John W. Whitehead: Jesus Lived In A Police State

The dangers of challenging the state.     Those living through this present age of SWAT team raids, police shootings of unarmed citizens, roadside strip searches, and invasive surveillance might feel as if these events are unprecedented. Yet while America may be experiencing a steady slide into a police state, it is neither the first nor the last  ... MORE

Jeff Berwick: Stealing Every Last Penny From Americans

More evidence the government is not us.        All of a sudden the government lays claims to your savings. They can't prove you owe them a dime, but you're deprived due process. The legal bills become overwhelming, and so you let your money be stolen. You simply have no choice. Sound outlandish? It's not. Not in the "Land of the Free"   ... MORE

VIDEO: Glenn Greenwald - Secrecy And Abuse Of Power

William F. Jasper: Why More Bundy Standoffs Are Coming

The war on the west will continue.      The federal government’s over-the-top police action against the Bundy family ranch is an ominous portent of more to come, as rogue agencies and their corporate/NGO partners attempt to “cleanse” the West of ranchers, farmers, miners, loggers, and other determined property owners.       ... MORE

Prostitution Precrime? Government Presumes Intentions

by Elizabeth Nolan Brown.     A woman waiting on a street corner. A woman in a tight dress. A woman who speaks to someone walking by, waves to a passing car, looks at you too long. Are there clear, unambiguous meanings to these things? Of course not—they could be the actions of someone selling sex, or of someone waiting for a     ... MORE

VIDEO: Don't Cops Have Better Things To Do?

Liz Peek: Obama Promotes A Society Of Helpless Victims

Dependency sells.     Eric Holder stirred up a hornet’s nest the other day, whining to a mostly black crowd about the ill treatment he received from a Congressional Committee. Holder seemed to imply that he and President Obama have come in for rough treatment because they are black. It was a stunning comment. This is, after all, Eric Holder,  ... MORE

Andrew Napolitano: Hope For The Dead

Freedom means hope for the living.      What is the connection between freedom and rising from the dead? When America was in its infancy and struggling to find a culture and frustrated at governance from Great Britain, the word most frequently uttered in speeches and pamphlets and editorials was not safety or taxes or peace;       ... MORE  

John Stossel: Earth Daze

Blinded by their "political" science.       "The heavens reek, the waters below are foul ... we are in a crisis of survival." That's how Walter Cronkite and CBS hyped the first Earth Day, back in 1970. Somehow we've survived since then, and most of life got better, although I never hear that from the worrywarts. Of course, some things got better       ... MORE

86M Private-Sector Workers Sustain 148M Benefit Takers

by Terence P. Jeffrey.  Buried deep on the website of the U.S. Census Bureau is a number every American citizen, and especially those entrusted with public office, should know. It is 86,429,000. That is the number of Americans who in 2012 got up every morning and went to work — in the private sector — and did it week after week after week. ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - Leave The Gamblers Alone

NY Law Allows Police To Seize Guns Without A Warrant

by Jason Howerton.         The police state marches on. New York’s hastily-passed gun control law “mandates that law enforcement personnel seize, without a warrant, probable cause or hearing” some firearms, a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in New York’s Eastern District alleges. The lawsuit was filed in March by the La Reddola,         ... MORE

The Dumbest Federal Policy You'll Read About Today

by A. Barton Hinkle.     It benefits special interests, hurts consumers, and harms the planet. If you are like most people, you probably spend a lot of time wondering, "What is the absolutely worst environmental policy on the planet?" And if you are like most people, you probably think it is America’s ethanol policy. So Virginia's recent decision to      ... MORE

VIDEO: The REAL Bundy Ranch Story


The day free American citizens stood down their heavy-handed government.

Veronique de Rugy: Department Of Cronyism

The administration's favor-dispensing machine.     What's the point of the Department of Commerce? If not for the Census and the Patent Office, the department would function as little more than a one-stop shop for special interests. Don't believe me? Look at its record. In Fiscal Year 2013, the Department of Commerce spent about     ... MORE

Obama's Wish List Since 2009: 442 New Taxes & Fees

by Cheryl K. Chumley.         No one ever said vote-buying is cheap. President Obama has introduced a total of 442 new tax increase proposals since he took office in 2009, a watchdog group reported. Moreover, those 442 tax proposals are different than the 20 that are contained in Obamacare legislation that was signed into law, Americans for    ... MORE

New Tech Lets Cops Watch ENTIRE CITY In Real-Time

by Giuseppe Macri.          Big brother is watching. An Ohio-based surveillance company working with police has created the law enforcement surveillance model of the future, giving cops the ability to capture the activity of an entire city on video. The eerily-named Persistent Surveillance Systems is headed by former Air Force    ... MORE

Katie Kieffer: Going On A Drone Hunt

The town of Deer Trail leads the way.    Phil Steel is a law-abiding American citizen who is fed up with drones. In a bold move to call attention to the Obama administration’s unethical drone policy, he recently championed drone hunting. Steel resides in the bucolic Colorado town of Deer Trail. Earlier this month, Steel brought a proposal   ... MORE

VIDEO: IRS Collects For 'Sins Of The Father'

Walter E Williams: Equality In Discipline

A discipline based on quotas not behavior.         George Leef, director of research for the North Carolina-based John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, authored a Forbes op-ed article titled "Obama Administration Takes Groupthink To Absurd Lengths." The subtitle is "School Discipline Rates Must Be 'Proportionate.'" Let's       ... MORE

VIDEO: How To Save A Heart Attack Victim's Life


Because without life, there is no liberty.

A. Barton Hinkle: Bipartisan Hypocrisy on Free Speech

Do conservatives owe the Dixie Chicks an apology?     It sure looks that way. Liberals, meanwhile, owe some apologies too. A little over a decade ago the Chicks' lead singer, Natalie Maines, told a London audience: "Just so you know, we’re ashamed that the president of the United States is from Texas." This was less than two weeks     ... MORE

Sonny Bunch: Stifling Commerce

Government smothers what it's supposed to promote.     "I ran for office pledging to make our government leaner and smarter and more consumer friendly," President Barack Obama reminded a group of small businessmen at a January 2012 White House gathering. You can see why the audience needed a refresher course. The president's     ... MORE

Brandon Smith: Real Americans Are Ready To Snap

When to strike back is pivotal.        Despite popular belief, every culture of every nation draws a line in the sand against government tyranny. The problem is, many draw this line so close to total defeat that it rarely matters. For the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto, for instance, it wasn't until the Germans had already herded millions onto    ... MORE

F-Stamp Recipients Outnumber Full-Time Women Workers

by Terence P. Jeffrey.    Another victory for hope and change. People participating in the food stamp program outnumbered the women who worked full-time, year-round in the United States in 2012, according to data from the Department of Agriculture and the Census Bureau. In the average month of 2012, according to the Department of     ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - Policing For Profit

Thomas Sowell - Statistical Frauds

The discrimination hoax.     The "war on women" political slogan is in fact a war against common sense. It is a statistical fraud when Barack Obama and other politicians say that women earn only 77 percent of what men earn — and that this is because of discrimination. It would certainly be discrimination if women were doing the same work as men,   ... MORE

Why Federal Agencies Run Amok

by Arthur G. Sapper & M. Miller Baker.      A prominent federal appeals court in Washington, one step below the Supreme Court, recently announced that the Federal Communications Commission has the far-reaching power to impose “neutrality” rules on the Internet.  The court did so not because it found that Congress gave the FCC that    ... MORE

The Five States Most Likely To Next Legalize Marijuana

by Kimberly Ruble.       Colorado and Washington are the only two states that have passed laws on legally using marijuana but individuals all across the United States are wondering if their state is going to be next. However it takes more than just curiosity. There have to be a combination of factors in place such as polling data, what the     ... MORE

VIDEO: The Case For Cameras In The Supreme Court

Leaked Memo Uncovers Obama Administration Land Grab

by Shawn Martini.      Senator Jim DeMint took to the pages of the Washington Post this morning to raise the alarm about a planned, 10 million acre Western land grab by the Obama administration. A secret administration memo has surfaced revealing plans for the federal government to seize more than 10 million acres from Montana    ... MORE

Public Schools Deliberately Create a Culture of Fear

by Daisy Luther. Setting the stage for tyranny.     What is the best way to ensure that gun control takes place within a generation?Forget trying to change the minds of those who already have guns.  The best way to do this is to encourage a culture of fear among young people. And the public school system, with all of its zero tolerance lunacy, is doing just  ... MORE

George Will Is Confident Americans Will Rebel

by Benjamin Weingarten.       Against abusive government. In an interview with TheBlaze Books in connection with the release of his new book, “A Nice Little Place on the North Side: Wrigley Field at One Hundred,” we spoke with prodigious columnist and author George Will on all things baseball and his unified theory of beer, and then     ... MORE

Wynton Hall: Seven Devastating Economic Facts

Hope and change made everything worse.         U.S. economic conditions in 2014 continue to languish, as millions of Americans remain jobless. Seven economic facts underscore America’s increasingly dire economic outlook. 1. A Record 91.8 Million Americans Are No Longer in the Workforce The latest Labor Department figures reveal that a    ... MORE

VIDEO: Andrew Napolitano - The NSA & The Constitution

Can Government Make You Pay A Relative's Debt?

by Wyatt Andrews.      Whose going to stop them? Two months ago, Mary Grice, a career employee at the Food and Drug Administration, was notified the U.S. Treasury had confiscated her state and federal tax refunds totaling $4,500. The government had taken the money before she knew there was a problem. "To be honest, I was ticked off,"  ... MORE

Individualism: The Only Basis Of Freedom In Medicine

by Richard E. Ralston.         The U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether Obamacare’s provisions to mandate the coverage of contraceptives violate the right of private employers and employees to practice their religious beliefs. We have reached a very sorry state in America if the basis for preventing government intrusion in our    ... MORE

VIDEO: Davy Crockett - Not Yours To Give

Taxi Unions Bribe Government To Destroy Competition

by Jason Mick.    Crony capitalism 1 Consumers 0. The U.S. isn't exactly a "free market" at times, with outright bribery -- condoned by the U.S. judicial system -- or collusive public-private cartels leading to some products and services being banned from the market.  Just ask Tesla Motors Inc. (TSLA) whose electric vehicles have been banned     ... MORE

Higher Than Expected: Colorado's Marijuana Tax Revenue

by Robin Respaut.       Colorado, the first state to tax legalized recreational marijuana sales, expects to bring in an estimated $98 million in revenue this year, exceeding the state's original expectations by 40 percent. The state began levying sales and excise taxes on recreational marijuana on January 1, 2014. Moody's Investors Service, in a     ... MORE