Total Privacy = Total Destruction Of The State

by Michael Suede.           The state cannot exist without invasions of privacy. Without invasions of privacy, taxes could not be imposed.  If all transactions and accounting records were private, incomes and revenues could not be verified.  Tax evasion could not be prosecuted because no proof of incomes could be obtained. Further, state currencies    ... MORE

Brian Doherty: Petty Law Enforcement Vs. The Poor

The state against the poor.     The New York Times recently noted a new trend in Los Angeles: strict enforcement of jaywalking laws downtown, including the little-known regulation that makes it a crime to enter a crosswalk after the red crosswalk light is flashing—even if that red light, as it often does in L.A., is counting down the seconds      ... MORE

VIDEO: MIlton Friedman - Politics and Regulation

Andrew Napolitano: Spying On Congress

The lawlessness continues.        Happy New Year. Just when you thought the NSA spying scandal couldn't get any worse, it has. Last week, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., wrote to Gen. Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Administration (NSA), and asked plainly whether the NSA has been or is now spying on members of Congress or other     ... MORE

Marijuana Legalization In Alaska Gets One Step Closer

by Hunter Stuart.             Alaska just got one step closer to fully legalizing marijuana. But ultimately, like in Colorado and Washington, it will be voters who make the final call. Activists in Anchorage delivered a petition with over 45,000 signatures to Alaska Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell on Wednesday, organizers confirmed to The Huffington Post      ... MORE

VIDEO: How To Deal With Police At Your Door

Capitalism: The Solution To Mass Poverty

by Jaana Woiceshyn.            In a recent Vancouver Province column “Capitalism has a role in fighting poverty,” Mark Milke takes Pope Francis to task, rightfully, for attacking capitalism while at the same time calling for eradication of poverty. Milke is correct in recognizing the role capitalism plays in eradicating poverty. However, capitalism      ... MORE

Your CAR Could Be 'Spying' On You!

Gathering data, tracking: the new vehicle realities.       As if Facebook, Google and the federal government squirreling away your personal information wasn't enough, now it seems your car could also be spying on you. According to a new report from the Government Accountability Office, several major automakers and GPS        ... MORE

The Ways You’re Being Tracked, Catalogued & Controlled

John Whitehead on our electronic concentration camp.  What is most striking about the American police state is not the mega- corporations running amok in the halls of Congress, the militarized police crashing through doors and shooting unarmed citizens, or the invasive surveillance regime which has come to dominate every aspect ... MORE

National Review: The Fifty Year War On Poverty

Great for Democrats, not-so-good for the poor.    This year marks the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon Baines Johnson’s proclamation of a “war on poverty,” and the progress in this theater has not been encouraging.  Trillions of dollars have been spent, and the number of Americans living in poverty is higher today than it was ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - Economic Freedom and Prosperity

Andrew Thomas: The Global Warming Tipping Point Is Near

Al Gore Closes Climate Protection Field Offices.        Malcolm Gladwell's great book The Tipping Point presents the case that sudden seismic shifts in society can result from small events, if the right factors are present.  Tipping points happen when momentum toward an idea builds and finally crosses a threshold where it is evident that a    ... MORE

John Stossel: Equality Versus Liberty

A more subtle lie from the chief.      President Barack Obama says income inequality is "dangerous ... the defining challenge of our time." The pope is upset that capitalism causes inequality. Progressives, facing the failures of Obamacare, are eager to change the subject to America's "wealth gap." It's true that today, the richest 1 percent of         ... MORE

VIDEO: 3 Reasons 2014 Might Be Most Libertarian Year Ever

Jacob Sullum: Pathetic Pot Prohibitionists

The intellectual poverty of war on pot revealed.            On Monday, less than a week after Colorado's state-licensed marijuana shops began serving recreational consumers, the anti-pot group Project SAM thanked three public figures who "have galvanized our movement." One of them was Tina Brown, former editor of Vanity Fair, The New    ... MORE

Historic Deep Freeze Proves Global Warming, Right?

Mike Adams on how everything is evidence.       Global warming is getting worse. It's so bad now that it has thrust most of North America into an historic deep freeze with plummeting temperatures that haven't been seen in decades. This is absolute proof that global warming is worsening, and the way I know that is because the same people  ... MORE

FBI: 46% Of All Drug Arrests Are For Marijuana Possession


Shawn Regan: Lights Out For America's Favorite Light Bulb

Dim political bulbs rule the day.     Happy New Year, America! Your favorite light bulb is now illegal. Well, sort of. As of January 1, U.S. businesses can no longer manufacture or import “general service” incandescent bulbs—the most popular light bulbs in America. Consumers can still buy and use them while supplies last, but the remaining  ... MORE

VIDEO: Charles Krauthammer - How To Derail Obamacare

Voluntary Federal Government Checkpoints Spark Backlash

by Larry Copeland.         A tactic used by the federal government to gather information for anti-drunken and drugged driving programs is coming under criticism in cities around the country, and some local police agencies say they will no longer take part.   The tactic involves a subcontractor for the National Highway Traffic Safety      ... MORE

Sorry, Liberals: Obamacare Won’t Lead to Single Payer

by Peter Suderman.     If you spend any significant amount of time talking to conservative activists who oppose Obamacare, you’ll eventually hear some variant on the theory that Obamacare was never meant to work. Instead, it was meant to destroy the existing health care system, and in the process pave the way for liberals to step in with the   ... MORE

VIDEO: Let's Shuck The Department Of Agriculture

Thomas Sowell: The 'Trickle-Down' Lie

Introducing the Big Apple's new lyin' king.     New York's new mayor, Bill de Blasio, in his inaugural speech, denounced people "on the far right" who "continue to preach the virtue of trickle-down economics." According to Mayor de Blasio, "They believe that the way to move forward is to give more to the most fortunate, and that somehow the     ... MORE

Walter E Williams: Politics And Minimum Wage

Why minimum wage is a maximum folly.      There's little debate among academic economists about the effect of minimum wages. University of California, Irvine economist David Neumark has examined more than 100 major academic studies on the minimum wage. He reports that 85 percent of the studies "find a negative employment       ... MORE

Radley Balko: Dire Civil Liberties Predictions For 2014

The grade and lubriciousness of the slippery slope.      As we come to the end of a year that saw revelations about massive government spying programs, horrifying stories of police abuse, and brazen violations of the Fourth Amendment, I thought I might offer my own grim predictions about where civil liberties are headed in the      ... MORE

Rand Paul Sues NSA Over Sweeping Spying Practices

To protect and defend Constitution taken seriously.      Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is suing the Obama administration over the National Security Agency’s spying practices in an effort to “protect the Fourth Amendment,” he told host Eric Bolling Friday on "Hannity."“The question here is whether or not, constitutionally, you can have a single    ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel with Penn Jillette


The Libertarian Magician

Global Warming: Another Broken Promise From The Left

from Brian Lada, meteorologist.       A fresh blast of arctic air will deliver some of the coldest weather in 20 years to the country's midsection during the second half of the weekend and into the start of this week. This brutal cold will bring danger to millions from the northern Plains to the Midwest and down into the Tennessee Valley.        ... MORE

Wynton Hall: 7 Minimum Wage Facts That Worry Democrats

As they run from Obamacare.       With the midterm elections just over 300 days away, nervous Democrats reeling from the Obamacare debacle are hoping a big push to raise the minimum wage will be the silver bullet that will spare them from the historic losses they suffered in 2010. Democrats and unions are busy working to get minimum    ... MORE

VIDEO: Colorado Pot Overtaxed & Over-Regulated Already?

California Gun Law Paves The Way For Confiscation

by Steven Greenhut.      Gun registration had always seemed like the “line in the sand” — a proposal that would so offend the nation’s gun-rights advocates that they would bring out their full political muscle to stop it. Yet a California law mandating government record-keeping for all new long-gun purchases goes into effect on Jan. 1 and few      ... MORE

John Goodman: Five Myths About Income Inequality

Repeating a fallacy does not make it true.       “Inequality is the defining challenge of our time,” according to President Obama. It’s certainly the topic of the day for Paul KrugmanJoe Stiglitz and a whole raft of liberal pundits. But have you noticed that hardly anyone else is talking about it? When is the last time you heard a shoeshine    ... MORE

More Evidence The Fourth Amendment Is Dead

Minor traffic violations cause for cell phone searches.      A judge decided last week that Oklahoma City, Oklahoma police were in the right when they downloaded information off the mobile phone belonging to Noe Vergara Wuences who was pulled over on March 22, 2012 because the temporary paper license plate on his new car      ... MORE

Terence P. Jeffrey: Uncle Sam's New Year's Binge

Gov't borrows $1,088 per household in just 1 day.      Uncle Sam—AKA the federal government—went on a New Year’s Eve binge, adding a net of $125,202,709,546.99 to its total debt in just the one day of Dec. 31, 2013, according to the U.S. Treasury. That equals approximately $1,088.60 for each of the 115,013,000 households the Census     ... MORE

VIDEO: George Will - On Libertarianism

American Taxpayers Blew $7.45 Billion On What?

Fighting global warming in other countries. American taxpayers spent $7.45 billion to help developing countries cope with climate change in fiscal years 2010 through 2012, according to a federal government report submitted to the United Nations on a subject that Secretary of State John Kerry described as “a truly life-and-death challenge.” ... MORE

Secret Court Approves More NSA Phone Snooping

Stephen Dinan on gov't giving gov't more power.         The secret court that oversees the nation’s intelligence activities renewed its approval of the National Security Agency’s telephone-records program on Friday, granting the government a new three-month window to collect data on all Americans’ phone calls. Director of National         ... MORE

VIDEO: Thomas Sowell: Stimulus Or Sedative?

101 Reasons To Move To New Hampshire

Freedom lives in the Granite State.     Among the many advantages of moving to New Hampshire, these 101 reasons are at the top.  New Hampshire has no general sales tax. New Hampshire has no general personal income tax. Dividends and interest are taxed at only 5%. New Hampshire state law prohibits the use of eminent domain for    ... MORE

Make 2014 The Year Of Freedom For Low-Wage Workers

Sheldon Richman on licensing.     The federal budget deficit was big in 2013, but not as big as the freedom deficit. We should all resolve to make 2014 the year that we secure our freedom from government, the biggest threat we face. We can start with freedom for low-wage workers. Hundreds of occupations are closed shut unless one has a license. To get    ... MORE