VIDEO: FOX NEWS - Hillary's Private E-Mail Server

John Horvat II: Why Johnny Can't Sled Anymore

All must be safe and sterile.       In the midst of this cold winter, I chanced to come upon a scene that gladdened my heart. It was a group of unsupervised boys sledding down a hillside. They weren’t only sledding. They were ramming into other sleds. At the bottom of the hill, they pushed each other down, rolling and tumbling in the snow.     ... MORE

DEA Warns Of Stoned Rabbits If Utah Approves Medical Pot

The new face of marijuana addiction.     Utah is considering a bill that would allow patients with certain debilitating conditions to be treated with edible forms of marijuana. If the bill passes, the state's wildlife may "cultivate a taste" for the plant, lose their fear of humans, and basically be high all the time. That's according to testimony    ... MORE

Rand Paul & Scott Pruitt: Massive EPA Power Grab Would Deliver Devastating Blow To American Property Rights

Gov't looks to downgrade individual rights, again.    Respect and protection of private property rights sets the United States apart from other nations and has fueled the greatest expansion of economic freedom the world has ever known. Indeed, private property rights are among the foundational rights of any democracy, not just ours. President   ... MORE

Top Brits Call On The U.K. To Decriminalize Drugs

by Carly Schwartz.    British businessman Richard Branson and U.K. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg have advocated for drug policy reform in the past. But experts say their op-ed calling on the U.K. to end the war on drugs, published Tuesday in The Guardian, is especially noteworthy as British elections near. "Doing this in advance of the election is     ... MORE

VIDEO: Christopher Hitchens - On Drug Decriminalization

Andrew Napolitano: A Lone Wolf President

Can the president rewrite federal laws?      Can he alter their meaning? Can he change their effect? These are legitimate questions in an era in which we have an unpopular progressive Democratic president who has boasted that he can govern without Congress by using his phone and his pen, and a mostly newly elected largely conservative Republican ... MORE

George Will: The House Takes On IRS Lawlessness

Preventing Lois Lerner 2.0.     Representative Peter Roskam is now chairman of the Ways and Means subcommittee whose jurisdiction includes oversight of the Internal Revenue Service, and hence of Lois Lerner’s legacy. He knows how interesting her career was before she, as head of the IRS exempt-organizations division, directed the suppression  ... MORE

VIDEO: 7 Creepy Robots For Cops

Study Confirms E-Cigarettes Generate Virtually No Toxins

by Jacob Sullum. Does it matter to the option destroyers? Anti-smoking activists and public health officials who question the usefulness of electronic cigarettes in reducing tobacco-related disease often talk as if the content of the aerosol generated by these newfangled contraptions is utterly mysterious. While it may be plausible that the absence of ... MORE

A Majority Favors Marijuana Legalization For First time, According To The Nation’s Most Authoritative Survey

by Christopher Ingraham.       For the first time, the General Social Survey -- a large, national survey conducted every two years and widely considered to represent the gold standard for public opinion research -- shows a majority of Americans favoring the legalization of marijuana. In interviews conducted between March and October of last year    ... MORE

Texas Sees First Bill To Fully Repeal Marijuana Prohibition

by Mark Wiggins.   A Northeast Texas lawmaker says it's time to end the state's nearly century-old prohibition on marijuana, and has filed the first bill to do so in at least 50 years. State Rep. David Simpson (R-Longview) filed House Bill 2165 Monday, which would strike all references to marijuana from Texas statues. Digital records       ... MORE

Private Police: Mercenaries For The American Police State

by John W. Whitehead.      It’s one thing to know and exercise your rights when a police officer pulls you over, but what rights do you have when a private cop—entrusted with all of the powers of a government cop but not held to the same legal standards—pulls you over and subjects you to a stop-and-frisk or, worse, causes you to “disappear” into a   ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - Green Energy Giveaways

Jacob Sullum: Unchecked Checkpoints

Court demands blind obedience to petty harassment. There are two ways to view the video of Richard Rynearson's March 2010 encounter with U.S. Border Patrol agents at an immigration checkpoint in Uvalde County, Texas. Authoritarians will say Rynearson should have been more cooperative, while libertarians will say the agents should   ... MORE

Medicare and Social Security Tabs Coming Due

by Michael Tanner.    The tidal wave of red ink. The national debt has dropped out of the headlines recently, but that doesn't mean that it has gone away.   In fact, just a few weeks ago, the debt officially topped $18 trillion. For those keeping score, that equals roughly 101 percent of GDP. In other words, we now owe more than the value of all goods    ... MORE

VIDEO: Newt Gingrich Explains Why Operation Choke Point “Is The Beginning Of A Real Tyranny In The United States”

Lenny Bernstein: U.S. Faces 90,000 Doctor Shortage Within A Decade, Medical School Association Warns

A shortage created by government.      The United States faces a shortage of as many as 90,000 physicians by 2025, including a critical need for specialists to treat an aging population that will increasingly live with chronic disease, the association that represents medical schools and teaching hospitals reported Tuesday. The nation's shortage of   ... MORE

John Stossel - Raping Culture

Another one of those social "epidemics."  Apparently, new laws are needed because at colleges, sexual assault is "epidemic." Rape is so common that there is a "rape culture." I hear that a lot. It is utter exaggeration. Fortunately, AEI scholar Christina Hoff Sommers is around to reveal the truth. "This idea of a rape culture was built on     ... MORE

Ron Paul: Dept of Homeland Security, What is it Good For?

Get rid of TSA and FEMA.        Late Friday night, Congress passed legislation funding the Department of Homeland Security for one week. This vote followed weeks of debate over efforts to attach a prohibition on funding President Obama’s executive order granting amnesty to certain illegal immigrants to the Homeland Security funding bill.      ... MORE

Nick Gass: Edward Snowden Is Ready To Return To U.S.

But can he get a fair trial?   Edward Snowden is ready to go home to the United States. “Snowden is ready to return to the States, but on the condition that he is given a guarantee of a legal and impartial trial,” his Russian lawyer Anatoly Kucherena said at a news conference Tuesday, as quoted by Russian state media outlet TASS. The former National  ... MORE

VIDEO: Fox News - Intercepting Cell Phone Signals

Texas Town Sees 61% Drop in Crime After Kicking Out Cops

Private policing proves to better and costs less.   Rather than degenerate into a lawless land where criminals rule the streets, a Texas town that fired its entire police department has seen a 61% decrease is crime. In 2012, Sharpstown, a community of 66,000 located just southwest of Houston, declined to renew its contract with the constable’s   ... MORE

IRS Defends Refunds To Illegals Who Never Filed Taxes

by Stephan Dinan.      The IRS is defending its decision to let illegal immigrants claim up to three years’ refunds on income even if they never paid income taxes, telling Congress in a new letter last week that agency lawyers have concluded getting a Social Security number triggers the ability to go back and ask for previous refunds. President     ... MORE

VIDEO: Why I'm Not Ready To Give Up On America

It Is Hard To Fire Government Workers Behaving Badly

from CBS News.    In the private sector, if you're caught viewing porn on company time or intimidating a co-worker, you'd probably be fired immediately; not so if you're a federal employee. A CBS News investigation looks at how hard it is for the U.S. government to discipline or fire employees who behave badly. With examples ranging from       ... MORE

Leftists Priority: Raising Revenue Or Punishing Success?

by Daniel J. Mitchell.     On the issue of so-called progressive taxation, our left-wing friends have conflicting goals.  Some of them want to maximize tax revenue in order to finance ever-bigger government.  But others are much more motivated by a desire to punish success.  They want high tax rates on the “rich” even if the government collects less  ... MORE

Brendan O'Neill: In Defense of Drunk Sex

First, it was just "don't drink and drive."  Is it acceptable to have drunk sex? Most people who aren't citizens of the Islamic State or followers of some frigid Christian group will answer with an emphatic: "Hell, yeah." Not only is it acceptable, they'll think; it's good, one of life's great pleasures, a rare moment when you can ditch the pesky rational  ... MORE

New Spy Technology Allows Police To See Thru Your Walls

by Rob Hustle.       Tossing privacy in the name of catching criminals. The 4th Amendment protects Americans from unreasonable search and seizure. But law enforcement agencies across  the country are deploying new technologies in ways that routinely violate Constitutional protections. These devices include radars that can see inside your house,    ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - Billionaire Bailouts

Pop Quiz: How Many Constitutional Rights Have We Lost?

What politicians have done to promise of America.    This post explains the liberties guaranteed in the Bill of Rights – the first 10 amendments to the United States Constitution – and provides a scorecard on the extent of the loss of each right. The 1st Amendment protects speech, religion, assembly and the press. The Supreme Court    ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: The Honesty Gap

Looking at the war on women. There may be some poetic justice in the recent revelation that Hillary Clinton, who has made big noises about a "pay gap" between women and men, paid the women on her Senate staff just 72 percent of what she paid the men. The Obama White House staff likewise has a pay gap between women and men, as of course  ... MORE

GRAPHIC VIDEO: Homeless Man Killed By LA Cops


Justifiable force? You decide. WARNING: Graphic violence and language.

Walter E. Williams: College Campus Update

Bryn Mawr will be better in sports. President Barack Obama wants Americans to dig deeper into our pockets to expand college education. Let's update college indoctrination done in the name of education.  Cornell assistant professor Russell Rickford, in a lecture titled "Ferguson: The Next Steps," told a packed auditorium: "Let's be very clear about what's ... MORE

Laura Myers: Big Brother Looms Large At FreedomFest

More skepticism of government needed. Big Brother is watching Americans’ every move and violating their civil rights at every turn as the country becomes a militarized police state, participants at a libertarian-minded gathering in Las Vegas said Thursday. Panelists at FreedomFest offered plenty of real-world examples to illustrate their      ... MORE

Debra J. Saunders: The War on Drugs, San Francisco-Style

Banning chewing tobacco simply because they can. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had out-of-towners tell me they think San Francisco is a breathtakingly beautiful city — so why is it that City Hall hasn’t done more about baseball pitchers chewing tobacco at city ballparks?  No, wait. I can tell you.  I’ve never heard that.      ... MORE

Radley Balko: Video Saves Man From Lying Cops And Prosecutors, But No Consequences For The Culprits

An all too familiar pattern of no gov't accountability.    The latest example of cellphone video vindicating someone from false charges is a doozy. It comes from Washington Parish, La., and WWL TV. One of the worst days of Douglas Dendinger’s life began with him handing an envelope to a police officer. In order to help out his family and earn a   ... MORE

VIDEO: Mark Steyn - Defending Free Speech

Fed Court Rubber Stamps Continued NSA Spying For Now

by Dustin Volz.    A federal court has again renewed an order allowing the National Security Agency to continue its bulk collection of Americans' phone records, a decision that comes more than a year after President Obama pledged to end the controversial program. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court approved this week a government request to  ... MORE

Net Neutrality Is A Triumph of the Ruling Class

by Jeffrey Tucker.    A triumph of “free expression and democratic principles”? How stupid do they think we are?     It’s been painful to watch the gradual tightening of government control in the name of net neutrality. The Federal Communications Commission’s decision to rewrite the rules and declare the Internet as a public utility seals the  ... MORE

VIDEO: Was The 2nd Amendment For Muskets Only?!

Taxes & Restrictions Posing As Federal Dietary Guidelines

by Baylen Linnekin.       Last week the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC), which meets every five years to help set federal dietary policies, issued its final recommendations. The recommendations of the committee, first established in 1990, "provide the basis for federal food and nutrition policy and education initiatives." So just what  ... MORE

Luke Hilgemann: More Regulations Equals Less Business

Going into business gets tougher and tougher. The health of the American economy can easily be measured by the health of American businesses — especially the rate at which people like you and me start new ones. This simple metric shows whether the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship is alive in well in our country. It has been for   ... MORE