threatening phone calls from a man who identified himself as her robber. Following one of the calls she saw a car she recognized from the scene of the crime slowly pass by her house in Baltimore. Police later    ... MORE

Paul Rosenberg: You'll Stop Being A Serf When You Do This

Martin Luther King knew all about it.            I hear the same complaints about politicians that you do. And while I understand them (I’ve complained plenty myself), the fact is that complaining accomplishes very little. And there is a very simple reason why complainers have no effect:  Because the complainers keep    ...  MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - Enemies Of Innovation

John Stossel: Look Back In Liberty 2013

This wasn't a great year for liberty.            A few disasters that government caused:  Obamacare. It was supposed to "bend the cost curve" downward. The central planners had lots of time to perfect their scheme. For a generation, the brightest left-wing wonks focused on health care policy. The result? Soviet-style consumer service   ... MORE

Bruce Walker: The Federal Reserve's Century Of Failure

Why no centennial celebration?       December 23, 2013 marks the centennial of a disastrous transformation of the American Republic.  On December 23, 1913, the Federal Reserve System was created. Woodrow Wilson believed that central planning could make America better.  His informal deputy, Colonel House (who was not really a colonel    ... MORE

VIDEO: The NSA, Edward Snowden and Privacy Violations


Privacy is the ability to say no.

Wesley Pruden: A Global Warming Scam That Will Not Die

We were all supposed to be dead by now,      fried to a toasty potatolike chip. Or doomed to die with the polar bears. It was to be a soggy end for the most beautiful planet in the cosmos and for all the passengers riding on it. The global alarmists never quite got their story of fright and fear straight, whether by now we would be fried or  ... MORE

Ryan Goodman: A Blow Against Big Brother

Edward Snowden brings the world together.       The United Nations General Assembly is expected to approve a resolution recognizing an international “right to privacy in the digital age” — a significant political development in response to the controversy over the surveillance tactics of the United States National Security      ... MORE        

Peggy Noonan: The Grinch Who Stole Health Care

You know what I am talking about.       This is the year that the Democrats "have blown up the American health-care system." The quote is from Peggy Noonan's qualified approval of the Ryan-Murray copout. You see, back in the golden age of George W. Bush, Democrats were mad as hell. How could the American people be so stupid,        ... MORE

Ten Ways The War On Drugs Changed Forever In 2013

If the people lead, leaders will follow.      2013 will go down in history as the beginning of the end of our disastrous war on drugs. Fifty-eight percent of Americans nationally support marijuana legalization. World leaders like former U.N. head Kofi Annan are calling for an end to the drug war. U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr., is        ... MORE

VIDEO: FOX NEWS - Inflicting Obamacare On Physicians


And a painful reality for patients.

TSA's Mission Creep Making America A Police State

From patdowns to checkpoints and roadblocks.     Ever since 2010, when the Transportation Security Administration started requiring that travelers in American airports submit to sexually intrusive gropings based on the apparent anti-terrorism principle that "If we can't feel your nipples, they must be a bomb", the agency's craven apologists    ... MORE

Jeffrey A. Singer: Vaccination And Free Choice

A free society must tolerate bad choices.       In the 2002 sci-fi noir film Minority Report, PreCrime, a specialized police agency, apprehends people who are forecast to commit crimes. No trial is necessary because the not-yet-committed crime is considered a vision of the future and thus a matter of fact. The film’s plot challenges  ... MORE

VIDEO: Don't Cops Have Better Things To Do


More government minding your own business.

Walter E Williams: The Pope And Capitalism

Economic theories that are far from divine.     Pope Francis, in his apostolic exhortation, levied charges against free market capitalism, denying that "economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world" and concluding that "this opinion   ... has never been   ... MORE

The Legacy Of Obama's Health Care Lies

by Peter Suderman.     Less than a week before the October launch of the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance exchanges, President Obama delivered a speech in Largo, Maryland explaining how the new health care would work, and what Americans in different circumstances could expect. “Even before the Affordable Care Act fully takes effect, about 85  ... MORE

John W. Whitehead: The End Of Childhood

In the era of the emerging American police state.    It wouldn’t be a week in America without another slew of children being punished for childish behavior under the regime of zero tolerance which plagues our nation’s schools. Here are some of the latest incidents. In Pennsylvania, a ten-year-old boy was suspended for shooting an imaginary     ... MORE

Sheriffs Refuse to Enforce Laws on Gun Control

by Erica Goode. When Sheriff John Cooke of Weld County explains in speeches why he is not enforcing the state’s new gun laws, he holds up two 30-round magazines. One, he says, he had before July 1, when the law banning the possession, sale or transfer of the large-capacity magazines went into effect. The other, he “maybe” obtained afterward. ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - Right To Bear Arms

Federal Prison Population Grows 27% In Ten Years

Who says government fails to stimulate growth?         The number of federal prison inmates has grown 27 percent in the last decade, according the Government Accountability Office (GAO). In a report examining the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) budget, the GAO found that prison population is rising: The Department of Justice’s      ... MORE

Cop Shoots Mother Of 3 In Head During Botched Drug Raid

The war against drugs is a war against us.        The American Drug War claimed another casualty when a woman was shot in the head while sitting on a couch by an incompetent police officer, who fired his weapon through an exterior wall prior to raiding the home. At about 10:30 p.m. on December 11th, a group of cops calling themselves     ...  MORE

VIDEO: Does The Minimum Wage Hurt Workers?

Minimum Wage Hikes Are Too Good To Be True

by Steve Chapman.      If you offer people something that is too good to be true, you will always find takers. Ask Bernie Madoff. Or ask Barack Obama. He recently proposed an increase in the minimum wage—an idea that suits the natural predilections of many people enough to distract them from the unsentimental and unwelcome logic of         ... MORE

Relentless Quest For Child Safety Making Us Very Stupid

by Scott Beaulier.     Regulations are on the rise in almost every area of our lives. While some regulations, such as requiring kids to be buckled in automobiles make sense, others are plain silly. In Corlaville, Iowa and Midway, Georgia, for example, kids are not allowed to run lemonade stands without permits and government approval. In the entire   ... MORE

Famous Faces Of A Growing Tax War Between The States

by Rex Sinquefield. The year 2013 may go down in history as pivotal in the battle between the states to attract businesses and high-income earners because of local tax advantages. Five news stories highlight the shift that is occurring across the nation as taxpayers and legislators recognize that tax policy matters in the lives of every      ... MORE

More Americans Killed By Cops Than In Iraq War

Police brutality at shocking level. The increase in police brutality in this country is a frightening reality. In the last decade alone the number of  people murdered by police has reached 5,000. The number of soldiers killed since the inception of the Iraq war, 4489. What went wrong? In the 19070’s SWAT teams were estimated to be used   ... MORE

VIDEO: Mike Maharrey - Nullify The NSA


A brilliant strategy to deal with the unconstitutional tactics of the NSA.

Scott Holleran: Abolish The TSA

It does not protect and defend, it endangers.     It’s peak travel season, so it’s a good time to examine the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), a government agency created by President George W. Bush supposedly to protect air passengers. As a recent government accountability report and deadly attack on Los Angeles Airport   ... MORE

Devices Give Locations Of Red-Light Cameras

by John R. Quain.          Banished by voters in Houston, facing legal challenges in Missouri and working undercover in New York City, traffic-monitoring cameras, promoted as accident-reducing tools by safety advocates and decried as intrusive revenue-generators by opponents, are nothing if not controversial. The battlefront of photographic        ... MORE

VIDEO: The Hidden Cost Of Compliance

Why American Businesses Should Understand Nullification

The last chance for small business.          “After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.”, Calvin Coolidge. This excerpt from Coolidge’s 1925 address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors still rings true today.    ... MORE

Ronald Bailey: Kill Off Software Patents

When patents kill off innovation.          The Supreme Court has a chance to give innovation a boost this year by rolling back one of the country’s most economically stupid policies. With the case of Alice Corporation v. CLS Bank International, the justices will dive into the issue of whether companies should be able to patent computer        ... MORE