Thomas Sowell: Random Thoughts On The Passing Scene


Insights and observations from a brilliant mind. How long do politicians have to keep on promising heaven and delivering hell before people catch on, and stop getting swept away by rhetoric? Why should being in a professional sport exempt anyone from prosecution for advocating deliberate violence? Recent revelations of such advocacy of     ... MORE

Gary North: Tax Burden Of 40 Million Government Workers

A crushing burden for taxpayers.  How many people work for governments in the United States. Let's look at the numbers. The usual estimate of the number of employees of the U.S. government is 2.8 million. The estimate is fake. This does not count military personnel. But most important, it does not count contract workers paid by the federal ... MORE

VIDEO: Why Not Print More Money?

Jeffrey Folks: Is EPA Just Sloppy Or Cooking The Books?

Perverting science to attain a "higher" political end.     After issuing a hastily compiled report last year claiming a direct link between groundwater contamination and hydraulic fracturing at Pavillion, Wyoming, the EPA now admits that it may be wrong. Or, it may be, it was intentionally cooking the books. The only question now is whether the findings ... MORE

Jack Hunter: ObamaCare And The Imaginary Constitution

Lawmakers see Constitution as irrelevant. Sensing that there’s a good chance the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — commonly known as “Obamacare” — will be overturned by the Supreme Court, President Obama said recently: “I’d just remind conservative commentators that for years what we’ve heard is the biggest problem on the bench was judicial activism ... MORE

Matt Welch: Why Big Government Is Offensive

The increasingly invasive activities of the state stinks.    I was hoping to make it through life without hearing television commentators repeatedly utter the word transvaginal. Yet that intimate territory is where the country headed in February, and it is where we will increasingly return as long as the government keeps assuming a greater role in our private ... MORE

Walter E Williams: Media Dishonesty And Race Hustlers

Inflaming passions to push a self-serving agenda.    When NBC's "Today" show played the audio of George Zimmerman's call to a Sanford, Fla., police dispatcher about Trayvon Martin, the editors made him appear to be a racist who says: "This guy looks like he's up to no good. He looks black." What Zimmerman actually said was: "This guy looks like he's up to no good  ... MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - Technically, That's Illegal


Politicians keep Americans in a perpetual state of lawbreaking.

Debra Saunders: Obama, The Happy Drug Warrior

The president's war against the states. Why is the federal government under President Obama arguably tougher on medical marijuana operations than it was under George W. Bush? That's the question that antidrug-war groups have been asking themselves for months. In 2008, antiprohibitionists thought an Obama administration would not tread on medical-marijuana   ... MORE

Jonah Goldberg: Very Few Of The Above

Obama's energy policy is rather picky.    In his speech before the Newspapers Association of America/American Society of News Editors Wednesday, likely GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney accused the president of changing positions to get reelected.  For instance, Romney charged that “as president,” Obama “delayed the development of our ... MORE

VIDEO: Top Cop Chooses Not To See Voter Fraud


Even after stranger given Attorney General Eric Holder's ballot.