A. Barton Hinkle: How Government Steals From Citizens

From civil asset forfeiture to eminent domain.   “Government,” as Barney Frank and other progressives are fond of saying, “is just another word for things we choose to do together.” Like rob people blind. Sometimes the together-doing is highway robbery in the most literal sense — as when police departments seize cash from motorists  ... MORE

Democrats Move Gun Confiscation Underground

by Katie Kieffer.  Fear of sunlight and guns is leading Democrats to turn nocturnal. Bats, mice, skunks and other nocturnal creatures are most active between sunset and sunrise. Nocturnal creatures do not “choose” to avoid sunlight anymore than fish “choose” to avoid dry land; it is instinctual, healthy and normal for nocturnal creatures to work   ... MORE

VIDEO: Thomas Sowell - Society As A Metaphor

Seth Mandel: What Jonathan Gruber Didn’t Say

Hired solely to mislead the people.    Despite the unmasking of ObamaCare architect Jonathan Gruber as a dishonest advisor hired by the Obama administration to mislead the public about the law, far too many commentators have still let Gruber set the terms of the debate about the lies used to pass ObamaCare. For example, an actual discussion  ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: Racial Quota Punishment

Enabling bad behavior solves nothing.    If anyone still has any doubt about the utter cynicism of the Obama administration, a recent agreement between the federal government and the Minneapolis Public Schools should open their eyes. Under the Obama administration, both the Department of Education and the Department of Justice    ...  MORE

VIDEO: Democrats Lie About Immigration Under Reagan

Miami Police Assault And Arrest Woman for No Reason, Leave Her Cuffed and Naked in Public for 30 Minutes

by John Vibes.  Candice Padavick of South Florida is suing Miami Beach Police after she was wrongfully arrested, assaulted, and carried through the lobby of an apartment building by police while she was completely naked. According to court documents recently obtained by NBC, Padavick took a cab home one night several months ago and was unable   ...  MORE

Police Power Is The Foundation Of The State

by Bob Livingston.     "Government is not reason: it is force. Like fire, it’s a dangerous servant and a fearful master…” — George Washington. If there are two words in the English language that we need to understand, they are the words “police power.” Government is police power. Government by definition, by nature, by history and by practical  ... MORE

Exhibit A: The Government Is Not Us


If You Like Your Freedom, You Can Keep Your Freedom

Under Obama, U.S. freedom ranking slips below France.    A new study shows shows that citizens of France now feel that they enjoy more personal freedom… Americans’ assessments of their personal freedom have significantly declined under President Obama, according to a new study from the Legatum Institute in London, and the      ... MORE

If You Like Your Internet, You Can Keep Your Internet

What Comcast and Time Warner paid Obama to do.        The principle of net neutrality is easy to understand and support; to treat the delivery all data equally. This has been the status quo. Works great. Few oppose that, but supporting the principle of net neutrality is not the same thing as supporting the government's plan to enforce that   ... MORE

VIDEO: Undercover Reporting

‘We All Knew’ Obama was Lying About Obamacare

by Matthew Burke.  The supporters of Obamacare knew they had to lie. In what should be considered a shameful admission, Democrat Senator Kirsten Gillibrand admitted on ABC’s This Week that all democrats knew that Obama was lying when he fraudulently repeated over 30 times that, “If you like your insurance plan, you can keep it, period.” When  ... MORE

John Stossel: Control Freaks Want To Run Your Life

They call themselves public servants.     But whether student council president, environmental bureaucrat or member of Congress, most believe they know how to run your life better than you do. I admit I was once guilty of this kind of thinking. As a young consumer reporter, I researched what doctors said was bad for us and what products  ... MORE

VIDEO: The Economics Of WALL-E

Why Ending FEMA Will Improve Disaster Response

by Chris Edwards.  Under the U.S. Constitution, the powers delegated to the federal government are “few and defined,” as James Madison noted in Federalist 45, while the powers of the states “will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people.” That decentralized    ... MORE

Children Suspended for Pretending to Smoke Candy

by Lenore Skenazy.  California school district considers candy a drug. At least three New Mexico middle school students have been suspended for 10 days for inappropriately consuming Smarties. No, that's not code for some hip new drug; we are talking about the sweet-and-sour candies sold in a roll and given out to unlucky kids on Halloween. The    ... MORE

Joe Sobran: Does The World Need More Democracy?

Or does it need more freedom?    During turbulent times like the present, Americans make fervent appeals to “democracy,” which they equate with freedom. President Bush is eager to impose democracy on Iraq and other countries whose governments he disapproves of. Woodrow Wilson only wanted to “make the world safe for democracy”     ... MORE

Government Propaganda Starts In Second Grade

Lies our government tell us in school.   Apparently according to a homework sheet being given to our 2nd graders in this country about how to be good citizens, the government gives us our rights. Did you know that? This is what eight-year-old kids are being taught in this country. Wait, did I say taught? I meant being indoctrinated to blindly ... MORE

Another Rude ObamaCare Surprise: The Bite Of Penalties

by Rick Newman.      Taxes are bad enough when you know they’re coming—and much worse when they arrive unexpectedly. As the Affordable Care Act enters its second year of operability, a key and controversial element of the plan will begin to affect several million Americans for the first time. People who didn’t have health    ... MORE

Ohio Cops Kill Mentally Disabled Woman in Front of Family

by Marie Dennis.    A Cleveland Ohio woman was pronounced dead 2 hours after being assaulted by Cleveland cops outside her family’s home. Counter Current News reported that during an argument, Tenesha Anderson’s family contacted police after being unable to calm the bi-polar and schizophrenic woman down. After initially agreeing   ... MORE
  

VIDEO: Rise Of The Mockingjay - Stand Up For Your Rights

Matt Welch: Kiss Your Financial Privacy Goodbye

Politicians destroy right to confidential banking.  It started, as so many bad things do, with Richard Nixon. In 1970, in the midst of a national panic over crime and illegal drugs, the man whose presidency would later become synonymous with official criminality signed the Bank Secrecy Act, which compelled all U.S. financial institutions     ... MORE

Doug Bandow: Will Federalism Trump the Drug War?

After last week’s voting it just might.   Americans are angry with their politicians but nuanced in their political opinions. Voters in Alaska simultaneously ousted their Democratic Senator and legalized the use of marijuana. Floridians gave 505,000 more votes medical use of pot than they did in re-electing Republican Gov. Rick Scott. Which makes  ... MORE

John W. Whitehead: The Devil's Bargain

In return for your liberty, I will give you ...   It’s no coincidence that during the same week in which the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in Yates v. United States, a case in which a Florida fisherman is being threatened with 20 years’ jail time for throwing fish that were too small back into the water, Florida police arrested a 90-year-old   ... MORE

Gruber Lets Obama's Socialist Cat Out Of The Bag

by Ken Blackwell & Bob Morrison.     Not since the Kermit Gosnell murder trial has the mainstream press labored so diligently to ignore a hot story.  Rush Limbaugh delights in calling them “the drive-by media,” but in the case of Kermit Gosnell’s trial for the negligent death of a poor young woman and for killing many infants born alive, the liberal  ... MORE

VIDEO: Fox News - A Gross Abuse Of Power

VIDEO: John Stossel - The Wasted War On Poverty

Walter E Williams: Obama Vs Us

Check your premises. Suppose you saw a person driving his car on the wrong side of a highway, against the traffic. Would you call him a stupid and/or incompetent driver? You say, "Williams, what kind of question is that? Of course he's one or the other!" I'd say, "Hold your horses. What are his intentions?" If the driver's intentions are to cause highway    ... MORE

Travis Gettys: Police Expert Says War On Terror Turned Our Cops Into Occupying Armies — And We’re The Enemy

Terrorists and politicians morph liberty to slavery. The war on terror has essentially turned police into occupying armies in some American communities, said a police and criminology expert. Thomas Nolan, an associate professor of criminology at Merrimack College and former senior policy analyst with the Department of Homeland  ... MORE

VIDEO: What Writer Most Turned You On To Freedom?

Woman Calls 911 For Medical Help, Gets Beaten By Police

by John Vibes.     Last month, an epileptic woman from California was attacked by police and arrested after she called 911 to report that she was having seizures and needed medical attention. When police arrived on the scene, Andrea Starr was still having seizures and was unable to respond to their commands. Not understanding that the woman   ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: A Legacy Of Liberalism

"Legacy of slavery" not the issue.   Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said there were "phrases that serve as an excuse for not thinking." One of these phrases that substitute for thought today is one that depicts the current problems of blacks in America as "a legacy of slavery." New York Times writer Nicholas Kristof asserts that     ... MORE

More Federal Agencies Are Using Undercover Operations

by Eric Lichtblau and Willilam M. Arkin. The federal government has significantly expanded undercover operations in recent years, with officers from at least 40 agencies posing as business people, welfare recipients, political protesters and even doctors or ministers to ferret out wrongdoing, records and interviews show. At the Supreme Court,  ... MORE

Massive Spying Of Americans' Cellphones From The Air

by Ronald Bailey.       The Wall Street Journal has a terrific article, "Americans' Cellphones Targeted in Secret U.S. Spy Program," that details how U.S. Marshals Service aircraft deploy "dirtbox" technology to spy on millions of Americans' cellphones from above. The dirtbox technology (so named as an acronym for the company that makes the devices, ... MORE

VIDEO: America's Secret Government

Why You Should Keep Cash Under Your Mattress

by Stirling Watts.   Rampant civil forfeiture abuse. Mrs. Lady’s Mexican Food has been owned and operated for 38 years by Carole Hinders. Carole has always preferred to accept only cash payments, so frequent bank deposits were necessary in order to avoid having too much cash on hand at her restaurant. One day in August 2013, the IRS unexpectedly  ... MORE

FDA Regulatory Expansion Jeopardizes Public Health

Anti-cancer device in the crosshairs. In August, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has proposed expanding its regulatory authority over tobacco products to include cigars, pipe tobacco, hookah tobacco, electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes), and dissolvable products and gels. Currently, cigars are the most popular item in this group, but    ... MORE

VIDEO: No Net Tax. Not Now, Not Ever!

Cops Raid Teenagers’ Party, Kill Girl Who Tried To Escape

Deputy faces no charges after shooting girl 4 times.     More proof the government is not us. Police charged into a darkened field trying to arrest teenagers for consuming alcohol without government permission, and killed a young woman in the process. The deadly raid occurred in the early morning hours of Saturday, April 26th,     ... MORE

Nick Gillespie: Americans Trust Government Less and Less

Because we know more and more about it.   Fifty years ago, FBI operatives sent Martin Luther King, Jr. was has come to be known as the "suicide letter," an anonymous note suggesting the civil rights leader should off himself before his private sex life was made public. The information about King's extramarital assignations was gathered  ... MORE