Rules of Engagement For Resisting The Police State

by John W. Whitehead.      The language of freedom is no longer the common tongue spoken by the citizenry and their government. The perils of resisting the police state grow more costly with each passing day, especially if you hope to escape with your life and property intact. The thing you must remember is that we’ve entered an age of     ... MORE

NSA's Parallel Reconstruction Trumps Fourth Amendment

by Andrew Napolitano.       While the political commentators in the nation's capital are wrapped up in the debate over what to do about ISIS, and as one third of the Senate and nearly all members of the House campaign for re-election, the president's spies continue to capture massive amounts of personal information about hundreds of   ... MORE

VIDEO: Michael Huemer - Authority and Democracy

Reports Suggest FCC Poised To Regulate Internet

by John Gizzi.      There has been mounting evidence in the last two weeks that the Internet, one of the last unregulated venues for communication, might well be headed for federal regulation. What makes the specter of Internet regulation (or "net neutrality," as its proponents prefer to call it) all the more ominous is that it might become    ... MORE

Holder Resigned Over Judge's Fast & Furious Ruling

by Barbara Hollingsworth. Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton says he has “no doubt” that a Sept. 23 federal court order requiring the Department of Justice (DOJ) to turn over an index of documents relating to the Fast and Furious scandal by October 22 prompted the resignation of Attorney General Eric Holder two days later. “There’s no doubt  ... MORE

VIDEO: EconPop - Economics Of The Dallas Buyer's Club

Freedomworks A Player In The 2014 Elections

by Karin McQuillan.     Matt Kibbe, the head of FreedomWorks, keeps his eye on the goal: “not a junior partnership with the Republican Party, but a hostile takeover of it.”  Kibbe is a marathoner in for the long haul. FreedomWorks has seen worse times, when libertarians were shunned. Since 2009, it has become a key contributor to that mainstream   ... MORE

NYPD Officers Caught On Camera 'Brutally Punching And Pistol-Whipping' Unarmed Teenager With Hands Up

by Murray Weiss.       Public servants caught in the act of being themselves. Two New York City cops are facing criminal charges after they were caught in disturbing footage punching and pistol-whipping a teenage suspect who had already raised his hands to surrender. In the video obtained by DNAinfo New York, 16-year-old Kahreem Tribble is  ... MORE

Embrace The Morality Of The Free Market Economy

by Matthew Boyer.     The free market is the moral option when it comes to economic systems. This is something you don’t hear everyday, especially in progressive academia. But what is it about the free market that makes it superior to other potential economic models? Are capitalists truly greedy pigs, or are they self-interested humans who     ... MORE

John Stossel - Good Intentions, Incentives And Poverty

The great conceit of central planners. Fifty years ago, President Lyndon Johnson declared "War on Poverty." It sounded great to me. I was taught at Princeton, "We're a rich country. All we have to do is tax the rich, and then use that money to create programs that will lift the poor out of poverty." Government created job-training programs for  ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - Why Not School Choice?

Judge Gives County Green Light To Sell Woman’s Home After One Property Tax Payment Was Missed By Mistake

by Matt Erspamer.   A Kalamazoo County judge has sided with county officials in a dispute where a Richland woman says her home is being seized over a property tax mistake. FOX 17 first talked with Deborah Calley in mid-September, when she told us she lost her home after she accidentally missed a property tax payment of roughly $2,000    ... MORE

Jonah Goldberg: Liberals Storm California's Bedrooms

Relentless culture warriors.       I have a slightly different take on California’s recent decision to regulate college sex. Don’t get me wrong: I think it’s beyond idiotic, unworkable, even borderline Orwellian. We’ll get to all that. But I also think it’s incredibly useful. You see, for years I’ve been railing and ranting about the ridiculous myth that liberalism ... MORE

VIDEO: Nat Hentoff On Free Speech, Jazz And FIRE

'Acting White' Remains a Barrier for Black Education

by John McWhorter. Here we go again. A black woman has articulately battled the idea that using standard English is "acting white" in a video that has gone viral of late, and Jamelle Bouie at Slate has called her out for propagating a myth that black students devalue school. In the eighties, (black) anthropologist John Ogbu with Signithia      ... MORE

Christian Sharia Law Sprouting Up In Indiana?

by Travis Gettys.     An Indiana woman says a state trooper pulled her over this summer and asked if she had accepted Jesus Christ as her personal lord and savior. Ellen Bogan said she was stopped in August by Indiana State Trooper Brian Hamilton, who asked whether she had a home church and handed her a pamphlet asking her to “acknowledge   ... MORE

Christopher Chantrill: Trust In Government Is Pathological

Need we run down the evidence?     This last weekend the Sunday shows had a “trust in government” theme. Chuck Todd on "Meet the Press" asked Obama advisor Dan Pfeiffer why the government of the email-losing IRS, of no strategy on ISIS, of border mayhem could be trusted on Ebola. On Fox News Sunday Chris Wallace threw a   ... MORE

How Prohibition Drives People Toward Riskier Drugs

by Jacob Sullum.      Rise of the mystery high. Last week NBC News broadcast a story about Cloud 9, "a dangerous new synthetic drug that's been turning up at high schools." Anchorman Lester Holt warned that Cloud 9 is "legal, unregulated and readily available at convenience stores"; that it "has sent almost two dozen young people to     ... MORE

VIDEO: Fox News - Obama's Terror Policy

Thomas Sowell: Ebola And Obama

The safety of Americans comes in second.    The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is both a danger in itself and a wake-up call for Americans -- about President Obama, about the institutions of this country and, most important, about ourselves. There was a time when an outbreak of a deadly disease overseas would bring virtually unanimous     ... MORE

Mississippi Can Demand Bloodletting At DUI Checkpoints

by Steve Wilson.  Your public servants at work. Vampire movies, books and TV series are all of the rage these days. Guess the Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol wanted to get in on the act. Over the long Labor Day weekend, the patrol ran a no-refusal DUI checkpoint in Oxford, home of the University of Mississippi. In a no-refusal checkpoint, a      ... MORE

VIDEO: George Will - Money In Politics


The real motives behind campaign financing reform.

Vegas Schools Want To Teach Masturbation To Little Kids

by Jennifer Kastner. 5 and 6 year olds targeted. Monday's Clark County School District Board of Trustees meeting was met with a packed room of angry parents who recently discovered possible updates to the district's sex education curriculum, which could teach kids as young as five-years-old about topics like masturbation. "We certainly     ... MORE

No Charges Against SWAT Team That Disfigured Baby

The war on drugs is a war against people.        A grand jury has announced that the police officers from a Georgia SWAT team will not face any charges in relation to harming and disfiguring the face of the toddler named Bounkham Phonesavanh. The medical bills related to the incident are stacking up, and it’s now questioned whether or    ... MORE

Small-Town America Rebels Against 'Police State' Arsenal

by Leo Hohann.  Citizens urge return of armored vehicles to Pentagon. Residents of an Idaho town are asking their city council to return an armored vehicle to the federal government and just say no to militarization. John Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute, said he was contacted by a group of residents from Nampa,      ... MORE

Dear Barack Obama: You Suck. Love, The Voters

by J.D. Tuccille.     Americans with their eyes on national politics are more likely to intend their midterm votes as messages of opposition to President Barack Obama than as support, according to Gallup. Almost a third of voters, at 32 percent, are using their ballots as a Bronx cheer for the White House, compared to the 20 percent sending love   ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - Common Core

Walter E Williams: Teacher Indoctrination

Repeat the lie enough and they will believe. Students at several Jefferson County, Colorado, high schools walked out to protest the school board's recently proposed curriculum review committee that seeks to promote patriotism, respect for authority, free enterprise, plus the positive aspects of U.S. history. The teachers union,    ... MORE

DC, 3 States And A Territory Vote On Marijuana This Year

by German Lopez. People to lead politicians away from drug war. This year, several more states will vote on whether marijuana should be legal for recreational and medical purposes. Given that more Americans favor legalization than ever, these ballot initiatives have a real chance of passing. Here are the statewide initiatives that will appear on    ... MORE

VIDEO: We Have It In Our Power To Begin The World Again



Civil Asset Forfeiture in Philadelphia Not So Brotherly

by Ronald D. Rotunda.  The City of Brotherly Love is not so brotherly when it comes to civil forfeiture. Consider this case, which began in September of 1993. The police stopped Ossie Younge for a traffic infraction, speeding. Nothing unusual about that, but what was unusual (although not in Philadelphia) is that the police then seized    ... MORE

Jeannie DeAngelis: Amnesty For Ebola

Never mind the threat to 300 million people.   Recently, Time magazine published an article entitled “Ebola Just the Latest Hardship for Liberian Patient in the U.S.” The piece seemed to be written with the intent to elicit sympathy for a man who, in his quest to survive, illegally infiltrated a nation carrying a highly contagious hemorrhagic     ... MORE

The Demonization Of American Capitalism

by Jonathan Adelman.     In the last seven years, inspired heavily by the Great Recession of 2007-2009, there has been a tidal wave of demonization of American capitalism. From movies (“The Great Gatsby” to the “Wolf of Wall Street”) to large scale social protest movements (“Occupy Wall Street”) to “One Percenters” to much of the    ... MORE

Radley Balko: Another Civil Asset Forfeiture Outrage

Tactics of the profiteers.    The Des Moines Register has the story of William “Bart” Davis and John Newmer­zhycky, two gamblers who had more than $100,000 seized from them after they were pulled over by Iowa state police. Davis and Newmer­zhycky were westbound on Interstate Highway 80 in Poweshiek County on the morning of April 15,   ... MORE

VIDEO: So You Think Money Is The Root Of All Evil?

Another Jury Nullification Success Story

from Tenth Amendment Center: The curious case of Doug Darrell shows the immense amount of power that is possessed by We the People, when we have the courage to use it. Doug Darrell is a resident of New Hampshire who cultivated marijuana for religious and medical purposes. After a National Guard helicopter spotted his plants, he was   ... MORE

Poll: 51% Of Dems Support Criminalizing Hate Speech

First Amendment is so yesterday.    Note: Hate speech, not hate crimes. YouGov asked people about hate crimes for its poll too and found bipartisan support for the federal law that provides steeper penalties for crimes motivated by hatred of the victim’s race, religion, gender, or national origin. Sixty-four percent of Dems gave thumbs-up to   ... MORE

VIDEO: Bill Burr Explains Why Women Want To Ruin NFL

Angela Graham-West: Political Correctness And Ebola

Political correctness brings Ebola to America. Wednesday night, "CNN Tonight" guests Ben Ferguson and Van Jones both agreed on some things: that in light of the Ebola case in Dallas Texas, a travel ban is not called for, that Obama wasn't responsible for the person getting the virus, and that people are “overreacting”. Van Jones then went on   ... MORE

Liberty And Wealth Require Strong Money

by Daniel Oliver Jr.      Conservatives hold that wealth and liberty correlate. This proposition was self-evident in the context of the Cold War and remains true today. It is the reason China cannot surpass the West in terms of wealth creation (contrary to the hysterics emanating from The Economist): a repressive country that continues to      ... MORE