VIDEO: More Guns, Less Murders


The USA has, by far, the highest per capita gun ownership in the world.

Andrew Napolitano: Who Will Keep Our Freedoms Safe?

It won't be the government. While the Western world was watching and grieving over the slaughter in Paris last week, and my colleagues in the media were fomenting a meaningless debate about whether President Obama should have gone to Paris to participate in a televised parade, the feds took advantage of that diversion to reveal even more    ... MORE

Federal Court Upholds Unconstitutional Car Search

No warrant required. Text of the Fourth Amendment. A federal judge decided earlier this month to accept evidence from an automobile search that a state court magistrate had declared unlawful. US District Judge Jerome B. Simandle insisted that there was nothing wrong in accepting the evidence deemed tainted by the New Jersey Superior Court.   ... MORE

VIDEO: Thomas Sowell: Bureaucracy

Steve Chapman: Conservatives Rethink Liberty vs. Order

The Giuliani vs Paul thing.    This week, the Supreme Court made a decision that was somewhat newsworthy: upholding the right of a prison inmate to do something the prison authorities prohibit. What made it really unusual is that the decision was unanimous, with all the conservative justices signing on, and that the opinion was written by one of   ... MORE

James Bovard: America's Fading Love Of Freedom

A very docile populace.   Tea Party protesters, some Republicans, and many libertarians perceive the federal government as a vast engine of oppression. But are anti-Obama activists mistaken in presuming that most Americans still care about freedom? A Gallup poll released in July asked a thousand Americans, “Are you satisfied or dissatisfied with your  ... MORE

VIDEO: Sen. Paul's State Of The Union Response

Nullification, Now Coming To The Supreme Court?

by David A. Graham.    When the Tea Party wave arrived in 2010, it swept away much of the Republican Party's existing structure, and instituted a more populist approach. But as waves tend to do, it left some even older debris in its wake. "Nullification," the theory that states can invalidate federal laws that they deem unconstitutional, had its   ... MORE

NJ Cops Murder Man With Hands Up At Traffic Stop

by Nina Golgowski.  A newly released video capturing the police shooting death of a New Jersey man shows an officer warning the suspect not to move or he'll be "f---ing dead" before the man steps out of his car. Jerame C. Reid, 36, is seen exiting the vehicle with his hands raised at shoulder height when a Bridgeton police officer, who recognizes  ... MORE

Robby Soave: Abolish the Federal Drinking Age

Stop incentives to drink recklessly.   Activists, administrators, and national policymakers concerned about a supposed epidemic of rape on college campuses should stop trying so damn hard to regulate students' sex lives. Instead, their efforts would be better spent lobbying Congress to abolish a law that puts students at risk of sexual assault by   ... MORE

Jacob Sullum: The Persistence Of Policing For Profit

Holder's plan does not go far enough.    Money-hungry cops are angry about the forfeiture reform that Attorney General Eric Holder announced last Friday, which suggests it's a move in the right direction. But contrary to initial press reports, the new policy represents a modest change to the rules governing civil forfeiture, which allows  ... MORE

VIDEO: FOX NEWS - Dangerous Government Secrets

Thomas Sowell: 'Diversity' In Action

Not all cultures are compatible.  Islamic terrorist attacks in Europe, and European governments' counter-attacks are more than just a passing news story. Europe is currently in the process of paying the price for years of importing millions of people from a culture hostile to the fundamental values of Western culture. And this is by no means the last     ... MORE

Britain May Be Forced To Abandon Free Healthcare

by Bill Gardner.       Britain’s most senior doctor has said the under-pressure NHS may be forced to abandon the concept of free healthcare for all. Prof Sir Bruce Keogh, medical director of the NHS in England, said there were doubts over whether the taxpayer-funded model was “sustainable in the longer term”. He added that huge changes     ... MORE

VIDEO: Should We Be Allowed To Sell ...?

Brad Health: New Police Radars Can 'See' Inside Homes

Cops get new warrantless search tool.      At least 50 U.S. law enforcement agencies have secretly equipped their officers with radar devices that allow them to effectively peer through the walls of houses to see whether anyone is inside, a practice raising new concerns about the extent of government surveillance. Those agencies, including    ... MORE

Walter E Williams: Will The Left Defend Itself?

Multiculturalism and Sharia Law.  Leftists and progressives believe that the U.S. should become more like Europe. They praise Europe's massive welfare state, socialized medicine and stifling economic regulation and accept its unwillingness to defend itself against barbarism. I wonder whether America's leftists and progressives want to   ... MORE

Radley Balko: The Flashbang Menace

Officer safety always trumps citizen safety. ProPublica has just published a long investigation of the use of flashbang grenades, an issue I’ve written about quite a bit, including here at The Watch. These are the incendiary devices intended to temporarily stun, blind and deafen everyone within range. They have some limited appropriate    ... MORE

Why Holder’s Civil Forfeiture Decision Won’t Stop Abuse

by Leon Neyfakh.     Helicopters don't pay for themselves. Attorney General Eric Holder announced Friday that the Justice Department will no longer participate in a controversial program that has long allowed police departments around the country to seize cash and property from people suspected of criminal activity, then send 20 percent of its dollar  ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - Climate Catastrophe

The Importance of Free Speech to Human Progress

by Iain Murray.     The massacre of 12 cartoonists and journalists at Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris this week should remind us to ask: Why is free speech so important? It is more than an inalienable individual right; it is fundamental to human progress. That is why it is one of the most important institutions of liberty. When we look at the history    ... MORE

CPS Investiges Parents For Letting Kids Walk Home Alone

by Joshua Krause.  By all appearances, Daniel and Alexander Meitiv are smart, responsible parents who want to instill independence in their children. They don’t like to throw caution to the wind, but they do believe that kids should be granted some freedom, so that they may learn how to take care of themselves from an early age. They practice   ... MORE

VIDEO: 3 Absurd Reasons For Banning Drugs

Jury Nullification And Why It Matters In The Silk Road Trial

by  Eric Markowitz.  If you happen to be lurking around the Manhattan courthouse where Ross Ulbricht’s trial began on Tuesday, you may notice one of about a dozen signs urging you to Google something called “jury nullification.” Walk a little further, and you may just encounter activists handing out jury nullification leaflets. But if you ask them to    ... MORE

Washington State Growers Struggle To Sell Legal Marijuana

High taxes are driving many to black market. Washington's legal marijuana market opened last summer to a dearth of weed. Some stores periodically closed because they didn't have pot to sell. Prices were through the roof. Six months later, the equation has flipped, bringing serious growing pains to the new industry. A big harvest of   ... MORE

Decriminalizing Possession of All Illicit Drugs

by Joao Castel-Branco Goulao.       Portugal did it 15 years ago. The overthrow of Portugal’s military dictatorship 40 years ago brought liberation after decades of repression. But along with political freedom and self expression, came another import from the free world that our citizens had long been denied, drugs. With little experience of   ... MORE

Can the West Stand Up for Free Speech?

by Victor Davis Hanson.  The principle is clear. Western civilization’s creed is free thought and expression, the lubricant of everything from democracy to human rights. Even a simpleton in the West accepts that protecting free expression is not the easy task of ensuring the right to read Homer’s Iliad or do the New York Times crossword puzzle.   ... MORE

VIDEO: Walter E Williams - Effects Of Minimum Wage

Is Ted Cruz A Loose Cannon Or Libertarian Reformer?

by Glenn Garvin.     As they used to say in the old westerns, it was quiet out there-too quiet. So no one was really surprised when Ted Cruz announced to The Washington Post the weekend before the November election that his brief flirtation with civilized behavior was nearing its end. For months, the Texas senator had abandoned his guy    ... MORE

Government Looks to Save Money by Cutting Military Pay

by Onan Coca.  In a speech on Wednesday off the coast of San Diego, outgoing Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel warned troops that the U.S. can’t afford its military personnel anymore.Troops are already bracing for the results of a report on Feb. 1, which will most likely not be friendly to military pay. The report is by the Military Compensation and    ... MORE

VIDEO: The Broken Window Fallacy

Female Marines Now 0-26 On Officer Infantry Course

by Douglas Ernst.  Obviously, a sexist test.The failure of two Marine Corps officers to to pass the Jan. 8 first-day Combat Endurance Test of the infantry officer course brings the tally of female dropouts to 26. One more group of female officers will have a shot at graduation before the Marine Corps completes its integration experiment in June.    ... MORE

Holder Orders End to Some Policing For Profit Incentives

by Scott Shackford.   Federal asset forfeiture curbed. Big, huge news on the civil asset forfeiture front: Eric Holder is ordering an end to most of the Department of Justice’s Equitable Sharing Program. This is the program where the DOJ works with local law enforcement agencies for busts, and then the law enforcement agencies are permitted to  ... MORE