VIDEO: The Case To Re-elect Barack Obama In 2012

Shikha Dalmia: Big Labor Is Going For Broke In Michigan

Making unions more powerful than the legislature. We've seen Gov. Scott Walker's battle in Wisconsin and the Chicago Teachers Union strike next door. Now in Michigan comes another Midwestern political showdown that will carry enormous implications for the role of unions in American life. The Michigan Supreme Court recently approved  ... MORE

Cop Killing Of Innocent Man Deemed Justified By State

Police go to wrong house, kill man protecting home.    WFTV obtained a final report on Tuesday from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement that outlines a fatal deputy-involved shooting that happened in July in Lake County. It comes two months after Andrew Scott was shot and killed when deputies showed up at the wrong apartment  ... MORE

Government's Own Numbers Crunchers See Collapse Ahead

by Ralph R. Reiland.    The way the federal government runs things is already bad enough, but it's officially projected to get only worse, much worse, in the years ahead according to the government's own number crunchers. In fiscal year 2011 -- October 1, 2010 to September 30, 2011-- the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reports that the federal        ... MORE

Walter E Williams: Trickle Down And Tax Cuts

Tickle down demagoguery from the left.    Dr. Thomas Sowell's "'Trickle Down Theory' and 'Tax Cuts for the Rich'" has just been published by the Hoover Institution. Having read this short paper, the conclusion you must reach is that the term "trickle down theory" is simply a tool of charlatans and political hustlers. Sowell states that "no such    ... MORE

VIDEO: FOX NEWS: Useless Trampling Of Civil Liberties

Matt Welch: Four More Years Of War

No matter who wins, we will stay overextended overseas. It’s hard to remember through the fog of constant war, but the 2008 presidential election was a contest between two candidates who were propelled into their nominations by the anti-war vote. Barack Obama, we remember. He was the one who opposed the Iraq war in real    ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: Phony In Chief

True believers may not want to know the truth. When President Barack Obama and others on the left are not busy admonishing the rest of us to be "civil" in our discussions of political issues, they are busy letting loose insults, accusations and smears against those who dare to disagree with them. Like so many people who have been beaten in a verbal    ... MORE

VIDEO: Does Stimulus Spending Work?

Bob Weir: Speed Traps Are Not Proper Enforcement

Deploying cops to squeeze money out of citizens. Let me begin by saying something I learned a long time ago as a cop in New York City; you will never make someone happy by giving him/her a traffic ticket. It doesn’t matter if you catch someone driving 20 miles over the speed limit, or you stop someone for driving an unregistered and uninspected vehicle.  ... MORE

David Rosen: Big Brother Invades Our Classrooms

Frightening new methods monitor students.  The digital tracking and surveillance of school-aged kids has been growing. Much attention has been given to the phenomenon of corporate tracking of kids’ online activities, activities that violate the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).  The law, originally adopted in 1998, requires Web sites    ... MORE