Tom McClintock: Job Creation Is No Mystery

Government regulation kills jobs.  The government's continuing failure to address our nation's gut-wrenching unemployment stems from a fundamental disagreement over how jobs are created in the first place. We are now in the third year of policies predicated on the assumption that government spending creates jobs. We have squandered three years and trillions of dollars ... MORE

John Brennan: Taxation By Citation

Its about tyranny, control and trolling for revenue, not safety. Years ago, at its inception, the Internal Revenue Service, was duly deputized as the primary government agency responsible for collecting all personal and business taxes. The IRS, as it is referred to by most, has, over the years, grown into a mammoth operation. Steadily and methodically ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - Political Free Speech

Carpe Diem: Government Spending Vs Unemployment

The chart of the day.    "This chart (inspired by Brian Wesbury) again bears repeating since it lends support to claims by the anti-Keynesians (of which I am one) that the biggest factor that has worked to slow economic growth in recent years is the huge increase in federal spending. The reason? The public sector spends money much less efficiently than the private sector.    ... MORE

VIDEO: U.S. Antidumping Rules Kill American Jobs


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Daily Mail: Predator Drones Used By Domestic Police

North Dakota family targeted by militaristic vehicles.   Meet the Brossarts, a North Dakota family deemed so dangerous that the local sheriff needed to unleash an unmanned Predator drone to help bring them in. The Brossart's alleged crime? They wouldn't give back three cows and their calves that wandered onto their 3,000-acre farm this summer. The same aerial ... MORE

Internet Piracy Bill Would Be A Free Speech Kill Switch

by Bill Wilson. What began as an attempt to restrain foreign piracy on the Internet has morphed into a domestic “kill switch” on First Amendment freedom in the fastest-growing corner of the marketplace of ideas. Proposed federal legislation purporting to protect online intellectual property would also impose sweeping new government mandates on internet service providers  ... MORE

VIDEO: Andrew Napolitano - What They Can't Control

Jerry Brown's Disastrous Plan For California

by Steven Greenhut. Gov. Jerry Brown last Monday released “An Open Letter to the People of California,” in which he called for the state’s taxpayers to approve tax-raising initiatives to “fix” the state’s structural deficit. Here is the letter and my translation of what Brown really meant to say. Brown: When I became governor again … California was facing a  ... MORE

VIDEO: Media Admits Ron Paul Could Win

Richard M. Salsman: Capitalism Isn't Corporatism

What is capitalism, exactly?  Capitalism is the greatest socio-economic system in human history, because it’s so moral and so productive – the two features so essential to human survival and flourishing. It’s moral because it enshrines and fosters rationality and self-interest – “enlightened greed,” if you will – the two key virtues we all must consciously adopt and practice if ... MORE

U.S. Agents Launder Big Bucks For Drug Cartels

40,000 deaths since 2006
from the New York Times.    Undercover American narcotics agents have laundered or smuggled millions of dollars in drug proceeds as part of Washington’s expanding role in Mexico’s fight against drug cartels, according to current and former federal law enforcement officials. The agents, primarily with the Drug Enforcement Administration, have handled shipments of   ... MORE

VIDEO: Barry Goldwater - To The Future From The Past

James Kellogg: EPA Has No Business Regulating Fracking

EPA continues its war against domestic energy.   Domestic natural gas provides nearly 25 percent of electricity in the United States. This proportion stands to increase as additional shale gas deposits become accessible due to the combination of directional drilling and hydraulic fracturing (fracking). This vast resource can provide the nation with  ... MORE

ViDEO: The Money That Is Sold Abroad Is You!

Sheldon Richman: Who's Afraid Of Friedrich Hayek?

Economist has modern critics running scared. I’m sensing some panic in the air. Certain people seem mighty concerned that other people are...discovering Hayek. As a W. S. Gilbert character might say, Oh horror! Economics and business reporter David Warsh is getting much attention for suggesting that F. A. Hayek, far from being one of the two most  ... MORE