Steve Chapman: Injustice, In Plain Slight
The trouble with eyewitness testimony. In 1989, a Waukegan, Ill., woman was raped after three men invaded her apartment. She told police the rapist had a tattoo, wore an earring in a pierced ear, and spoke English. Two days later, the cops took her to an office and said, "Watch the one sitting on the chair." Alejandro Dominguez, age 16, had no tattoos or pierced ... MOREJack Kerwick: Why Ron Paul Is Ignored By GOP
Neoconservatives fear classical conservatives. It is hard not to be amazed by the blackout of media coverage of Ron Paul’s presidential campaign. Had Newt Gingrich, Herman Cain, Rick Santorum, Jon Huntsman, or any second-tier candidate been performing as remotely as well as Paul has, he would no longer be regarded as a “second-tier” candidate. To the credit of such ... MOREAlan M Aszkler: Fracking Fluid Fear-Mongering Farce
Chicken Little's latest eco-sham. EPA bureaucrats and Green Avengers perpetrate a daily nonsensical assault touting the grave consequences of fracking fluid and its secret ingredients. Carnival barkers in the media blindly parrot fear-mongering articles from such noble sounding groups as "Natural Resources Defense Council" without offering a single shred of scientific ... MOREJohn Stossel: Almost Everything We're Taught Is Wrong
Using economics to explode fallacies. We grow up learning that some things are just bad: child labor, ticket scalping, price gouging, kidney selling, blackmail, etc. But maybe they're not. What I love about economics is that it can show that what seems harmful is actually good for society. It illuminates what common sense overlooks. This was the subject of my Fox ... MOREArt Carden: Lemonade And Liberty
Government regulators seek to restrain individual liberty. What do you do when life hands you lemons? If you’re about to say “make lemonade,” make sure you have a permit first or you might get an unwelcome visit from a government official. This Saturday is “Lemonade Freedom Day,” which is a protest against governments shutting down–wait for it–kids’ lemonade stands. ... MOREEd Jones: The Civil Rights Issue Of The 21st Century
School choice promotes the free market and individual liberty. It is often difficult to feel optimistic about the future of liberty. Those of us who value individual liberty and free markets look only at the encroachment of government in our lives. We often overlook the victories that should give us hope for the future of liberty. The school choice movement is one of the most ... MOREBob Beauprez: Tangling The Economy In Red Tape
4200 new rules or revisions in the Obama pipeline. Way back in January President Obama ordered "a government-wide review of the rules already on the books to remove outdated regulations that stifle job creation and make our economy less competitive." From that statement alone, you might conclude that Obama already knew that finding needless, burdensome regulation ... MOREBrian Koenig: Lawmakers Lack Economics Education
80 percent have no background in business or economics. While U.S. lawmakers wrestle with high unemployment and a mounting federal deficit, 80 percent of them have no academic background in business or economics, according to a new study by the Employment Policies Institute (EPI). The study found that only 8.4 percent of U.S. lawmakers majored ... MOREGreen Latern: Why Government Does Not Create Jobs
Too many cooks spoil the stew. If you want to know why $800 billion in government stimulus spending has created 9 percent unemployment, all you have to do is look at the windmill in Milwaukee. The project involves a single wind turbine 154 feet tall (small by today's standard) that is supposed to supply some electricity to the Milwaukee Port Authority. The $500,000 project is being ... MOREVIDEO: David Mamet's Political Awakening
Playwright, essayist and screenwriter David Mamet joins John Stossel to explain how he escaped the left-wing Hollywood mindset.
John T Bennett: Obama Baits The Dependency Trap
There is such a thing as a free lunch -- except for taxpayers. The Obama administration is busy expanding the exact type of vicious, ungrateful underclass which recently exploded in London. An administration program will expand free school meal coverage to millions of young people who are not even supposed to be eligible. A stated goal of the program is to eliminate the stigma of ... MOREBrent Bozell: NPR - The Statism Network
Big government propaganda at taxpayer expense. One of the greatest perversions of statism is the use of taxpayer money to push for ever more government spending and intervention. A casual listener to the far-left end of the FM dial, National Public Radio, will quickly conclude that NPR is one of America's leading offenders in this perversion. Let's just take one ... MOREWalter E Williams: No Obligation To Obey Immoral Laws
Doing so only leads to lost liberty. What laws are we morally obligated to obey? Help with the answer can be found in "Economic Liberty and the Constitution," a 66-page pamphlet by Jacob G. Hornberger, founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation. Hornberger offers a hypothetical whereby Congress enacts a compulsory church attendance ... MORE
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