Andrew Napolitano: Amendment By Consent

WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE?   Here is a short pop quiz. When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed Congress earlier this month about the parameters of the secret negotiations between the United States and Iran over nuclear weapons and economic sanctions, how did he know what the negotiators were considering? Israel is not a party to    ... MORE

House Effort Would Restore Privacy & Kill The Patriot Act

Pushing back against terrorism's victories.       A pair of House lawmakers wants to completely repeal the Patriot Act and other legal provisions to dramatically rein in American spying. Reps. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) on Tuesday unveiled their Surveillance State Repeal Act, which would overhaul American spying powers  ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - The 3rd Way

Ted Cruz And Rand Paul Team Up To Cut Enviro Funding

by Ben Geman.   Two 2016 hopefuls working together. Republican Sens. Rand Paul and Ted Cruz are rivals for their party's White House nomination, but they're finding some common ground in the Senate's budget fight. On Wednesday the two 2016 hopefuls jointly filed an amendment to the budget plan that would cut new budget   ... MORE

Ed Feulner: Breaking The Budget

The pace of unsustainable spending is quickening.   Let’s say you were a financial adviser, and a family came to you with the following situation. They make the median family income in the United States — $52,000. But last year they spent $61,000. That’s right, $9,000 more than they’re making, and it all went on the family credit card.      ... MORE

VIDEO: Law Enforcement, Liberty And The Constitution

NSA Doesn’t Need To Spy Your Calls To Learn Your Secrets

by Bruce Schneier.   Governments and corporations gather, store, and analyze the tremendous amount of data we chuff out as we move through our digitized lives. Often this is without our knowledge, and typically without our consent. Based on this data, they draw conclusions about us that we might disagree with or object to, and that can impact    ... MORE

Nick Gillespie: Finally, An Anonymous, Online, Geo-Tagged System To Report Dastardly Microaggressions At College!

Nitwittery run amok.     I realize that simply by saying that you've probably heard of microaggressions, I'm likely committing one. For the uninitiated, microaggressions are "are statements by a person from a privileged group that belittles or isolates a member of an unprivileged group, as it relates to race, class, gender, sexual orientation,    ... MORE

John W. Whitehead: The Only Truly Compliant, Submissive Citizen In A Police State Is A Dead One

"Serve and protect" has become "comply or die."   Americans as young as 4 years old are being leg shackled, handcuffed, tasered and held at gun point for not being quiet, not being orderly and just being childlike—i.e., not being compliant enough. Americans as old as 95 are being beaten, shot and killed for questioning an order,      ... MORE

Tom Knapp: J-U-R-Y does not spell 'rubber stamp'

It's getting harder to prosecute victimless crimes. Break out the world’s smallest violin for prosecutors in Alachua County, Fla. They’re having problems finding citizens who will jail other citizens for marijuana possession. In one recent case it took hours to weed out (pun intended) prospective jurors who didn’t think marijuana should be illegal.  ... MORE

VIDEO: Thomas Sowell - Market Distortion And Subsidies

Legislation To Curb Civil Forfeiture Advances In States

by Jacob Gershman.  Georgia lawmakers are set to vote on legislation intended to rein in the state’s civil forfeiture procedures, part of a national push for more scrutiny and limits on asset-seizure programs that law enforcement officials say help curb drug crimes but critics say are prone to abuse. The Republican-led Senate in Georgia could    ... MORE

Jacob Sullum: Ted Cruz Is Right About Taxes

IRS code's headache-inducing complexity is a scandal. If you have not done your taxes yet, do not count on getting help from the Internal Revenue Service in answering any last-minute questions that may arise. The IRS estimates that only half of the anxious and bewildered taxpayers who call the agency this year will get through to a     ... MORE

VIDEO: Moonshine - The American Rebel Spirit

John Stossel: Gentrify!

There goes the hood. No matter what you do, modern liberals will tell you you're wrong. For decades, liberals complained that American society is segregated because rich, white people don't want to live in ethnically mixed neighborhoods. Sometimes, liberals had a point. From the 1930s to 1960s, as rich white people moved into New York City, urban   ... MORE

Police Brutality Can't Be Overlooked Any Longer

by Nadiah Abuswai.   Truly senseless violence. Martese Johnson, 20, was beaten by police outside Trinity Irish Pub in Charlottesville, Va., March 18. Police officers beat the University of Virginia junior over a suspicion that he was using a fake I.D. to get into the pub. A video shows police after forcing Johnson to the ground and handcuffing him, while   ... MORE

Let’s Be Two Americas: The Case for Federalism

by Robert Tracinski.     There has been some haggling in Congress recently over a proposal to convert a couple of big chunks of federal spending—Medicaid and food stamps—into block grants to the states, which would be given more control over the programs. This proposal suggests a much broader answer to our current political conflicts, toward  ... MORE

Online Gambling Ban Intrudes On State Sovereignty

by Katie McAuliffe.   Restore our 10th Amendment. Federalism was not the Tenth Amendment to the constitution for an arbitrary reason. Maintaining checks and balances on power, including the relationship between states and the federal government, is fundamental to American governance. Further, the closer a government is to its voters the ...  MORE

VIDEO: 3 Horseman Of Liberal Apocalypse

Arkansas Drivers May Be Taxed Based On Odometer

by Mallory Jordan.  Gov't seeks new way to sheer the sheep. Drivers in Arkansas could be seeing a big change if House Bill 1716 passes the Arkansas legislature. A bill to tax Arkansas drivers per mile they drive passed committees and now moves to the House. For drivers who drive to work every day or drive anywhere, the state may begin to look  ... MORE

Brendan Sasso: Internet Providers Sue to Kill Net Neutrality

Opposition to the FCC power grab.  Telecom companies filed a pair of lawsuits Monday in an attempt to reverse the Federal Communications Commission's new net neutrality rules. The suits are expected to be the opening shots in a long legal war against the controversial regulations. USTelecom, which represents AT&T, Verizon, and other     ... MORE

VIDEO: How The War On Drugs Betrayed America

Obamacare Is Really Expensive For Small Businesses

by J.D. Tuccille.    Lousy news for the economy. "Complying with the health care law is costing small businesses thousands of dollars that they didn't have to spend before the new regulations went into effect," reports AP business writer Joyce M. Rosenberg. This should be a surprise to exactly nobody. In general, government mandates have poor track      ... MORE

Students Are Now Literally 'Hiding from Scary Ideas,' Or Why My Mom's Nursery School Is Edgier Than College

by Robby Soave.  My mother is a nursery school teacher. Her classroom is a place for children between one and two years of age—adorable little tykes who are learning how to crawl, how to walk, and eventually, how to talk. Coloring materials, Play-Doh, playful tunes, bubbles, and nap time are a few of the components of her room: a veritable "safe space" ... MORE

Police State Update - Warrantless Searches: Chicago Cops Fight To Keep Cellphone Tracking Technology Secret

by Frank Main.   The Chicago Police Department is fighting to keep a lid on how, when and where officers have used covert cellphone tracking systems — with an outside law firm billing the city more than $120,000 to battle a lawsuit that seeks those secret details. Since 2005, the department has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on       ... MORE

Walter E Williams: What's Gone Wrong With Democracy?

Majority rule can be dangerous.  The Economist magazine recently published "What's gone wrong with Democracy ... and what can be done to revive it?" The suggestion is that democracy is some kind of ideal for organizing human conduct. That's a popular misconception. The ideal way to organize human conduct is to create a system that maximizes  ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - How Culture Kills Capitalism

Thomas Sowell: A Simple Question

What has Hillary accomplished?      It is amazing how a simple question can cause a complex lie to collapse like a house of cards. The simple question was asked by Bill O'Reilly of the Fox News Channel, and it was addressed to two Democrats. He asked what has Hillary Clinton ever accomplished. The two Democrats immediately sidestepped  ... MORE

The Man Who Would Repeal ObamaCare And Abolish IRS

by Rebecca Nelson. Ted Cruz's official campaign announcement was slow-rolled over the weekend with leaks and, ultimately at midnight Monday, a tweet. But on Monday morning, Cruz made his first official opening pitch at a special edition of one of Liberty University's weekly convocations. "I believe God is not done with America yet," he said. "I believe in  ... MORE

VIDEO: Civil Asset Forfeiture Overview And Protection

Look Out, Taxpayers: Student Loans Aren’t Being Repaid

More government folly comes home to roost.     The more than $1 trillion in student loan debt is a looming problem for taxpayers because the borrowers aren't paying it back in great numbers or amounts. "Widespread failure to repay is a problem for the lender, in this case, federal taxpayers," economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of   ... MORE

Matt Barber: Starbucks Spills Coffee On Its Crotch

A PC backfire.      Espresso makes you hyper. When you’re hyper you sometimes make rash decisions. When you make rash decisions you usually regret it. Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz evidently chugged a Venti-five-shot-double-pump-skinny-vanilla-latte last week before announcing Starbucks’ new “RaceTogether” public relations stunt. As he    ... MORE

Rebecca Nelson: Ted Cruz To Announce Presidential Run

Liberty has a candidate.      Ted Cruz was never one to wait. The freshman Senator will reportedly become the first Republican on Monday to officially announce his presidential candidacy, as he hopes to make another audacious leap to prominence in a political career that has been full of them. Cruz's has an event scheduled at Virginia's Liberty    ... MORE

Nebraska Senators Attempt Motorcycle Helmet Repeal

by Joe Duggan.    Nebraska lawmakers started what promises to be a long, winding debate Thursday over repealing the state’s helmet law. An early attempt to kill the bill failed, and Sen. Dave Bloomfield of Hoskins, who sponsored the legislation, said he’s ready to put in the eight hours before a vote can be taken to end debate. Legislative Bill 31    ... MORE

VIDEO: The People's Contempt For The Constitution

New Mexico Passes Bill To Abolish Civil Asset Forfeiture

by Casey Harper.        The New Mexico state legislature passed a groundbreaking bill Saturday to abolish civil asset forfeiture. Now Republican Gov. Susana Martinez, who will likely get attention as a potential 2016 vice presidential candidate, will have the bill on her desk. Civil asset forfeiture is a practice where police can take and      ... MORE

These 8 States Could Be Next For Marijuana Legalization

by Andrew Meola.      The times, they are a-changin' for marijuana, as longtime prohibition laws risk going up in flames. The New York Times advocated for legalization of pot at a national level last year, arguing that the "social costs" of the current prohibition laws are vast -- unreasonable prison sentences, a judicial system skewed against minority    ... MORE

VIDEO: Victims Of A Victimless Crime - Why Liberty?

Wanted: A Budget-Cutting President

by Donald Lambro.    The candidate who wins the presidency in 2016 will be the one who vows to wage all-out war on a bloated, inefficient, corrupt government in need of a top-to-bottom, budget-cutting revolution. Next to an underperforming economy, the problem that concerns most Americans is the government’s $18 trillion debt, fueled by six   ... MORE

Patrick Moore: Why I Am A Climate Change Skeptic

Confessions of a Greenpeace co-founder.   I am skeptical humans are the main cause of climate change and that it will be catastrophic in the near future. There is no scientific proof of this hypothesis, yet we are told “the debate is over” and “the science is settled.” My skepticism begins with the believers’ certainty they can predict the global    ... MORE