Senator Rand Paul: ‘I Am Not An Isolationist’

The senator clarifies his position.   Some pundits are surprised that I support destroying the Islamic State in Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) militarily. They shouldn’t be. I’ve said since I began public life that I am not an isolationist, nor am I an interventionist. I look at the world, and consider war, realistically and constitutionally. I still see war as  ... MORE

Marijuana Legalization Supported By Growing Majority

by Matt Ferner.   A broad new survey shows that a majority of American adults continue to support marijuana legalization in the United States, and that support appears to be growing. The survey, released last week from online polling data company CivicScience, asked more than 450,000 U.S. adults over the last two years this question: "Would you   ... MORE

VIDEO: Walter E Williams - Is It Too Late?

Andrew Napolitano: An Unhappy Summer For Liberty

Government more effective against liberty than terror.    At the root of the chaos in the Middle East and here at home are governments that respect no limits on their exercise of power. Public officials — who are supposed to be our public servants — routinely behave as if they are our masters. They reject the confines of the        ... MORE

Jerry Davich: Do Sobriety Checks Trample On Our Rights?

 “Those who sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither.” Ben Franklin.  Are police-conducted sobriety checkpoints a necessary law enforcement tool to remove drunken drivers from our roads? Or are they an unreasonable search of our property and an unconstitutional invasion of our rights and privacy? Hammond Police Department Lt.     ... MORE

VIDEO: It's Always Sunny In Government?

Utilize Jury Nullification To Make America Free Again

by Ed Forchion.   By design of the founders of America, U.S. citizens are the final arbiters of our nation’s laws via our jury system. I don’t think the founding fathers could have envisioned “America the free” becoming “America the prison country.” I was jailed for saying that in 2002 – we have political prisoners in America too. The incarceration rate in     ... MORE

Dirty Money: How Asset Forfeiture Enriches The State

by Ciera Crawford. It's like an unforgettable scene from the television crime drama, Miami Vice — Detectives Rico Tubbs and Sonny Crockett pursue some of the biggest drug dealers and smugglers from around the world. Except it's not the 1980s. Criminals are now more sophisticated with their crime rings, and it takes more than one unit to bring    ... MORE

Matt Agorist: If Cops Come To Your Door Without a Warrant

Shut them down like this guy!     If police come to your door and you don’t need their help, you can simply decline to answer. They cannot come into your home without a search warrant. Even if the police have probable cause, they cannot come in your home without a search warrant. You might even be a suspect in a criminal investigation. In such   ... MORE

Rand Paul Would Seek "To Destroy ISIS Militarily"

by Jacob Sullum.       On Friday, as Robby Soave noted this afternoon, Rand Paul told the Associated Press that if he were president, he "would lay out the reasoning of why ISIS is a threat to our national security and seek congressional authorization to destroy ISIS militarily." But at a Q&A session in Dallas earlier that same day, the Kentucky senator      ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - Self Protection In Ferguson

An Act To Reduce Opportunity For The Most Vulnerable

by Thomas Sherrer.     Minimum wage kicks low-skill workers to the curb. Wildfires aren’t the only things spreading rapidly in this California drought; the desire to increase minimum wages along the West Coast apparently burns equally as hot. California’s minimum wage recently increased to $9 an hour giving Golden State workers the fourth   ... MORE

John Stossel: Green Markets

How to avoid the tragedy of the commons.     Last week I said the Environmental Protection Agency has become a monster that does more harm than good. But logical people say, "What else we got?" It's natural to assume greedy capitalists will run amok and destroy the Earth unless stopped by regulation. These critics don't understand     ... MORE

VIDEO: Can Cops Search Your Cell Phone?

How Jury Nullification Would Work In Anti- SAFE Act Case

by Frank Parlato.     At last opponents of the NY SAFE Act have a case that they can use to overcome the vicious, draconian, unconstitutional NYS SAFE Act, the monster child of Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Brenden Morgan, 22, of Medina, NY, was charged by State Police with criminal possession of a weapon in the 4th degree, a Class A misdemeanor. Morgan   ... MORE

Katherine Mangu-Ward: Guy Who Tried To Shut Down Kid's Lemonade Stand Gets Taste Of Own Medicine. And It Sucks

Smothered by regulation.       Remember Doug Wilkey, the grumpy Floridian who tried to get a lemonade stand that was operating next door to his house shut down by local authorites? Whelp, looks like he's getting a taste of his own medicine. A tipster contacted the city and pointed officials toward records that show Wilkey, as recently as March,   ... MORE

New Hampshire: A Hotbed for Liberty

by Shem Kellogg.       The United States was once a constitutional republic, and today New Hampshire is on the forefront in the battle to return the U.S. to its original principles of state sovereignty, limited federal government and individual liberty. The year Thomas Jefferson was elected President, eleven out of sixteen states didn’t have     ... MORE

Cops Barge Into Woman's Home Because Grass Is Too Long

Your public servants at work -- see video. Police officers barged into a woman’s home because they wanted to arrest the owner because of the length of the front lawn.  A tenant answered the door and recorded the rude, obscenity-spewing cops making demands and entering her home, despite the fact that she wasn’t even the person listed  ... MORE

VIDEO: Fox News - Government's Hate Speech Tracker

U.S. Army Drills To Battle Domestic Political Dissent

by Eric Blair.  Government prepares for citizen confrontation. As we've witnessed recently in Ferguson, Missouri, the difference between police and military is already nearly indistinguishable. In other words, the Army is already taking on peaceful citizens in domestic cities. Tank-supported SWAT teams already grenade and raid homes to serve warrants   ... MORE

Ryan Gallagher: How the NSA Built Its Own Secret Google

The surveillance search engine.       The National Security Agency is secretly providing data to nearly two dozen U.S. government agencies with a “Google-like” search engine built to share more than 850 billion records about phone calls, emails, cellphone locations, and internet chats, according to classified documents obtained by The    ... MORE

VIDEO: How To Refuse Un-Constitutional Checkpoint

Laura College: How To Find DUI Checkpoints

Or, how to avoid warrantless searches.   The U.S. Supreme Court has determined that DUI checkpoints, also called "sobriety roadblocks," are legal and minimally invasive. Of course, for a motorist who is late for a meeting or eager to get home, the inconvenience is subjective. Fortunately, there are ways to find out if there are DUI         ... MORE

Homeland Security Loses Track Of 6,000 Foreigners

by Brian Ross and Matthew Mosk.      But they have your e-mails. The Department of Homeland Security has lost track of more than 6,000 foreign nationals who entered the United States on student visas, overstayed their welcome, and essentially vanished -- exploiting a security gap that was supposed to be fixed after the Sept. 11,    ... MORE

Feds Creating Database To Track Hate Speech On Twitter

by Elizabeth Harrington.  The federal government is spending nearly $1 million to create an online database that will track “misinformation” and hate speech on Twitter. The National Science Foundation is financing the creation of a web service that will monitor “suspicious memes” and what it considers “false and misleading ideas,” with a major   ... MORE

Gene Robinson: Is America A Police State? For Many, Yes

An everyday reality for millions.      I don't know what it's like to live in a police state. But some people who live in America do. This week, a video surfaced of an event that occurred in St. Paul, Minnesota, back in January—and it's as horrifying as anything I've seen and heard in a long time. I've watched it several times because (1) I can't believe   ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - Cops and Racism

Thomas Sowell: Irresponsible Choices

So now we want the first woman president?  The latest Gallup poll indicates that 14 percent of the people "moderately disapprove" of Barack Obama's performance as president and 39 percent "strongly disapprove." Since Obama won two presidential elections, chances are that some of those who now "strongly disapprove" of what he    ... MORE

U.S. Hikes Fee To Renounce Citizenship By 422%

by Robert W. Wood.   Government looks to cash in on bonanza. Over the last two years, the U.S. has had a spike in expatriations. It isn’t exactly Ellis Island in reverse, but it’s more than a dribble. With global tax reporting and FATCA, the list of the individuals who renounced is up. For 2013, there was a 221% increase, with record numbers of       ... MORE

VIDEO: One Citizen Crushed By Civil Asset Forfeiture


Policing for profit. More evidence the government is not us.

David Rose: The Myth Of Global Meltown

Al Gore's predicted it would be ICE-FREE by now.  The speech by former US Vice-President Al Gore was apocalyptic. ‘The North Polar ice cap is falling off a cliff,’ he said. ‘It could be completely gone in summer in as little as seven years. Seven years from now.’ Those comments came in 2007 as Mr Gore accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for his      ... MORE

Jeff Mizanskey Is Serving Life in Prison for Marijuana

by Aaron Malin.    Rapists and murderers come and go, but he's there for the duration. As I prepared to leave home for my interview with Jeff Mizanskey I looked up the address of the prison where he is held. In disbelief, I typed the characters into the GPS on my phone: 8200 No More Victims Road. Jeff Mizanskey is serving a life sentence without   ... MORE 

The Police Violence We Aren’t Talking About

by Zoe Carpenter.   Using authority to coerce sexual favors. Police officer Daniel Holtzclaw worked the evening shift, from four in the afternoon until two in the morning, patrolling the northeastern part of Oklahoma City. Between February and June he allegedly sexually assaulted at least seven women while on duty, including a       ... MORE

Robert Klein Engler: A Worthless Sacrifice

The unfortunate education of James Foley.  The recent death of reporter James Foley at the hands of ISIS and the past death of American ambassador Chris Stevens have an interesting similarity. Both men were known to be liberals, and some would even say they were educated in a radical liberal tradition. Writing in USA Today, David McKay      ... MORE

VIDEO: Milton Friedman - Timeless Principles Of Freedom

Walter E Williams: Things I Don't Understand

There are things that really puzzle me.       Some life insurance companies charge lower premiums if you haven't made a life-shortening lifestyle choice. Being a nonsmoker is one of them. Actuarially, that makes sense because the life expectancy for smokers is at least 10 years shorter than for nonsmokers. Insurance company policies      ... MORE

"The Police Force Is Watching The People"

by Sheldon Richman.         Political philosophy — the libertarian philosophy included — can take you only so far. The libertarian philosophy provides grounds for condemning aggression, that is, the initiation of force, and along with some supplemental considerations, it identifies in the abstract what constitutes aggression, victimhood, and      ... MORE

VIDEO: Nanny Of The Month - August 2014

Obama On The Islamic State: Who’s On First?

by Monica Crowley.      Obama foreign policy has long resembled the old Abbott and Costello “who’s on first” routine: a dazed and confused mush of leftist ideology and demonstrable weakness. The left hand hasn’t known what the far-left hand has been doing. Or the far-left hand has had to take the left one out to the woodshed for not being       ... MORE

Cops Taser To Death Handcuffed Man Laying On Ground

He wasn't getting up fast enough.   A 24-year-old man was tasered at least 13 times before he died in police custody, an attorney for the deceased victim has revealed. Gregory Lewis Towns, Jr was killed last April in East Point, Georgia after he was arrested by police who responded to reports of a domestic dispute with his girlfriend. Towns died     ... MORE

VIDEO: Police State America 2014 - Being Black In Public


A black man, accused of no crime, is taken to jail for "no ID."  see article.