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
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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 ... MOREGeorge 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 ... MORESteve 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 ... MOREIRS Probe Will Carry Into 2015 With Unresolved Questions
by Stephen Dinan. Internal Revenue Service employees charged with scrutinizing tea party groups’ nonprofit status applications showed a marked antipathy to the organizations, with one examiner calling a group “icky” and others saying they were searching for ways to deny the requests, according to a congressional oversight report Tuesday. ... MOREKoch Brothers Are Not As Conservative As You Might Think
by Cliff Kincaid. What they really think. Conservative radio host Laura Ingraham acted surprised that David
Koch would give an interview to Barbara Walters and talk about his
radical “libertarian” views. Koch appeared in Walters’ ABC special
program on “The 10 Most Fascinating People Of 2014.” The interview was featured in various stories ... MOREIntolerant Conservatives In Conflict With Individual Rights
by Kerry McGill. Leave me alone! Well, not me, exactly. But others who differ from others, such as homosexuals, atheists, creationists, evangelists, extremists and the like. It seems as though many people have a chip on their shoulder about someone with whom they strongly disagree. America used to be a "live and let live" society ... MORERand Paul: The Conservative Realist?
by Matt Welch. On October 23, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) gave a major foreign
policy address at the Center for the National Interest in which he
declared himself a "conservative realist," aligning himself with
the tradition of Ronald Reagan and Caspar Weinberger. (See
"The Case for Conservative Realism.") As he did in a similar
February 2013 ... MORELawmakers Should Protect Property Rights
What a conservative Congress should do. Property rights are a fundamental value of political conservatives, and the new conservative majorities in Congress and the state Legislature have early opportunities to enhance those rights. Those rights most often have become controversial in eminent domain cases, where governments ... MOREDoug 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 ... MOREMcConnell Will Back Rand Paul For President
by Alex Pappas. Soon-to-be Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he will back
fellow Kentuckian Rand Paul for president if the libertarian-leaning
Republican decides to run. “I’m a big supporter of Rand Paul,” McConnell told the Lexington Herald-Leader. “We’ve developed a very tight relationship, and I’m for him.”Pressed by the ... MOREThe Academic Mob Silences Free Speech, Again
A Washington Times editorial. Inconvenient truths not welcomed. Arithmetic continues to be a puzzle in certain precincts of academia. Scripps College,
an all-female school in Claremont, Calif., founded on the principle
that “the paramount obligation of a college is to develop in its
students the ability to think clearly and independently,” ... MOREFreedomworks A Player In The 2014 Elections
by Karin McQuillan. Matt Kibbe, the head of FreedomWorks, keeps his eye on the goal: “not a junior partnership with the Republican Party, but a hostile takeover of it.” Kibbe is a marathoner in for the long haul. FreedomWorks has seen worse times, when libertarians were shunned. Since 2009, it has become a key contributor to that mainstream ... MOREJohn Stossel: Immigration Is America
Guess who built this country? Conservatives rightly point out that America is a nation of laws. No one should be exempt. That's why many oppose amnesty and other paths to citizenship for illegal immigrants who are here now. "If they want to be in America," the argument goes, "they ought to return to their own countries and apply for a visa ... MOREHas the ‘Libertarian Moment’ Finally Arrived?
by Robert Draper. “Let’s say Ron Paul is Nirvana,” said Kennedy, the television personality and former MTV host, by way of explaining the sort of politician who excites libertarians like herself. “Like, the coolest, most amazing thing to come along in years, and the songs are nebulous but somehow meaningful, and the lead singer kills himself to ... MOREKatie Kieffer: Socialism Punked You, Millennials
A window of opportunity arises. “Here’s your drink, darling,” the bartender said with a smile. He seemed upbeat as he made drinks and greeted customers. “Do you like your job?” I asked him. “I hate it,” he confessed. “Honestly, I hate my job.” I keep running into young people who put on a show of being happy with their lives but, when ... MORE
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