Andrew Napolitano: A Sorry State Of The Union

What if the state of the union is a mess?              What if the government spies on all of us all of the time and recognizes no limits to its spying? What if its appetite for acquiring personal knowledge about all Americans is insatiable? What if the government uses the microchips in our cellphones to follow us and listen to us as we move about?  ... MORE

Using Pot Legalization To Strip Citizens Of Gun Rights

L.J. Devon on a new anti-gun brainstorm.   Lawmakers from the state of Illinois have proposed new medical marijuana rules that coerce patients to surrender their Second Amendment right in the application process. The new medical marijuana "legalization" bill requires Illinois citizens to undergo a background check, be fingerprinted and   ... MORE

VIDEO: Flex Your JURY NULLIFICATION Rights


An interview with Steve Silverman (Flex Your Rights).

Jacob Sullum: Pot Prohibitionists Can't Handle the Truth

Lying to kids doesn't send the right message.    Prohibitionists were outraged by President Obama's recent observation that marijuana is safer than alcohol—not because it is not true but because it contradicts the central myth underlying public support for the war on drugs. According to that myth, certain psychoactive substances are    ... MORE

Obama’s SOTU Brings Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged to Life

by George Rasley.     President Obama’s State of the Union address skillfully glossed over just what a sorry state the Union is in these days. Obama’s address, full of deceit and the obfuscation of any facts at odds with his hard-left secular agenda, stands out in its repetition of the threat to act without Congress as perhaps the most anti-democratic     ... MORE

VIDEO: Why SOPA Is A Bad Idea

Angry Birds Transformed Into 'Spying Birds' By Hackers

by Lucian Constantin.     The official Angry Birds website was defaced by hackers following reports that U.S. and U.K. intelligence agencies have been collecting user information from the game and other popular mobile apps. Some users trying to access the angrybirds.com website late Tuesday were greeted by an image depicting the Angry Birds    ... MORE

Derek Olson: Students' Free Speech

ASU cracks down on free speech.        Arizona State University expelled the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity last week after it held a Martin Luther King, Jr.-themed party. Pictures surfaced on social media of students dressed in hip-hop style clothing with hashtags invoking black stereotypes. To say the least, it was an inappropriate way to      ... MORE

More States Using Nullification To Reign In Federal Power

by Adam Ulbricht.     The battle for power between states and the federal government has been raging since the ink was still wet on the freshly signed U.S. Constitution. The struggle continues as state governments look to take back power they claim is rightfully theirs through a process called nullification. Although the application   ... MORE

11 Facts About Minimum Wage Obama Forgot To Mention

Raising the hiring cost of teenagers.     During his annual State of the Union address before Congress, President Barack Obama made a big deal about the need to increase the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. The move followed months of promises and rhetoric from the White House about how important it was to the economy to increase  ... MORE

VIDEO: FOX NEWS - Bundle Up, It's Global Warming

Jacob Sullum: Let 50 Cannabis Flowers Bloom

Federalism avoids need for national consensus.       President Obama says he opposes marijuana legalization but thinks Colorado and Washington should be able to try it. Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who sought to run against Obama in 2012 as a Republican presidential contender, takes the same position. You might call this policy federalism        ... MORE

John Stossel: Re-State Of The Union

What if you owned your body and your mind?        President Barack Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday wasn't what I wanted to hear. This is what the president should have said: "I cannot imagine what I was thinking when I pushed Obamacare. I now see it is folly to entrust government, which cannot balance its books and       ... MORE

VIDEO: NSA Deploys Video Games To Access Computers!


"Beyond George Orwells wildest dreams."

Poll Shows Individual Rights Increasingly Valued By Russians

by Anna Dolgov, Moscow Times.     The majority of Russians think that individual rights need to be protected even if they contradict the interests of the state, with political rights growing increasingly important in the nation's perception, a recent poll has shown. About 46 percent of Russians think that people have the right to fight for their      ... MORE

Obama Shamelessly Exploits Wounded Vets In Big Speech

by Nick Gillespie.     The most emotionally powerful moment in Barack Obama’s State of the Union address was also its most morally dubious. The nation’s commander in chief drew attention to a wounded warrior while eliding any responsibility for placing the young man in harm’s way. A record number of Americans – 60 percent – think the government  ... MORE

Will You Choose Dangerous Freedom Or Peaceful Slavery?

by John W. Whitehead.       “All governments are run by liars.”—Independent journalist I.F. “Izzy” Stone.  President Obama has managed, with singular assistance from Congress and the courts, to mangle the Constitution through repeated abuses, attacks and evasions. This is nothing new, as I’ve documented in my book A Government    ... MORE

Brittany Varner-Miller: TSA Introducing Police State

Acclimating Americans to an inevitable fate?     Ever since the attack on September 11, 2001, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) seems to be introducing Americans to what a police state feels like. After the terrorist attack on the twin towers, the TSA has been strengthening the security of the nation’s transportation       ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - Chill Out About Global Warming

Timothy P. Carney: Crony Capitalism Vs. Market Morality

Life insurance and the death tax.      Scenario 1: It's 2005. While Republicans are fighting to permanently repeal the estate tax (or "death tax," in their phrasing), a nonprofit called the Coalition for America's Priorities spearheads the counterattack, deriding the proposed repeal as the Leave No Heiress Behind Act. One television spot, run by a  ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: The Inequality Bogeyman

Stop calling envy "social justice".       During a recent lunch in a restaurant, someone complimented my wife on the perfume she was wearing. But I was wholly unaware that she was wearing perfume, even though we had been in a car together for about half an hour, driving to the restaurant. My sense of smell is very poor. But there is     ... MORE

VIDEO: School Choice - A Multiple Choice Test For Families

96% Of Dems Who Support Minimum Wage Don't Pay Interns

by Matt Vespa.      Liberals are really pushing raising the minimum wage for 2014. Thirty states have put forward bills to increase it, and Democrats have made this issue part of their political strategy for this year.  Yet, a new study from the Employment Policies Institute (EPI) has exposed the proponents of raising the minimum wage of their "hypocrisy."    ... MORE

Christopher Elliott: TSA Gives Fliers A Bad Feeling

Are they starting to sense the government is not us?         If airport security is so good, why do passengers feel so bad? That's a valid question, considering how the Transportation Security Administration seems to be spinning its performance lately. The agency wants you to believe the dark days of body scans and pat-downs, of liquids,   ... MORE

The EPA's Agenda: Undermine Capitalism & America

by Alan Caruba.     The Environmental Protection Agency has been in a full assault on the U.S. economy since the 1980s when the global warming hoax was initiated. It has been assisted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA. To put it in other terms, our own government has engaged in lying to Americans, and the result  ... MORE

Nick Gillespie: Will Rand Paul Mainstream Libertarianism?

On his way to the White House.     The Sunday morning talk shows are abuzz with disussion about a long and interesting article about Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) in The New York Times written by Sam Tanenhaus and Jim Rutenberg. I'm not particularly familiar with Rutenberg's work, but Tanenhaus is a really sharp historian of ideology in American      ... MORE

VIDEO: Nick Gillespie - Spending And Debt

Ohio Police Department Deploys Fake Drug Checkpoints

Government finds creative new uses for lying.      Police in the Cleveland suburb of Mayfield Heights know they’re not allowed to use checkpoints to search drivers and their cars for drugs. So they’re trying the next best thing: fake drug checkpoints. Police in the city of 19,000 recently posted large yellow signs along Interstate 271 that     ... MORE

Walter E Williams: Politics Of Hate And Envy

Part of the progressive agenda is to create hate and envy. One component of that agenda is to attack the large differences between a corporation's chief executive officer's earnings and those of its average worker. CNNMoney published salary comparisons in "Fortune 50 CEO pay vs. our salaries". Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf's annual salary    ... MORE

VIDEO: Free Americans Exercising Their Rights

How Americans Can Kill ObamaCare: Legalize Pot

by Glenn Harlan Reynolds.      In his excellent book, Two Cheers For Anarchism, Professor James Scott writes: One need not have an actual conspiracy to achieve the practical effects of a conspiracy. More regimes have been brought, piecemeal, to their knees by what was once called 'Irish Democracy,' the silent, dogged resistance, withdrawal,     ... MORE

The Mythical Invasion Of The Super Bowl Hookers

by Maggie McNeil.        Major events such as World’s Fairs and the Olympics always provide an excuse for governments to “clean things up” in the host cities before the guests arrive. Police sweep people the leaders consider undesirable, embarrassing or just plain unsightly out of public view (and into jails or exile for the duration). The victims   ... MORE

Secret Government Is The Chief Threat To Liberty

by Ronald Bailey.           Last Friday, President Obama made a much anticipated speech at the Department of Justice outlining his proposed reforms of the National Security Agency’s domestic surveillance program, with a particular focus on the NSA’s clandestine collection of the records of essentially every American’s telephone calls. Yesterday,      ... MORE

6 Shocking Studies That Prove Science Is Totally Broken

by Andrew Marinus, Alan Boyle and Jon Pearl.     Even if you're not all that into science, it's still a big part of the news that reaches you on a day-to-day basis -- you'll see interesting headlines about how studies show marijuana cures loneliness or how other studies say pot ruins your memory, and you kind of just assume they're true. If scientists   ... MORE

VIDEO: FOX NEWS - NSA Is Illegal & Ineffective

Jeffrey Dorfman: The Government That Cried Wolf

Debt ceiling deja vu.         On February 7 the United States will once again reach its statutory debt limit, meaning it cannot legally borrow any more money. Since the obvious option of cutting spending to match the amount of revenue that the government collects is off the table for some inexplicable reason, Congress will have to pass a new, higher    ... MORE

This Powerful Jury Tool Can End The Drug War Today

by David Downs.     A New Hampshire bill introduced in the legislature this month would require judges to tell juries that they are free to use a time-tested, and controversial power called “nullification,” the Wall Street Journal reported today. “Nullification” means jurors can vote to acquit defendants if jurors don’t agree with the underlying law.  ... MORE

VIDEO: Ayn Rand - Introducing Objectivism


Perhaps the most important philosophic video you will EVER see.

Carlos Miller: Cops Shoot And Kill Man With Hands Up

What a citizen's cell phone camera revealed.         An Arizona deputy shot and killed a man claiming he was reaching for a gun, but a cell phone video shows the man had raised his hands in the air. However, Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu insists the man should have been killed much earlier because he wasn’t complying with their orders.      ... MORE

ObamaCare Creates New Class Of Free Riders

by Rituparna Basu and Yaron Brook. Welcome to Obamacare, land of skyrocketing premiums, cancelled insurance policies, and a website that is exhibit A of government incompetence. If Republicans are serious about stopping this destructive law, they must criticize more than its rollout troubles, which are fixable. They must expose the     ... MORE