Raising Up Compliant Children in the American Police State

by John W. Whitehead.     How do you persuade a nation to march in lock step with a police state? You start by convincing them that they’re in danger, and only the government can protect them. Key them up with constant danger alerts, distract them with wall-to-wall news coverage about disappearing planes and pseudo-celebrities, use        ... MORE

Civil Forfeiture Drives Mistrust Of Government

by George Will.      Earnest moralists lament Americans’ distrust of government. What really is regrettable is that government does much to earn distrust, as Terry Dehko, 70, and his daughter Sandy Thomas, 41, understand. Terry, who came to Michigan from Iraq in 1970, soon did what immigrants often do: He went into business, buying Schott’s     ... MORE

VIDEO: William Binney - NSA Domestic Data Mining

Republican Internet Gambling Ban Undermines Rights

by Michelle Minton.       Democrats aren't the only big government party. Despite rhetoric that we need to “restore” the Federal Wire Act in order to protect states’ rights, Republican lawmakers are pushing a bill that would do the exact opposite. The bills would rewrite a U.S. federal law instituted in 1961, creating a de facto ban on Internet       ... MORE

State Law Hides Investigations of Police Misconduct

The real numbers are staggering.     18,000 complaints in the bay area alone, in just the last 5 years. A California state law called the Police Officer’s Bill of Rights (POBOR) protects police from those who allege misconduct. POBOR allows police to keep secret the details of internal investigations or even official findings of misconduct.      ... MORE

VIDEO: Supreme Court To Rule On Warrantless Searches

Andrew Napolitano: Race And Freedom

America should be a free speech zone.     Cliven Bundy should be happy for the public revelation of the private comments of fellow racist Donald Sterling; the latter has replaced the former as the person Americans most love to hate. These two bigots recently spewed racial hatred: Bundy suggesting that African-Americans might do      ... MORE

FDA Can't Wait To Reduce Options For E-Cig Users

Smoke-free device is in government's crosshairs.   Busybodies minding your own business.   The Food and Drug Administration will propose sweeping new rules on Thursday that for the first time would extend its regulatory authority from cigarettes to electronic cigarettes, popular nicotine delivery devices that have grown into a     ... MORE 

John Stossel: American Dreaming

Did you know that I started Facebook?     Really! Well, sort of ... When I was in college at all-male Princeton, I tried to make money by adding photos to a snarky guide to neighboring girls' schools. The guide had been a profitable publishing success, and my idea was simply to add the girls' pictures. Schools like Wellesley, Bryn Mawr, Vassar,    ... MORE

China To Pass US As World’s Leading Economy This Year

The Obama legacy.     The US is on the brink of losing its status as the world’s largest economy, and is likely to slip behind China this year, sooner than widely anticipated, according to the world’s leading statistical agencies. The US has been the global leader since overtaking the UK in 1872. Most economists previously thought China     ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - Gambling And Liberty

Matt Kibbe: Libertarians Should Take Over The GOP

by Nick Gillespie & Amanda Winkler.       "One of the reasons you're seeing so many people interested in libertarian ideas is the failure of the Republicans, the failure of the Democrats, but also the ability to go get the information for yourself: You're not waiting for the [parties] to tell you what you think anymore," says Matt Kibbe president     ... MORE

In 20% Of American Families, EVERYONE Is Unemployed

by Michael Snyder. The real unemployment rate.      According to shocking new numbers that were just released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 20 percent of American families do not have a single person that is working.  So when someone tries to tell you that the unemployment rate in the United States is about 7 percent,     ... MORE

VIDEO: 3 Policies More Racist Than Sterling And Bundy

Ralph Nader: Libertarians And Progressives Unite!

by Jeff Zeleny, Jordyn Phelps & Alexandra Dukakis.     What if Washington politics were no longer defined by partisan gridlock but instead by a cross-party alliance that forged solutions? The alliance would be unstoppable. That’s the premise of the new book “Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate ... MORE

Sonia Quotamayor: Product Of Affirmative Action

by Willilam A. Levinson.       Myths, legends, and anthropology all state that the power to name a thing is the power to control or destroy it. A simple and devastating public relations technique is, therefore, to attach a memorable and accurate name to somebody. The Allies, for example, named General Fedor Bock "Der Sterber" ("Let's go get  ... MORE

Understanding Freedom Is Key To Libertarianism

by Sheldon Richman.        If the libertarian movement is to be the vehicle—actually, collection of vehicles—for the advancement of liberty, then libertarians need to master the art of persuasion. That's hardly news, but it's easily forgotten. I start from the assumption that we don't want merely to feel good by making hardcore libertarian declarations    ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: Politics Versus Education

Sacrificing children for votes.       Of all the cynical frauds of the Obama administration, few are so despicable as sacrificing the education of poor and minority children to the interests of the teachers' unions. Attorney General Eric Holder's attempt to suppress the spread of charter schools in Louisiana was just one of the signs of that cynicism.    ... MORE

VIDEO: Fox News - End Of Net Neutrality?

Walter E Williams: The Constitution Or Good Ideas?

Let me run through a few good ideas.     I think it's a good idea for children to eat healthful, wholesome foods. In the raising of our daughter, before-dinner treats were fresh vegetables, and after-dinner treats were mostly fruits. I arrive at my gym sometime between 4 a.m. and 5 a.m., at least four times a week, to lift weights and use     ... MORE

USPS Wants To Mine & Sell Data Gathered From Your Mail

by Giuseppe Macri.     The United States Postal Service is looking to get in on the big-data-for-profit game played by tech giants like Facebook and Google, and begin mining and selling private data gathered from personal mail sent from and received by Americans everywhere. USPS chief marketing and sales officer Nagisa Manabe recently told    ... MORE

VIDEO: Why Does 1% Of History Have 99% Of The Wealth

Western States Want Feds to Surrender “Federal” Land

by Alex Newman.     Elected officials from across the American West, from top lawmakers to county commissioners, held a historic gathering in Utah in recent days to discuss how Western states could wrest control of the almost 50 percent of land in the region currently claimed by the federal government. Aside from constitutional concerns — with    ... MORE

California Officials Dread Rail Project Trial

by Steven Greenhut.       Those readers who are familiar with Judge Gideon Tucker's words that "No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session," might chuckle that two good-news-for-taxpayers stories came out of Sacramento last week. They came, coincidentally, as legislators had left town to enjoy their spring   ... MORE